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Mr. Corey is the head of the firm's Washington, D.C. office.

Mr. Corey is an experienced trial lawyer.  He has tried or arbitrated a broad array of cases including accounting fraud and false claims, intellectual property, real estate, partnership disputes, environmental liability and commercial disputes.  

Mr. Corey represents domestic and foreign clients in complex business disputes in federal and state courts and in arbitrations throughout the nation, including California, District of Columbia, Illinois, New York,  Massachusetts, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah and Washington.  He represents clients in the energy, engineering, manufacturing, computer hardware, consumer products, satellite broadcasting, financial services and real estate industries.  Mr. Corey also serves as coordination counsel for clients involved in multi-jurisdictional disputes.

DIRECTV
General Atomics
Invensys
Johnson Controls
KB Home
K. Hovnanian Homes
Mattel
Playa Capital Company
The Parsons Corporation
Trust Company of the West
TRW

Financial Fraud and False Claims

Defended the construction manager of the Red Line subway in a six-month trial of false claims acts and breach of contract claims arising from alleged improper accounting and overbilling of direct and indirect costs over twenty years.

Represented Parsons Corporation in a dispute with the federal government over the manner in which environmental clean-up services were accounted for and charged, after the government accused the engineering firm of overbilling millions of dollars.  The government agreed to settle the dispute without Parsons having to repay anything to the government.

Won summary judgment of claims for breach of contract, fraud, and violations of the Federal False Claims Act alleging that an international engineering firm administered its employee stock ownership plan in violation of federal regulations that resulted in overstated claims to the government.

Won summary judgment of claims for fraud and violations of the Federal and California False Claims Act alleging that a national contractor overcharged a public agency for employee benefits.

Represented an acquiring company against the seller for misrepresenting and concealing relevant and material accounting information regarding the financial performance of the target company.

Represented clients in both internal investigations and in federal and state agency investigations.

Represented government contractors of various types in bid protest proceedings. 

Antitrust/Unfair Competition

Won dismissal of a class action accusing a satellite broadcaster of pricing professional sporting event packages in violations of the antitrust laws.

Won dismissal of a case accusing a computer manufacturer of violating the antitrust laws by restraining trade in the entry level mainframe computer market.

Represented an oil exploration company in a suit alleging that a Fortune 100 corporation violated the antitrust laws when it interfered with the company’s efforts to compete for rights to explore for and produce natural gas and oil in the Timor Sea.

Defending consumer products company against attempted monopolization claims.

Real Estate/Environmental

Won a complete defense victory for a consumer-product manufacturer after a three-week trial, and saved the jobs of 800 employees, by proving that the manufacturer had not breached the master lease of a Southern California manufacturing campus. 

Successfully represented national home builder in an arbitration over the purchase of a $50 million parcel of raw land.

Obtained a litigation cost settlement on behalf of a master land developer in a dispute with a well-known real estate developer who sought almost $700 million in damages for breach of a series of land purchase agreements after an arbitrator had found the master land developer to have breached the agreements.

Represented a uranium ore processor in a month-long arbitration against parties obligated to pay for the monitoring, decontamination, remediation and decommissioning of a facility in Oklahoma.

Represented an investor in an arbitration against a joint venture partner regarding responsibility for lost profits and cleanup costs incurred when the Nuclear Regulatory Commission repeatedly shut down a uranium hexafluoride processing plant due to improper releases of contaminants on-site and off-site.

Won a complete defense judgment on behalf of an aerospace company as lead trial counsel in a one-week trial of a construction dispute.

Obtained a multi-million dollar settlement for a real estate developer in a dispute with a joint venture partner over the failure of the joint venture partner to adequately supervise the construction of the joint venture’s buildings.

Represented real estate developer in defense of challenges to environmental impact reports for one of the largest urban infill projects in the nation.   

Intellectual Property/Technology

Represented Mattel, Inc. in its action against MGA Entertainment, manufacturer of "Bratz" dolls, and Carter Bryant, Bratz's creator.  After a four-month trial, won a unanimous jury verdict that Bryant had created the "Bratz" name and virtually all Bratz design drawings, prototypes and sculpts while he was a Mattel employee and therefore were Mattel's property.  The jury rendered verdicts for Mattel on its copyright infringement, tortious interference with contract and other business torts and awarded damages to Mattel in excess of $100 million. 

Won summary judgment, as a plaintiff, that the defendant manufacturer had infringed two of the client packaging company’s patents, resulting in an immediate settlement in excess of $23 million.

Represented a Fortune 100 consumer-product manufacturer against a major competitor engaged in a pattern of stealing trade secrets in the United States, Canada and Mexico.

Represented several internet publishers copyright infringement/piracy cases. 

Represented a software publisher in a dispute with an aerospace manufacturing company regarding the performance and implementation of publisher’s enterprise resource planning product.

Representing an investment management firm whose in-house analytical software and decades of client and performance information were systematically downloaded by key employees who left to form a competing firm.

Represented a software publisher against a foreign heavy equipment manufacturer that improperly accessed, infringed and misappropriated the publisher's source code and defended against claims that the publisher did not properly or adequately implement the software.