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Dominic Surprenant specializes in complex commercial litigation and trial practice, with emphasis on antitrust, civil RICO, trade secrets and class actions.  Mr. Surprenant has represented clients in antitrust cases in industries as diverse as national airlines, defense procurement, motion pictures, random access memory, silicon wafers and personal computers.  He has been involved a number of major civil RICO cases, where the RICO "enterprise" consisted in the organized theft of trade secrets from a competitor.  He has represented Sprint and Nextel (and now Sprint Nextel) in over 15 class actions throughout the country, with more than a half-dozen current representations.   Mr. Surprenant's focus on Antitrust, Civil RICO, Trade Secret Misapplication and Class Actions has allowed him to develop a special expertise of working with the firm's clients' economic experts, ensuring their testimony is admissible at trial, and seeking to prevent our clients' adversaries' economic experts from testifying at trial.  No expert with whom Mr. Surprenant has worked has been precluded from testifying, while he has prevented the adversaries' experts from offering damages testimony of over $1 billion.

Nextel, Sprint and now Sprint Nextel in a large variety of matters, in California, Florida, Illinois (Madison County) and Georgia.

During the time it was managed by the Weinstein brothers, he has represented Miramax Films in a variety of entertainment disputes.

He has represented the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in an antitrust case, which the plaintiff voluntarily dismissed after the court denied the plaintiff's motion to enjoin the Academy's nomination process.

He has represented Continental Airlines and Northwest Airlines as antitrust plaintiffs and The Scotts Company as an antitrust defendant.

Represented The Scotts Company against Aventis in a three-week trial in which the plaintiff sought $50 million in pre-trebled damages.  The jury returned a defense verdict in less than three hours of deliberation. 

Represented General Motors in a case against Volkswagen and GM’s former head of sourcing in Detroit for stealing secret GM documents. Working closely with inside lawyers from GM, we amassed devastating evidence and defeated all Volkswagen’s jurisdictional and substantive motions. On the eve of the Volkswagen chairman’s deposition, we obtained a $1.1 billion settlement for General Motors. 

Represented Avery Dennison against Four Pillars and obtained an $81 million RICO jury award, which the Sixth Circuit affirmed per curiam. 

Represented the defendants, settling a class action where the plaintiffs' class was seeking $789 million for a California-only class, with no payment to the class.  The class had been certified and summary judgment denied.  The trial judge tentatively granted nine out of nine motions in limine on the eve of trial, including motions to exclude all three of the plaintiffs' testifying experts.