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Decency, honesty, and judgment. The values that define Verrill as a law firm are the reason our clients trust and choose us time and time again. We don't compromise our values and our clients don't compromise on quality. Our experience and New England roots date back more than 150 years, and today, through our award-winning client service, we work with clients across the country and around the globe. 

Practice areas include: Intellectual Property & Technology, Corporate/M&A, Tax, Bankruptcy, Labor & Employment, Benefits & Compensation, Real Estate, Promotions and Marketing, Construction, Banking, Environmental, Estate Planning, Family/Probate Law and Litigation & Trial. 

Attorneys in these practices provide legal counsel in a multitude of industries, such as: Health Care & Health Technology, Clinical Research, Energy, Property & Community Development, Utilities, Telecommunications, Hospitality, Higher Education and Craft Beverages. 

Verrill and its attorneys have been locally and nationally recognized for providing superior legal representation and client service, and for its commitment to pro bono service.

About Verrill Dana LLP.

Founded in 1862

7 Offices

213 people in their team


Practice areas
Business
Employment & Labor
Intellectual Property
Family
Lawsuits & Disputes
Real Estate

Languages spoken
English

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Practice areas

Business

Verrill is a leading provider of legal advice and services to business enterprises, their owners, management teams, and directors, as well as advice regarding sources of capital and financing in New England and beyond. Our business law attorneys are highly regarded for their deep knowledge and broad experience in corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, governance issues, securities law, and commercial finance, as well as in related areas of practice including taxation, intellectual property, and business litigation.

We help our clients successfully navigate the continual legal, economic, and cultural shifts that can impact their businesses.

The attorneys in Verrill's Business Law Group are drawn from some of the nation's best law schools and undergraduate institutions. Verrill's platform, including our rate structure and our willingness to explore alternative billing arrangements with business clients, makes us highly competitive. Our lawyers bring "big law" skills to bear on issues and matters affecting our clients, but we do so with practicality and a personal touch that sets us apart. Our sophisticated yet highly responsive practitioners, in combination with our long and vast experience and collaborative work style, have been recognized not only by generations of clients, but also by third-party rating organizations such as Chambers and Partners and BTI Consulting Group.

Members of our Business Law Group serve as go-to general counsel to scores of businesses large and small, both public and private, spanning a broad range of industries and business sectors across New England and throughout the United States. In this capacity, we advise business owners, directors, and management (including our clients' in-house attorneys) regarding the full range of legal and regulatory issues they confront. Our approach is generally to have each client relationship managed by one lead lawyer, who then becomes familiar with the client's operations, objectives, and key decision-makers. We strongly believe a thorough understanding of each client's business is essential to providing useful, effective legal advice.

In addition to serving as primary outside counsel to many businesses, the attorneys in our Business Law Group regularly handle a wide variety of transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, reorganizations, joint ventures, private and public securities offerings, complex multiparty commercial financings, proxy contests, and takeover battles. In guiding clients through these transactions, we work collaboratively with colleagues in the firm's other practice groups, including Real Estate, Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation, Employment & Labor, Intellectual Property, Trusts and Estates, and Litigation & Trial. We constantly strive to close deals on time, within budget, and with as little disruption to the day-to-day affairs of the business as possible.

Drawing on our experience in securities law and our familiarity with a wide range of investment transactions, the Business Law Group has developed a large, growing practice representing venture capital firms and private equity firms around the country. We have been engaged to represent such firms not only in connection with acquisitions and investments, but also with the structuring and organization of investment funds and other pooled-capital arrangements.

While the focus of our corporate practice is on mature businesses, the attorneys in our Business Law Group are well-positioned to assist development-stage companies and the entrepreneurs who founded them. We have the flexibility to offer an array of fixed-fee or deferred-fee services where appropriate.

Business Law Services

  • Bankruptcy and Creditors' Rights
  • Business Counseling
  • Commercial Finance & Lending
  • Corporate Governance & Board Advisory
  • Emerging Companies
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Private Equity, Investment & Institutional Advisors
  • Securities Offerings & Private Placements
  • Tax & Nonprofit
Business Registration
Contract
Due Diligence
Legal Document
Tax
Merger & Acquisition
Securities
Banking & Finance

Employment & Labor

We put ourselves in your shoes when it comes to running your business and grappling with the challenges you will inevitably face as you manage your employees.

That is why we take the time to get to know your business, your industry, your culture, and your priorities. Our clients rely on us to assist them in resolving issues when they arise. We do not just tell you the risks. We offer the thoughtful, practical, and creative recommendations that we'd want if we were seeking legal counsel for our own company.

