(July 2021) Jim Truitt and Robyn Fearon obtained a money judgment in favor of their client arising from a debtor’s default under settlement terms reached in an adversary proceeding within a federal bankruptcy action.
(June 2022) In defending an action by a former business partner alleging fraud, Robyn Fearon obtained a money judgment in favor of her client on his counterclaims, and then negotiated a favorable settlement in which the complaint for fraud was dismissed and her client recovered sums due under a stock purchase agreement.
(February 2022) Robyn Fearon successfully evicted on behalf of her landlord client a commercial tenant for non-payment of rent and then collected the full amount due from the tenant on the related money judgment.
(January 2022) In a homeowner’s proposed class action against a homeowners’ association concerning numerous homeowners’ alleged easement rights over certain homeowners’ association property, following Tom Sherwood’s and Jenna Gallagher’s submission of opposition to the plaintiff’s motion for class certification, Tom Sherwood and Jenna Gallagher obtained a favorable settlement on behalf of the homeowners’ association.
(December 2021) Tom Sherwood and Robyn Fearon successfully defended a title insurance underwriter against an action by its insured seeking a defense and indemnification against claims that competing liens had priority over the insured lien interest
(December 2021) Jim Truitt and Robyn Fearon successfully prosecuted a case against an individual defendant who misled a lending institution concerning the terms of a short pay off. The court awarded a money judgment to the title insurance underwriter that paid off the defrauded lender.
(October 2021) Tom Sherwood and Amy Abbandondelo successfully prosecuted on behalf of a judgment creditor a contested proceeding to obtain a renewal real property lien of its money judgment following the judgment debtor’s discharge in bankruptcy.
(September 2021) Tom Sherwood and Robyn Fearon negotiated a favorable pre-suit settlement in favor of claimant who was injured in a trip and fall incident at a food store.
(September 2021) Jenna Gallagher obtained summary judgment in favor of a property owner dismissing an action seeking to void the owner’s deed and removing a notice of pendency on the ground that the owner was a good faith purchaser for valuable consideration whose title was protected by New York Real Property Law Section 266. Jenna […]
(August 2021) Jim Truitt and Jenna Gallagher successfully moved for summary judgment on behalf of a junior lien holder in a condominium lien foreclosure action, reducing the amount claimed due and owing by the condominium board under its senior lien, thereby increasing the likelihood surplus monies would be available to satisfy their client’s junior lien […]
