• Negotiated or litigated more than $2 billion in contracts, which included analyzing and litigating major contracts and performing commercial negotiations and contract management, specifically:
  • Led negotiation of the largest contract signed by the state of Indiana in 2018 – more than $80 million, 14-year contract for the phased implementation and maintenance of an upgraded and more efficient modernized tax administration and collections system
  • Negotiated and drafted substantial, eight-figure, modernization services contracts for two other state of Indiana agencies; both engagements were multi-million-dollar contracts for a complex, multi-phased modernization and upgrade of the agencies’ legacy operating systems
  • Helped develop a contract management system with the firm’s Information Technology team that both the firm and a pharmaceutical manufacturing client now use to manage its nearly 2,000 contracts
  • Review and negotiate all Manufacturing Supply Agreements and Master Services Agreements for a pharmaceutical and manufacturing client, most of which are multi-million dollar deals

• Represented the state of Indiana against IBM Corporation in a high-profile, six-week bench trial, which centered on a $1.4 billion, ten-year Master Services Agreement. The trial included 94 witnesses, 7,500 trial exhibits, and approximately 125 hours of trial testimony. The case has been before the Indiana Supreme Court four times, involving representation of state’s evidence regarding damages at trial on remand. The final resolution has resulted in a $128 million judgment for the state of Indiana.

Construction

• Lead, manage, direct strategy, and serve as a frontline client contact on all product litigation matters for a component supplier of insulated glass units used in Curtain walls, including defending more than $300 million in allegations regarding complex and expert driven areas of science, construction, and law
• Represented a national gas and energy company concerning its replacement of bare steel natural gas lines and various other matters, including the prosecution of a seven-figure claim against the client’s contractors for the failure to follow work orders and procedures, leaving more than 2,400 of the client’s customers without gas services
• Served on the core trial team for a five-week trial in Nashville, Tennessee, including leading the development of the reconstruction and business interruption damages side of the case, which included more than 150 depositions, more than 15 million pages of documents, and more than 15 experts. The initial result was a $204 million trial verdict for our client, owner and developer.

Curt has presented and/or moderated multiple seminars on business and litigation issues. Topics he has presented and/or organized/moderated include:

• Business valuation in litigation – “Business Valuation Litigation and Utilizing Expert Witnesses”
• Locating, developing, managing and defending expert witnesses – “Controlling the Experts”
• Tips and techniques for using technology and managing complex cases – “Techniques and Strategies in Unraveling and Presenting the Complex Business Case”
• Environmental issues impacting business litigation – “Even Litigators Go Green – Environmental Issues Affecting Business Litigation”
• Realties and impact on the defense bar on litigation funding – "Litigation Financing: The Convergence of Law, Finance, and the Capital Market"
• Strategy for selecting, presenting, defending and challenging experts, taught annually at IU Maurer School of Law – “Introduction to Experts in Litigation”