Business Matters
1. We obtained a substantial monetary settlement for several limited partnerships in their suit against the prestigious law firm that had improperly represented both sides of a disastrous investment scheme.
2. We won a $2.5 million trial judgment for the owners of a chemical manufacturing plant after the defendant attempted to physically destroy the complex.
3. After only 3 months of litigating a case in which a major insurance company had denied a legitimate homeowner's claim in bad faith, we obtained a settlement for 1-1/2 times the amount demanded in the complaint.
4. We forced a favorable settlement during trial of a case in which our client's brother had sought to misappropriate the client's substantial real estate holdings.
5. We obtained a significant settlement for a club owner who had rented his facility to a movie studio, only to have the studio make alterations that led the City to impose costly new building requirements.
6. We engineered a favorable settlement for a small business whose owner had been wrongly accused of sexual harassment.
7. We represented a business seller against the much larger purchaser that had defrauded our client and breached much of their contract.
8. We obtained a substantial settlement for the estate of a famous songwriter who had been unlawfully deprived of royalties.
Personal Matters
1. We obtained a judgment of over $750,000 for the victim internet libel, invasion of privacy, and stalking.
2. We obtained a large settlement for a movie producer and accomplished musician who had suffered a serious blow to the head by a golf club.
3. We advised the victim of sexual molestation by a pop music celebrity, who was then criminally prosecution in a case followed worldwide. Mr. Dickerman made numerous network and cable television appearances in connection with that matter, as well as being interviewed and quoted in the print media.
4. We obtained a significant recovery for a woman who had broken her hip when she tripped on a poorly maintained outdoor carpet at a wedding facility.
5. After a hard-fought court hearing, we won a permanent injunction for our client against her apartment manager who had been relentlessly harassing her.
6. We successfully defended an 84-year-old woman accused of assaulting and battering her elderly neighbor and causing her health to decline.
7. We won a notable settlement for a couple whose wedding minister had made bizarre revelations about the couple during the wedding ceremony, causing them untold distress and humiliation.
Among the matters that the firm has recently handled, are an action against the installer of wood flooring; a homeowner's suit against a general contractor for shoddy construction; defending a homeowner who was accused of defrauding the buyer of her property; defending a family accused of making a false police report leading to the plaintiff's criminal prosecution; fighting a quiet title action over a prescriptive easement; and suing a client's ex-wife and her parents for defamation, invasion of privacy, and trespass to property.