Business and Real Estate Cases
Here is a sample of business cases successfully handled by Dickerman & Associates:
- We won an emergency injunction and a $2.5 million trial judgment for the owners of a chemical manufacturing plant after the defendant attempted to physically destroy the complex.
- We won an award at trial of $835,000 against a manufacturing company and its principal for fraudulently inducing our corporate client to pay for goods and services, then not delivering.
- We saved our screenwriter/film producer client from losing his $500,000 letter of credit, in litigation against a major bank after he had been defrauded by his corporate partner.
- Several months after filing suit against one of the largest companies in its industry for breach of contract and copyright infringement, we obtained a settlement of $400,000 for our photographer client.
- We obtained a substantial monetary settlement for several limited partnerships in their suit against the prestigious law firm that had improperly represented both sides of a disastrous investment scheme.
- After only three months of litigating against a major insurance company that had denied a legitimate claim in bad faith, we obtained a settlement for 150% of the amount demanded in the complaint.
- We forced a favorable settlement during trial of a case in which our client’s brother had fraudulently sought to misappropriate the client’s substantial real estate holdings.
- We obtained a significant settlement for a club owner who had rented his facility to a movie studio, only to have the studio make alterations that led the City to impose costly new building requirements.
- Through arbitration, we obtained a substantial settlement for the estate of a famous songwriter who had been unlawfully deprived of royalties.
- We recovered for our client 100% of the money he had invested in defective vending machines.
- Without filing suit, we recovered for a business consulting company money due under a contract that the other side had repudiated.
- After filing suit for a building-maintenance company for breach of contract by a large corporation, we forced a favorable settlement for our client.
- We obtained a rarely granted ex parte pre-judgment attachment order for our television-producer client who had been summarily fired and not paid, resulting in the immediate settlement of the case on extremely favorable terms.
- We obtained a pre-judgment attachment order, resulting in the immediate recovery of 100% of real estate commissions withheld from our client.
- We engineered a very favorable settlement for a small business whose owner had been wrongly accused of sexual harassment.
- We successfully defended a selling homeowner who had been sued for fraudulently failing to disclose information to the buyer, and persuaded the court to dismiss a $250,000 default judgment it had previously awarded.
- We successfully defended our client who had been sued by his previous attorney, in probate litigation, for over $250,000 in fees.
Personal Cases
Here is a sample of personal cases successfully handled by Dickerman & Associates:
- We obtained a judgment for $750,000, and a rare injunction, for the victim of vicious Internet libel and invasion of privacy.
- We obtained a large settlement for a movie producer and accomplished musician who had suffered a serious blow to the head by a golf club.
- We counseled the victim of sexual molestation by a pop music celebrity, who was then criminally prosecuted in a case followed worldwide. Mr. Dickerman made numerous television appearances in connection with that matter, and was often quoted in the print media.
- We obtained dismissal of our client’s ex-boyfriend’s lawsuit for malicious prosecution, stemming from his acquittal of criminal charges previously brought by the client. We also won an award of attorney’s fees.
- We obtained a significant recovery for a woman who broke her hip when she tripped on a poorly maintained outdoor carpet at a wedding facility.
- After an especially acrimonious trial, we won a permanent injunction for our client against her apartment manager who had been relentlessly harassing her.
- We successfully defended an elderly woman accused of assaulting and battering her elderly neighbor and causing her health to decline.
- We won a notable settlement for a couple whose wedding minister made humiliating revelations about the couple during the wedding ceremony, causing them severe embarrassment and emotional distress.
- In a suit against our client’s neighbor for damages from the run-off of pool water, we obtained a settlement of 300% of the amount of the initial insurance claim.
- Without filing suit, and at little cost to our client, we negotiated an excellent settlement after she had been overcharged by her previous attorney in an employment case.