• Real Estate, Land Use
• Employment: Severance Agreements, Harassment, Discrimination
• Business Formation and Transactions, Commercial Law
• Wills, Trusts, Estates, Probate; Elder Law
   

Although our firm is new, our working relationship and track records are well-established. The following highlights some of the positive results achieved for our clients:

• New York Real Estate Dispute. After a 13-day trial, a New York jury verdict rejected a claim to ownership and use of a portion of our client's real property. The claim had been based on the principles of "adverse possession" or "prescriptive easement." These involve rights that can accrue over time when owners are inattentive to the use and occupation of their property by others.  
  
• Connecticut Fraud and Contract Claim. We settled a Connecticut case for fraud and breach of contract in which our client received over twice the amount originally claimed in the suit.  Although that might seem improbable, our client also sued for "punitive damages." Under Connecticut law, punitive damages are generally limited to paying the other side's attorneys' fees and costs. These would have increased if the case had gone to trial, putting the defendant at a greater risk of loss. 
  
• New York Employment Defamation Claim. We settled a New York case brought by our client, a professional chef, against his corporate employer, its owner and its managers for defamation. Our client was falsely accused and then dismissed for stealing wine from the private collection of a celebrity guest at a catered event. 
  
• Connecticut Unfair Trade Practices Act.  We successfully brought suit against a home improvement contractor who contracted to build an extension to our client's house and then failed to complete the renovation. The home improvement contractor's work was also so shoddy tat a substantial portion of the renovation had to be dismantled and rebuilt by another contractor.