• LITIGATION

Our firm has succeeded with a wide variety of business cases, achieving verdicts in excess of one million dollars and successfully defending against comparable claims in areas such as contract and lease disputes, breach of non-competition agreements, and employment litigation.  The firm’s lawyers are sensitive to the needs of businesses to resolve disputes speedily, and employ techniques, including injunctions, expedited discovery and attachments, which quickly expose and put an end to predatory and dishonest behavior by adverse parties.

We collaborate with clients to devise a cost effective discovery plan, and prepare quickly in order to take advantage of the availability of early trials in Western Massachusetts counties. We convey business values and complex damage concepts succinctly and clearly, demonstrating through our verdicts that jury trials in Berkshire and other Western Massachusetts counties can be a viable solution to business claims. We take care in acquainting executives and key employees with the culture and expectations of the legal system, and helping them to devise reasonable expectations for litigation outcomes. Our attorneys are skilled at negotiation, mediation and arbitration, and work to position the claim so that alternate dispute resolution occurs at the optimum moment. We offer mediation services in business disputes.

We offer the interviewing and analytical expertise in both civil and criminal areas to assist with objective and confidential internal investigations in employment and other problem areas. We advise clients on proactive preservation of electronic and other data when litigation is a possibility. We are experienced in the use of the Massachusetts Unfair Trade and Business Practices acts (c. 93A and c. 176D) to leverage appropriate claims up to triple damages and attorneys’ fees.  Ms. Flournoy has tried hundreds of criminal and civil jury trials in Western Massachusetts counties. We are AV rated as "pre-eminent" by Martindale-Hubbell, the best-known lawyer peer rating service.