Ericson Enger (Associate-Jackson, MS), assisted by Kevin Mulvaney (Partner-Detroit, MI), secured summary judgment for a third-party sample vendor for warehouse stores in a liability action in the Circuit Court of Pulaski County, Arkansas. The plaintiff was injured after slipping on an unidentified substance in a warehouse store, and filed suit against the store and our client, alleging negligence against both. Pursuant to the terms of an executed services agreement, our client only had a duty to clean the area within 10 feet of the sample stands operated in the store by its employees. During discovery, the plaintiff reached a settlement with the store in return for a voluntary dismissal. Shortly thereafter, Ericson filed a motion for summary judgment wherein the team contended that, given the terms of the services agreement between our client and store, the plaintiff could not demonstrate that our client owed her an independent duty of care, nor could she establish the violation of such a duty. Ericson and Kevin supported their arguments with the testimony of a prior employee of our client who measured the distance between the plaintiff's fall and the sample stand he was operating. Ultimately, the court granted the motion for summary judgment, which resulted in substantial savings for the client, that, unlike the store, opted to defend the action as opposed to settling.