With Verrill, you get more than great legal counsel; you get advisers, negotiators, and advocates in your corner every step of the way in every aspect. As advisors, we anticipate problems before they arise and work with you to manage risk. As negotiators, we apply thoughtful strategy to carve out solutions to further your company’s objectives. As advocates, we aggressively represent you in pursuit of the best possible outcome, understanding that a positive result can mean different things in matters where the stakes are high.

Verrill is prepared to assist you in virtually every aspect of the workplace, including:

  • Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
  • Affirmative action
  • Class actions
  • Discrimination and harassment
  • Employee privacy
  • Employment contracts
  • Equal employment opportunity
  • FLSA (wage and hour) compliance
  • Labor arbitrations and grievances
  • Labor negotiations and collective bargaining agreements
  • Non-competition agreements and enforcement
  • Plant closings and WARN Act compliance
  • Recruiting and retention strategies
  • Reductions in force
  • Severance agreements
  • Social media
  • Telecommuting
  • Union organization campaigns
  • Workers' compensation
  • Workplace investigations
  • Workplace safety
  • Wrongful discharge
Labor Law
Job Discrimination
Sexual Harassment
Employment Rights
Wage & Hour

Intellectual Property

Clients today recognize that intellectual property is a core asset. From software and biotech companies to high-tech manufacturers and startups to established Fortune 500 companies, many of our clients are building their businesses—and betting their futures—on innovative intellectual property.

Verrill's Intellectual Property Group helps clients identify, protect, and enforce intellectual property rights throughout the world. Our growing team combines experienced attorneys and paralegals to provide a full range of legal services, from prosecution, to licensing to litigation.

Throughout the life cycle of your brand, invention, design, and global intellectual property portfolio, Verrill offers strategic, experienced, and effective representation by an integrated, client-focused team.

The intellectual property services our attorneys provide include:

  • Trademark advice, screening, and registration
  • Patent advice, strategies, searching, drafting, and prosecution
  • Copyright advice and registration
  • Patent, trademark, copyright, software, and technology transfers and licensing agreements
  • Prosecution and defense of infringement actions and contested actions in state and federal courts and in the United States Patent and Trademark Office
  • Trade secret advice and litigation
  • IP opinions, including freedom to operate, non-infringement, and invalidity opinions
  • Drafting and negotiation of technology and software development, software distribution agreements, software-as-a-service agreements, and click-through agreements
  • Website development and hosting agreements
  • Internet marketing and content license agreements
  • Nondisclosure agreements
  • Intellectual property audits and due diligence reviews
  • Opinion work
  • Other matters related to the internet and electronic business, including disputes involving the ownership of websites and domain names

Intellectual Property Services

  • Copyright
  • IP Litigation
  • Licensing
  • Patent
  • Trademark
Copyright
Patent
Trademark

Family

Life is a series of transitions, some expected and some not— births and adoptions; engagements, marriages, and divorces; transfer of wealth between spouses, generations, and others; declining physical and cognitive health with the need for care; life’s final stages; and the legacy left behind.

Verrill’s Family Law and Private Clients attorneys are highly skilled, discreet counselors to individuals and generations of families. When you are planning for or unexpectedly facing changes in your life, we will be there to listen; to understand your needs, preferences, and priorities; and to guide you.

Our practice is regional, national, and international. Our experienced attorneys in other disciplines, including Real Estate, Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation, Intellectual Property, Business, and Health Care allow us to handle the full range of complex financial and other personal issues confronting our clients and their families. We work with individuals and families, business owners, public figures, professional athletes, executives of both publicly traded and privately held companies, and family offices on matters including:

  • Adoption
  • Alternative dispute resolution
  • Alternative reproduction
  • Asset protection planning
  • Charitable gift planning, including planned giving and private foundations
  • Child custody
  • Divorce
  • Durable powers of attorney and health care proxies and directives
  • Estate administration
  • Estate and income tax and financial planning
  • Estate planning
  • Family office management
  • Guardianship and conservatorship of children and adults
  • Intergenerational gifting
  • International family law
  • LGBTQIA+ legal issues
  • Multigenerational ownership and succession of family compounds and vacation properties
  • Non-married and co-habitants agreements
  • Parental rights
  • Post-marital agreements
  • Pre-marriage planning and agreements
  • Probate and trust litigation
  • Separation
  • Succession planning for closely held businesses
  • Trust management/fiduciary services

For more information on services and the teams that provide them, see below.

