Business Litigation

Business Litigation

Can my former employee solicit my customers from my password protected client list?

How will a California court interpret the ambiguous terms of my vendor’s standard contract?

Do I have to mediate or otherwise try to settle my claim before I file a lawsuit in order to recover attorneys’ fees and costs under my contract?

To what extent is my “handshake” oral agreement enforceable?

Under what circumstances can I recover any money for the services I performed at the contractor’s direction if we never had an enforceable contract?

Finch Law can help you quickly and correctly answer these questions and empower you to succeed in your legal endeavors. Mr. Finch has extensive experience handling a wide range of business disputes from beginning to end in most California jurisdictions. For over a decade, Mr. Finch has represented individuals and companies, employers and employees, officers and directors, buyers and sellers, principals and agents, and contractors and subcontractors in myriad business matters. To name a few, these matters involve claims for breach of contract, anticipatory breach, specific performance, rescission, breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, fraud, intentional misrepresentation, concealment, negligent misrepresentation, negligence, quantum meruit, conversion, unfair, unlawful, and fraudulent business practices (Business & Professions Code Section 17200), false advertising, and injunctive relief. Specifically, Mr. Finch has successfully resolved Uniform Commercial Code and sales disputes, interstate commerce and intrastate commerce actions, assignment issues, trade secret misappropriation matters; he has secured and defended temporary restraining order motions; he has successfully resolved trademark infringement and trade dress infringement cases and Lanham Act violations; and he has handled statute of frauds issues, contract formation and consideration issues, conditional agreements, option contracts, contract termination, business formation, and business dissolution matters.

In addition, Mr. Finch can help you with your collections matters from preparing an effective demand letter, to filing a Complaint, to securing a judgment, and to enforcing that judgment.

Representative Matters

• Won summary judgment for international health, wellness, and fitness company in contract and unfair competition dispute over infomercial royalties.
• Negotiated monetary recovery for individual defendant sued in employment contract dispute for employee of insurance/benefits company.
• Successfully resolved misappropriation of trade secrets actions for multiple plaintiffs against former employees.
• Extensive experience litigating California Business and Professions Code Section 17200 issues in competitive business litigation.