Recent Client Success Archive

Sheehan Phinney Attorneys Miller and Paskalis Win Use Variance for Grace Capital Church
(January 9, 2008. Manchester, NH.) - Sheehan Phinney partner Rob Miller and associate Lyndsee Paskalis, representing Grace Capital Church of Pembroke, prevailed on a request to the Town of Pembroke Zoning Board of Adjustment for a use variance to allow the church to more than double its size in a zoning district where churches are now prohibited.... Read More

Sheehan Phinney Attorney John Perten Successfully Defends Environmental Company
(November 10, 2007. Manchester, NH.) - Sheehan Phinney Attorney John Perten, has successfully defended Handex Environmental, Inc., prevailed by summary judgment in a case brought against Handex by Frank Gobbi, an abutter of one of Handex’s clients in Dedham, MA.... Read More

Sheehan Phinney Attorney Rob Miller Wins Two for Cumberland Farms
(November 1, 2007. Manchester, NH.) - Sheehan Phinney attorney Rob Miller, representing Cumberland Farms, prevailed on Motions to Dismiss in two cases brought against Cumberland Farms by Bo Realty, LLC, a corporate entity that operates a competing Mobil service station and MobilMart on Lake Shore Road in Gilford, New Hampshire.... Read More

Sheehan Phinney Attorney Rob Miller Brokers Settlement in Longstanding Dispute Between Department of Environmental Services, Land Developer, and Purchasers of Residential Property in Bethlehem, New Hampshire
(August 21, 2007. Manchester, NH.) - Sheehan Phinney Partner Rob Miller has successfully brokered a settlement for his Massachusetts-based clients, Dr. David B. and Diane Lovejoy and Gary and Adele Shanbar, in a longstanding dispute between the Lovejoys and Shanbars, the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services, and Developer James W. Powers, Inc.... Read More

Sheehan Phinney Attorney Rob Miller Successfully Defends New Hampshire Farm Against Town’s Two-Year Challenge to Farm’s Agritourism Activities
(August 14, 2007. Manchester, NH.) - Sheehan Phinney Partner Rob Miller has successfully defeated a two-year effort by the Town of Dorchester Board of Selectmen to force the D’Acres Organic Farm & Educational Homestead to obtain six special exceptions that the Town Selectmen claimed were required to allow the farm to continue to operate.... Read More

Age Discrimination Lawsuit Dismissed
(July 2, 2007. Manchester, NH.) - Attorney David McGrath and Attorney Karyl Roberts Martin recently successfully defended a national security company against an age discrimination lawsuit filed by a former manager.... Read More

Sheehan Phinney Attorney Edward Haffer Successfully Defends Dartmouth College
(June 27, 2007. Manchester, NH.) - Sheehan Phinney Attorney Edward Haffer recently obtained a defendant’s verdict for Dartmouth College in federal court, defending the college against a claim of age discrimination.... Read More

Attorney John Perten Successfully Fights for New Statute
(March 19, 2007. Boston, MA.) - John H. Perten, an attorney for the law firm, Sheehan Phinney, successfully defended a Massachusetts construction company and convinced a Massachusetts court to adopt his interpretation of a new statute.... Read More

Sheehan Phinney Attorneys Aid Merger Of Two Nonprofit Land Trusts
(November 6, 2006. Manchester, NH.) - Sheehan Phinney Bass + Green attorneys Thomas S. Burack and Bradford E. Cook played a pivotal role in helping two land trusts merge into one. Rockingham Land Trust and Seacoast Land Trust officially merged... Read More

McGrath Successfully Defends National Corporate Client Following Hearing At NH Department Of Labor
(October 25, 2006. Manchester, NH.) - David W. McGrath,a shareholder at Sheehan Phinney Bass + Green, successfully defended a national corporate client following a hearing at the New Hampshire Department of Labor, which involved a several hundred thousand dollar wage claim.... Read More

Sheehan Phinney Attorney Michael Lambert Prevails In Action For The Town Of Milford
(October 24, 2006. Manchester, NH.) - Sheehan Phinney Bass and Green shareholder Michael J. Lambert assisted the town of Milford in an action against a company hired to conduct a town-wide property assessment.... Read More

