Experience

• Schiff Hardin Prevails in Environmental Litigation
  Schiff Hardin's Environmental Group successfully obtained a dismissal for its client from a lawsuit based upon alleged violations of the Clean Water Act and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act.
  


• FERC Orders Vacated in Favor of Client
  Schiff Hardin successfully appealed adverse Federal Energy Regulatory Commission orders before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District Of Columbia Circuit on behalf of our client.
  


• Toxic Tort Claims Successfully Settled
  Schiff Hardin represents a coal-fired electric utility in a Superfund matter involving groundwater contamination allegedly arising from the historic placement of coal ash in and near a northwest Indiana town.
  


• Reliable Media Management
  Schiff Hardin represented the defendants in this case alleging misappropriation of trade secrets, breach of restrictive covenants and interference with customer relationships.
  


• The Quaker Oats Company
  Schiff Hardin represented PepsiCo plaintiffs in two cases involving a dispute with their former ad agency, which had subsequently been retained by a direct competitor in the soft drink industry.
  


• Public Utility and its Power Trading Unit
  Schiff Hardin represented a power trading unit and its public utility parent in the successful litigation of a $35 million fraudulent transfer and preference claim.
  


• Litigating Trade Secret Theft
  A company with nationwide operations had a confidentiality breach that threatened its ability to compete, and turned to Schiff Hardin for help.
  


• Personal Jurisdiction in Estate Litigation
  Schiff Hardin won a bench trial in DuPage County, Illinois involving a decedent who died shortly before signing change of beneficiary forms for multiple IRAs.
  


• PepsiCo, Inc.
  Schiff Hardin filed an action on behalf of PepsiCo, Inc. against a former employee and his new employer, The Quaker Oats Company, seeking emergency and permanent injunctive relief.
  


• Palmer & Cay - Defense of Company and Executive
  Schiff Hardin defended Palmer & Cay and one of its executives in a lawsuit filed by the executive's former employer.
  


• Owens-Illinois Product Liability Defense
  Schiff Hardin successfully defended our client, Owens-Illinois, Inc., in a case seeking $25 million in lost profits and brand damage.
  


• Owens-Illinois Litigation
  This 11-week long product liability trial in Los Angeles County Superior Court involved a claim that the plaintiff contracted an asbestos-related cancer from alleged use of our client's product decades earlier.
  


• Schiff Hardin Prevails in Landmark Ohio Asbestos Case
  Arguing on behalf of our client, Schiff Hardin attorneys prevailed before the Ohio Supreme Court in a landmark case dealing with Ohio's 2004 asbestos tort reform statute.
  


• Out-of-State Jurisdiction
  Schiff Hardin attorneys represented a trustee and several members of trust 'advisory committees' in connection with two lawsuits filed by a beneficiary who sought to 'bust' two trusts created for her benefit.
  


• Merial Ltd.
  Schiff Hardin represented Merial Ltd. in this suit against a former employee for misappropriation of trade secrets and breach of confidentiality covenant.
  


• Vindication for Conrad Black Defendant
  Schiff Hardin represented Mark Kipnis, a defendant in the Conrad Black trial. Convicted of only two of the eleven counts on which he was charged, Mr. Kipnis received the lightest sentence of all the defendants, and did not spend a single day in prison.
  


• Trade Secret Case Successfully Settled
  Schiff Hardin represented a marketing consultant who had recently been hired by a competitor of one of his former clients.
  


• International Company Defended in California
  Schiff Hardin successfully defended an international jewelry company against a breach of contract claim in federal court in California.
  


• University Successfully Defended Against Fraud Claims
  When a university sold its radio station, and the new owners abandoned the station's Christian format, two listeners and donors sued the school for fraud.
  


• Lek Pharmaceuticals
  In the Omeprazole patent litigation Schiff Hardin represented Lek Pharmaceuticals, a subsidiary of Sandoz and Novartis, in its successful defense of AstraZeneca's patent infringement action regarding the plaintiff's Prilosec product.
  


• Summary Judgment in Lead Exposure Case
  A New York City trial court threw out claims of lead paint injury against Schiff Hardin's client, accepting our attorneys' arguments that there was no showing of injury to the plaintiff.
  


• K-Tube
  Schiff Hardin successfully prosecuted a two-month jury trial of a trade secrets case in San Diego on behalf of our client, K-Tube Corporation.
  


• Kraft Pizza Company
  Schiff Hardin represented Kraft Pizza Company in this case against a former ACNielsen marketing consultant and the competitor that he joined in the frozen pizza business.
  


• Keebler
  Our client, Keebler Corporation, asked us to represent its interests in trade secrets litigation that tested the limits of the inevitable disclosure doctrine we established in PepsiCo v. Redmond.
  


• Joseph Boden
  Schiff Hardin represented Joseph Boden against allegations of breach of a non-competition agreement and misappropriation of trade secrets in the concentrate juice business.
  


• Schiff Hardin Wins Victory in Trade Secrets Litigation for JLG Industries, Inc.
  A Schiff Hardin attorney team achieved a victory for client JLG Industries, Inc., in trade secret litigation against a former JLG employee.
  


• Insurance Auto Auctions
  Schiff Hardin was retained by one of our clients to investigate whether one of its former employees had taken our client's confidential documents and trade secrets with him upon his departure from the company.
  


