Justin C. Sawyer

Representative Experience

• Commercial Contract & Tort Litigation Plus

  • Obtained eight figure recovery to redress harms caused by repeated breaches of contract and tortious conduct.

  • Successful defense of brokerage firm against $1.5 million raiding claim. After one week of arbitration, claimant rested, and the panel granted brokerage firm’s motions dismissing all claims.

  • Seven figure recovery in professional malpractice action.

  • Obtained $1.4 million arbitration award and permanent injunction based on claims for corporate raiding, breach of fiduciary duty, aiding and abetting breach of fiduciary duty, and breach of contract.

  • Negotiated successful resolution of manufacturing and distribution dispute, including six figure recovery on behalf of client.

  • Obtained six-figure recovery for public entity based on breach of contract claims against Fortune 500 company.

  • Successfully defended aircraft manufacturer against $100 million claim for breach of design and development agreement in four-week arbitration.

  • Recovered $15 million in breach-of-contract, successor liability, fraudulent transfer, and corporate piercing action arising out of sale of business.

  • Obtained six-figure recovery on behalf of farmer based on breach of contract.

  • Secured immediate injunctive relief enforcing non-competition agreement and other restrictive covenants.

  • Obtained six figure recoveries from multiple parties based on failed purchase and sale agreement.

  • Successfully enforced trademark rights in trademark infringement lawsuit.

  • Negotiated favorable, early pre-litigation resolutions of numerous matters, including contractual disputes and claims involving non-competition agreements.

  • Conducted numerous internal investigations into employee fraud, director and officer liability, and accounting malpractice.

• Corporate Governance & Securities Litigation Plus

  • Obtained seven figure recovery on behalf of a shareholder asserting minority oppression and multiple breaches of fiduciary duty.

  • Successful defense of securities fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, and suitability claims arising from the sale of emerging market securities in bet-the-company arbitration. FINRA panel denied the claims in their entirety.

  • Negotiated favorable resolution of contentious corporate governance lawsuit that included buyout of minority shareholder.

  • Obtained multimillion-dollar recovery on behalf of common shareholder based on breaches of fiduciary duty.

  • Obtained order protecting shareholders by placing deadlocked company into receivership.

  • Successful defense of $5.4 million securities claims arising from tenant-in-common investments.

  • Negotiated favorable resolution of multiparty litigation involving claims of securities fraud and breaches of fiduciary duty by directors and officers.

  • Successfully defended brokerage firm against claims arising from sale of high yield bonds. Panel denied the claims in their entirety.

  • Negotiated favorably, early pre-litigation resolutions of disputes among owners of business, including buyouts and valuations of co-owner’s ownership interest.

• Catastrophic Injury Litigation Plus

  • Favorable resolution of a complex $30 million catastrophic injury lawsuit arising from a crane-rollover accident.

  • Summary judgment dismissal of a $25 million wrongful death action.

  • Successful defense of $23 million traumatic brain injury lawsuit arising from snowboarding accident.

  • Successful defense of university, head football coach, and athletic trainer in a lawsuit seeking $5 million based on student-athlete’s return to play after concussion during a college football game.

  • Defended manufacturers against product liability claims asserting product defects and failure to warn.

  • Favorable resolution of claims alleging sexual abuse of student.

  • Successful defense against claims arising from head injuries sustained during a scuba diving class.

  • Favorable resolution of claims arising from a concussion sustained by a student-cheerleader.