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  Avraham Levi & Hannah Levi
 

To illustrate the thoroughness and complexity of the care that Avraham Levi Law Firm provides to its clients, we will share a little of the breadth of the canvas on which one corporate law case was interpreted - a whole tractate of many mutual legal proceedings in various instances that was defined by the courts as a "legal war", a case that required expertise in many legal fields, including: theft of trade secrets, eyewitness testimony, intellectual property, unjust enrichment, the tort of defamation, court action, legal research abroad, and more.

The story begins with childhood friends who became business partners in the field of bridge scales, who collaborated for several years, until friction arose between the parties and they parted ways.

After the separation, the CMA also acted outside the courts against Orni. The CMA contacted Orni's existing and potential customers with a series of defamatory letters, filed false complaints against him with the Israel Police, defamed Orni in front of his employees, threatened and harassed them, presented Orni's products as substandard or illegal for marketing, sent a defamatory letter to the Ports Authority in order to thwart Orni's winning of the tender it had applied for, and also contacted the banks where Orni's accounts were managed and sent them defamatory letters and documents, in order to harm their businesses and the credit given to them.

Mr. Tzach Orni came to our office in 1999, at a loss for words, like a man whose entire world had collapsed on him.

Attorney Avraham Levi agreed to take on the overall handling of the case, and launched a creative and well-planned legal attack; within the framework of which, a lawsuit was filed against the Israel Police and the IDF to return various items related to the parties' occupation that were seized by the Israel Police following a complaint filed by the IDF about their theft. (hereinafter: "the first lawsuit")

At the same time, the Central Weighing Company Ltd. (hereinafter: "CML") filed a broad lawsuit against Tzach Orani personally and against the company he owns (hereinafter: "Orani") for breach of agreement and breach of fiduciary duties and unlawful use of trade secrets. The lawsuit - TA 1661/00 (later became TA 5886-08-07), within the framework of which, among other things, a request was also filed - TA 8541/00, in which CML petitioned for a temporary injunction that would prohibit Orani from contacting its customers and selling them bridge scales;

Adv. Levi's tireless efforts began to bear fruit - Judge Zeft rejected the above-mentioned request of the Civil Service Commission, and ruled that the agreement between the parties was annulled, and within this framework, Orni's contractual obligation to refrain from engaging in the sale and/or rental of bridge scales in Israel was also annulled. The Civil Service Commission's claim that Orni infringed copyright was rejected because Orni was engaged in the production of weighing scales even before the Civil Service Commission was founded. The Civil Service Commission's petitions against Orni for theft of a trade secret, theft of an eye, and unjust enrichment were also rejected in the same interim proceedings.

In the first lawsuit, Judge Klugman ruled that the claimed items (except for transducers) did indeed belong to Orni, and regarding the issue of intellectual property and knowledge in the joint venture, she ruled and ruled that "the central company did not show that it had intellectual property rights in the weighing computers and that the claim that the knowledge in the joint venture was brought by the central company from Western was not proven at all.

Thus, in the case of the Tel Aviv District Court (Tel Aviv District Court) 3475/05, an appeal was accepted in the matter of "silencing the group" insofar as it concerns intellectual property, and it was determined that the General Staff is prohibited from raising claims that contradict the determinations relating to intellectual property in weighing computers or that the knowledge in the joint venture belongs to the General Staff.

And in 3554/03, Orani was awarded compensation of over half a million NIS for dozens of defamatory torts against him by his former business partners, after it was determined that the acts were done with the intention of harming and in extreme deviation from legitimate business competition.

End of the story - the ruling of the Honorable Judge Esther Shtamer in the Central District Court, in consolidated civil cases 5886-08-07, 5899-08-07, and the ruling of the court composed of Judges H. Meltzer, E. Fogelman and Yitzhak Amit, who sat in the appeal in this matter, in consolidated appeals A.A. 7562/12, 7819/12;

The Supreme Court emphasizes the rare and world-wide evidentiary activity that was required to prove the "date fraud" - the fruit of the special evidentiary work of Attorney Avraham Levi in this complex trial, when without this special effort and the bringing of witnesses from the countries of the sea, it is possible that the opposing side would have succeeded in denying Orani's claims.

Proof of sophisticated, cross-continental fraud within the framework of the joint company activities of the hawkish parties resulted in the struggle for control of the Gesher balances sector ending in a crushing victory for Orani.