Representative Matters

Appellate and Supreme Court

• Represent a client in a civil-procedure appeal in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
• Served as counsel of record for amici curiae in a due-process case in the U.S. Supreme Court at the certiorari stage.
• Drafted a Supreme Court merits-stage amicus brief for a science policy institute in a federal preemption case.
• Served as amicus counsel in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, supporting a challenge to an SEC order concerning the Consolidated Audit Trail.

Litigation and disputes

• Represent a Fortune 50 company in a matter before a state agency.
• Represent a relator in a False Claims Act case.
• Defend a closely held company in a contract dispute in state court.
• Represent an individual in federal district court, with claims and counterclaims sounding in contract and tort.
• Defend a company sued on a multimillion-dollar promissory note in state court, and assert counterclaims.
• Represent a company in a JAMS arbitration to collect unpaid fees under a marketing contract.
• Defend a company in a commercial dispute in state court.
• Represent a company in a contract and unfair-trade-practices dispute with an overseas supplier.
• Represented a lender suing on a defaulted loan and guaranty, with fraud claims against borrowers who were dissipating assets, in state court and a related bankruptcy proceeding, and obtained a default judgment.
• Represent a client in an employment-law matter.
• Defend a company in a consumer-protection suit.
• Represent a tenant in a landlord-tenant dispute.
• Represent a client in a claim for unauthorized commercial use of her likeness.
• Represent a witness in a contempt hearing in state court.

Advisory

• Advised a law firm on the structure and compliance of its MSO. Showalter PLLC and its AI workflows uncovered mistakes in the legal opinion a BigLaw firm had prepared on that structure.