• Swift Response Helps Bankruptcy Client
  Schiff Hardin represented a manufacturer of hydraulic cylinders for original equipment manufacturers in a Chapter 11 filing and a Section 363 sale of substantially all of its assets under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code.
  


• Hogan
  Schiff Hardin represented Hogan and his new employer, Turner Broadcasting Sales Inc., in defeating FX Network's motion for a temporary restraining order and then later in defeating FX Network's motion for a preliminary injunction.
  


• Pro Bono Victory for Harlem Arts School
  Schiff Hardin achieved victory on behalf of a prominent New York City cultural institution in a highly contentious dispute with a former senior executive.
  


• Appeal of Product Liability Class Action Successfully Defended
  Schiff Hardin attorneys defended a children's product manufacturer on appeal of a class action lawsuit; the appeals court upheld the lower court's dismissal of the suit.
  


• Facility of Payments and Trust Termination
  Schiff Hardin represented a corporate fiduciary in the Circuit Court of Cook County in connection with a financially fragile beneficiary of a trust whose termination date had arrived.
  


• Experian Marketing Solutions, Inc.
  Schiff Hardin successfully defeated an employer's motion for a temporary restraining order against a former employee seeking to prevent the employee from taking a new position with a competitor.
  


• Executive Wealth Management
  Schiff Hardin successfully represented the defendants, defeating the motion for preliminary injunction after the evidentiary hearing.
  


• Schiff Hardin Prevails in Appeal of Title VII Retaliation Suit
  Schiff Hardin attorneys successfully defended their client, a nuclear power plant operator, in an appeal involving alleged retaliation against a former employee.
  


• Eastman Kodak Company
  Schiff Hardin represented Eastman Kodak Company in recovering its $22-million investment in a failed printer development venture by asserting hard-to-win fraud and alter ego claims against a Fortune 10 company.
  


• Successful Product Liability Defense
  Attorneys from Schiff Hardin's New York and Chicago offices joined forces to win a jury verdict in a product liability case in Mount Holly, New Jersey.
  


• Successful Defense of Corporate Trustee
  Schiff Hardin successfully defended a fiduciary liability claim against a large corporate trustee in a nine-day bench trial in DuPage County, Illinois.
  


• Mortgage Fraud Litigation
  Schiff Hardin represented the purchaser of residential mortgages in an appraisal/originator fraud ring in its litigation against the perpetrators of the fraud.
  


• Clear Channel Broadcasting Inc.
  Schiff Hardin helped Clear Channel's to protect its trade secrets and to enforce its contract with a departing employee, including non-compete and confidentiality provisions.
  


• Saving Animals from a Cruel End
  Schiff Hardin attorneys helped put an end to the illegal and inhumane gassing of domestic animals by the Georgia Department of Agriculture in violation of Georgia's Humane Euthanasia Act.
  


• CenterPoint Properties Trust
  Schiff Hardin represented CenterPoint Properties Trust in two cases that not only recovered millions of dollars of rent, but yielded recoveries in excess of that paid to other unsecured creditors and made new law favorable to commercial landlords.
  


• Calphalon Corporation
  Schiff Hardin successfully obtained summary judgment in favor of our client, Calphalon Corporation, a division of Newell Rubbermaid Inc., in a patent infringement case involving Calphalon's popular 'Professional Nonstick II' gourmet cookware products.
  


• Caine & Weiner Company
  Schiff Hardin represented defendants in this action filed by their former employer for breach of restrictive covenants and misappropriation of trade secrets.
  


• AT&T Wireless
  Schiff Hardin successfully represented AT&T Wireless Services, Inc. and Claircom Communications against plaintiff's allegations of trade secret misappropriation, in a case arising from air-to-ground telephone service technology for airline passengers.
  


• Arthur J. Gallagher
  Schiff Hardin defended Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. in this dispute regarding its hiring of approximately 100 employees formerly employed by a competitor.
  


• Illinois Appellate Court Victory in Trust Case of First Impression
  The Illinois Appellate Court ruled in our clients' favor on a question of first impression concerning the application of a Trusts and Trustees Act provision.
  


• Antec Corporation
  Schiff Hardin represented plaintiff Antec Corporation in this suit against a departing employee for his misappropriation of trade secrets and breach of restrictive covenants.
  


• Ameriwood Industries, Inc.
  Attorneys from Schiff Hardin's Chicago office obtained a significant victory for our client in a lawsuit against several of its former executives.
  


• More Than 300 Dogs Rescued From Abuse, With Schiff Hardin's Help
  In a case that has received nationwide attention, Schiff Hardin's Animal Law practice group helped to obtain a full and final judgment for the plaintiffs in a North Carolina animal abuse lawsuit.
  


• Cats Keep Their Claws In West Hollywood
  Schiff Hardin assisted the Animal Legal Defense Fund in preparing an amicus brief in support of the defendants in a case regarding a city ordinance against declawing.
  


• USDA Challenged on Animal Welfare Act
  In 2006, Schiff Hardin attorneys represented several plaintiffs in a case challenging the USDA's failure to adopt a policy to ensure the psychological well-being of primates pursuant to the Animal Welfare Act.
  


• New Animal Shelter
  Schiff Hardin helped to investigate a Kentucky animal shelter that was mistreating dogs, reaching a settlement that included the construction of a brand-new facility.
  


• Cruel Treatment of Chimpanzees Halted
  In 2006, Schiff Hardin attorneys helped to achieve a groundbreaking victory that represented a major step towards the end of the use of nonhuman primates in entertainment.