Chase is a highly skilled and results-driven commercial litigator who represents clients in high-stakes disputes where the facts are complex, the law is unsettled, and the financial exposure is significant. He is known for his ability to take control of difficult cases — whether defending against aggressive claims or prosecuting them — and for building litigation strategies that withstand sustained pressure from sophisticated adversaries. Chase regularly litigates matters involving dense evidentiary records, novel legal theories, and highly structured financial and technological products deployed by some of the world’s largest institutions.
In the technology sector, Chase represents domestic and international software companies, technology vendors, and implementation partners in disputes arising out of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems and other large-scale software implementations. He handles licensing disputes, failed or delayed implementations, and claims requiring deep engagement with technology systems. Unlike litigators who solely approach software disputes at a high level, Chase has a deep, working understanding of software systems and business-technology solutions, enabling him to quickly master technical records, challenge expert positions, and present multiplex system failures in a way that resonates with courts and factfinders.
Chase has particular strength in disputes involving complex financial products and secondary-market transactions, including financial fraud-based claims and stranger-originated life insurance (STOLI). These matters frequently involve layered ownership structures, third-party intermediaries, and years-old transactional records. Chase brings a disciplined, detail-driven approach to these cases, focused on dismantling opposing narratives, exploiting evidentiary weaknesses, and forcing meaningful leverage through rigorous discovery and motion practice.
Chase advises clients across a broad range of general commercial disputes, including contract, business-tort, and fraud matters, often serving as a strategic extension of his clients’ internal teams. He places a premium on understanding each client’s business, risk tolerance, and long-term objectives, allowing him to tailor litigation strategy to support — not disrupt — the client’s broader commercial goals. Clients rely on Chase not only to litigate effectively, but to identify the most advantageous path forward for their business, whether that means early resolution, targeted motion practice, or aggressive pursuit of claims through trial.
Across his practice, Chase is valued for his ability to synthesize massive records, confront sophisticated opposing counsel, and maintain a focus on outcomes that advance his clients’ business and litigation objectives. Clients rely on him not only for his command of complex subject matter, but also for his judgment, persistence, and willingness to take cases where others hesitate.
Chase graduated from Slippery Rock University, magna cum laude, with a bachelor’s degree in political science and earned his law degree, cum laude, from Temple University Beasley School of Law, where he served as a note and comment editor of the Temple Law Review. During law school, he clerked for Chief Judge Eric L. Frank of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and for the Honorable M. Teresa Sarmina of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas, Trial Division – Complex Litigation, gaining early, hands-on exposure to complex commercial and financial disputes from the court’s perspective.