Plaintiff sued our client, a large national retailer. He claimed he slipped and fell on black ice on the curb in front of the store during an ongoing ice storm. We moved for summary judgment on the ground that the defendants had no duty to remedy any icy conditions while the storm was in progress….

Plaintiff alleged that she tripped and fell over a raised tree well grating on our client’s property. We moved for summary judgment on the grounds that the alleged defect was trivial. We relied on the testimony of the parties and photographs that were taken following the accident. The Court granted summary judgment in our favor…

A terminated employee filed a lawsuit against her employer, a large vitamin manufacturer, alleging pregnancy discrimination. Plaintiff claimed, among other things, that she was terminated from her position after telling her supervisor that she had become pregnant. We filed a motion for summary judgment and argued that there was no evidence that the employer knew…

Plaintiff sued our finance company client alleging unfair business practices. At trial we were successful in obtaining a Judgment in favor of our finance company client dismissing the complaint and granting us judgment in excess of $110,000.00 on our counterclaim. We presented witnesses to testify to the numerous defaults of both the plaintiff and third-party…

The assignee of a debt attempted to collect from the plaintiff debtor. The plaintiff sued our bank client claiming it violated the Debtor’s discharge. Plaintiff voluntarily discontinued the proceedings in response to our argument in our motion to dismiss that the debt collector was not an agent of the bank and therefore, the bank did…

In this case, plaintiff, a customer of our finance company client, was involved in an online fraud scheme with various auto salvage companies. The plaintiff agreed to utilize his credit to finance a vehicle for the salvage company, for which the salvage company was to pay the debt. The plaintiff failed to pay for the…

This case involved a motor vehicle accident between plaintiff and co-defendant at a traffic intersection at the Roosevelt Field Mall. Plaintiff claimed that the traffic light at the intersection was not working. We moved for summary judgment. We argued that plaintiff failed to show any defect with the traffic light. We relied upon the testimony…

Plaintiff tripped and fell on the sidewalk adjacent to a Duane Reade store. Our client was the owner of the building that contained the Duane Reade. The court granted our summary judgment motion and dismissed plaintiff’s complaint. It was persuaded by our arguments that our client was an out of possession landlord that could not…

Plaintiff tripped and fell stepping off a curb onto a road. He alleged that he was caused to fall due to an excessively high curb above a sewer inlet and the excessive pitch of the road at the mouth of the inlet. At trial, we established that our client paved the road where plaintiff fell…

Plaintiff sued our client, a large national retailer. He claimed that he was detained and handcuffed by defendant’s employees solely because he was Asian-American. Plaintiff claimed that the defendant’s employees negligently ignored his pleas to loosen or remove the handcuffs, causing nerve damage, in an effort to circumvent the one year statute of limitations for…