Practice Areas & Industries: Watkins Ludlam Winter & Stennis, P.A.

Practice/Industry Group Overview

For many decades Watkins Ludlam Winter & Stennis, P.A. has litigated substantial matters involving business disputes of virtually every nature, ranging from antitrust to business torts and RICO. Our litigation attorneys have also developed in-depth knowledge of numerous industries including computers and information technology, finance, financial institutions, communications, advertising, mining, oil & gas and agricultural products. The Firm's experience includes that of former government officials including Commissioner of the Federal Power Commission and a former Assistant Deputy Attorney General for the State of Mississippi.

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Our litigation experience includes the following areas:

• Antitrust, Business Tort and Commercial Litigation
• Bankruptcy and Creditors' Rights
• Construction Law
• Environmental
• Fidelity and Surety Law
• Fraud
• Insurance Defense Litigation
• Intellectual Property
• Labor and Employment
• Media and First Amendment Law
• Product Liability and Personal Injury
• Real Estate Litigation

The following are representative matters:

• Precluded class certification and defeated individual RICO and business tort claims against the gaming industry aggregating more than sixty million dollars.

• Defeated antitrust claims against a large hospital through assertion of federal antitrust immunity.

• Prosecuted complex commercial bribery, Sherman Act and Robinson-Patman claims on behalf of a Fortune 500 company, recovering approximately twenty million dollars.

• Successful enforcement of numerous post-employment covenants including permanent injunction against former scientific employee of Fortune 500 company to protect proprietary intellectual property.

• Successfully defended significant fraud and conversion action against a large financial institution.

• Successfully represented a Fortune 500 company through contested Attorney General antitrust review of hostile takeover of a Fortune 500 target.

• Defeated complex RICO and commercial bribery claims totaling tens of millions of dollars on summary judgment while sustaining RICO and antitrust counter claims with a resulting seven figure settlement.

• Numerous successful representations of patent holders in patent infringement actions including obtaining permanent injunction and attorneys' fees against patent infringement within 90 days of filing complaint.

• Represented financial institution in tender offer and applications for regulatory approval, including competitive factors clearance by Department of Justice.

• Successfully represented new entrant in price-fixing, attempted monopolization and predatory pricing litigation.

• Obtained permanent injunction to prevent a major consumer appliance manufacturer from manufacturing and selling a steel mixer that violated the trade dress rights of client, another major manufacturer.

• Represented Department of Insurance Liquidator in professional liability litigation and related criminal investigation of insolvent insurance companies.

• Represented financial institution general counsel in resolution of FDIC director and officer liability litigation.

• Successfully defended health insurance company against allegations of bad faith by insurance speculator policy holder with resulting health care fraud investigation of speculator policy holder.