Houston Partners Bill Helfand and Rachael Fountain recently secured a trial victory in the U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas on First Amendment retaliation claims allegedly valued at $40M against an elected Harris County, Texas constable who the plaintiffs alleged retaliated against them for participating in an outside investigation of the department and refusing to support the Constable’s re-election campaign.

Providence Partners Michael J. Marcello and Todd Romano recently obtained an opinion from the Rhode Island Superior Court that rejected a property developer’s appeal of a Tiverton Zoning Board of Review decision upholding the town Planning Board’s denial of a master plan application for a recycling plant. 

Los Angeles Partners Anthony E. Sonnett and Jocelyn A. Julian, with co-counsel Robert W. Maxwell of Bernard Cassisa Elliott & Davis, recently secured a defense verdict for Hyundai Motor America in a products liability action.

Madison County Partners Adam S. Johnson and Zachary Shelton recently secured a directed verdict on behalf of a Lewis Brisbois client in Madison County, Illinois. The matter arose from a multi-vehicle accident that resulted in serious bodily injuries to multiple vehicle occupants, including a life-altering traumatic brain injury to the plaintiff. 

Chicago Partner Darcy Ibach and Boston Partner Patricia Gary recently secured a ruling that their surplus lines insurer client has no duty to defend or indemnify its insured attorney in a legal malpractice action. 

The Newark Trial Team of Partners Afsha Noran and Colin Hackett recently picked its fifth jury of 2025, and once again achieved a favorable result for the client. 

After agreeing to take on a new client’s case, just three months before the trial date, where the file had not been worked up according the high standards of Lewis’ Civil Rights & Police Litigation Defense Task Force, Los Angeles Partner Tony Sain and his team won a defense verdict in a federal jury trial in downtown Los Angeles.  

The Newark office’s commercial real estate litigation team, led by Jonathan Preziosi, recently obtained a summary judgment award before the New Jersey Tax Court determining that the assisted living and skilled nursing components of his client’s 52-acre Continuing Care Retirement Community (“CCRC”) in Maplewood Township, New Jersey, are exempt from real estate taxation under the “hospital purposes” exemption of governing state statute.

Chicago Partners Robert Good, Tim Young, Jordan LaClair, and Lynn Geerdes obtained a ruling from an Illinois federal judge granting summary judgment to their client, uniform manufacturer Twin Hill Acquisitions, in a lawsuit alleging pilots, flight attendants, and other “above the wing” employees of American Airlines suffered injuries due to harmful chemicals contained in Twin Hill-supplied uniforms.

St. Louis Partner Alejandro P. Frank and Ft. Lauderdale Partner Katina Hardee, with assistance from St. Louis Associate Aidan Hayward, recently secured summary judgment in the Circuit Court for Palm Beach County, Florida on behalf of two clients in a construction loan fraud case. The Court accurately determined that neither of the LBBS clients owed a duty to the plaintiffs to prevent the alleged fraud from occurring.