Recent results for George King's clients include the following:

• Successfully defended a lawsuit seeking to overturn a trustee's sale; obtained full award of attorneys' fees against the plaintiff.
• Recovered the entire principal ($267,500) plus 18% interest and the vast majority of the excavation contractor’s attorneys’ fees and costs in a lawsuit against a developer who refused to pay for construction work about which there were no complaints.
  
• On appeal reversed a trial court’s decision against a developer for a multi-million dollar deficiency judgment and negotiated a substantially more favorable outcome for the developer after the appeal (see MidFirst Bank v. Chase in "Published Decisions" below)
• Obtained a substantial payment for an architect and contractor on work, for a homeowners association, that had gone unpaid for years.
• Used satellite photos to establish that an asphalt contractor had lien priority over the lender, thereby securing a substantial payment for the contractor.
• Negotiated a walk-away dismissal of an action filed against an architect for alleged professional malpractice.
• In litigation involving Arizona anti-deficiency statutes, defeated a lender’s claim for a deficiency on an unoccupied home and obtained a full award of attorneys’ fees (over $29,000) against the lender.
• In a suit filed by a lender for a deficiency after a trustee’s sale of a home, defeated the lender’s attempt to hold a mortgage broker liable for the deficiency, as the lender made a full-credit bid at the sale. ING Bank, FSB v. Mata, 2009 WL 4672797 (D. Ariz. 2009)
• Resolved a number of trademark disputes short of contested litigation.
• Obtained punitive damages against an individual who repeatedly defamed a small business and its owners.
• Successfully defended a charter school in a lease dispute concerning payment of property taxes, and obtained a full attorneys’ fees award against the landlord of over $40,000.
• Defeated a lender’s attempt in bankruptcy court to force a quick sale of undeveloped property near Flagstaff; property ultimately sold for nearly double the lender’s appraised value.
• Resolved a contract dispute on behalf of a local nutritional supplement manufacturer concerning labeling issues.
• Represented mining companies in complex environmental case involving extensive groundwater pollution.