Jim Tolpin

Experience: Representative Matters: Represented professional basketball player in dispute with major sports agent and premier Russian basketball team; guided same basketball player through NBA and foreign eligibility hurdles.; Defended international air courier against competitor's injunction action brought under the Lanham Act and state-law unfair trade statutes.; Defended Argentina-based designer-manufacturer against action arising from construction of two prisons in Argentina.; Represented fine-art broker in dispute centered on indicted art dealer's fraudulent transactions involving works by artists Botero and Chagall.; Obtained full ownership of manufacturing business for shareholder in AAA arbitration involving competing shareholders' shotgun offer.; Represented business owner against contractor who constructed three-quarter million dollar manufacturing plant at incorrect location.; Vindicated, in administrative proceedings, major insurance company's right to exclude coverage for mold-related losses from its homeowners and commercial multi-peril policies within Florida.; Defended seller of painting by deceased Cuban artist Carreno against purchaser's forgery claim.; Prosecuted specific-performance action for buyer of $40 million hotel against seller who claimed purchase contract failed for default.; Obtained judgment or settlement on behalf of quasi-public insurance trust in two dozen actions against non-paying physician-members.; Represented purchaser of million dollar property in action against seller who assigned incorrect version of long-term tenant's lease.; Obtained million-dollar award for intestate heirs and heir-finder service, and defeated ex-wife's competing claim premised on extraordinary doctrine of dependent relative revocation and on undue influence.