Fighting the good fight.
We know and love the ins and outs of real estate. We use our extensive property law expertise to help you navigate, resolve, and win disputes involving buildings and land.
We are lawyers with decades of experience litigating real estate disputes. We have deep substantive knowledge of real estate law, practice, and procedure in Maine and New Hampshire. The real estate litigation team represents real estate owners, developers, lenders, brokers, title insurers, and commercial landlords and tenants in a wide variety of real-estate related disputes regarding:
- Boundaries
- Easements
- Titles
- Liens and other encumbrances
- Roads and other access issues
- Access to beaches and bodies of water
- Mortgage priorities
- Partitions
- Purchase and sale agreements
- Lease agreements and commercial evictions
- Land use
Known for our tenacity, trial experience, and deep connections to title experts, surveyors, appraisers, historians, forensic accountants, and other leaders in the real estate business, we are the largest real estate litigation team in Northern New England. We work closely with you to help you protect and enhance your valuable properties and land rights.
Collectively, our team has won hundreds of trials and appeals, working hard to establish and vindicate the property rights of the people we serve.
Representative Matters
- Won a boundary dispute among commercial businesses in downtown Portland.
- Won specific performance against a party seeking to back out of a multimillion dollar purchase and sale agreement.
- Won prescriptive and implied easements to access a waterfront estate.
- Successfully represented a group of oceanfront landowners in a complex dispute with back lot owners involving adverse possession, prescriptive easements, and boundaries by acquiescence.
- Successfully defended owner of beachfront lot against claims by abutters challenging the ownership and use of private beach and dock.
- Vindicated the rights of a commercial retail business to access and utilize the parking lot adjacent to its premises.
- Enforced complex restrictive covenants against a neighborhood “party house.”
Awards
Our team has been widely recognized by clients and peers and in publications including Chambers and Partners, Best Lawyers in America, and Super Lawyers.
Our practice includes:
- Commercial disputes
- Data security and privacy
- Personal injury
- Products liability
- Legal malpractice/ethics matters
- Construction
- Health care
- Employment
- Real estate
- Municipal