Gordon P. Katz is a member of the Litigation Section and focuses his practice on general business, real estate, commercial, employment, media/entertainment, professional malpractice, and intellectual property litigation and arbitration.
Mr. Katz has litigated a broad range of cases. Among the clients he has represented are: officers and directors in securities class actions; venture capital firms and corporate officers in breach of fiduciary duty suits; a well-known rock music group in a copyright action involving the group’s early recordings; an anesthesia practice group in an antitrust challenge to the group’s exclusive contract with Massachusetts’ second largest hospital; a publicly held REIT in a suit over the priority of the REIT’s $20 million security interest in health care receivables; and computer software and other companies in trade secret and breach of contract actions against competitors and former employees hired by competitors.
Mr. Katz also has represented national hotel companies in convention contract, management agreement and other suits; travel companies in consumer class actions; financial institutions in asset recovery, workout and lender liability litigation; real estate owners and developers in suits and arbitrations involving partnership agreements and commercial leases; a bankruptcy trustee in an action for wrongful franchise termination; colleges and universities in employment and real estate litigation; and book publishers, motion picture companies and television networks in suits raising antitrust, copyright and First Amendment issues.
Mr. Katz has also assisted clients conduct internal investigations and has represented clients before governmental investigative and professional disciplinary bodies.