Representative Experience

Real Estate and Land-Use Development Disputes

Represented a financial services provider in litigation against an all-risks insurance carrier involving a “sinking” office building in Chicago, securing a multi-million dollar favorable settlement

Acting as environmental counsel to the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe on matters relating to the establishment of their tribal reservation and the development of associated gaming facilities.


CATEGORIES: Real Estate/Land Use & Development, Environmental Compliance, Environmental Litigation, Government Strategies

Construction Disputes

After a fire damaged our clients waterfront property in East Boston, we sued the contractor whose negligence started the fire, tried the case to jury and successfully delivered the jury’s million-dollar damage verdict on appeal

Construction Disputes

On behalf of a construction management and design firm, we helped remove the HVAC subcontractor on a renovation project for a university art museum and negotiated a favorable settlement with the performance bond surety

Construction Disputes

We defended redevelopment authorities against administrative protests filed by unsuccessful bidders for work on major public construction projects, such as the development of a convention center and a medical complex

Construction Disputes

On behalf of a precast concrete producer, we obtained a jury award of the entire $1.5 million delay and disruption claim it brought for work on a major Boston office building. We have also defended corporate owners from these types of claims.

Construction Disputes

When a Massachusetts municipal housing department discovered previously undetected asbestos during a $15 million housing rehabilitation project, we facilitated the re-bid of the project, persuaded the performance bond surety to assume the increased bid costs, negotiated a settlement of the original contractor’s delay and disruption claims, and secured an offsetting payment made on behalf of the project’s asbestos testing company

Construction Disputes

We represented the structural steel contractor for a multi-million dollar high-rise office building in New York City when disputes arose with the building’s owner, the construction manager, the erection subcontractor, and the performance and payment bond sureties

Construction Disputes

Using sophisticated critical-path analyses, we have defended a public transportation authority against delay and disruption claims for signal work on the authority’s commuter rail and subway lines. In one case, we reduced a $15 million claim by roughly 75 percent after four days of mediated negotiations.

Land Title and Title Insurance Disputes

Representing the insured parties of a leading title insurance company, we defended corporations, merchants associations and other individuals with title to properties as diverse as condominium complexes, a commercial building in Boston’s Chinatown district and single- and multi-family residences

Land Title and Title Insurance Disputes

When a client learned that one of its agents had taken premiums from property owners without writing policies, we brought suit against the agent, forced the production of thousands of related documents and resolved claims brought by affected property owners

Land Title and Title Insurance Disputes

On behalf of a real estate services company, its subsidiaries and their predecessors, we have defended numerous title claims relating to a parcel on Martha’s Vineyard, which was originally planned for residential cluster housing and is now planned for a golf course

Land Valuation Disputes

Advised a natural gas pipeline company for more than a decade in property-tax cases before the Appellate Tax Board and the Supreme Judicial Court

Land Valuation Disputes

Represented a municipal assessing department in defending the assessments on a number of major office towers. Our defense of the assessment on one such tower involved a multi-week trial and successful defense of an appeal to the Supreme Judicial Court.

Land Valuation Disputes

Represent a state transportation authority in litigation concerning the eminent domain taking of five acres of land abutting a state turnpike. The former landowner claims to have suffered $3.5 million in damages and is appealing from the jury verdict we obtained at trial, which awarded him a small fraction of that amount.

Land Valuation Disputes

Recently represented a landowner in a trial over the valuation of a ten-acre parcel of land taken to expand a public park in the greater Boston area. We won a jury verdict more than twice the size of the taking authority’s original award.

Land Valuation Disputes

Recently represented a landowner in a trial over the valuation of a ten-acre parcel of land taken to expand a public park in the greater Boston area. We won a jury verdict more than twice the size of the taking authority’s original award.

Land Valuation Disputes

Acted as counsel to a generating subsidiary of a gas and electric company in a constitutional challenge to property taxation of a hydroelectric generating plant in Vermont

Real Estate and Land-Use Development Disputes

On behalf of a major national bank, we initiated a novel foreclosure proceeding in Massachusetts Land Court designed to comply with California law, won summary judgment in a counter-suit filed by the bank’s debtor, and forced the sale of commercial property to help satisfy the debtor’s multi-million dollar debt

Real Estate and Land-Use Development Disputes

When the buyers of an undeveloped lot in Cape Cod discovered that the seller, a residential development company, had conveyed lots too small to be developed under local zoning laws, we filed suit to enjoin future sales and forced the seller to deed sufficient additional property to allow development
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