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Representative Matters
- Won summary judgment on behalf of a trampoline park facility after an eleven-year-old boy attending a birthday party at the park suffered a broken leg and injured knee. Though the parents of the boy never signed the waiver of liability the facility required before granting entry, we demonstrated the inherent risk of injury was assumed and that our client did not increase this risk beyond those inherently involved with the activity.
- Convinced the jury to award minimal monetary damages in a negligence case after a piece of furniture that was being moved by the client’s employees fell on the plaintiff. The plaintiff sought $2 million in damages, and the jury awarded less than 15 percent of that amount.
- Won summary judgment on behalf of a construction company in a premises liability case after a biker crashed at a paving construction area.
- Won a motion for summary judgment on behalf of a restaurant owner after a customer slipped on the floor of the restaurant.
- Secured a dismissal based on terminating sanctions motion for a builder in a premises liability and negligence case in which hot tar dripped onto the head of a worker.