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Monday October 7, 2024
Evictions are a sad but necessary reality in our society. Intra-family evictions, however, present unique issues that sharpen both the tragedy and necessity of that grim reality. Against a backdrop of allegations of elder exploitation, Aaron Baltes recently obtained a judgment of possession for an elderly landlord in an eviction case against his adult son...
Friday May 17, 2024
On May 15, 2024, Attorney Kelly M. Hoffman graduated from Maine’s Daniel Hanley Health Leadership Development course. As part of the 17th graduating class, Kelly and a diverse mix of experienced leaders from a wide range of healthcare settings and professions completed the almost year–long course, which focused on collaborative leadership skills imperative to effective...
Thursday September 7, 2023
Dan Cummings successfully represented the plaintiffs in a case seeking partition of real estate located in Kennebunkport valued at $1.5 million after the four owners could not come to an agreement on how the property would be used. After a trial, the Business Court agreed with the plaintiffs and ordered partition of the property by...
Tuesday July 18, 2023
Dan Cummings represented the Maine Credit Union League as amicus curiae in the case of KeyBank National Association v. Elizabeth E. Keniston et al., 2023 ME 38, in which the appellant successfully obtained vacation of the trial court’s dismissal of its foreclosure action based on the debtor’s estate being a necessary party. The appellant’s position,...
Thursday June 29, 2023
After more than a year of litigation, Brad Pattershall prevailed in a bench trial on behalf of his client, a real estate company based in Rangeley, Maine (“Client”). Client recently constructed a new office building in Rangeley with materials provided by a local lumber supply company (“Plaintiff”). Considering the surge in lumber prices during the...
Wednesday September 14, 2022
Dan Cummings successfully defended a case in which the plaintiffs sought a declaratory judgment that the defendants did not have easement rights to access Crescent Lake in Raymond from their residence across the street. The plaintiffs argued that only those property owners who had express easements to the lake in their deeds from the developer...
Sunday March 8, 2020
On March 7, 2020, Tom Marjerison was inducted as a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. Mark Lavoie, Jonathan Brogan, and the late Peter DeTroy are previous inductees from the firm. Tom represents clients in civil and criminal matters in state and federal courts. Tom’s cases have ranged from the acquittal of a...
Tuesday March 5, 2019
On February 28, 2019, Tom Marjerison secured a defense verdict in Bradford v. Fowler following a four-day jury trial in Waldo County Superior Court. The case arose out of a truck accident in which it was alleged that the Defendant crossed the fog line and struck Plaintiff’s vehicle who was waiting to pull onto the...
Sunday September 17, 2017
On September 14, 2017, following a week-long trial in Knox County Superior Court, Tom Marjerison obtained a defense verdict in Howard v. Viking, Inc. This case arose out of automobile/motorcycle accident. Plaintiff was operating his motorcycle southbound on Route 1 when Co-Defendant Andrew O’Brien pulled out of the Defendant’s parking lot and caused a collision. ...