Contract and Commercial Litigation

Armstrong Teasdale routinely and effectively tries cases and counsels clients in all kinds of contract and commercial disputes and trials. These have involved contracts for performance of services, for the purchase, sale or use of goods or property, for cooperation or participation in a business venture, for the purchase or sale of a business and for countless other business purposes. Our recent trial experience includes a large number of cases arising under the Uniform Commercial Code, involving the sale or leasing of goods, notes and other commercial instruments, and the enforcement of secured interests. It also includes extensive experience in obtaining pre-judgment remedies (attachment, replevin, restraining orders) and post-judgment remedies (levy, garnishment, and execution).

Lawyers within the Contract and Commercial Litigation Practice Group are frequently asked to provide immediate advice and guidance to buyers, sellers, lessors or lessees of goods when disputes arise as to quality, price, compliance with specifications, warranties, merchantability or delivery issues while a transaction or exchange is ongoing. Our lawyers daily and weekly give the practical and prompt legal guidance these clients need to make pressing business decisions that cannot wait for answers.

Practice Highlights

• Jury verdict of $4.35 million in an Article 2 UCC breach of implied warranty case.

• Jury verdict in Article 2A UCC breach of equipment lease case.

• Summary judgment in a case for client limiting damages alleged from bottling defects to the replacement of the product.

• Successful defense of parking company client in declaratory judgment by landlord alleging improper deductions from rent.

• Successful Bankruptcy Court trial that reduced the $1million claim of a commercial business broker to $400,000.

• Successful defense of client injunction suit for alleged interference with third party’s non-competition agreement.

• Injunctive relief for bank against former customer using adverse publicity to attempt to force bank to pay disputed funds.

Members of the Contract and Commercial Litigation Practice Group