Breaches of contract/Collections litigation
Mr. Pappas has successfully litigated a wide variety of business contract disputes, including,
among others: OEM contracts, purchase orders, bills of lading, business asset sale contracts
(sales of businesses), promissory notes, agency contracts (real estate, insurance), independent
contractor agreements, non-disclosure agreements, and leases. Of course, many times these cases
also have given rise to business tort claims and defenses, such as fraud, products defects, trade
secret theft, and professional malpractice, and Mr. Pappas has extensive experience with these types
of cases. Samples of clients represented in the past by Mr. Pappas include the following:
A. A restaurant seller who sued to enforce a promissory note and trust deed given by the restaurant's buyer. The restaurant seller also had to defend the cross-claim of the buyer that the seller had committed fraud in the sale of the restaurant.
B. An accountant who was sued by the buyer of a music school who claimed fraud and negligent misrepresentation by the accountant in confirming the seller=s reported income of the music school.
C. An OEM buyer/distributor who sued a Chinese manufacturer=s representative for supplying defective product, claiming lost profits for destroying the market for the product through the supply of defective product.
D. An owner of an internet-based program for searching real estate multiple listing services, who sued an infringer for trade secret theft.
E. A commercial lessee who sued its lessor for lease cancellation due to the illegality of the intended use relative to permitted uses of property.
F. An OEM computer motherboard importer who sued its shipping company for loss of hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of motherboards.