FRAUD

Black's Law Dictionary says that fraud consists of some deceitful practice or willful device, resorted to with intent to deprive another of his right, or in some manner to do him an injury. As distinguished from negligence, it is always positive, intentional. Fraud, as applied to contracts, is the cause of an error bearing on a material part of the contract, created or continued by artifice, with design to obtain some unjust advantage to the one party, or to cause an inconvenience or loss to the other. Fraud, In the sense of a court of equity, properly Includes all acts, omissions, and concealments which involve a breach of legal or equitable duty, trust, or confidence justly reposed, and are injurious to another, or by which an undue and unconscientious advantage is taken of another. 

Fraud can involve complicated fact-patterns and can be very difficult to uncover. Further, fraud often interplays with contract disputes and the two can affect each other. Fortunately, we have a wide variety of experience in handling fraud cases in some of the most complex situations, even including Ponzi Scheme cases. Some of our fraud experience includes:

• Corporate malfeasance
• Ponzi Schemes
• Fraudulent financial reporting
• Shareholder suits
• Securities disputes
• Missing assets / Asset recovery
• Earnings overstatement / understatement
• Misappropriation

Most importantly, our actual experience in running real-life businesses makes our firm exceedingly qualified in prosecuting or defending your fraud or fraud-related case.