Attorney Michael Lambert Navigates Start-Up Company Through Shareholder Dispute
(October 23, 2006. Manchester, NH.) - Sheehan Phinney Bass + Green shareholder Michael Lambert successfully guided a start-up medical device manufacturer through a divisive shareholder dispute.... Read More

New Hampshire, New York Reach Settlement With ING
(October 17, 2006. Manchester, NH.) - On Oct. 10, the State of New Hampshire Bureau of Securities Regulation’s Director, Mark Connolly and New York Attorney General Elliot Spitzer announced a landmark agreement that will set new national standards for transparency in the marketing of retirement products... Read More

St. Lawrence, Town of Warner Resolve Dispute Over Garage
(October 16, 2006. Manchester, NH.) - Rick and Bonnie St. Lawrence will keep their new two-car garage after all. And yet, the Town of Warner has also preserved its important interest in enforcing conformity with its local ordinances.... Read More

Garage Might Not Be a Goner After All (Concord Monitor)
(September 8, 2006. Concord, NH.) -... Garage Might Not Be a Goner After All (Concord Monitor)

Sheehan Phinney Client and Attorney Win Landmark Zoning Case
(August 28, 2006. Manchester, NH.) - In a case with potentially far-reaching consequences for non-conforming users of land in New Hampshire, the Grafton County Superior Court held that, under the circumstances, the growth of a business did not constitute an unlawful expansion of a non-conforming use.... Read More

NH Supreme Court Establishes New Law by Affirming Decision in Favor of Sheehan Phinney Clients
(August 1, 2006. Manchester, NH.) - The New Hampshire Supreme Court affirmed a judgment in favor of two Sheehan Phinney Bass + Green clients, Team Mortgage, LLC and Signature Mortgage Consultants LLC, and their principals,... Read More

Sheehan Phinney Claims Tax Victory for Manchester Diocese
(June 13, 2006. Manchester, NH.) - Sheehan Phinney Bass + Green, led by shareholder and former managing director William J. Donovan, helped the Roman Catholic Bishop of Manchester claim victory in a tax dispute with the city of Nashua.... Read More

SPB+G Wins Approval for Deering Airport from NHDOT
(April 12, 2006. Manchester, NH.) - Sheehan, Phinney, Bass + Green attorney Rob Miller has won approval for James T. Rymes to construct 22 state-of-the-art airplane hangars at the Hawthorne-Feather Airport, prevailing after a strongly-contested case against the Town of Deering.... Read More

Sheehan Phinney Prevails at NH Supreme Court for Bio Energy
(December 29, 2005. Manchester, NH.) - Sheehan Phinney Bass + Green attorneys William J. Donovan, Christopher J. Hamlen, and Robert P. Cheney successfully represented their client, Bio Energy, Inc., in a recent New Hampshire Supreme Court case against the town of Hopkinton.... Read More

Sheehan Phinney Attorneys Represent POP Radio in Transaction Agreement with Westwood One
(October 31, 2005. Manchester, NH.) - Sheehan Phinney Bass + Green attorneys Joseph DiBrigida and John Bentas, acted as legal counsel for POP Radio, LP, in the recent transaction agreement with Westwood One radio.... Read More

Sheehan Phinney Attorneys Facilitate Purchase of Radio Stations in Florida and Virginia
(September 22, 2005. Manchester, NH.) - Attorneys Joseph DiBrigida and John Bentas, of Sheehan Phinney Bass + Green, worked with Vox Communications Group LLC to facilitate the purchase of several radio stations in Florida and Virginia.... Read More

Sheehan Attorneys Facilitate Sale of Choicelinx to CIGNA
(August 2, 2005. Manchester, NH.) - Sheehan Phinney Bass + Green attorneys Michael Drooff, John Bentas and Christopher Hamlen represented software developer Choicelinx during the recent sale of the company to CIGNA HealthCare of Bloomfield, CT.... Read More

