Credit: jiris/Adobe Stock Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout-Outs
Runners-up this week include litigators from Steptoe and Quinn Emanuel.
June 28, 2024 at 07:25 AM
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A team at Steptoe secured a $ 171.6 million judgment for client Eddystone Rail Company LLC against propane company Ferrellgas Partners and certain of its affiliates. After a 19-day bench trial handled in spurts dating back to September 2022, U.S. District Judge Joshua Wolson in Philadelphia found in a decision unsealed last week that Eddystone was damaged by a series of fraudulent transfers surrounding Ferrellgas' sale of Bridger Transfer Services, or BTS (which the judge had a heyday with in his introduction!). Eddystone built its rail-to-barge facility in Eddystone, Pennsylvania, to serve BTS by unloading traincars full of crude petroleum from the Bakken oil fields in North Dakota for further transport or storage. The Steptoe team included partners Steve Barber, Jennifer Quinn-Barabanov and Alice Loughran, attorney Fil Agusti, of counsel Linda Bailey and Andrew Sloniewsky, and associates Caitlin Daday, Kate Fisch, Emma Marshak and Joe McClure.
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