CDQ and CDQ Partners Dan Dowd and Dan Quigley have been selected by Chambers USA as among the top General Commercial Litigation firms and attorneys in the U.S. The prestigious Chambers ranking system evaluates law firms and individual lawyers all over the world based on qualities that include technical ability, professional conduct, client service, commercial…
Read MoreOn May 23, 2023 CDQ attorneys Dan Dowd, Betsy Lamm, Rebecca van Doren, and Jenna Brownlee presented a continuing legal education (“CLE”) program to the entire Office of General Counsel of a public client on a series of ethical issues. Topics included the attorney-client privilege and work product protection, the ethics of honesty, the duty…
Read MoreCDQ is pleased to announce that Drew Wegner has joined CDQ as an associate attorney. Drew is a 2019 graduate of Harvard Law School and clerked for the Honorable Daniel P. Collins on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. He has experience litigating complex insurance recovery, antitrust, contract and civil rights cases, and has published…
Read MoreRepresenting an Arizona law firm, CDQ’s Dan Dowd, Neil Stuart and Cole Kubosumi obtained summary judgment in a hotly-contested interpleader action. The Ruling ordered the immediate release of $771,000 held by the Clerk of Court to CDQ’s client. The $771,000 was interpleaded into the Clerk of Court by the law firm’s bank after the then-current…
Read MoreIn February 2023, CDQ attorneys Cindy Albracht-Crogan and Kevin Moyer, assisted by paralegal Brenna Armstrong, secured a settlement for CDQ’s client that dismissed all claims against it and compensated the client for nearly all of the attorneys’ fees it had incurred in the case. CDQ’s client had been defending against the claims asserted by the…
Read MoreWe are proud to announce that seven CDQ lawyers, Ron Cohen, Dan Dowd, Dan Quigley, Daniel Durchslag, Cindy Albracht-Crogan, Gabe Aragon, and Betsy Lamm, have been selected to the 2023 Arizona SuperLawyers® list. Five additional CDQ lawyers, Neil Stuart, Kevin Moyer, Lauren LaPrade, Kaysey Fung, and Jenna Brownlee, have been selected to the 2023 Arizona…
Read MoreOn December 16, 2022, CDQ’s Cindy Crogan, Kaysey Fung, Kate Hofland, and Kay Lucas represented CDQ at the annual holiday party in the sixth grade classroom of the Children’s First Leadership Academy (CFLA). CFLA provides high quality educational services and resources to students with wide-ranging social, emotional, and academic needs. In keeping with CDQ’s annual…
Read MoreIn January 2020, CDQ’s client agreed to a seller carry-back loan in connection with its sale of certain commercial real property, pursuant to which CDQ’s client was to be paid a sum certain by July 2020. It was not paid by July 2020 or for months thereafter, resulting in CDQ’s client bringing a breach of…
Read MoreDan Dowd, Betsy Lamm and Kaysey Fung obtained the dismissal of a federal lawsuit filed by a former ASU graduate student. The plaintiff asserted claims against the Arizona Board of Regents (“ABOR”) for discrimination under Title II of the ADA, breach of contract, negligence, negligent supervision, and intentional infliction of emotional distress. On behalf of…
Read MoreRepresenting the Arizona Board of Regents (“ABOR”), a CDQ team of Dan Dowd, Betsy Lamm, Rebecca van Doren and Jenna Brownlee obtained partial summary judgment precluding the plaintiff in a Title IX gender discrimination claim from seeking damages for emotional distress and reputational harm. The plaintiff, a former ASU student, has asserted a Title IX…
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