Individuals & Families Services

  • Family Law
  • Private Clients & Fiduciary Services
Adoption
Child Custody
Divorce & Separation
Marriage
Child Support
Collaborative Law
Same Sex & LGBT
Child Visitation

Lawsuits & Disputes

In an era when many big firms and litigation boutiques view trials as uncommon or occasional events, the Verrill Litigation & Trial Group offers unparalleled hands-on experience in actual trials. At last count, our team had tried more than 600 jury and non-jury cases, in addition to handling several hundred arbitrations and thousands of mediations and administrative proceedings.

Whether handling an antitrust case, defending directors and officers in a significant shareholder derivative action involving a major corporation, litigating multiparty real estate transactions, or resolving cases arising from complicated contractual and business disputes, we have handled it. We take on cases where the stakes are high and the issues are complex. Our background in litigating high-profile cases allows us to rapidly identify and focus on the key factors that affect a dispute.

Litigation is a dynamic process. Law is constantly evolving. We keep apprised of the latest developments and verdicts across the country. We anticipate appellate issues and plan the best strategy to safeguard our clients' legal position.

Capacity
With more than 40 attorneys and 10 paralegals, our team has the capacity to take on the most complex matters across a broad range of industries. Matters are staffed according to complexity and exposure. While Verrill relies on associates and paraprofessionals as appropriate, our partners are involved in the day-to-day management and work of our clients' cases.

Technology
We have invested in and rely heavily on technology to assist in the efficient management of cases. Our paralegals use leading-edge discovery and trial software portfolios (including Ipro Eclipse, Relativity, Catalyst, Eclipse SE, and Trial Director), enabling the team to handle, for example, a recent case involving over 30 million documents and 1.5 terabytes of data.

Legal research is undertaken by associates and shared electronically among team members via online folders. We use an internal document management system (iManage) that is widely considered to be best-in-class. We also have an extensive library of pleadings from prior cases and a centralized bank of research memos.

Although our firm is based in New England, we try cases throughout the country. Most of our attorneys are licensed in several states, and we often have the opportunity to appear on a pro hac vice basis in those jurisdictions where we are not already licensed.

Our clients expect excellence in the work we do and the results we achieve. We accept nothing less for ourselves. Whether our Trial Group is engaged to protect a client's interests before suit is commenced, during the litigation, or on the eve of trial, or we are hired to advocate for a client on appeal, we provide experienced counsel to our clients when they need it most.

Litigation & Trial Services

  • Appellate
  • Business & Commercial Disputes
  • Construction Litigation
  • Government Compliance & Internal Investigations
  • Health Care Litigation
  • Probate Litigation
  • Product Liability, Toxic Torts, & Personal Injury Defense
  • Professional Liability & Licensure
  • Real Estate Litigation
Litigation

Real Estate

Verrill's real estate lawyers are widely regarded as premier practitioners in the region. Clients turn to Verrill's Real Estate Group for its broad depth of substantive knowledge, extensive experience, and sterling reputation. In particular, many clients choose our real estate team for its sound business sense and practical approach to completing a transaction. Our real estate attorneys execute skillful due diligence and competitively negotiate agreements, all with the understanding that the ultimate goal for most clients is to minimize risk while successfully completing a business transaction.

Our approach is straightforward, simple, and client-focused. We start each transaction by carefully listening to the client to understand the underlying business objectives. We then balance the risk/reward aspects of various legal strategies and advise the client accordingly. Our measure of success is the efficient completion of a transaction in a manner that achieves our client's goals. Our record of client satisfaction has resulted in our continued listing in the top tier by Chambers and Partners.

Areas of Experience

  • Acquisitions, sales and leasing
  • Commercial, industrial, and residential development
  • Commercial and residential condominiums (conversion of existing buildings and new developments)
  • Real estate and municipal financing
  • Property tax and corporate structuring
  • Easements, title, access, and boundary issues
  • Lender/borrower commercial lending, including construction financing
  • Subdivisions, zoning, and land use
  • Wind power, natural gas, and utilities
  • Timberlands and forest products
  • Telecommunications
  • Hospitality and retail
  • Health care

To efficiently and effectively reach our clients' goals, we take a team approach, working closely with colleagues in relevant practice areas for advice and counsel. Related areas of law include environmental, timberlands, energy, private clients, business, commercial lending, tax, construction, and hospitality.

Commercial Real Estate
Housing, Construction & Development
Land Use & Zoning
Landlord & Tenant

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