Profile

James Ruiz has tried cases in federal and state courts across the nation representing his clients' business interests for more than 18 years. James has broad industry experience in complex commercial litigation and arbitration cases in several substantive areas, including banking and real estate, securities, insurance, intellectual property, franchisor/franchisee disputes, corporate and partnership issues and governmental enforcement actions. James' diversified experience has been key to his ability to come up with novel theories when handling complex litigation matters and to develop creative solutions to resolve difficult business problems.

James' ability to recognize his clients' business objectives and attendant circumstances enables him to devise a litigation strategy that achieves clients' goals in an efficient and economical manner. James is respected as a talented advocate for his clients and a tenacious, hard-working litigator.

Unique Lawyer Experience

• Co-author of ToughTimesforLenders.com, a legal blog that provides news, information and commentary on important issues affecting troubled or problem commercial assets in the financial services industry.
• James often represents business entities, senior officers and directors and individual owners in separation matters.

Representative Experience

• Represented national lender as secured creditor in series of loan workouts and restructurings, bankruptcy, liquidations, and foreclosures involving debtor's interests in real estate, closely held corporations, aircraft and regulated medical products inventory to recover amounts owed on notes and revolving lines of credit.
• Represented a real estate developer in a series of complex litigation cases concerning title to a large tract of lakefront property, and corollary easement disputes with the landlocked adjacent landowner/developer.
• Represented Canadian based restaurant franchisor against a series of disputes brought by several of its American franchisees in Arizona, California, Texas and Florida involving allegations of violations with FTC regulations and state business opportunity acts.
• Represented large national insurance company in a fraudulent concealment action involving a multi-million dollar acquisition of Medicare supplement lines of insurance business.
• Represented a cutting edge technology company in an action against one of the largest Japanese technology companies for violation of non-disclosure agreement and theft of trade secrets relating to extrusion coating technology.
• Represented leading digital imaging software company in an action against a former officer for breach of fiduciary duty and fraud in connection with the misappropriation of corporate funds.
• Represented a South Texas County in an action involving the rights of governmental subdivisions to construct an international bridge into Mexico.
• Represented a publicly traded medical equipment company in securities litigation brought by an investor group as a result of the company's failure to be listed on the American Stock Exchange.
• Represented national and regional brokerage firms in numerous arbitration proceedings before the NASD Arbitration Tribunal and AAA involving securities fraud claims relating to option trading, variable annuities, and other violations of the Securities and Exchange Acts.