Bard's recent representations include:

• Obtained summary judgment (and an award of attorneys’ fees) for an independent trust company on claims for breach of fiduciary duty and violations of ERISA
• Obtained summary judgment for a company-sponsored ESOP and its trustees on claims for violation of ERISA's Anti-Cutback and Significant Detriment Rules, and successfully defended ruling on appeal
• Obtained dismissal of professional negligence claim against independent trust company
• Negotiated a favorable settlement for a professional ESOP trustee that had been sued for breach of fiduciary duty and prohibited transaction under ERISA
• Prosecuted a defendant class action for a Fortune 100 client as trustee of pension funds subject to competing claims of its unionized workers
• Negotiated a favorable class action settlement for a large public university that had been sued by former employees in a suit to recover early retirement benefits
• Obtained dismissal of ERISA "stock drop" claims against independent trust company
• Negotiated a substantial subrogation recovery for a company-sponsored medical plan in connection with a medical malpractice suit brought by a plan beneficiary
• Negotiated favorable settlement of ERISA 401(k) "excessive fee" class action against plan sponsor and investment committee
• Successfully tried a factually complex garnishment case involving claims of corporate "alter ego" and "piercing the corporate veil"
• Successfully defended a major insurance company in an arbitration matter on severance and change-in-control claims brought by a former executive
• Successfully defended a computer services company in a lengthy arbitration involving a purchase price adjustment based on a complicated earn-out formula
• Obtained summary judgment for a major telecommunications corporation in three separate actions in which former contractors asserted claims for fraud and racial discrimination
• Successfully defended a major home building company in arbitration claims for extra-contractual damages
• Successfully prosecuted an action to quiet title to a parcel of real property at the heart of a mall development project in metro Atlanta
• Negotiated a complex settlement of an action for equitable partitioning of a 300-acre parcel of prime real property in the mountains of north Georgia
• Tried a claim for prescriptive easement concerning the historical use of a right-of-way to gain access to a landlocked parcel of land in Atlanta's Buckhead business district
• Successfully negotiated several substantial settlements in preference actions in connection with the Chapter 11 bankruptcy of a major consumer products retailer