Mr. James W Semple

Practice Details

• Payment Information
  Payment & Cost Features

  Fixed hourly rates
  Fixed fees available
  
• Firm Information
  Position

  Director

  Firm Name

  Cooch and Taylor, P.A.
• Representative Cases & Transactions
  Cases

  Recent Matters
  Represented a plastic manufacturer that recovered damages through settlement of a claim for the breach of an exclusive distributor contract
  Defended a breach of a restrictive employment covenant involving two former employees
  Defended a former executive in a claim for the claw back of exercised stock options based on alleged breaches of covenants not to compete, soliciting employees
  disclosing confidential information
  Successfully settled a claim after initiating litigation on behalf of a former executive against his former employer for indemnification of costs defending an SEC investigation
  Represented several related U.S. corporations facing catastrophic claims arising from the 9/11 tragedy in a declaratory judgment action that secured their rights to primary
  excess liability insurance
  Represented a global company - as local trial counsel
  as lead counsel before the Delaware Supreme Court on appeal - in the defense of multiple claims for birth defects allegedly arising from exposure to one of its products
  Represented the liquidating trust of a defunct corporation in the settlement of certain toxic tort claims
  Represented a company in prosecuting a claim for breach of a demolition
  rehabilitation contract
  Represented a cal company in prosecuting a claim for breach of an electric utility contract
  Represented a company in prosecuting a claim for breach of exclusive distributor contract
  Represented an insurer in defeating a class action both in the trial court
  in the subsequent appeal to the Delaware Supreme Court on an issue of first impression involving comprehensive automobile property coverage
  Represented two individual beneficiaries in the successful negotiation of a settlement of their claim for benefits under a lapsed life insurance policy
  Represented a national trucking company in the defense
  negotiated settlement of the death
  survival claims of the beneficiaries of 2 students burned alive in an SUV rear ended by the trucking company driver
  Represented a company in prosecuting a claim for breach of a demolition
  rehabilitation contract
  Represented an agro-chemical company defending a claim for damages for loss of crops
  Represented a former key executive in defending a claim for forfeiture of restricted stock
  stock options