Areas of Practice

• Business Litigation
• White Collar Defense and SEC Enforcement
• Employment Litigation and Counseling
• Appellate Litigation
• Intellectual Property Litigation
• Arbitration and Mediation

Business Litigation

Our Commitment. The successful resolution of commercial disputes is a cornerstone of our practice. In every engagement, we work hard to understand our clients’ business objectives, translate those objectives into a plan, and execute that plan with maximum effect and minimum expense and delay.

We fight to win. But we also know how to win without fighting. Our lawyers understand that litigation can be a costly distraction from the business of doing business. Often, the best result avoids any litigation at all. We recognize the power of negotiation, creative problem-solving, and alternative dispute resolution. But when those avenues fail, or when a client needs immediate protection in the courts, we litigate with the zealous, aggressive intensity that every client deserves.

We understand that clients value personal, attentive, responsive service. We maintain close client communication through every phase of a dispute, from initial assessment to final resolution. We provide the same premium quality representation in cases of all sizes and complexities, ranging from multi-state controversies involving hundreds of millions of dollars to smaller disputes involving more modest sums.

Our Team. Our business litigation team offers a unique combination of stellar qualifications, substantive expertise, and practiced, real-world skill, which allows us to staff every matter with the lawyers best suited to deliver service, value and results. Each of the firm’s founding partners has more than 25 years experience handling affirmative and defensive commercial cases. Over the years, we have attracted highly talented trial lawyers who trained at the top firms in the country, and they have developed outstanding commercial litigation practices. Several of our lawyers have been selected in a statewide poll of the Commonwealth’s attorneys as “Massachusetts Super Lawyers” and “Massachusetts Super Lawyer Rising Stars.”

Our Clients. We have successfully represented a variety of businesses of all sizes in a wide range of industries, including software, biotechnology, professional services, financial services, franchising, insurance, healthcare, manufacturing, telecommunications, personnel, industrial operations, and film, print, electronic and educational media, to name just a few. We also represent many individuals involved in business disputes of all kinds.

Our Work. The diversity of our work reflects our exceptionally broad client base. Our practice is centered in Boston, but we appear regularly in trial and appellate courts throughout the country. Most of our practice is devoted to complicated matters that require the skill and expertise typically found at large firms. We routinely handle disputes involving complex contractual and fiduciary arrangements, intellectual property rights, non-competition agreements, competitive business practices and other sophisticated legal issues.

A representative sampling of our recent engagements is presented here.