Substantive & Procedural Expertise
- Challenges to Federal Statutes, Regulations, and Federal Agency Decisions (Administrative Procedure Act)
- Constitutional Claims (Bivens Actions)
- Contract Actions against the United States (Tucker Act)
- Negligence Suits against the United States (Federal Tort Claims Act)
- Bank & Financial Services Law
- Enforcement actions by the Federal Banking Agencies (FDIC, OCC & FED)
- Financial institution golden-parachute agreements
- Bank & Financial Institution Receivership Law
- Federal Deposit Insurance Act (FDI Act)
- Federal Deposit Insurance Improvement Act (FDICIA)
- Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery & Enforcement Act (FIRREA)
- Dodd Frank Act
- Consumer Financial Protection Bureau regulations and consumer financial protections
- Business and Personal Tort Actions (negligence, breach of fiduciary duty, fraud)
- Criminal Law (Honest Services Fraud and Hobbs Act Extortion)
- Sue-and-Be-Sued Federal Agencies
- Declaratory Judgment Act
- Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and federal agency Touhy regulation
- Legal and accounting malpractice
- Waivers of sovereign immunity
- Federal subject matter jurisdiction (Article III and prudential standing)
- Federal preemption
- Intervention into federal suits
- Removal of cases from state to federal court
- Amicus curiae representation