(August 2021) Jim Truitt and Amy Abbandondelo resolved the action of its client, a real estate developer, against the developer’s former attorney arising from the former attorney’s alleged legal malpractice in representing the developer in a prior action for specific performance of a real estate purchase contract, obtaining a favorable settlement for the developer after […]
(June 2021) Tom Sherwood and Robyn Fearon successfully defended a title insurance underwriter against an action in which the plaintiff sought damages arising from the insured’s acquisition and mortgaging of the property, which the plaintiff alleged violated a trust agreement and constituted unauthorized conveyances.
(May 2021) Jim Truitt and Robyn Fearon obtained a $1.9 million dollar money judgment in favor of a title insurance underwriter based upon the terms of two promissory notes and a written guaranty.
(May 2021) In a third-party action commenced by an insured property owner against its title insurance underwriter, Jim Truitt and Robyn Fearon obtained summary judgment dismissing the insured’s complaint alleging contractual indemnification, negligence, fraud, unjust enrichment, and breach of fiduciary duty, and successfully opposed the insured’s cross-motion to amend the complaint to add additional causes […]
(May 2021) Tom Sherwood and Amy Abbandondelo counseled a large cooperative housing corporation in refinancing its building’s mortgage and obtaining a new line of credit.
(April 2021) Following the decedent’s death, Thomas Sherwood and Jenna Gallagher obtained a judgment in favor of a beneficiary of the decedent’s paid-on-death bank account reforming an error in the beneficiary’s name, thereby permitting the beneficiary to access the account’s funds.
(April 2021) Robyn Fearon successfully defended a commercial non-payment proceeding commenced against a restaurant causing the petitioner-landlord to discontinue the matter.
(February 2021) Tom Sherwood and Robyn Fearon obtained a favorable settlement for a client whose commercial property was extensively damaged by water leaking from the adjacent neighboring property.
(January 2021) Tom Sherwood and Robyn Fearon successfully resolved an action commenced by a purchaser against their client, who had sold her property with open permits and had placed a certain amount of the purchase proceeds in escrow to resolve the open permits, where the purchaser was seeking damages above the amount escrowed.
(June 2020) Amy Abbandondelo counseled a franchisee in the negotiation and drafting of a land lease to secure the site of its franchise operations.
