In Volunteer Firemen’s Insurance Services, Inc. v. CIGNA Property and Casualty Insurance Agency, 693 A.2d 1330 (Pa. Super. Ct. 1997), the firm’s lawyers obtained a preliminary injunction against CIGNA which enforced a covenant not to compete that CIGNA had entered into fifteen years earlier with its largest agency. The agency had developed and brought to CIGNA plans for a major new line of insurance and, in return for the disclosure of the valuable plan for the new form of insurance, CIGNA had agreed not to enter the market itself for a period of years should the relationship with the agency ever terminate. When after many years the agency determined to market the insurance without the aid of CIGNA’s underwriting, CIGNA announced plans to enter the market directly itself. The court enforced the contract and both preliminary and finally enjoined CIGNA from entering the market.

In Inorganic Coatings, Inc. v. Falberg, 1996 WL 39472 (E.D. Pa. Feb. 01, 1996), the defendants had already been found to have appropriated the plaintiff’s alleged trade secrets when they first approached lawyers from the firm. The firm persuaded the court that no actual secrets were involved and the Court vacated its decision. The court also disqualified the plaintiff’s counsel for significant ethical violations that had occurred during the course of the proceeding. 926 F. Supp. 517 (E.D. Pa. 1995).