John M. Riccione

Co-Managing Member

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John M. Riccione is one of two Co-Managing Members of the firm and focuses his practice on complex business and commercial litigation. He counsels individual and corporate clients on a variety of business matters, including commercial contract and land disputes, construction litigation, sales commission disputes, trade secret law, and personnel matters. Mr. Riccione’s strengths include his ability to make the very complex understood in the simplest form and his mastery of negotiation skills. He has been described by his peers as a lawyer’s lawyer – one who a lawyer would trust with his own matter. Mr. Riccione has developed a concentration in the area of restrictive employment and distribution agreements. In over 22 years of practice, there are few types of complex business disputes which Mr. Riccione has not handled. He has extensive experience representing businesses in litigating commercial contract disputes, including warranty and other UCC disputes, banking issues and corporate divorce cases throughout the country. He has utilized various alternative fee arrangements in commercial litigation, which are largely driven by results.

Mr. Riccione is a frequent lecturer on a number of topics, including, alternative fee arrangements, sales commission protection acts and contract law to various audiences, including trade and bar associations, and client groups.

REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS

• Obtaining a complete solution in defective product case involving tubing used in the refrigeration industry

• Strategically forcing manufacturer to pay earned post-termination commissions to sales organization

• Defending Proposition 65 actions relating to allegedly violative products in California

• Negotiating multi-year collective bargaining agreement with labor union on behalf of eight contractors in the metal polishing and re-finishing business

• Successfully trying a case for defective goods against a label manufacturer brought by an advertisement corporation

• Maintaining a perfect record of obtaining agency dismissals of discrimination charges on behalf of a temporary labor service company

• Negotiating a resolution of litigation on behalf of a stainless steel pool contractor with the owner of the sixth largest building in the world

• Using an alternative fee arrangement to better align the interests of the firm and client to deliver a favorable result after initiating litigation on behalf of a public company against a national consulting firm over an enterprise resource planning system

• Obtaining successful resolution of Fair Labor Standards and wage and hour claims on behalf of a commercial janitorial company in North Carolina

• Obtaining judgment in arbitration in Ohio against cooperative on supply agreements on behalf of public company

• Successfully resisting an injunction in Texas at trial on behalf of an independent sales organization against a manufacturer of orthopedic devices

• Attaining a speedy and successful conclusion to dispute arising out of a factory's intrastate move in Tennessee

• "John helped me understand how construction law works when it comes down to getting what is ours and when to step away. We worked on numerous cases together settling the outstanding issues to get the best value for my company. Very professional and a great job done." -Dave Black, a senior project manager at Tetra Tech, EC, Inc. 

• Recently, Aronberg Goldgehn’s John Riccione and Ben Haskin, litigated a case for one of the firm’s banking clients with a fairly novel fact pattern and to which the Bank had exposure of approximately $2MM as alleged.  Aronberg Goldgehn delivered an excellent result by way of summary judgment in the Bank’s favor.  The case had a very complex and convoluted factual history and John Riccione, along with only one junior associate, were able to sift through that history, obtain the evidence the Banks needed with laser precision, and obtain a victory for the Bank short of a trial – on summary judgment.  The Bank remarked:  “Their approach was so efficient and straightforward and did not include unnecessary discovery with no stone left unturned.  They pursued only what was absolutely necessary for a victory and delivered precisely that.  What more can a client ask for?” -Bank Client