Mark Vorder-Bruegge, Jr.

REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS

Mark has represented business, institutional, and individual clients for more than 40 years in all of the Tennessee trial courts in Memphis and Shelby County, trial courts in other Tennessee areas and many other states in the U.S., and all of the appellate courts that review their decisions, including the Tennessee Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court of Tennessee. His practice has included hundreds of cases involving trade secrets, employee competition, medical device product liability, ownership of intellectual property governed by state law, agreements for the assignment or license of intellectual property and other intangibles, corporate governance, fiduciary obligations, professional errors and omissions, premises liability, banking law, insurance coverage, and general commercial matters.

Mark has an equally extensive practice and experience in the federal trial courts sitting in Tennessee and in multiple other districts, including those in Mississippi, Florida, Oklahoma, Utah, California, and Idaho; and the appellate courts which review their decisions, including the U.S Courts of Appeal for the Sixth, Ninth, and Tenth Circuits and the Federal Circuit. Cases in those courts have involved patent and trade secret rights, securities fraud controversies, adversary proceedings in bankruptcies, antitrust, failed bank liquidations, multi-state debt workouts, class actions, multi-district litigation, and ERISA matters.

ILLUSTRATIVE CASES

• Multiple actions for medical device product liability (Shelby County Tenn. Circuit Courts).
• Multiple actions for trade secret theft and violations of non-compete covenants (Shelby County Tenn. Chancery and Circuit Courts).
• Smith & Nephew, Inc. v. Zimmer, Inc. Patent Litigation (W.D. Tenn.).
• Smith & Nephew, Inc. v. Synthes, Inc. Patent Litigation (W.D. Tenn.).
• Smith & Nephew, Inc. v. Stryker Corp. Patent Litigation (W.D. Tenn.).
• Karl Storz v. Smith & Nephew, Inc. Patent Litigation (W.D. Tenn.).
• Storm Products v. Ebonite Patent Litigation (D. Utah).
• Brunswick v. Ebonite Patent Litigation (D. Colo.).
• Smith & Nephew, Inc. v. Stryker/Howmedica Patent Litigation (W.D. Tenn.).
• Kyphon v. Medtronic, Inc. Patent Litigation (W.D. Tenn.).
• Innovative Solutions and Support v. Kollsman, et al. Patent Litigation (W.D. Tenn.).
• FDIC Liquidation of Penn Square Bank (Oklahoma City).
• G. Weeks & Co. Securities Fraud Litigation (W.D. Tenn.).
• Hibernia National Bank v. FDIC (10th Circuit).
• Pullman, Incorporated v. Abex Corp. (S.Ct. Tenn.).
• Paine Webber Properties – Elkington & Keltner Workout (Tenn.).
• Towery Press, Inc. Bankruptcy (W.D. Tenn.).
• ESM Government Securities Accounting Fraud Litigation (S.D. Fla.).
• Memphis Board of Education v. Grant Thornton, CPA’s (S.D. Fla.).
• Fidata (Bradford Trust) Securities Litigation (S.D. Fla.).
• Major Commercial Loan Workouts for Union Planters Corporation.
• Morrison Knudsen Corp. Securities Fraud Litigation (D. Idaho).
• William Tanner v. Caplin & Drysdale (W.D. Tenn.).
• Memphis Jet Center v. Cessna Aircraft Antitrust Litigation (W.D. Tenn.).
• Seessel Holdings, Inc. v. Bruno’s, et al. (W.D. Tenn.).
• FDIC v. Union Planters Corporation (M.D. La.).
• Huey v. Deloitte, Haskins & Sells (now Deloitte Touche) (W.D. Tenn.).
• RTC v. Pannell Kerr Foster, CPA’s (W.D. Tenn.).
• Concord/EFS (now First Data Corp.) Merchant Class Action (Tenn.).
• Orthopaedic Implant Device Antitrust Class Actions (MDL – S.D. Ind.).
• Anderson-Tully Co. v. Federal Insurance Co. and Aon (W.D. Tenn.).
• DuPont ERISA Class Action Litigation (M.D. Tenn.).
• Smith & Nephew, Inc. v. DePuy (W.D. Tenn.).
• Smith & Nephew, Inc. v. Stryker/Howmedica Patent Litigation (W.D. Tenn.).

REPRESENTATIVE CLIENTS

• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
• Hibernia National Bank
• Resolution Trust Corporation
• Board of Education, Memphis City Schools
• Union Planters Corporation
• Regions Financial Corporation
• Caplin & Drysdale
• Cessna Aircraft Company
• Seessel Holdings, Inc.
• Deloitte, Haskins & Sells (now Deloitte Touche)
• Concord/EFS, Inc. (now First Data Corp.)
• Smith & Nephew, Inc.
• Aon
• E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Co.
• Ebonite Corporation
• AFLAC
• Kemmons Wilson Companies
• Kyphon, Inc.
• Software Earnings, Inc.
• Paine Webber Properties
• Pullman, Incorporated
• ServiceMaster, LP
• University of Memphis
• Computers & Networks, Inc.
• Bank of America
• Coastal Securities, LP
• Cooper Companies
• Ezon, Inc.
• Hard Rock Café
• Memphis Light, Gas & Water Division
• Mueller Industries, Inc.
• Sutter Securities, Inc.
• Thomas & Betts Corporation
• Witco Corp.
• American Medical Systems (now Pfizer, Inc.)
• Arthur Andersen & Co.
• Ellis Communications, Inc.