Best Practices in Dealing with Disputes and Litigation in a Limited Liability Company (LLC) in 2015

Aliette DelPozo Rodz counsels businesses facing legal challenges to compete in the global economy. Whether in court or through alternative resolutions, she aggressively advocates for companies and institutions in U.S. and international disputes.

Ms. DelPozo Rodz is a shareholder in the Business Litigation Group in the Miami office. She works with U.S. and foreign-based businesses on commercial claims.

While her litigation experience can be applied to many industries, she has focused on real estate, banking, creditors’ rights, construction, insurance, professional services and aviation. Legal matters include complex business disputes, contract and partnership disputes, commercial and residential foreclosures, bank and creditors’ rights litigation, insurance litigation, consumer credit, ERISA, landlord-tenant litigation, libel, negligence, and personal injury. Ms. Rodz has represented oil companies, banks, funds, hospitals, large land proprietors and developers.

Shawn Fox is a managing director with Willamette Management Associates. He has nearly 20 years of accounting and consulting experience. As a certified public accountant, Shawn provides dispute advisory and litigation services, fraud and forensic accounting investigative services, and valuation services to organizations and their counsel. He directs forensic investigations and analysis across a wide range of areas, including complex damages, lost profits, intellectual property infringement, and bankruptcy litigation, as well as valuation and insurance coverage disputes. Shawn also leads investigations on financial restatements and financial reporting fraud, regulatory investigations, assessing fraud risk, corporate investigations, employee misconduct, and whistleblower matters.

With significant experience in the preparation of expert reports, Shawn assists clients in all phases of litigation, including case assessments, discovery, document review, damages analysis, and demonstrative exhibits. He has testified in various different matters at deposition, trial, and arbitration as an expert and has served as a court-appointed receiver. Shawn has been qualified as an expert witness in federal district and bankruptcy courts and state courts across the U.S. He has testified on approximately 35 cases at deposition, trial, and/or arbitration hearing.

Prior to joining Willamette Management Associates, he was the Partner-in-Charge of McGladrey LLP’s litigation and investigation consulting services practices for the Central Region and a Managing Director of BDO’s litigation and dispute resolution practice in Chicago.

MARGARET L. WATSON is Of Counsel to McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter, LLP and serves as the Firm’s Labor and Employment lawyer in its New York City office.  Ms. Watson has more than 20 years litigation experience in employment law, primarily in the areas of discrimination and retaliation claims.  Her practice includes representing large corporations and start-up businesses, as well as individual managers, who are named as defendants in employment litigation.  She also counsels employers on how to proactively prevent employment claims and deliver on best-in-class workplace policies, including diversity initiatives, as well as performance management programs.

Prior to joining the firm Ms. Watson was with Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. where she served in a variety of roles, including Director and Senior Counsel within the Office of General Counsel’s Employment Law Group and subsequently the Corporate Ombudsman for Merrill’s Global Wealth Management (GWM) business.  Earlier in her career, she represented plaintiffs in employment cases and was a partner with Vladeck, Waldman, Elias & Engelhard, P.C.  She is a graduate of the Harvard Law School, cum laude, and a former law clerk to the Honorable Whitman Knapp of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.