Counsel
Clients value Mr. Subjinski’s blend of trial-ready tenacity with practical business sense. Mr. Subjinski focuses on achieving results that protect clients’ bottom lines by incorporating litigation strategy into long-term operational objectives and helping clients to anticipate and alleviate legal issues before they arise. This dual focus enables him to deliver practical, business-driven legal solutions that minimize risk, control costs, and advance his clients’ strategic objectives.
General Commerical Litigation
Outsourced General Counsel Services & Employment Law
Stewart J. Subjinski
Bio
Stewart Subjinski, Counsel with Lippes Mathias LLP, focuses his practice in general commercial litigation and outsourced general counsel services. Mr. Subjinski advises companies of all sizes and across many industries including technology, health care, real estate, professional services, and financial services.
Mr. Subjinski’s practice covers all core areas of any business:
- General Commercial Litigation: Representing clients as a plaintiff or defendant in breach of contract, trade secret, restrictive covenant, business tort, and real estate disputes. Mr. Subjinski has experience in state, federal, and bankruptcy courts defending and obtaining injunctions, money judgments, and other collection remedies including foreclosures.
- Outsourced General Counsel: Providing ongoing, on-demand legal guidance for companies without in-house counsel to handle contract negotiation, regulatory compliance, employment advisement, and managing creditor and collection issues.
- Employment Law & Risk Management: Advising on noncompete or other restrictive covenant enforcement, harassment investigations, severance strategies, EEOC proceedings, wage and hour claims, and theft or property loss issues.
Clients value Mr. Subjinski’s blend of trial-ready tenacity with practical business sense. Mr. Subjinski focuses on achieving results that protect clients’ bottom lines by incorporating litigation strategy into long-term operational objectives and helping clients to anticipate and alleviate legal issues before they arise. This dual focus enables him to deliver practical, business-driven legal solutions that minimize risk, control costs, and advance his clients’ strategic objectives.
Representative Matters
General Commerical Litigation
- Litigated breach of contract and executive compensation issues to obtain multi-million dollar exit for technology founder.
- Negotiated to achieve client objectives in software contract dispute with damages totaling over $4MM.
- Obtained temporary injunction with nominal bond via emergency evidentiary hearing in noncompete case related to $2MM acquisition of company.
- Obtained temporary injunction with nominal bond via emergency evidentiary hearing in noncompete case for client in financial services industry with 100+ employees.
- Obtained zero-dollar judgments for contractor-client via bench trials in multiple construction defect cases.
- Litigated fraudulent transfer action to collect $800,000.00+ debt recovery for financial services client.
- Litigated trade secret violations, self-help eviction, and other hostile takeover issues corporate transition of company with multiple physical locations.
- Litigated slander of title and other real estate disputes related to lis pendens discharge or attachment on behalf of real estate investment clients.
- Litigated breach of contract issues to obtain $300,000+ recovery for transportation and logistics client.
- Obtained $150,000.00+ recovery for financial transfer processor in litigation related to sale and misappropriation of business.
- Obtained $50,000.00+ debt recovery for commercial material supplier client.
- Obtained $30,000+ debt recovery for commercial client in retail ammunitions industry.
- Obtained $20,000.00+ debt recovery via foreclosure/lis pendens litigation for secured lender client.
- Obtained numerous judgments and defeated claims of exemption in collection actions for financial services clients.
- Litigated fraudulent claims and other collection issues in bankruptcy court.
- Litigated lender liability claims and advised on collection activities against high-net-worth debtors for credit union clients.
Outsourced General Counsel Services & Employment Law
- Conducted employment harassment/discrimination investigation and subsequent advisement for clients employing 100+ employees.
- Represented clients in EEOC proceedings and negotiated or mediated favorable resolution.
- Advised on fragile severances and de-escalation of employment disputes for small businesses and client employing 100+ employees.
- Drafted employment documents including, but not limited to, noncompete and nonsolicitation agreements, confidentiality agreements, company property agreements, employee handbooks, and other related documents for small businesses and clients employing 100+ employees.
- Advised executives and shareholders on corporate restructuring activities and negotiated exit terms in the professional services and healthcare industries.
- Advised on executive compensation packages and terms of employment for executive in the franchise food industry.
- Provided outsourced general counsel and other employment advisement to client in staffing industry with 700+ labor personnel.
- Drafted documents and negotiated commercial contracts relating to the international shipment of goods for client in maritime shipping and logistics industry.
- Drafted documents and advised on corporate organization and regulatory compliance for client in retail medical device industry.
- Drafted documents and advised on corporate dissolution and creditor management for experimental product development startup.
