Shelley has gained a reputation among her clients and peers as a highly effective, tenacious and extremely responsive lawyer with a successful track record of representing corporate clients in disputes in numerous areas, including contract disputes, business torts, federal banking claims, antitrust violations, securities fraud, patent, copyright and trademark infringement, ERISA, and class actions. She has extensive experience defending clients in civil and criminal investigations and prosecutions instituted by the United States Department of Justice and the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. Clients have entrusted this broad range of cases to her care based on their trust in Shelley’s ability, her integrity, her sensitivity to the goals of the business, and her talent in finding solutions to even the most intractable legal challenges by combining creative legal analysis with a complete mastery of the facts.
Shelley has:
• Successfully defended a multi-national corporation in the jury trial of a $40 million patent and tortious interference suit in federal court in Wilmington, Delaware;
• Obtained a multi-million dollar settlement for a client in a patent infringement case after representing the client in a Markman hearing which led to partial summary judgment on claim construction and validity;
• Represented a prominent real estate developer in a jury trial over claims for payment of exclusive broker fees where the verdict saved the developer millions in fees;
• Defended a major Japanese electronics manufacturer in criminal prosecutions for price-fixing in the U.S. and Canada and in four related class actions; negotiating favorable plea agreements and pre-trial settlements in the criminal and civil matters respectively.
Over the last several years, Shelley has sharpened her substantive knowledge of the law as a professor of commercial law, global and electronic banking, contracts and alternative dispute resolution.
Specialties: Banking litigation, contract disputes, antitrust and intellectual property infringement. Her bar admissions include the State of Illinois, the State of New York, the Northern District of Illinois (Trial Bar), the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, the Seventh Circuit, and the Fifth Circuit.
