Garrett A. Steadman

Complex Business Litigation

• Represents a major national food grower in defense of a multibillion-dollar antitrust class action alleging a price-fixing conspiracy.
• Represents one of the nation’s largest corporations in bankruptcy estimation litigation involving thousands of claimants and successfully investigated litigation practices to minimize the client’s liability.
• Represents the nation’s leading technology software vendor for state record filing systems in defense of a class action asserting constitutional violation claims.
• Represented the nation’s leading home improvement corporation in defense of class action wage and hour claims and obtained a favorable resolution of the dispute.
• Assisted the North Carolina Department of Justice in litigation against an e-cigarette manufacturer and helped secure the nation’s largest settlement in a similar litigation.

Appellate Litigation

• Represents the largest health care system in North Carolina in defense of malpractice claims implicating the standard of care applicable to nurse practitioners.
• Represents a North Carolina physician medical practice in defense of malpractice claims in a case seeking to redefine the scope of medical malpractice actions under North Carolina law, with major implications for the entire medical profession.
• Represented a national insurance company in a complex appellate case involving questions of statutory interpretation implicating the entire insurance industry, and obtained wins on appeal at both the North Court of Appeals and North Carolina Supreme Court.
• Represented a life insurance company on appeal of negligence claims and successfully overturned a multimillion-dollar adverse jury verdict after trial.
• Represented a historical Christian organization in North Carolina in the defense of a challenge to the zoning permit for a new facility and successfully reversed adverse district court judgment.

Pro Bono

• Represented a client in a dispute over a franchise agreement and successfully extricated her from an oppressive agreement that was inhibiting her ability to financially support herself.
• Represented a client in an appeal involving applicability of domestic violence dispute orders as applied to same-sex couples in a case that encouraged state legislature to update laws.
• Filed an amicus brief on behalf of religious organizations in support of a schoolteacher who was fired from a religious school for announcing same-sex marriage.
• Represented inmates in First Amendment appeals concerning challenges to prison accommodations, religious exercise and free speech.

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