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Success Stories

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• Recently, Ross, Wolcott, Teinert & Prout LLP obtained arbitration awards in favor of its client, a Fortune 500 company, in two separate cases brought by The Regents of the University of California (“UC”). In the first arbitration, UC alleged that that the client had overbilled for facilities management services from 1999-2005 in the amount of $5.5 million. After a week-long arbitration in San Francisco, the arbitrator denied UC’s claims in their entirety.
  
  In the second arbitration, UC alleged overbilling by the same Fortune 500 client from 2007-2012, including claims that the client committed violations of the California False Claims Act (“FCA”). UC alleged damages exceeding $7.6 million. Ross, Wolcott, Teinert & Prout LLP counterclaimed on the client’s behalf for amounts UC failed to pay, as well as for interest, costs and attorneys’ fees. The three-arbitrator AAA panel (consisting of two retired judges and a sitting U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge) denied UC’s claims under the FCA and instead awarded the client a total of over $9.4 million (including $7.6 million in damages and $1.8 million in interest and costs). Notably, the parties’ briefs addressing attorneys’ fees revealed that Ross, Wolcott, Teinert & Prout LLP’s fees were 35% less than those incurred by UC.
• Ross, Wolcott, Teinert & Prout LLP obtained a favorable settlement against a well-known regional construction company’s former employees for breaching a non-solicitation agreement.
• Ross, Wolcott, Teinert & Prout LLP obtained a $2.7 million judgment on behalf of an international manufacturer of building materials against a former executive for fraud, breach of fiduciary duty and breach of contract.
• Ross, Wolcott, Teinert & Prout LLP obtained a $2.25 million settlement in a breach of contract action against a major California Hospital in a case where the hospital initially and consistently denied liability until facts obtained by Ross, Wolcott, Teinert & Prout LLP through discovery prompted settlement.
• Ross, Wolcott, Teinert & Prout LLP recently persuaded the Department of Labor to close an investigation and refrain from pursing any charges against a statewide in-home care provider.
• Ross, Wolcott, Teinert & Prout LLP obtained a $684,336 AAA arbitration award, including attorneys’ fees, costs, and interest, on behalf of its client, a worldwide manufacturer of children’s educational games. Ross, Wolcott, Teinert & Prout LLP proved that the defendant, an international manufacturer of video games, had breached a supply and distribution agreement and a stock purchase agreement.
• Ross, Wolcott, Teinert & Prout LLP brought a motion on behalf of a nationwide home products retailer for the opposing party’s destruction of evidence. The court granted the motion and awarded the client over $16,000 in sanctions. In addition, the judge ruled that the jury should receive an “adverse inference” instruction to allow a finding that the destroyed documents were harmful to the opposing party. The case then settled immediately, with the opposing party dismissing its claims in their entirety.
• Ross, Wolcott, Teinert & Prout LLP resolved a Federal Court case for its client, a manufacturer of heavy machinery sued for more than $4 million by a purchaser of its machines who claimed they were defective. Under the terms of the settlement, the client paid no money and regained possession of the machines. After confirming that none of the defects alleged in the lawsuit ever actually existed, the client was able to resell the machines for an amount that covered all of its attorneys’ fees and yielded a six-figure net profit.