CDQ congratulates Dan Dowd on his selection to the list of the Top 100 Lawyers in Arizona for 2017 by AZ Business magazine. According AZ Business, its editorial team, in collaboration with industry experts, chooses the Top 100 Lawyers in Arizona “from a pool of more than 1000 of the most talented and successful attorneys…
Read MoreCDQ is proud to announce that Ronald Jay Cohen, Daniel G. Dowd, Daniel P. Quigley, Daniel E. Durchslag, Cindy C. Albracht-Crogan, Gabriel Aragon, and Betsy Lamm have all been named to the 2017 Super Lawyers® lists. Dan Dowd was named to the list of the Top 50 attorneys in Arizona. Cindy Albracht-Crogan was named to the list of…
Read MoreWe are thrilled to announce that Betsy J. Lamm has become CDQ’s newest Partner. Betsy obtained her Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics summa cum laude from Arizona State University in 2004. She graduated summa cum laude from the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University in 2007, where she also served as…
Read MoreCDQ attorneys Dan Quigley and Kevin Moyer successfully represented a leading consultant in the medical marijuana industry in a breach of contract and misappropriation of trade secrets and confidential information dispute. After extensive motion practice and presentation of evidence to a panel of arbitrators in Summer and Fall 2016, CDQ’s client secured a multi-million dollar…
Read MoreIn December 2016, a team of CDQ lawyers participated in a multi-party, multi-million dollar mediation in San Diego presided over by Hon. John Leo Wagner (Ret.), former U.S. Magistrate Judge for the Northern District of Oklahoma.
Read MoreFollowing entry of a written settlement agreement, the defendant tried to back out of the deal. CDQ attorneys Cindy Albracht-Crogan, Rebecca van Doren and Kevin Moyer successfully moved the trial court to enforce the settlement agreement. The defendant appealed and in November 2016, the Arizona Court of Appeals upheld the trial court, enforced the settlement…
Read MoreIn early 2015, CDQ attorneys Daniel G. Dowd and Daniel Durchslag, with co-counsel Michael Manning and Jeffrey Goulder from Stinson Leonard Street, litigated an aiding and abetting breach of fiduciary duty claim on behalf of their client in a bench trial before Judge Arthur Anderson that lasted nearly two months. This was the second trial…
Read MoreCDQ attorneys Dan Dowd, Dan Durchslag, and Rebecca van Doren participated in a multi-day evidentiary hearing before Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Joshua Rogers in December 2016 challenging the enforceability of restrictive covenants (noncompete, nonsolicitation, nondisclosure) contained in multiple employment agreements.
Read MoreIn November 2016, Dan Dowd, Betsy Lamm and Lauren LaPrade successfully prosecuted a declaratory judgment claim regarding ownership of intellectual property and patent rights in a multi-day bench trial before the Honorable Roger Brodman, Maricopa County Superior Court. Judge Brodman issued a ruling in January 2017 finding in favor of plaintiff on all issues and…
Read MoreIn business litigation between partners involving eighteen separate claims for relief, CDQ attorneys Cindy Albracht-Crogan, Lauren M. LaPrade and Kevin C. Moyer, with co-counsel Jim Schmillen, obtained summary judgment on all eleven claims brought against CDQ’s client and enforcing a pre-litigation settlement agreement between the parties that the plaintiffs sought to invalidate. The ruling effectively…
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