• PPL Montana v. Energy West Resources, Inc. (U.S.D.C. Montana) Obtained intentional breach of contract finding at trial. Case settled favorably thereafter.
• The Urban Group v. Pike Place Market Development Agency (King County Superior Court). Successfully defended the Pike Place Market against efforts of the Urban Group to wrest control of the market from the public.
• Cauff, Lippman v. The Republic of Nauru (W.D. Wash.; Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals). Obtained defense trial verdict in suit alleging breach of contract and breach of the covenant of good faith and fair dealing. Trial court judgment affirmed on appeal.
• ENI v. Monin, Inc. (W.D. Wash.; Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals). Prevailed in a federal court jury trial defending a manufacturer accused of breaching distribution and commission agreements and violating the Washington Consumer Protection and Franchise Investment Protection Acts. Trial court judgment affirmed on appeal.
• Bellevue Place Associates v. Lynnwood Savings & Loan (King County Superior Court). Obtained defense trial verdict in lender liability suit.
• RCW, Inc. v. Olshan Enterprises (King County Superior Court). Obtained jury verdict following three–week trial on breach of contract claim.

Environmental

• Queen City Farms v. Central National, 126 Wn.2d 50, 882 P.2d 703 (1994). Litigated from trial to state Supreme Court the leading Washington case establishing that general liability insurance policies provide coverage for costs to clean up environmental damages. Obtained millions of dollars in settlement for client.
• Save our Valley v. Sound Transit, __ F. 3d. __ 2003 WL 21544107 (9th Cir 7/10/030). Successfully defended against a Title VI environmental justice and NEPA claim related to Sound Transit's light rail project.
• City of Centralia v. American Insurance (W.D. Wash.). Represented policyholder in suit seeking insurance coverage for costs incurred to clean up a landfill. Obtained millions of dollars in settlement for client.
• Burlington Northern Railroad v. Woods Industries, 815 F.Supp. 1384 (E.D. Wash. 1993). Represented plaintiff, who had conducted a CERCLA removal action, in a multi–party cost recovery lawsuit. Obtained a multi–million dollar settlement.

Technology

• Altsys, Inc. v. Aldus Corp. (N.D. Texas 1994). Defended Aldus in breach of licensing litigation that threatened proposed Aldus/Adobe merger. Case settled successfully to allow merger to proceed.
• Cognigen Networks, Inc. v. Cognigen Corp. 174 F.Supp.2d 1134 (W.D.Wash. 2001). Successfully had dispute over domain name dismissed on jurisdictional grounds.
• Phonometrics v. Westin Hotels; Phonometrics v. Hyatt Hotels (S.D. Fla.; Federal Circuit Court of Appeals). Successfully defended Westin Hotels and Hyatt Hotels in parallel patent infringement actions. Westin action affirmed on appeal; Hyatt appeal pending.

Constitutional

• Baseball Stadium Litigation. Successfully defended the Washington State Major League Baseball Stadium Public Facilities District in over a dozen lawsuits challenging various aspects of the effort to build a new baseball stadium in Seattle. The lawsuits involved a range of issues, including various constitutional, environmental and condemnation issues. The cases were filed in four different counties and three of the cases went to the state supreme court. All the litigation was done on a expedited basis and completed in about a year and a half.
• Hopper v. City of Pasco, 241 F.3d. 1067 (9th Cir. 2001). Obtained appellate court judgment that artist's first amendments right had been violated by the removal of art for the Pasco City Hall.
• City of Auburn v. U.S., 154 F.3d. 1025 (9th Cir. 1998). Successfully represented BNSF railroad in claim that federal law preempted local effort to regulate environmental impacts of rail transportation plan.
• Soundgarden v. Eikenberry, 123 Wn.2d 750, 871 P.2d 1050 (Wash. 1994). Obtained injunction and judgment declaring the state's “erotic music“ law unconstitutional. The decision was affirmed on appeal to the Washington Supreme Court.
• Initiative and Referendum: Represented the Washington Public Ports Association in successful challenges to the constitutionality of Initiatives 695 and 722.
• In Re Sanders, 135 Wn.2d 175, 955 P.2d 369 (1998). Successfully represented sitting Supreme Court justice against judicial conduct claim on first amendment grounds.
• Alaska Airlines, et al. v. City of Long Beach, 951 F.2d 977 (9th Cir. 1991). Lead counsel for Delta Airlines in five–week trial regarding constitutionality of City's airport access ordinance. Judgment for airlines entered at trial and upheld on appeal.

Class Action

• Lefco v. Microsoft Corporation (King County Superior Court). Successfully defeated an attempt to certify a class of plaintiffs alleging product defects and advertising misrepresentations in Windows 95. The class, if certified, would have been one of the largest ever in the United States.
• Pickett v. Holland–America Line–Westours, Inc., 145 Wn.2d 178 (2001). Counsel for Association of Washington Businesses and WSA (formerly the Washington Software Alliance) in amicus briefs demonstrating problems with trial court's decision to certify nation–wide class.
• Carabalo v. United State of America, et. al., (U.S.D.C Virgin Islands). Assisted the East–West Center of Hawaii in settling potential class claims and obtaining the benefits of the class settlement in Carabalo.
• In Re Pacific Nuclear Securities Litigation, (W.D.Wash.). Defended Pacific Nuclear in class action securities claim. The case was resolved through a favorable settlement.

• U.S. Supreme Court
• Supreme Court of Montana
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
• U.S. District Court for Western Washington
• U.S. District Court for Eastern Washington
• U.S. District Court for Arizona