SHEEHAN PHINNEY BASS & GREEN PA - Key Persons
Andrea also serves as an outside investigator for employers who need to respond to highly sensitive internal complaints of discrimination and harassment. In addition, Andrea develops and conducts in-house trainings for businesses and other employers in such matters as preventing workplace harassment and how to manage within the law. She is frequently a public speaker on employment law topics.
With Shareholder Anna Barbara Hantz, represented prevailing landowners in abutting landowner's challenge to site plan approvals and related conditions before the New Hampshire Superior Court and the New Hampshire Supreme Court.
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- Employment Law and Litigation
Attorneys Sue Manchester, Greg Chakmakas and Ken Viscarello attend a ribbon cutting ceremony with our client, NeighborWorks Southern NH, to celebrate the completion of Whittemore Place Phase II, an affordable housing complex in Londonderry.
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- Nurse Association, Member, Board of Trustees, 2010 - Present
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- Special Advocates of New Hampshire ( Director
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- Facilities and Office Services Manager
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- Managing Director
- President
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With Sheehan partner David McGrath, obtained a jury verdict on behalf of a municipality accused of breaching a promise of employment to the plaintiff, who had alleged that her supervisor had promised her a full-time position. The jury determined that the supervisor did not have the authority to promise the plaintiff such a position.
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- Payroll and Compliance Manager
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- Chairman of Bankruptcy Group
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- Chairman of Healthcare Group
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- Construction Law, Real Estate and Litigation
Jeff is the past co-chair of the Boston Bar Association's Construction Law Committee. He was also recently recognized by Best Lawyers in America and Chambers USA. During law school, Jeff served as the editor-in-chief for the Suffolk Journal of Trial & Appellate Advocacy.
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- Director of Human Resources
With partner John-Mark Turner, Chris obtained dismissal of claims of defamation, false light invasion of privacy and other state law claims against the Maine People's Alliance, its publication the Beacon, and reporter Dan Neumann, brought by the Plaintiffs Epoch Times and one of its founders, Dana Cheng. The Maine federal district court held that the Plaintiffs were public figures for the purpose of the New York anti-SLAPP statute and for federal constitutional purposes, and that they had failed to show that their claims "had a substantial basis in law." Cheng v. Neumann, 2022 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 19835 (D. Maine 2022). The First Circuit affirmed, holding that the Plaintiffs had failed to state a cognizable defamation claim under federal constitutional principles. Cheng v. Neumann, 2022 U.S. App. LEXIS 29673 (1st Cir. 2022).
Joe was the President and Managing Director of the firm for 9 years and served on the firm's Management Committee from 2001 to 2015. As the officer responsible for running the firm, he has encountered many of the same issues faced by his clients in their businesses. His business experience, gained through fourteen years of firm management, coupled with his legal expertise, enables him to provide the practical advice clients value.
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- Director of Business Development
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- Education and Training, NH Dept. of Administrative Services
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- Leader 40 under Forty Award
- Leader, 2023 Forty under 40
With Sheehan partner Peter Cowan, secured an order from the federal district court which held that a multi-million dollar agreement between a developer and a municipality was invalid, a result confirmed by both the New Hampshire Supreme Court, City of Portsmouth v. Schlesinger, 140 N.H. 733 (1996), and the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, City of Portsmouth v. Schlesinger, 57 F.3d 12 (1st Cir. 1995). Chris argued the case on appeal before both the New Hampshire Supreme Court and the First Circuit Court.
With Sheehan partner Bob Lucic, obtained summary judgment in favor of our client in a case alleging improper interference with a multi-million dollar contract relating to the transfer and sale of natural gas and the misappropriation of trade secrets.
Scott was a member of the firm Cook Little before joining Sheehan Phinney's Corporate Group. His clients rely on his advice and experience for business, commercial and corporate law matters, and merger and acquisition activity. Typical clients include small and medium sized privately held companies. He strives to understand the details of his clients' business operations, so he can produce legal solutions that are practical and aligned with the clients' concerns. The respected legal directory Chambers USA quotes clients who have said about Scott that he "is always prompt in his responses and creative in his solutions." He strives to provide his clients with "win-win" solutions to help them achieve their business goals in a practical and cost-efficient manner. He takes a practical approach, and does not let legal principles eclipse the client's business realties.
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- Director of Financial Services
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- Director of Information Security and Technology