Reid Miller Bolton

Practice Details

• Firm Information
  Position

  Partner

  Firm Name

  Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott LLP
• Representative Cases & Transactions
  Cases

  CASES TRIED OR OTHERWISE TAKEN TO JUDGMENT: Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Texas Roadhouse(D. Mass.)
  Trial counsel for l
  mark pattern or practice age discrimination claim brought by EEOC against national restaurant chain. After three-week jury trial in January 2017, case ended in a mistrial because jury was deadlocked after deliberating for one week. Law360 coverage here . Case settled very favorably before retrial.
  Spirit AeroSystems v. Gulfstream(AAA / ICDR Arbitration, New York, NY 2014-2015)
  Trial counsel for Spirit Aero against Gulfstream. Both parties alleged hundreds of millions of dollars of breach of contract damages. After a three-week arbitration hearing that included opening statements
  testimony from dozens of witnesses, the case settled on favorable terms before the Panel issued a ruling.
  Confidential AAA Arbitration (New York, N.Y. 2012-2013)
  Trial counsel for Big Four accounting firm in AAA arbitrations against former executives of Fortune 100 company. Plaintiffs alleged our client's tax shelter advice led to hundreds of millions of dollars in damages.
  Chicago Loop Parking v. City of Chicago (AAA arbitration 2012)
  Pro Bono counsel for the City of Chicago in an arbitration that Chicago Loop Parking (Morgan Stanley) brought against the City in connection with the Millennium Park Garages. In 2006, Morgan Stanley paid the City $563 million in exchange for a 99 year concession to operate the garages under Millennium Park
  Grant Park on the City's lakeshore. Morgan Stanley filed a claim in arbitration for $200 million related to the City's permitting the Aqua building (North of Millennium Park) to accept parkers whose destinations are outside of the Aqua building itself. The arbitration hearing was held in October 2012 before a panel of three arbitrators. The Panel rejected Morgan Stanley's claim for $200 million
  awarded $50.4 million in damages plus prejudgment interest.
  Baycol False Claims Act Litigation (District of Minnesota)
  Counsel for Bayer in qui tam litigation brought by a former employee relating to Baycol. On Bayer's motion, Court dismissed suit with prejudice in 2011.
  Schindler Elevator v. Otis Elevator (District of New Jersey)
  Counsel for Otis in patent infringement lawsuit concerning elevator belts. Case was settled on favorable terms after the Markman hearing.