Law Office Overview
Written agreements forestall the frailty of memory and the vicissitude of unrecorded expectations.
We provide legal advice and offer assistance with respect to the following:
* Business organizations, including
• corporations, including incorporation, mergers, redemptions, dissolutions
• partnerships, limited and general
• limited liability companies
• business trusts
* Closing of business and consumer loans
* Estate planning, including wills, trusts (revocable, irrevocable, life insurance,
charitable remainder, charitable lead, minor's, grantor retained interest),
durable powers of attorney, advance health care directives, business succession,
pre- and post- nuptial agreements.
* Real estate, including conveyances, real estate trusts for conservation and
management, restrictive covenants, easements, private road agreements and
associations, applications and proceedings before zoning boards of appeal and
planning boards, large and small subdivisions and developments
* The SMART-E and SMART Bond Programs, including the issuance of bonds
* Representation of visual artists, performers, authors and composers
* Representation involving Federal and state registration, licensing and enforcement of trade and service marks
* Representation involving licensing and enforcement of patents
* Interpreting statutes and rules
Our trial practice in the Maine and federal courts consists of the following:
* Enforcement of intellectual property rights (copyrights, trade and
service marks and patents)
* Real estate, including boundary disputes, quiet title actions, etc.
* Probate matters,
including the probate of a will and administration of an intestate estate, will contests, petitions to remove the Personal Representative, issues surrounding the action or nonaction of a Personal Representative, issues involving those who are in need of a guardian over their person or their estate, issues pertaining to trusts
* Family law, including divorce and post-divorce proceedings
* Insurance litigation with respect to coverage disputes
* All aspects of municipal law, including ordinances, finance, zoning, interlocal
cooperative agreements, town meetings and condemnations
* Representation before administrative agencies, including defense of
environmental proceedings brought by the Maine DEP and defense of Superfund administrative proceedings brought by the US EPA
* Non-medical professional negligence or malpractice
* Securities litigation
* Litigation involving RCRA and CERCLA
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