Sheehan Phinney Attorneys Represent Vox Radio Group, LP
(July 19, 2005. Manchester, NH.) - Sheehan Phinney Bass + Green attorneys Joseph DiBrigida and John Bentas represented Vox Radio Group, LP, in the recent sale of its radio station WZEC-FM to Capital Media Corporation for a sale price of $1.1 million.... Read More

Sheehan Phinney Prevails at Trial
(July 13, 2005. Manchester, NH.) - Sheehan Phinney Bass + Green attorneys Jim Ogorchock and John-Mark Turner successfully represented their client, Surface Technology, Inc. in a recent construction contract claim and $300,000 countersuit filed by the defendant.... Read More

Sheehan Phinney Attorneys Represent Vox Communications Group, LLC
(June 30, 2005. Manchester, NH.) - Sheehan Phinney Bass + Green attorneys Joseph DiBrigida and John Bentas represented Vox Communications Group, LLC, in the purchase of radio station clusters in Western Massachusetts for an aggregate purchase price of $9 million.... Read More

Sheehan Phinney Attorneys Facilitate Sale of WTPL (FM)
(June 28, 2005. Manchester, NH.) - Sheehan Phinney Bass + Green attorneys Joseph DiBrigida and John Bentas facilitated the purchase and sale of radio station WTPL-FM in Concord, NH, from Vox Radio Group, LP, to Great Eastern Radio, LLC, for an aggregate purchase price of $1.5 million.... Read More

Sheehan Phinney Attorneys Represent Force 5 Communications, LLC
(May 11, 2005. Manchester, NH.) - Sheehan Phinney Bass + Green attorneys Joseph DiBrigida and John Bentas recently formed the legal team representing Force 5 Communications, LLC in the successful purchase of radio stations WSIG (FM) and WBOP (FM), both in the state of Virginia... Read More

Sheehan Attorney Mark Ventola Successfully Overturns Affirmative Action Plan
(May 6, 2005. Boston, MA.) - Attorney Mark Ventola, a director in the regional law firm of Sheehan Phinney Bass + Green PA, successfully represented a group of candidates seeking to overturned the affirmative action hiring plan of the Boston Fire Department.... Read More

Turner Prevails at the First Circuit in ERISA Case
(April 4, 2005. Manchester, NH.) - On behalf of a disability benefits insurer, John-Mark Turner recently prevailed in the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. In Wright v. R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co. Group Benefits Plan et al., the court affirmed the decision... Read More

Bill Donovan Wins Ossipee Low-Income Housing Based on Illegal Discrimination
(March 11, 2005. Manchester, NH.) - Bill Donovan, president and managing director of Sheehan Phinney Bass + Green PA successfully represented Great Bridge Properties, LLC in an unlawful discrimination suit against the Town of Ossipee, New Hampshire.... Read More

Sheehan Attorneys Assist in $3.5 Million Purchase of Florida Radio Stations
(March 2, 2005. Manchester, NH.) - Sheehan Phinney Bass + Green attorneys Joseph DiBrigida and John Bentas formed the legal team representing LSM Radio Partners, LLC in the successful purchase of radio stations WWUS-FM and WCNK-FM, both in the State of Florida,... Read More

Sheehan Attorneys Assist in the Sale of Radio Station WKXL-AM
(March 2, 2005. Manchester, NH.) - Sheehan Phinney Bass + Green attorneys Joseph DiBrigida and John Bentas formed the legal team representing Embro Communications, LLC and Embro Holdings, LLC in the successful sale of radio station WKXL-AM in Concord,... Read More

Sheehan Attorneys Assist in $37 Million Sale of Vox Radio Stations
(March 1, 2005. Manchester, NH.) - Sheehan Phinney Bass + Green attorneys Joseph DiBrigida and John Bentas formed the legal team representing Vox Radio Group, LP (and its affiliated entities) in the successful sales of radio stations... Read More

Susan Manchester Helps Defeat Federal Halfway House
(February 5, 2005. Manchester, NH.) - Susan A. Manchester, who chairs the Real Estate and Commercial Lending Group at Sheehan Phinney Bass + Green PA, assisted by Graham J. Chynoweth, successfully defeated the request of Community Solutions, Inc., for a variance... Read More

