EMPLOYEE RIGHTS CASE: Livingston, et al. v. Chester, etc., Case Number GIC 768263, in the Superior Court of California for the County of San Diego. 
recovered a $550,000.00 verdict and judgment against an employer who had failed to pay overtime as required by law. CLICK HERE TO VIEW ARTICLE from 23 July 2003 edition of San Diego Daily Transcript:
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EMPLOYEE RIGHTS CASE: Cram v. LJL Transportation, Inc., etc., Case Number GIC 753653, in the Superior Court of California for the County of San Diego. recovered a $1,500,000.00 allowed claim against the bankruptcy estate of an employer who had failed to pay overtime as required by law. The total cash recovered on the allowed claim was approximately $500,000.00.
Amerimax Flood Certification, L.L.C. v. ACE INA Financial Institution Solutions, Inc., et al., Case No. GIC 781497, in the Superior Court of California, County of San Diego. recovered a $1,230,053.00 verdict and judgment against a subsidiary of one of the world's largest insurers in this complex accounting-dispute case. CLICK HERE TO VIEW ARTICLE from 15 September 2004 edition of San Diego Daily Transcript:
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Worthington v. Royale Energy, 96-0644-CGA (U.S.D.C., S.D.Cal.) obtained a special verdict against a publicly-traded energy corporation awarding $2,162,303.36 (cumulative and non-cumulative remedies) where the sole plaintiff had invested only $89,000.00 in natural gas wells. 
opposing counsel were approximately nine (9) attorneys from three separate firms (including two prominent San Diego firms). Some of the interrogatories contained in the special verdict required proof by clear and convincing evidence. The federal jury unanimously answered all 138 interrogatories as the plaintiff had requested.
Historical Properties v. County of San Diego, 1997 WL 759545 (9th Cir. 1997). obtained a bankruptcy-court judgment avoiding well over $500,000 in statutory liens asserted to secure a claim for real property taxes. successfully preserved the judgment on appeal.
Horton Grand v. Rose, 1995 WL 499789 (9th Cir. 1995). obtained reversal and rendition of judgment on appeal from a bankruptcy-court judgment which had equitably reduced the amount of a real-estate-secured promissory note from over $14,000,000.00 to less than $4,000,000.00 (where the client had been represented by other counsel at trial). Reversal was instrumental in facilitating judicial foreclosure of a well-known historic hotel in downtown San Diego.
Whitehouse v. Six Corporation (1995), 40 Cal.App.4th 527, review denied. In complex, multi-forum litigation involving the receivership of American Universal Insurance Company (Rhode Island), obtained reversal and remand for new trial following the trial court's denial of a third-party claim of ownership of attached real property. This reported decision is a seminal case controlling the application of California's third-party claim procedure.
Resolution Trust Corporation v. Starkey, 41 F.3d 1018 (5th Cir. 1995). obtained reversal and rendition of judgment, thus relieving a prominent Dallas, Texas attorney of a $654,550.00 deficiency judgment. Both other defendants were represented by other counsel, and both other defendants remained liable for the deficiency.
State of Kansas v. United States of America, 16 F.3d 436 (D.C. Cir. 1994), certiorari denied, 513 U.S. 945 (1994). was appointed Special Assistant Attorney General of the State of Kansas in this high-profile civil-rights action against the United States and certain of its officers regarding issues of paramount importance to the economic development of the State of Kansas. opposing counsel in this and related actions included Eric H. Holder, Jr., Esq. (who later served as [acting] Attorney General of the United States), Abbe David Lowell, Esq. (who later served as Minority Counsel before the House Judiciary Committee in connection with the Clinton impeachment proceedings), and John D. Bates, Esq. (later nominated and confirmed as Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia). The United States Supreme Court considered the State's petition for certiorari at three separate conferences before denying same.
Pollock v. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, 17 F.3d 798 (5th Cir. 1994). was the prevailing counsel in this, one of the very, very few reported decisions reflecting the successful evasion of the doctrine of D'Oench, Duhme & Co. v. Federal Deposit Ins. Corp., 315 U.S. 447 (1942). obtained reversal of summary judgment and remand for trial.
Matter of: S.I. Acquisition, Inc., 817 F.2d 1142 (5th Cir. 1987). was the prevailing counsel in this seminal case involving the scope of the automatic stay in bankruptcy (holding that alter-ego actions are within the scope of said stay).
, Esq., is a 1985 graduate of the University of Texas School of Law, which is one of the most prestigious law schools in the United States. 
