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.

Asked first

The ones a general counsel puts to us on the first call, answered here so the call can be about the case.

Will you take a case you did not start?
31 to verdict
Yes, and most of the ones we try are handed over. We read the file before we say so, and we tell you if the pleadings have already decided the case.
Who runs the file?
14 lawyers
The partner who argues it. There is no relationship partner here who introduces you to somebody else, because at this size there is nobody else to introduce you to.
What does this cost before we sign anything?
30 minutes
Nothing. The first call is not billed, and the fee basis goes in the engagement letter in writing before a single hour is recorded.
Will you tell us not to bring it?
24h conflicts
Often. Conflicts run first, and the call after that is about whether the claim is worth what it costs. Declining is a normal outcome of it.
Why is your record on the site?
9 matters
Because it is public already. Every matter listed is a filing anyone can pull, disposition included. What is not listed is the work that settled under seal, and that is most of it.

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.