by shaheengordon on December 31, 2009
The law firm of Shaheen & Gordon is proud to announce that it is opening its doors at a new location in Manchester at 80 Merrimack Street – a building directly across from the Hillsborough County Superior Courthouse, the Manchester Police Department and long known as a cornerstone of the Manchester legal community.
As part of Shaheen & Gordon’s Manchester expansion, Attorneys Fran Murphy and Ed Stewart have joined the Firm and will continue their work at the 80 Merrimack Street location. For a quarter of a century, Attorney Murphy has been representing clients in a wide variety of litigation matters, focusing on plaintiff’s personal injury cases. Attorney Stewart has been representing individuals in workers compensation and personal injury cases for over 30 years and has been recognized since 1995 for his outstanding advocacy by the Best Lawyers in America Workers’ Compensation Section.
The opening of the Firm’s Manchester office adds to its existing offices in Concord and Dover and reflects Shaheen & Gordon’s growing reputation as Northern New England’s premiere law firm. Shaheen & Gordon represents individual and institutional clients in a broad range of legal matters, including health care, business and corporate, litigation, criminal defense and DWI, plaintiffs personal injury and workers’ compensation, social security disability, family law and divorce, employment, estate planning, and probate.
by shaheengordon on December 17, 2009
Attorneys Christine Craig and Michael Noonan recently won another hard fought battle to protect New England consumers from the unfair and deceptive acts of big business. This time, Shaheen & Gordon fought on behalf of Vermont consumers against Honeywell International, Inc. and for the first time in Vermont history obtained class certification in a contested case of this kind.
In the case of Wright v. Honeywell, Craig and Noonan represent a class of Vermont consumers who paid inflated prices for the Honeywell Round Thermostat due to Honeywell’s unfair, deceptive and anti-competitive acts in violation of the Vermont Consumer Fraud Act. Attorney Craig moved and argued for class certification in Orange County Superior Court. Though the Superior Court suspected that Honeywell engaged in unfair acts, it denied class certification on the basis that consumers could not prove with common evidence that Honeywell’s acts impacted each consumer. This ruling would have essentially ended the case if not for the successful appeal that followed. Attorney Craig appealed the denial to the Vermont Supreme Court arguing that the lower court misapprehended the appropriate legal standards and burden of proof at the class certification stage of the litigation. After extensive briefing and oral argument at the Vermont Supreme Court in Montpelier, the Court reversed the lower court’s decision and ruled that the consumer class be certified thus preserving the right of consumers to fight back against Honeywell.
Attorneys Craig and Noonan focus their practice of law on personal injury cases. Shaheen & Gordon is a full service law firm helping individuals in the areas of family law, criminal defense, personal injury law, workers’ compensation, social security disability and business and institutional matters.
