Cynthia A. Ricketts has extensive experience in general litigation matters, particularly complex commercial litigation. She has served as lead or co-lead counsel in complex litigation matters involving director and officer liability, fraud, racketeering, securities fraud, failed thrifts, breach of contract, breach of warranty, trade secrets, breach of non-compete and anti-solicitation agreements, unfair competition, employment discrimination, wrongful termination, product liability, receiverships, construction disputes, homeowner association disputes, class actions, toxic torts, copyright infringement, Internet disputes, business valuation disputes, and involving the Satellite Home Viewer Act, the Satellite Home Viewer Improvement Act, the Automated Clearing House (ACH) rules and regulations, and the Unlawful Gambling Act of 2006.

Her experience also includes participation in trial teams in complex commercial and tort litigation matters involving multiple parties and multiple districts. She has substantial experience in motion practice, appellate practice, jury and bench trial, arbitration, and injunctive relief.

Ms. Ricketts has been lead counsel on several arbitration matters and has been an active participant in court-sponsored mediations. She has drafted mediation agreements and arbitration clauses and alternative dispute resolution provisions for contracts. She has also served as a court-appointed arbitrator in several matters.

Her cross-border dispute experience includes:

• An arbitration before the London Court of International Arbitration on behalf of a direct-broadcast satellite company against a consortium of insurance companies involving coverage of a satellite’s solar array that failed after launch;
• the dismissal of a dispute filed in Arizona state court against a leading title insurance company related to a license it obtained from the Chinese government (an action that should have been brought in China instead); and
• an arbitration, before the International Centre for Dispute Resolution of the American Arbitration Association in which a foreign company involved in Internet gambling sought the return of over $12 million dollars held by a payment processing company.

Ms. Ricketts is a recognized NITA instructor who has taught both trial skills and deposition skills. She attends and participates in a number of women network associations and events. She has spoken often at seminars and authored articles appearing in local publications.

She has been named an Arizona Super Lawyer. In 2004, she received the Boss of the Year award from the Phoenix Legal Support Association. Today’s Arizona Woman named her to its list of “Who’s Who in Business 2003.”

ZULASSUNGEN

• Arizona
• United States Supreme Court
• United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
• United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
• United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
• United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
• United States District Court for the District of Arizona
• United States District Court for the District of Colorado

Mitgliedschaften

• American Bar Association
• State Bar of Arizona

Publikationen

• Co-author, “Unlawful Internet Gambling in the United States,” Maricopa County Lawyer
• Co-author, “An Ounce of Prevention: Preventive Action Can Help Protect Trade Secrets and Avoid Lawsuits,” The Daily Journal
• “Protecting Your Company’s Confidential and Proprietary Information From Employee Sabotage,” Arizona Journal
  

Ehrenamtliche und gemeinnützige Tätigkeiten

• Member of Phoenix’s Father of the Year Council of the American Diabetes Association