Here
are some items of interest related to our legal
practice:
Notable Decisions
 Recent Article regarding client whose previous attorney mis-handled funds in trust.
Substantial Court damages for fraud by contractor.
Confidential Settlement - Medical facility negligently discarded frozen human embryos.
$62,500.00 Settlement - Client injured when driver backed up and pinned her leg against her own car's bumper.
Nurse (R.N.) successfully defended against false accusations and obtained license reinstatement.
Business Purchases - Represented business owners purchasing additional NH businesses.
Successful criminal defense at trial against charges that would have required mandatory incarceration and loss of license.
$40,000.00
verdict in a civil action for assault and battery in which client
was randomly attacked and beaten by four men.
Multiple
judgments granting domestic violence order for victims of abuse.
Jury
verdict of over $80,000.00 for clients injured in auto accident.
Jury
verdict in favor of custom home builder for work done but not
paid for.
Jury
verdict in favor of property owner whose trees were cut unlawfully. Judgment
for plaintiff plus attorneys fees for $57,000.00 for breach of
contract in sale of towing business.
Judgment
against insurer for attorney's fees and costs for negligent
handling of insurance claim.
A
decision by the NH Commission for Human Rights for a case
in which we represented four women who were discriminated against
by a private club for men. The Commission ordered the club to pay a
total of $64,000.00 in damages and penalties.
A
decision by the NH Board of Manufactured Housing in which
we represented an 83 year-old woman whose rights were "willfully
and knowingly" violated by her landlord mobile home park owner.
Awards
Recognized
on the NH Bar Association's Pro Bono Honor Roll for providing
legal services at no charge to indigent clients.
Lawyer chosen
to sit as a member of the Inter-Agency Policy Group advocating for
the rights of manufactured home owners.
The
New Hampshire Trial Lawyers Association presented
one of our lawyers with its President’s Award in 2006 for his
service and assistance to the organization.
Publications
Quoted
in the NH Business Review in support of new laws giving consumers and
small
businesses rights against insurance companies.
Listed with the Brain
Injury Association of New Hampshire as a
legal advocate for people with traumatic brain injuries.
We
recently published legal articles in the New Hampshire Trial Bar News (Pediatric
Traumatic Brain Injury Cases in New Hampshire) and in the New
Hampshire Bar News (The Right Thing-Also the Smart Thing To Do.)
Our
cases have been the topic of articles in the Concord Monitor, the Union
Leader and the Laconia Daily Sun, and many of our verdicts and settlements
have been published in the NH Trial Bar News.
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