Representative Experience Archive
Developed an integrated structure for a growing financial services company to conform ownership structure with SEC and IRS regulations involving registered investment advisors, agents, and independent contractors.
Amundsen Davis conducted due diligence and the preparation of all documents to complete the transfer of a domain name for a banking client.
Amundsen Davis obtained a defense verdict in favor of a small company and its corporate representative in a trial where the plaintiff claimed violations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act based upon alleged unsolicited advertising.
Amundsen Davis obtained a dismissal with prejudice of a case, on the first day of an expected two week trial, based upon the theory that the damages sought were not compensable under Illinois law and won the issue on appeal, which presented an issue of first impression regarding a loss of the enjoyment of one’s property.
Amundsen Davis won a motion for partial summary judgment in a Telephone Consumer Protection Act case in federal court in Florida by demonstrating a lack of authority for over two-thirds of the advertisements at issue, thereby reducing potential class recovery by over $2 million
Amundsen Davis serves as primary outside counsel to a real estate brokerage and management company for trademark, copyright, brand management, marketing, privacy and other related matters.
Amundsen Davis has successfully prosecuted and obtained 3-D product configuration trademark registrations in the United States on behalf of a Belgium furniture manufacturer.
Amundsen Davis successfully defeated class certification in two landlord-tenant class actions in Chicago based, in part, on evidence marshaled to demonstrate individual defenses to the named plaintiffs’ claims.
Amundsen Davis achieved a significant victory from the Seventh Circuit vacating class certification. In the opinion, written by Judge Posner, the Seventh Circuit raised the bar that class counsel must clear in order to satisfy the adequacy prong for class certification.
We represented a woman after her boyfriend became jealous and sexually aggressive. He stole explicit photos of her and private texts from her phone and posted the images on a website he created. He also created imposter email addresses and Instagram accounts to broadcast this content to 800 people, including our client’s friends and family. He sent those same explicit images of our client to our client’s father.