We try cases and argue appeals throughout Canada and the U.S. regarding civil and criminal matters for individuals, companies, and governments.

Regarding civil matters, we have represented clients regarding: (1) theft of trade secrets; (2) termination of a franchise; (3) product liability; (4) defamation; (5) trademarks; (6) copyright; (7) Employee Retirement Income Security Act or ERISA; (8) tax disputes; (9) wills and estates; (10) employment, both management and labor; (11) civil rights; (12) family law; (13) workplace investigations; (14) Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act; (15) automobile assembly lines; (16) oil and gas well fire and explosion; (17) plant shut-down; (18) personal injury; (19) breach of contract; and (20) negligent and intentional torts, and equitable remedies.

Turning to criminal matters, we have acted for clients regarding felonies and misdemeanors in the U.S.  and indictable and summary conviction offenses in Canada concerning: (1) theft; (2) assault; (3) great bodily harm less than murder; (4) driving under the influence; (5) destruction of property; (6) public intoxication; (7) extradition; (8) bail; (9) conspiracy; (10) trafficking narcotics within the U.S. and across an international border; (11) probation violations; (12) illegal search and seizure; (13) double-jeopardy; (14) Miranda and right to counsel violations; (15) domestic violence; (16) probation violations; (17) resisting arrest; (18) ineffective assistance of counsel; and (19) criminal sexual conduct.

Recent Successes:

• December 2023: McTavish Law obtained a unanimous decision from the Michigan Court of Appeals that reversed a decision of the Business Court of the Wayne County Circuit Court that had refused to transfer venue of an action from Wayne County to Oakland County.
• November 2023:  McTavish Law obtained a confidential settlement from General Motors LLC and its executives, Michael Skehan and Kevin McCabe, regarding former GM employee Rick Patel’s claims of race, color, and national origin discrimination and retaliation against them.
• September 2023: McTavish Law successfully obtained an Ex Parte Temporary Restraining Order, (“TRO”), from the Federal District Court in Detroit, without having to lodge security with that Court, that restrains a foreign defendant from Canada, Tait Brown, and a non-party, the Lincoln Financial Group, from withdrawing from, or paying funds out of, an ERISA 403(b) retirement savings account.
• September 2023: McTavish Law successfully petitioned the Federal District Court in Detroit to extend its aforementioned TRO and to subsequently convert its TRO to a preliminary injunction.
• April 2023: McTavish Law successfully petitioned to the Michigan Court of Appeals to immediately consider its application for leave to appeal on behalf of George Harb against Village Drug Shop, Inc. regarding improper venue. The Michigan Court of Appeals subsequently granted Harb’s application for leave to appeal and also issued a stay of all proceedings in the Wayne County Circuit Court before Judge Brian Sullivan.
• November 2022 to September 2023: McTavish Law has successfully obtained HYTA, 7411 status, and delayed sentences for felonies and dismissal of felonies at preliminary exam in various Michigan courts regarding charges of domestic violence, assault, assault causing great bodily harm less than murder, resisting arrest, assaulting a police officer, resisting arrest, possession of narcotics, trafficking of narcotics, larceny in  a building, retail fraud, and conspiracy to commit retail fraud, among others.
• July 2022 to December 2022: McTavish Law successfully worked with the California Air Resource Board to develop an owners manual for Karma Automotive’s electric Ford E-450 for use in the U.S. and Canada. McTavish Law drafted Karma Automotive’s terms and conditions for its purchase orders. McTavish Law oversaw Karma Automotive’s litigation regarding  Lordstown Motors and DeLorean Motors Company, in conjunction with its CEO, Jeff Wawrazyniak.

Past Successes:

• December 2021: McTavish Law, on behalf of Karma Automotive, stopped a Canadian company in Toronto, Ontario from infringing the registered Canadian trademark of Karma Automotive by sending the Canadian company a cease and desist letter, which resulted in that company removing, at its own expense, offending signage from the exterior of its building in which its headquarters are based. (See our partner, Mr. Chris Chekan’s post on his LinkedIn page that explains how to draft a proper cease and desist letter under Canada’s Trademark Act.)
• September 22nd, 2021: Before examinations for discovery (depositions) were to begin, McTavish Law obtained the dismissal of Wix Filtration from a case in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, with prejudice, and with costs (attorney’s fees and disbursements) of $62,962.78 to Wix.
• On October 8th, 2020:  McTavish Law obtained the dismissal, with prejudice, of a product liability claim in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice that sought millions of dollars in damages to clean up a fuel oil spill from Mann + Hummel. The court subsequently awarded Mann + Hummel $138,000 in costs (attorney’s fees and disbursements).
• In January 2020: At mediation, McTavish Law obtained Can. $350,000 for the former President of the Canadian subsidiary of C.R. Bard who had been fired for just cause for alleged fraud and improper relationships after less than two years of service.
• September 23rd, 2019: McTavish Law obtained dismissal, with prejudice, of an IRS petition for an alleged deficiency for the 2016 tax year, penalties, and interest on behalf of an individual.
• July 29th, 2019:  McTavish Law obtained dismissal, with prejudice, on behalf of Wix Filtration of an alleged defective fuel oil filter based on no liability.

