I.
Practice of the Firm
Litigation
Trial and dispute resolution where the outcome is existential — commercial, fiduciary, and high-exposure defense.
The approach.
The litigation practice is the firm's founding discipline: commercial disputes, fiduciary and shareholder claims, and high-exposure defense where the outcome would change the client's future. Matters are led by the partner who will stand up in court, from the first conflicts check to the verdict.
Preparation is the practice's only doctrine. Every matter is built to be tried — witnesses worked, record perfected, theory reduced to a sentence a juror can carry — which is why most of them end, on the firm's terms, before trial.
Representative Matters
2019 — Whitmore v. Continental Indus. — $310M verdict for a family's minority stake; affirmed.
2016 — Confidential fiduciary defense — Claims against a trustee bank withdrawn after expert discovery.
1978 — Marden Steel v. Atlantic Casualty — $46M coverage recovery, then Delaware's largest.
A selection. Most of the practice’s engagements remain, by design, confidential.