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Kathleen F. Carpenter is a partner of Cooper, White & Cooper LLP. She co-chairs the firm's Home Building Industry Practice Group and focuses her practice on real estate, construction, e-commerce and commercial litigation. Real Estate Practice: Ms. Carpenter represents the home building industry in a wide variety of complex real estate, construction, and e-commerce disputes, ranging from breach of contract matters such as acquisition and development agreements, joint venture and insurance coverage matters to large-scale construction defect litigation and high-profile toxic tort cases. Ms. Carpenter also regularly handles a variety of e-commerce matters in the real estate arena, including intellectual property disputes; anti-company website issues; unauthorized use of web site materials by third parties; as well as disputes with third party web site consolidators. Ms. Carpenter also brings an innovative problem solving ability to those matters that arise during the course of ongoing projects and transactions. Ms. Carpenter counsels clients in daily business matters including: early dispute resolution strategies; risk management; web site liability issues; forward planning; customer service; purchase contracts; counsel and training of new home sales representatives, and insurance coverage. Ms. Carpenter also acts as a consultant to regional and national homebuilders and homebuilder trade groups on legislative reform efforts and other issues of national significance. Commercial Litigation Practice: Ms. Carpenter's experience also encompasses a broad range of commercial matters, including defense of one of the first cases involving defamation on the Internet, as well cases involving securities fraud, breach of manufacturer--distributor agreements and breach of commercial services contracts. Representative Matters: Defended developer in a $20 million property purchase on claims of breach of development agreement, unfair competition and interference with economic advantage. Lead counsel for several national home builders and regional and national home builder's associations in connection with several class action product liability cases. Represented large California home builder in resolving dispute with an unauthorized third-party website consolidator who provided incorrect home sales prices to prospective home buyers. | 