• McTavish Law successfully obtained dismissal, with prejudice and without payment of damages, costs, from product liability lawsuit involving a Wix Filtration fuel oil filter.
• McTavish Law successfully blocked preliminary injunction sought against Pontiac General  Hospital to disgorge four hundred thousand dollars and pay it into court pending trial.
• McTavish Law successfully obtained, as appellate counsel, an order for leave to appeal to the Michigan Court of Appeals two convictions for stalking and an adverse Ginther judgment.
• McTavish Law successfully obtained an order from the Ontario Court of Appeal that quashed an appeal to that Court based on a lack of jurisdiction, and obtained costs (i.e. attorney’s fees and disbursements) of that appeal for Affinia Canada.
• McTavish Law successfully obtained an order from the Ontario Superior Court dismissing, with prejudice, an action involving defective design, manufacture, and failure to warn of a Wix Filtration fuel oil filter that caused more then 1 million dollars in environmental remediation damages.
• McTavish Law successfully obtained an order to dismiss, with prejudice, and without leave to amend, claims of fraud, civil conspiracy, and common law and statutory conversion, and attorney’s fees on behalf of Pontiac General Hospital in an action before the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.
• McTavish Law successfully obtained dismissal of a motion by plaintiff for leave to amend its complaint after the close of discovery on behalf of Pontiac General Hospital  before the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.
• McTavish Law successfully brought a motion for an order to plead limitation period as an affirmative defense on behalf of Affinia Corp. in an action before the Ontario Superior Court.
• McTavish Law successfully argued at trial, and at all appeals, including the Supreme Court of Canada, that Dana Canada’s assembly line is not lienable under Ontario’s Construction Lien Act, and obtained attorney’s fees (costs) at every stage of those proceedings and appeals.
• McTavish Law successfully argued at motion in Federal District Court in Detroit that the Government of Canada, certain of its Ministries, and certain of its Ministers and its Deputy Ministers, should be dismissed, with prejudice, from an action based on The Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act in which action an African-American rapper had sought nine hundred million dollars in damages based on racial discrimination at the Canadian/ U.S. border.
• McTavish Law successfully obtained dismissal, with prejudice, in Michigan Circuit Court of a felony charge of assault causing great bodily harm, less than murder, against defendant following preliminary hearing.
• McTavish Law successfully prosecuted an Ontario Superior Court action, and was involved in the successful prosecution of a Kentucky Federal District Court action, which latter judgment was affirmed by the Federal Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, involving Satisfied Brake Parts theft of trade secrets, specifically brake pad formulas, from Affinia Corp., and obtained damages in the seven figures and attorney’s fees (costs).
• McTavish Law successfully obtained dismissal, with prejudice, plus attorney’s fees (costs), after discovery, of an action in the Ontario Superior Court that alleged Affinia Corp. had defectively designed, manufactured, and failed to warn of defects in its brake rotors.
• McTavishLaw successfully obtained dismissal, with prejudice, after discovery, of an Ontario Superior Court action that alleged Dana Corp. had defectively designed, manufactured, and failed to warn of defects in its steering knuckles.
• McTavish Law successfully obtained dismissal, with prejudice, on summary disposition in Michigan Circuit Court, of an action by a competitor against Wesbell Automotive and certain of its executives regarding theft of trade secrets.
• McTavish Law successfully obtained dismissal, with prejudice, after discovery, of an action in the Ontario Superior Court that alleged Dana Canada had defectively designed, manufactured, and failed to warn of defects in its brake hoses.
• McTavish Law successfully removed Michigan Circuit Court action to Federal District Court and then obtained dismissal, with prejudice, of an action that alleged a Canadian distributor, Spectrum Paint, had breached its distributorship agreement with a U.S. Company, Titian Finishes.
• McTavish Law successfully obtained summary disposition in Michigan Circuit Court, which judgment was upheld by the Michigan Court of Appeals, of an action that alleged a developer, Amicone Design, had built and sold defectively designed condominiums on BoB-Lo island.
• McTavish Law successfully obtained recognition and enforcement in Ontario Superior Court of a Kentucky arbitration award of damages and an award of attorney’s fees regarding the purchase of a thoroughbred racehorse on behalf of the world’s largest broker of such horses, Fasig-Tipton, and obtained attorney’s fees (costs) of the Ontario application.
• McTavish Law successfully obtained letters rogatory from Federal District Court to examine non-parties in Ontario, Canada in aid of an action in Federal District Court.
• McTavish Law successfully obtained dismissal, with prejudice, plus attorney’s fees (costs) of several Ontario Superior Court actions involving defective design, manufacture, and failure to warn of defects in Affinia Canada fuel oil filters.
• McTavish Law successfully obtained dismissal, with prejudice, plus attorney’s fees (costs) of Québec Superior Court action involving defective design, manufacture, and failure to warn of defects in an Affinia Canada oil filter for firetrucks used by the City of Montreal.
• McTavish Law successfully obtained dismissal, with prejudice, of a Nova Scotia, Canada action involving defective design, manufacture, and failure to warn of defects in an Affinia Canada fuel oil filter.
• McTavish Law successfully obtained dismissal, with prejudice, of an Ontario Superior Court action involving defective design, manufacture, and failure to warn of defects in a Wix Filtration fuel oil filter.
• McTavish Law successfully obtained, on appeal to the Ontario Court of Appeal, an eight-month reduction of notice damages to an employee whose employment had been terminated because of a plant closure, plus costs of the appeal, on behalf of Affinia Canada.
• McTavish Law successfully obtained dismissal, with prejudice, plus attorney’s fees (costs) of an Ontario Superior Court action by an employee against Affinia Canada for wrongful dismissal because of frustration of contract and fraud by an employee.
• McTavish Law successfully obtained vacation of defendant’s plea of no contest and reversal of his two convictions for probation violations arising out of a drunk and disorderly charge and stalking charges in Michigan District Court.