Appellate

• Won reversal from Wisconsin Court of Appeals of circuit court decision to impose perpetually rising daily sanction on client, saving client over $1,000,000
• Won appeal in Wisconsin Court of Appeals affirming summary judgment in favor of client in catastrophic equipment failure litigation and defeated effort to take case to Wisconsin Supreme Court.

Trial

• Won summary judgment for Costco Wholesale Corporation in action by petroleum marketer claiming that Costco’s gasoline pricing violates the Wisconsin Unfair Sales Act. Also won award of attorney’s fees to be paid to Costco by the plaintiff.
• Won summary judgment in defense of quarter-million-dollar products liability case involving catastrophic damage to two expensive farm implements. Convinced a Wisconsin circuit court judge to dismiss the case as a sanction for noncompliance with court orders, something the judge had only done once previously in his 23-year tenure on the bench.
• As the plaintiff’s counsel in federal breach of contract and declaratory judgment suit, forced settlement for full amount of client’s damages plus full amount of client’s attorney fees and costs in both the federal action in Wisconsin and a separate federal suit in Kentucky.
• Defeated summary judgment motion and motion to dismiss and won sanctions motion, all in the same hearing. Sanctions win significantly increased leverage against primary defendants, which led to a highly favorable settlement for clients shortly thereafter.