Practice

Commercial disputes

Contract, partnership and control fights that reach a courtroom, taken by lawyers who expect to finish them in front of a jury.

Dana Hollis runs it. First chair. Opens and closes; takes the cross that decides the case.

Positions

What we argue

A contract is read against the parties' own course of dealing. We build that history before we plead.
Nov. Term 2019, No. 00447 (Phila. C.C.P. 2021)
Vantage Rail Partners LP v. Keystone Terminal Services
Nine years of unenforced minimums, reconstructed from invoices.
Earn-out fights turn on who controlled the metric. That is a documents question, and it is answered early or not at all.
No. 3:23-cv-02218 (D.N.J. 2025)
Sable Creek Capital v. Merrow Analytics, Inc.
Summary judgment for the defendant on all counts.
A books-and-records demand is a scope negotiation with a deadline. Treat it as discovery and the deal slips.
C.A. No. 2021-0932 (Del. Ch. 2022)
In re Brightline Freight Holdings
Demand narrowed to four categories; closing date held.

“Two lawyers read every document that matters. One of them is the one who will stand up.”
Commercial disputes · 31 verdicts in 15 years

In this practice

Three matters in the public record, filed in three different forums.

Staffing

Dana Hollis
Partner · called 1998
First chair. Opens and closes; takes the cross that decides the case.
Admitted
Pa. 1998 · N.J. 2001 · E.D. Pa. · D.N.J. · 3d Cir.
Marcus Pike
Partner · called 2001
Writes the brief and argues it. Sits in on trial to protect the record.
Admitted
Pa. 2001 · 3d Cir. · Pa. Supreme Court · U.S. Supreme Court
Priya Raghunathan
Partner · called 2006
Runs the injunction sprint: forensics, declarations, hearing in three weeks.
Admitted
Pa. 2006 · N.Y. 2007 · E.D. Pa. · S.D.N.Y.
Sofia Delgado-Reyes
Associate · called 2020
Document review lead. Builds the chronology every argument is drawn from.
Admitted
Pa. 2020 · E.D. Pa.

Send the caption, the court and the deadline, and we answer within one business day.