Pierce Atwood LLP is a highly-regarded full-service law firm based in New England, recognized nationally and internationally for its expertise in complex and class action litigation, energy production and distribution, midmarket mergers and acquisitions, information security and technology, commercial real estate development, and complex construction projects.
Pierce Atwood provides legal and business counsel to its clients, which range from regional and local enterprises, utilities, financiers, middle-market companies, entrepreneurs, and individuals, to Fortune 500 companies, multinational corporations, and state and foreign governments. Clients derive superior value based on the firm’s efficient and cost-effective service structure coupled with its high level of sophistication, responsiveness, and industry expertise.
Employment immigration is an essential part of doing business in a global economy. Our law firm has been helping business clients navigate immigration and global mobility issues for more than 25 years. Pierce Atwood attorneys provide comprehensive immigration services for temporary international business travel, short- and long-term international assignments, permanent transfers and the local hire of foreign workers. Our experience working with clients on legal, regulatory and business immigration issues allows us to provide strategic advice and cost effective immigration solutions that help our clients succeed in the global marketplace.
Our lawyers use leading edge technologies that are customized for each client to streamline the immigration process, increase efficiency, facilitate communication, and reduce cost. We are committed to continuous improvement in client service and have recently engaged with corporate clients on the application of Lean Six Sigma methodologies to our business immigration services as a method of achieving continuous improvement while reducing cost.
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Our Intellectual Property & Technology Group helps clients succeed by protecting and enforcing their valuable intellectual property rights. In an economy where new technologies and new entrants into highly competitive markets only intensify the importance of identifying, protecting and enforcing intellectual property rights, the Pierce Atwood intellectual property lawyers successfully represent and advise a full spectrum of companies using diverse technologies on intellectual property matters.
Our intellectual property lawyers deal with all the legal issues and transactional matters relating to patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, data protection, and privacy, for Fortune 500 clients as well as start-ups. We handle work on the cutting edge of software, the life sciences, advanced materials processing, and high-tech manufacturing.
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Whether confronted with a complex commercial matter or a class action, Pierce Atwood's nationally-recognized litigation attorneys consistently get results for their clients in a practical and efficient manner.
Pierce Atwood's litigation lawyers have successfully litigated a broad variety of matters in state and federal trial and appellate courts and agencies, as well as a variety of alternative dispute resolution settings. Regardless of the type of case, the Litigation Group takes great pride in partnering with its clients to formulate and execute on the right approach to serve the client's needs in any given situation.
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In a world of constantly changing estate tax laws and uncertainty in the economy, we understand that planning for your family's future is more important than ever. Pierce Atwood's Trusts & Estates Practice Group can provide you and your family with comprehensive estate planning, gift planning, estate administration, and trust administration services. We also provide related services such as business succession planning, guardianships and conservatorships, work with tax-exempt organizations, and prenuptial agreements.
Our team of lawyers and paralegals collaborates to produce the best result for our clients, drawing on each other's knowledge and experience and regularly works with lawyers from other practice areas of the firm. When you engage Pierce Atwood for trusts & estates services, be assured that the full resources of the firm will be on hand to provide whatever assistance you may need.
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Pierce Atwood's Business Group counsels enterprises large and small on both their daily business needs and most crucial business transactions. Known for our core strengths in serving middle-market companies, we assist clients of every size, from NYSE-listed companies to the proverbial entrepreneurs in a garage. Our clients are involved in industries as diverse as life sciences, medical devices, software, telecommunications, footwear and apparel, banking and financial services, renewable energy, petroleum products distribution and forestry products.
Our Business Group seeks to be an integral part of our clients' management teams, intimately familiar with their business goals and imperatives, while coordinating the delivery of relevant expertise from the firm's other practice groups. Nimble and responsive, we focus on strategies that drive value for clients. Whether the matter involves the purchase or sale of a business, an offering of securities to finance growth, a strategic investment or a contract with an important new customer, we provide insightful leadership and timely, practical advice to get the deal done.
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