Catriona Lavery

• Secured a jury verdict of nearly $80 million for an employee in a wrongful termination and breach of contract action.
• Obtained $90-million summary judgment ruling for a group of investors in a breach of contract action against a large, publicly traded company.
• Represented former employers in mass raiding cases where high-level employees solicited clients and employees for competing businesses in violation of their duty of loyalty to employer.
• Secured early dismissal of a key cause of action for a senior banking executive accused of misappropriating a former employer's trade secrets.
• Obtained dismissal of a federal court challenge to a 100% affordable housing project in Echo Park on behalf of a Los Angeles-based real estate development company.
• Represented the owner-builder of a luxury residential tower in West Los Angeles in litigation against its insurer for bad-faith denial of coverage for construction delays.
• Represented association of investment companies in challenging state agency’s attempt to impose new regulatory fees without following the rulemaking process required by California’s Administrative Procedure Act.
• Defended San Diego-based concrete and asphalt company against putative class action alleging public and private nuisance.
• Represented television production company in a bad-faith insurance coverage dispute over whether acts of terrorism fell within the policy’s exclusion for acts of war; the matter settled for a confidential amount on the eve of trial.*

* Matters completed prior to joining Allen Matkins.