Let’s just say that before Tony Sammi signed on to represent Universal Alloy Corporation in its trade secrets row with Alcoa, things were not going so hot for UAC. 

UAC competes with Alcoa to provide Boeing with long aluminum-alloy structures called stretch-formed spar chords used to make airplane wings. When Sammi took on the case a few years ago, UAC was looking at sanctions that would eventually bar the company from raising any reverse-engineering defenses at trial.