Breach of Contract
The majority of the cases we handle involve some type of contractual dispute. Several recent examples include:
- We represented Technology Solutions Company, a leading software and integration consulting firm, and obtained a $6.3 million judgment after a ten-week jury trial against defense contractor Northrop. TSC claimed Northrop owed it for computer consulting services related to the B-2 bomber, but had no written contracts to support its claims (and a company policy against oral contracts). We successfully convinced the jury that the existence of oral contracts for millions of dollars in services were established through conversations, course of dealing, and industry custom.
- We represented GEAC/JBA, the largest software concern in Canada, in a multi-million dollar lawsuit brought by Hartmarx raising allegations of negligent design and implementation of software.
- We represented a business consumer of ERP software in a claim against a software vendor seeking several million dollars.
- We represent and have represented a number of clients in breach of contract actions involving complex supply contracts. As just one example, we represented Clark Retail Enterprises in a breach of contract action involving a $1.6 billion supply contract for convenience store products.
- We have handled and are handling several cases involving contribution and indemnity obligations, including a case seeking $1 billion in damages.
- We defended and coordinated a series of cases filed across the country by a group of our client’s former independent sales representatives, who are asserting fraud, contract and statutory claims arising out of the termination of their contracts.
- We represented a Chicago-based trading group in a breach of contract action against AXA/Equitable, seeking damages for defendant’s breach of variable annuity contracts that guaranteed our clients unlimited trading. After hard-fought discovery, in which sanctions were imposed on our opponents for five separate discovery violations, we prevailed, won summary judgment on liability and resolved the matter favorably prior to the damages trial. Emerald Investments L.P. v. The Equitable Life Assurance Soc., 2005 WL 3470296 (N.D. Ill. 2005).