A legal team from Bilzin Sumberg Baena Price & Axelrod helped Lennar Corp. litigate extortion threats and win a $1.02 billion jury verdict.

The Miami-based homebuilder successfully sued a former business partner, Nicolas Marsch, his company Briarwood Capital and onetime Wall Street wunderkind Barry Minkow on allegations of libel, deceptive and unfair trade practices, tortious interference, fraud and extortion.