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Marielise Kelly selected to 2022 Super Lawyers list
Marielise has been selected to the 2022 Massachusetts Super Lawyers list. Each year, no more than five percent of the lawyers in the state are selected by the research team at Super Lawyers to receive this honor. Super Lawyers, part of Thomson Reuters, is a rating...
Jim Brennan Obtained Defense Verdict in a premises liability lawsuit in Nantucket Superior Court
5-12-2022 - Plaintiff tripped and fell on a step inside a Nantucket jewelry store, despite an overhead sign warning customers to “Step Up”. Jim Brennan argued in defense that the jewelry store was not negligent and that even if the warning sign had been posted on the...
Elise Marshall Obtains Directed Verdict for Defendant
Jury Trial – In November of 2021, Elise Marshall successfully obtained a judgment in favor of her client during Jury Trial, after moving for Directed Verdict. The negligence action involved Plaintiff’s claim of personal injuries and damages stemming from a motor...
Marielise Kelly selected to 2021 Super Lawyers list
Marielise has been selected to the 2021 Massachusetts Super Lawyers list. Each year, no more than five percent of the lawyers in the state are selected by the research team at Super Lawyers to receive this honor. Super Lawyers, part of Thomson Reuters, is a rating...
Marielise Kelly succeeds in having Judgment Affirmed in the Appeals Court on the Basis of Sudden Medical Emergency Doctrine
Marielise Kelly was successful in the Massachusetts Appeals Court in having judgment of dismissal affirmed in her client’s favor on the basis of the sudden medical emergency doctrine in a case involving serious personal injuries sustained to a mother and her child...
Marielise Kelly selected to 2020 Super Lawyers list
Marielise has been selected to the 2020 Massachusetts Super Lawyers list. Each year, no more than five percent of the lawyers in the state are selected by the research team at Super Lawyers to receive this honor. Super Lawyers, part of Thomson Reuters, is a rating...
Marielise Kelly and Elise Marshall obtain Defense Verdict in Civil Rights case
Jury Verdict - Marielise Kelly and Elise Marshall successfully defended Martha’s Vineyard Transit Authority in civil rights case tried in federal court. Kevin Brooks v. Martha’s Vineyard Transit Authority; Transit Connection, Inc. and James Taylor, 19-11119-WGY,...
Marielise Kelly obtains Partial Summary Judgment in Civil Rights case.
Summary Judgement - Marielise Kelly obtained a partial summary judgment in favor of Defendant Martha’s Vineyard Transit Authority on Plaintiff’s claims under M.G.L.c. 93A; 42 U.S.C. §1981, as well as a count alleging negligent infliction of emotional distress. The...
John Bee obtains a Defendant’s Verdict.
Jury Verdict - John H. Bee obtained a defendant’s verdict for the Defendant John Nagle Company, a company that supplied salmon to Captain Marden’s Seafood, Inc., a seafood market. Captain Marden’s sold the salmon to The Cottage Restaurant which grilled the salmon and...
Marielise Kelly Successfully Defends an Excavation Subcontractor at Trial.
Jury Verdict - Marielise Kelly successfully defended an excavation subcontractor at trial in connection with a construction site accident alleging negligence against defendant. Plaintiff was operating a Caterpillar 330 excavator at a construction site adjacent to an...
Patricia Noyes-Corrigan Successfully Defends Against a Motion for Summary Judgment
Summary Judgment - Patricia Noyes-Corrigan, representing the Plaintiff, successfully defended against a Motion for Summary Judgment (Docs 90 and 91, denied in part and allowed in part), as well as a Motion in Limine to Exclude Plaintiff’s Expert Opinion Evidence (Doc...
Elise Marshall Obtains a Defense Verdict
Jury Verdict - In April of 2019, Elise R. Marshall successfully defended her client in connection with a negligence action filed in the Barnstable Superior Court. Plaintiff claimed significant personal injuries after being thrown from a motorized scooter in the paved...