Haffer Wins Appellate Reversal of Patent Infringement Finding
(February 3, 2005. Manchester, NH.) - Reversing a finding of patent infringement on grounds of "clear error," the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with arguments of Attorney Ed Haffer,... Read More

Sheehan Attorneys Harvell and Turner Win Business Profits Tax Appeal
(February 2, 2005. Manchester, NH.) - Mike Harvell and John-Mark Turner recently won a summary judgment decision in an appeal of a business profits tax apportionment case. In a decision with significant implications for apportionment of business profits tax,... Read More

Sheehan Team Helps Felton Brush Create ESOP
(February 1, 2005. Manchester, NH.) - Sheehan Phinney Bass + Green PA recently represented Felton Brush Inc. in the creation of the Felton Brush Employee Stock Ownership Plan, or "ESOP", an employee benefit plan that will provide the employees... Read More

Rob Miller and Jim Ogorchock Settle Landmark Consumer Protection Act Case
(December 16, 2004. Manchester, NH.) - Rob Miller and Jim Ogorchock, partners in Sheehan Phinney Bass + Green's Commercial Litigation Practice Group, have settled a major case breaking significant new ground in Consumer Protection Act jurisprudence.... Read More

Bob Lucic & Chris Cole Win Jury Verdict Dismissing Claims of Violations of NH Uniform Trade Secret Act
(November 3, 2004. Manchester, NH.) - Bob Lucic and Chris Cole, members of Sheehan Phinney Bass + Green's Litigation Practice, recently won a jury verdict which threw out claims against two of the firm's clients, Team Mortgage, LLC and Signature Mortgage Consultants LLC,... Read More

Jim Shirley Successfully Argues Shorefront Property Rights Case
(July 28, 2004. Manchester, NH.) - Sheehan Phinney Bass + Green, PA was retained by an association of 40 Lake Sunapee shorefront property owners to challenge a denial by the Department of Environmental Services (DES) of their request for a waiver of an 1899 state regulation banning “bathing” within a quarter of a mile of the public water intake in Sunapee Harbor.... Read More

QSI Security, Inc. Acquired by Diebold, Incorporated
(June 2, 2003. Manchester, NH.) - Sheehan Phinney Bass + Green represented QSI Security, Inc. in the sale of its assets to Diebold, Incorporated, a publicly traded company and worldwide leader in security systems.... Read More

Raising Private Equity
(November 1, 2002. Manchester, NH.) - Sheehan Phinney Bass + Green helped a leader in the development of technology-based weld control monitoring devices, complete two separate financing rounds, including a $7 million investment from a Canadian Venture Capital firm... Read More

Healthcare Merger
(November 1, 2002. Manchester, NH.) - Sheehan Phinney recently represented one of the Northeast’s largest insurers in its acquisition of a Connecticut HMO for approximately $19 million in cash to the former shareholders in the transaction, which was structured as a merger.... Read More

Exeter Hospital Awarded Certificate of Need ("CON") for Expansion Project
(May 1, 2002. Manchester, NH.) - The Health Services Planning and Review Board has issued to Exeter Hospital an approval to proceed with a $30,377,445 project at the hospital campus in Exeter.... Read More

Elliot Hospital is Awarded Maternity Certificate of Need
(May 1, 2002. Manchester, NH.) - Sheehan Phinney Bass + Green successfully represented Elliot Hospital in its application before the Health Services Planning and Review Board for a $4.7 million renovation of its maternity services.... Read More

SPhB+G Successful in Preventing Stockholder Freeze-Out
(January 1, 2002. Manchester, NH.) - ShB+G recently represented a minority shareholder in a closely held software company in an action against the majority shareholder. The parties were 49 and 51 percent shareholders in a software company... Read More

SPhB+G Attorneys Successful
(January 1, 2002. Manchester, NH. ) - On November 20, 2001, the New Hampshire Supreme Court decided in favor of SPhB+G client, Booth Creek Ski Group, holding that the New Hampshire Security Takeover Disclosure Act,... Read More