The Firm represents clients in connection with a wide range of business disputes, including complex breach of contract actions, shareholder disputes, commercial real estate, copyright, trademark and licensing, construction, and unfair trade and unfair competition matters.  We draw upon years of experience and skill to provide swift, effective representation for our business clients.  The Firm has extensive experience in quickly obtaining pre-judgment injunctive relief, moving for and opposing dispositive motions and aggressively gathering and preserving evidence for our clients' cases.  The Firm has significant experience representing clients in complex civil litigation matters in state courts, including the Business Litigation Session of the Massachusetts Trial Department, the Delaware Court of Chancery, as well as federal courts throughout the United States. 

Illustrative matters include:

• Representing a national banking institution in a complex contract action with $11 million in dispute;
• Obtaining a $1.3 million judgment following arbitration for an Internet-based communications service company against an e-mail and messaging business in an action for breach of asset purchase agreements.  In connection with this matter, the Firm filed a Superior Court action to recover the judgment against the alleged alter-ego of the defendant e-mail and messaging company.  The Firm recently defeated the Motion to Dismiss of the allged alter-ego defendant;
• Obtaining, in January 2005, a $720,000 judgment plus attorneys' fees in favor of international speech and imaging technology company against software company for copyright infringement and breach of a licensing agreement;
• Representing international speech and imaging technology company in an arbitration seeking damages from software company for alleged breach of software bundling agreement.  The Firm recently defeated defendant's Motion for Summary Judgment and obtained leave to depose the defendant;
• Representing a global contract services company and several other companies in the enforcement of non-competition, non-solicitation agreements and trade secret claims;
• Representing numerous software manufacturers in license, copyright and trademark disputes;
• Representing a VoIP carrier in litigation in the United States and overseas;
• Representing a restaurant franchisor in connection with numerous disputes concerning restrictive covenants;
• Representing national retail chain in connection with contract dispute with market research firm;
• Representing a major real estate developer in an action against a municipality involving the procurement of a public contract;
• Representing several developers and owners of real estate in a wide range of matters, including shareholder, commercial leasing and adverse possession disputes;
• Representing a major provider of internet advertising in a broad array of litigation matters throughout the United States;
• Successfully defending a British multi-national metal forming corporation in a suit brought by a Massachusetts company seeking contract damages and attempting to pierce the corporate veil;
• Representing a European-based public software company in litigation in California, New York, Illinois, Texas, Virginia, Alabama, and Massachusetts;
• Representing a major mutual fund company in various litigation matters;
• Representing numerous shareholders in litigation related to shareholder and fiduciary liability.