Shaheen & Gordon is proud to announce that Attorneys Mike Noonan, Lucy Karl, and Steve Gordon have been named to the 2010 New England Super Lawyers and Attorney Jim Rosenberg named to the 2010 Rising Stars List.
Attorney Noonan was recognized for his work in the area of Personal Injury. Attorney Karl was recognized for her work in Securities Litigation. Attorney Gordon was honored for his achievements in the area of Criminal Defense and Attorney Rosenberg was named to the Rising Stars List for his work in the area of Criminal Defense.
Super Lawyers is a listing of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. Only 5% of lawyers from New Hampshire are eligible to be named to the Super Lawyers list and only 2.5% of lawyers from New Hampshire are eligible to be named to the Rising Stars list.
Since 1981, Shaheen & Gordon’s experienced team of professionals have been achieving results for individual, institutional and business clients in a broad range of matters throughout Northern New England.
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.
Shaheen & Gordon is pleased to announce that Mike Noonan, Steve Gordon and Arpy Saunders have been recognized once again by New Hampshire Magazine as Top Lawyers in their respective fields for 2009.
Mike Noonan was honored for Personal Injury Litigation, Steve Gordon for First Amendment and White Collar Crime and Arpy Saunders for Healthcare. Top Lawyers is based on an exhaustive search for the country’s top attorneys performed by the esteemed national polling firm of Woodward-White, who then publish it in their own comprehensive volume, The Best Lawyers in America.