A contract dispute can arise over a complex multi-page agreement or single-page letter of intent. In either case, when a contract is breached or its terms are disputed, GMSR’s appellate lawyers step in to preserve and defend their clients’ interests on appeal. GMSR’s appellate lawyers have extensive experience – representing both plaintiffs and defendants, involving both personal and business contracts – in which they have been successful in attacking a trial court’s erroneous interpretation of a contract’s terms or defending against an adversary’s erroneous contract construction.
GMSR’s clients, who own a building in the Manhattan Village shopping center, agreed with defendant owner of the remainder of the center to a revitalization construction project that would increase the amount of parking near the clients’ building. Soon, the defendant began making significant changes
GMSR wins landmark decision on unfair competition, tortious interference with contract
Plaintiff had an at-will contract with a non-party to develop a drug based on a certain active ingredient. Defendant Biogen reached its own deal with that non-party to settle patent disputes and to license the same active ingredient—requiring that the at-will contract with Plaintiff be
Plaintiff sued Defendant for breach of a commercial lease. Defendant argued the lease was unenforceable because it required he occupy an unlawful building and use it for an illegal purpose. His defense was premised on a theory that a portion of the building’s second story
Court of Appeal affirms damages and fee awards in favor of real estate developers and rejects neighboring homeowners association’s million-dollar counterclaim
GMSR’s clients acquired four parcels of land and began developing residential homesites—a process that requires frequent pre-development visits by multiple contractors. Because the land was not adjacent to public streets, the developers and their visitors accessed it by driving through a guarded gate and then
The issue on appeal was whether evidence of the homeowner’s execution of a written agreement with a third party ratified the third party’s previously unauthorized execution of a trust deed on her home. Since a trust deed must be in writing, under the “equal dignities
GMSR’s client faced loss of her home on account of an unauthorized home equity loan from which she received nothing. Judgment for the lender reversed
Court of Appeal affirms $3.9 million judgment on commercial guaranty, holding that federal law bars guarantor’s assertion of “sham guaranty” defense.
Court of Appeal affirms summary judgment entitling bank to collect on defaulted loans
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