Business Litigation
Our Business Litigation practice group offers the experience of seasoned lawyers who recognize the value of solving problems to promote your business success.
Complex Tort Defense
Since its founding in 1988, a staple of Conn Kavanaugh’s practice has been the defense of business entities in serious and complex personal injury or property damage actions.Construction
Whether you are the owner, design professional, general contractor, project administrator, subcontractor, or supplier on a construction project, our Construction practice will assist you in achieving a successful project outcome.Corporate / Transactional
Our Corporate/Transactional practice has a broad range of skills. This versatility allows them to remain a principal point of contact with our business clients and to move freely across multiple disciplines to ensure continuity of representation.
Criminal / White Collar / Regulatory
We have extensive experience advising businesses and individuals who are the subject of criminal or regulatory investigations or proceedings.
Employment Litigation / Counseling
Employers and employees alike look to Conn Kavanaugh’s employment lawyers for advice in navigating the increasingly complex web of state and federal statutes,Estate Planning / Administration
Our Estate Planning attorneys help individuals and their families plan for the future and protect their assets. We handle all aspects of estate planning.
Family Law / Probate Litigation
Our experienced Family Law/Probate Litigation attorneys work zealously to ensure rightful asset distributions in these emotionally charged proceedings. Our group handles a wide range of areas including prenuptial agreements, custody disputes, and post-divorce support or estate modifications.
Insurance Litigation
Land Use / Real Estate Litigation
Our Land Use/Real Estate Litigation practice has extensive experience in handling real estate disputes of all kinds and at all levels. We can develop a strategy for your dispute.Mediation / Arbitration
Having litigated hundreds of cases, the Mediation/Arbitration practice is well-equipped to effectively value cases to resolve disputes according to your needs and goals.
Product Liability
Conn Kavanaugh’s lawyers regularly represent manufacturers, distributors, and retailers in defending against product liability claims.Professional Liability
Our trial attorneys are accomplished in defending claims against attorneys, health care professionals, insurance agents and brokers, and other professionals.Real Estate
Our Real Estate practice provides skilled representation in a variety of transactions, including the financing, leasing, acquisition and disposition of commercial properties.
- Business Litigation
- Complex Tort Defense
- Construction
- Corporate / Transactional
- Criminal / White Collar / Regulatory
- Employment Litigation / Counseling
- Estate Planning / Administration
- Family Law / Probate Litigation
- Insurance Litigation
- Land Use / Real Estate Litigation
- Mediation / Arbitration
- Product Liability
- Professional Liability
- Real Estate
Architects/Engineers
Conn Kavanaugh has a wealth of experience advising and representing architects and engineers in many aspects of their businesses.
Cannabis
Closely Held/Family Businesses
Conn Kavanaugh’s business attorneys have a broad range of skills and are very experienced in providing legal services to family-owned and other closely-held businesses.
Construction
Conn Kavanaugh has provided an array of services to private and public clients in the construction industry, including the manufacturers of building materials and systems.Financial Services
Conn Kavanaugh draws upon a wide range of disciplines to meet the needs of individual and institutional clients in the financial services industry.
Food and Beverage
Our decades of work in the food and beverage industry, including alcohol regulatory and distribution, have permitted us to gain expertise and insight into the typically fast paced and challenging world of our clients engaged in the food and beverage industry.Government
Conn Kavanaugh provides an array of services to clients in the public sector, including state agencies, municipalities, and public officials.Healthcare
The Conn Kavanaugh team has the skills and experience necessary to successfully maneuver our clients through the increasingly complex and highly regulated environment of the health care industry.Insurance
Our lawyers work with our insurance industry clients in a variety of ways. We represent their insureds in virtually every type of lawsuit for which insurance coverage is available. We represent insurance companies directly in bad faith actions, and in high-exposure losses or losses that present unusual or challenging coverage issues.Law Firms
Since the firm was founded in 1988, our attorneys have been known as “lawyers’ lawyers.”Manufacturing
Conn Kavanaugh has broad experience in representing the interests and needs of various manufacturers.
Real Estate
Conn Kavanaugh has a wealth of experience in the real estate field.Staffing and Recruiting
Staffing companies and Professional Employer Organizations (PEOs) are playing an increasingly important role in many aspects of human resource management, as employers are relying more and more on staffing companies and PEOs for payroll and employee benefit administration, risk management, and other increasingly complex administrative burdens.Law Firms
Since the firm was founded in 1988, our attorneys have been known as “lawyers’ lawyers.” Most of the partners in the practice group have over 25 years of experience in defending lawyers against legal malpractice claims. We have tried legal malpractice cases to verdict, and in other cases, have negotiated favorable, entirely confidential settlements after commencing trial. Our trial experience results in more efficient and focused discovery and trial preparation efforts. Our familiarity with the substantive law of legal malpractice, and the defenses available to those claims, also has resulted in a very successful record with respect to dispositive motions.
The firm’s lawyers also provide ethical and risk management advice to lawyers and other law firms with respect to ongoing client matters and claims not yet in suit. In many cases, our advice has meant that an ethical issue is resolved in a way that is satisfactory to both lawyer and client, putting the matter to rest. In other situations, our advice has helped to ensure that the lawyer is best-positioned to defend against a subsequent malpractice claim or disciplinary complaint. Our perspective on ethical and disciplinary issues is enhanced by our lawyers’ service with the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers, both as members of the Board and as hearing officers on disciplinary and reinstatement matters. Our lawyers also write and speak regularly about ethics and legal malpractice defense.
Recent representative litigation matters include the following.
- The firm recently represented a global IP firm at the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, obtaining a first-in-the-nation decision affirming dismissal of a complaint on the grounds that a lawyer’s representation of two clients seeking patents in the same technology space is not a per se conflict of interest;
- Lawyers at the firm obtained another first-in-the-nation decision from the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court for a large Boston firm, in which the Court held that a lawyer’s communications with in-firm general counsel about a client matter are protected by the attorney-client privilege;
- The firm successfully moved to dismiss a legal malpractice complaint against a trusts and estate lawyer, on the grounds that the plaintiff had no attorney-client relationship with the lawyer as a matter of law;
- The firm also successfully moved to dismiss a legal malpractice complaint against a Boston partner of a national law firm, on the grounds that the plaintiff improperly had split her claims between two different lawsuits.
Our lawyers also have advised managing partners of small and medium-sized firms on risk management and law practice management issues, including issues of transition and succession planning, obtaining appropriate malpractice coverage, and the drafting and promulgation of firm policies and procedures.
