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Practice Areas of Carney & McKay
General Services
Business/Commercial Litigation
Securities Arbitrations
Antitrust Cases
Real Estate Matters |
Estate Litigation
Contract Drafting
Banking and Insurance Disputes
Intellectual Property Litigation |
We have appeared in courts and arbitration tribunals not only in New
York, but also in many other areas of the United States, including
Illinois, Florida, Texas, California, Maryland and Washington, D.C.
We have also represented clients in international arbitrations in The
Hague, Netherlands.
We have experience in a multitude of substantive areas of the law, which provides us with unique insight in handling different kinds of litigation and arbitrations, as well as in determining when clients have been overcharged by other lawyers in those areas.
The principals of Carney & McKay, John F. Carney and Robert B.
McKay, graduated from Harvard and Columbia Law Schools respectively,
and have nearly 80 years of legal experience between them. They have
worked in large "Wall Street" law firms, as well as in smaller
firms in New York. (See Attorney Biographies for more details.)
At their present firm or in prior firms, Messrs. McKay and/or Carney
have represented a wide variety of clients over the years, including
large and small banks, large and small corporations, and individuals.
Business Litigation
Over the years, we have handled countless lawsuits involving a great
range of substantive and procedural legal issues, including contract
disputes, recovery (or not) of attorneys fees, copyright infringement,
property disputes, insurance questions, products liability, banking
litigation, and many others.
Two examples of some of the prominent matters
handled by Bob McKay include a lawsuit for sanctions against an attorney
and his client for pursuing a frivolous copyright infringement claim,
which resulted in one of the highest awards ever made imposing sanctions
against another lawyer, in Calloway v. Marvel Entertainment Corporation,
9 F. 3d 237 (2d Circuit Court of Appeals); and a lawsuit in which
he represented a syndicate of thirty-nine U.S. banks against three
Costa Rican banks, resulting in a landmark ruling discussing the "Act of State" doctrine,
in Allied Bank International v. Banco Credito Agricola de Cartago,
757 F. 2d 516 (2d Circuit Court of Appeals).
Lawsuits for Legal Fees
Messrs. Carney and McKay have handled many lawsuits involving the recovery (or not) of legal fees, including the following examples where they achieved in different cases reductions of legal fees a) from $700,000 to zero, b) from $250,000 to $73,000, and c) from $75,000 to zero. They have also been successful in handling other cases to recover legal fees that were found to be rightfully due and owing.
Securities Arbitrations
Carney & McKay has also been involved
with securities arbitrations before the NASD, representing, at various
times, in different cases in New York, Texas, Maryland and other places,
the customer, the clearing house, or the broker/dealer.
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