Contract Litigation

The contract is the foundation of the business deal. Contracts also provide perhaps the largest source of business litigation. As a large regional corporate law firm, Robinson & Cole has represented numerous clients in contract disputes. It has successfully brought suit to enforce contracts and successfully defended its clients against breach of contract lawsuits. The firm has litigated and tried these cases in both the federal and state courts. It has also successfully arbitrated and mediated many contractual disputes. Although the firm is tenacious in pursuit of its clients’ interests during litigation, it is equally as focused on finding a satisfactory way to resolve the contractual dispute in an efficient and cost effective manner. Representative contract litigation matters handled by Robinson & Cole include the following:

• Defended breach of contract claim in litigation concerning the wrongful termination of contractor in nuclear decommissioning contract.
• Successfully represented large municipality in dispute with bus company. The bus company claimed that the contract between the parties entitled it to more than a million dollars more than what the city claimed it was entitled to. After a three week trial, the court found in favor of our client.
• Defended publicly traded Danish corporation in a business dispute with its primary competitor in the global headset communications market. Obtained finding in favor or client, which included a court determination that its competitor had engaged in vexatious litigation.
• Represented manufacturer of computer components in suit against multibillion-dollar international corporation involving breach of contract, unfair trade practices, and business tort claims. Action also involved counterclaims against client for alleged breach of contract and fraud. Case settled after a three week jury trial in federal court.
• Defended Fortune 50 Company from breach of contract and breach of warranty claims arising out of the sale of a disaster recovery business.
• Robinson & Cole was retained by an aircraft component manufacturer that held the subcontract to design the manufacture the weapons bay door system for the Air Force’s new air superiority aircraft, the F-22 Raptor. The component manufacturer needed representation in a dispute with a subcontractor that it had hired to design and manufacture highly complex equipment needed to test the weapons bay door system under simulated flight conditions. This equipment was crucial to the certification of the weapons bay door system because it was the only way to demonstrate that the system satisfied the F-22’s stringent requirements. Time was of the essence because absence of certification could have delayed first flight of the F-22 aircraft. The subcontractor had failed to produce the equipment but nonetheless demanded to be paid. Robinson & Cole initiated suit in state court near the component manufacturer’s main facility seeking to recover for breach of contract, breach of warranty, misrepresentation, and unfair trade practices. The subcontractor sued our client in federal court in its home.
• Successfully defending GE against Singapore company in complex commercial litigation case pending in United States District Court seeking over $100 million in damages based multiple claims, including breach of contract, fraud and CUTPA. Recently achieved dismissal of entire case based on jurisdictional grounds.