Based in Atlanta, Georgia, Zachary Andrew McEntyre has served as a partner at the law firm of King & Spalding LLP, for the last 10 years. In this capacity, Zachary Andrew McEntyre primarily focuses his work in the area of complex commercial litigation. In its general form, commercial litigation refers to business legal disputes. Typically, this type of litigation applies to situations in which at least two separate business entities are in a disagreement about property or money matters. One common example of commercial litigation suits is for breaches of contract, which involve real estate sales and mergers and acquisitions. However, this field of law can also include such disputes as business fraud, class action lawsuits, and problems with shareholders. Recently, commercial litigation has become more complex due to a number of increasingly common legal situations. For example, the introduction of multiple legal disciplines into a single suit increases the stakes of each commercial dispute. Similarly, the more parties that become involved with a case, the more risk they run of prolonging the entire process. If each party has its own individual interest in the case, then it makes it more complex to come to a successful and agreeable settlement.
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Zachary Andrew McEntyre is a partner at King & Spalding LLP. His law practice focuses on complex commercial litigation. Among his many achievements at King & Spalding, Zachary Andrew McEntyre has earned the Burton Award for distinguished legal writing. The Burton Awards for Legal Achievement is an academic, nonprofit organization that recognizes effective legal writing. The Burton Awards were created in 1999, when clear and concise legibility was beginning to trump the more outdated, conventional style of legal prose. Seventeen years later, it is a prestigious honor to receive one of the Burton Awards for Legal Achievement. The prizes largely go to working lawyers, but the Burton Awards also looks to acknowledge promising law students, and more recently, it has begun to honor journalists who report on legal matters. Each year, the award ceremony gains more notoriety as it includes more notable names, such as Tom Brokaw, Ruth Bader-Ginsberg, and others. King & Spalding partner Zachary Andrew McEntyre works on class action lawsuits. Zachary Andrew McEntyre’s past cases include defending an automaker against allegations of brake defects, a high-tech company against claims of Telephone Consumer Protection Act violations, and a healthcare firm against accusations of overcharges. A class action lawsuit occurs when one or more people who feel that they have been wronged sue purportedly on behalf of a larger group. Usually, class action lawsuits are only approved when there are many people affected by a certain issue and it makes more sense try their cases together. Examples of class action lawsuits with news-making settlements include: -a 2005 case in which AOL Time Warner stock investors sued the company for federal securities fraud, resulting in a $2.5 billion settlement -a silicone breast implant case in 1994 in which women claimed they suffered from autoimmune diseases because of their implants, resulting in Corning, Baxter, and Bristol-Meyers Squibb/MEC settling for $3.4 billion -a 2001 case involving the Exxon Valdez oil spill that affected thousands of people and an extensive expanse of coastline, which ended in a $500 million settlement with Exxon Mobile. |
AuthorAn experienced commercial litigator, Zachary Andrew McEntyre currently serves as a senior associate in King & Spalding’s Atlanta. Archives
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