Charleston, WV
Clear ResultsMonika has assisted clients in obtaining over 150 patents, 400 trademarks, and 50 copyright registrations. She has also successfully negotiated a multimillion dollar license agreement for a client and has successfully resolved multiple court...
Client: A law office
Our clients previously represented plaintiffs in a Court of Claims lawsuit against the West Virginia Department of Highways. At issue was a culvert plaintiffs alleged caused flooding on their property. The lawyers obtained an $85,000 settlement for...
Client: An attorney
A real estate lawyer conducted the closing for the sale of a house to plaintiff. Approximately 10 years after the closing, plaintiff filed a lawsuit alleging the lawyer negligently failed to provide him with clear title to the property. The basis...
Client: Claims administrator
A third-party claims administrator (TPA) for Workers’ Compensation claims was sued by a former employee of a company for whom the TPA administered claims. The employee alleged the TPA had fraudulently denied her workers’ compensation...
Client: A trucking company
We represented an international trucking company and its driver at trial over an accident that occurred when the driver stopped his tractor-trailer on a rural road in order to make a home delivery. The tractor-trailer was stopped approximately 290...
Client: Health System
We successfully represented a health system in connection with its certificate of need (CON) application to establish Primary Therapeutic Cardiac Catheterization (Primary PCI) services at its Beckley, West Virginia hospital. Primary PCI is a...
Client: Insurance Company
We represented our client, an insurance company, in a dispute over the application of a $5 million commercial umbrella policy following a fatal car accident. The case involved the owner of a car dealership, whose son was driving a dealership car...
Client: A Coal Company
We represented our clients, a coal company and two of its management employees, in a case involving age and disability discrimination, hostile work environment and two other counts before a southern West Virginia jury in Logan County. Before...
We successfully represented a company and its president through an age discrimination-in-hiring case. The plaintiff was part of a predecessor’s management team and younger than the candidate the company ultimately selected. Plaintiff had also...
We successfully represented a Caterpillar dealer in NLRB charge following last best final offer and implementation in collective bargaining with the Operating Engineers.
Successfully defended a company in charge of disability discrimination following the discharge of an HIV-positive employee due to performance issues unrelated to his illness.
Our attorneys have drafted a wide variety of agreements for clients to help them protect their intellectual property. Since 2011, we have drafted more than 575 total agreements, which can be broken down as follows: Development Agreements (70...
We have defended clients in challenges to their patents from a wide variety of NPEs. Several representative examples of patents we have defended are below: Cascades Publishing Innovation, LLC : U.S. Patent 8386484 Data Speed Technology LLC : US...
We obtained the favorable and confidential resolution of case for a client where the plaintiff claimed sex discrimination as the reason she was not made a partner in the law firm.
We obtained the favorable and confidential resolution of a case for a publicly held client where two employees claimed constructive discharge following unfortunate horseplay and extreme hazing which led to embarrassing allegations and two...
We successfully defended a publicly held company on two different charges filed by the UMWA: 1) alleging violation of contract in implementing drug testing policy and 2) violation of contract in using student engineers to learn production...
When a miner was facing decertification proceedings from the West Virginia Office of Miners’ Health Safety and Training, he turned to Dinsmore. Our client was accused of not properly locking and tagging a piece of equipment, which violates state...
Lead counsel for a Pennsylvania school district and school principal who had asked a teacher to resign after he was accused of sexually assaulting several students. The principal later signed a reference form on behalf of the district with knowledge...
Lead counsel for Speedway in defense of same-sex harassment claims by a former male employee who alleged that he was harassed on the basis of his sexual orientation and failure to conform with gender stereotypes in violation of the West Virginia...
Lead counsel in the successful defense of AT&T against 25 consolidated deliberate intent civil actions filed by a unified group of former employees who alleged that they sustained serious injuries as a result of exposure to mold in the...
Lead counsel for AT&T in litigation alleging that the plaintiff had been subjected to a hostile work environment based on her sex, and was constructively discharged when she was forced to resign from her employment in violation of the West...
Lead counsel in defense of Regis in a class action claim alleging that, for a period of five years, it failed to issue final paychecks to former involuntarily discharged employees within 72 hours as required by the West Virginia Wage Payment and...
Lead counsel in case in which the plaintiff was terminated from her employment by AT&T for excessive absences due to plaintiff's and spouse's illnesses. After her termination, the plaintiff brought suit under the Family and Medical Leave Act and...
Lead counsel for CNR in a case in which the plaintiff brought an employment discrimination suit alleging age and race discrimination in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act and the West Virginia Human Rights Act. The court granted CNR...
Lead counsel for Columbia in a case alleging race discrimination and racial harassment in the workplace. After successful mediation efforts, a settlement agreement was drafted between the parties. The plaintiff thereafter alleged that he had not...
Lead counsel in representation of a stamped parts manufacturer sued for age discrimination by an unsuccessful applicant for employment at its plant located in South Charleston, West Virginia. The plaintiff alleged that Charleston Stamping...
Co-counsel defending Ashland Oil against claims initiated by a former refinery engineer who was terminated from his employment after the company found that he had engaged in conduct in violation of its sexual harassment policy. The plaintiff...
Lead counsel defending GE against claims by a former female employee, who, after being fired following 18 years of employment, alleged sex discrimination claims under 42 U.S.C.S. § 1981, Title VII, and the West Virginia Human Rights Act. The Court...
Lead counsel in the successful defense of Georgia Pacific against claims by a group of former workers whose employment was terminated when Georgia Pacific sold a sawmill to a successor company. The plaintiffs contended that Georgia Pacific violated...
Co-counsel representing large aluminum manufacturers against class action claims filed on behalf of over 300 employees who were laid off and never recalled to work. The plaintiffs asserted that the defendants violated § 510 of ERISA by terminating...
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