Fraud and concealment
Claims involving alleged misstatements, omissions, knowledge, intent, reliance, causation, and resulting loss.
Business torts · Fraud · Los Angeles
Business tort and fraud litigation where conduct—not only contract language—is disputed.
The Zorkin Firm handles claims involving alleged fraud, concealment, misrepresentation, interference with business relationships, unfair competition, fiduciary-duty breaches, and related commercial torts.
Claims and defenses
Commercial tort claims demand a precise factual record.
Labels such as “fraud” or “interference” are not substitutes for proof. The firm tests the alleged statement, omission, duty, intent, reliance, causation, privilege, and damages against the actual record.
Interference claims
Disputes involving contracts, prospective economic relationships, intent, independently wrongful conduct, privilege, and causation.
Fiduciary-duty disputes
Claims involving owners, officers, directors, managers, partners, agents, duties, conflicts, disclosures, and alleged self-dealing.
Unfair competition
Claims involving alleged unlawful, unfair, or fraudulent business practices and the remedies available under the governing theory.
Misrepresentation
Intentional and negligent misrepresentation theories arising from transactions, negotiations, disclosures, and commercial relationships.
Defense strategy
Challenges to pleading sufficiency, reliance, causation, damages, privilege, economic-loss limits, statutes of limitation, and evidentiary support.
Economic reality
A persuasive theory must explain both wrongdoing and loss.
Business-tort litigation is strongest when the alleged conduct, decision-making chain, contemporaneous communications, and damages model fit together. The same discipline can expose claims that rely on rhetoric instead of evidence.
Direct answers
Frequently asked questions.
These answers are general information, not legal advice. The analysis of a specific matter depends on its facts, law, forum, and objectives.
What is a business tort?
A business tort is a civil claim based on alleged wrongful conduct that harms a business relationship, commercial expectation, ownership interest, or economic position. Examples may include fraud, interference, unfair competition, misrepresentation, concealment, and breach of fiduciary duty.
What is the difference between breach of contract and fraud?
A contract claim generally concerns failure to perform an agreement. A fraud claim generally concerns alleged deception, concealment, or misrepresentation. A dispute may involve both theories, but the elements, defenses, remedies, pleading standards, and proof can differ.
What evidence matters in a business fraud case?
Relevant evidence may include transaction documents, negotiations, emails, text messages, financial records, due-diligence materials, internal communications, witness testimony, and proof connecting the alleged statement or omission to reliance and loss.
Can fraud claims be challenged early?
Depending on the allegations and forum, fraud claims may be challenged for insufficient specificity, lack of duty, lack of reasonable reliance, causation problems, limitations issues, privilege, or failure to plead a viable measure of damages.
Contact The Zorkin Firm
Does the dispute require senior litigation judgment?
Contact the firm to discuss the parties, general nature of the matter, business objective, and next step. Do not send confidential information before an engagement is confirmed.