Dispute Resolution Practice Area

Key Benefits:

We help clients identify and manage all types of risk. We can work on a single matter or serve as regular or even outside general counsel. To be competitive, businesses today must be ready and able to forcefully assert their rights and respond to threats.  We represent clients in civil arbitration and litigation, ranging from contract and payment disputes to "bet your company" complex litigation.

Key Experience:

Since 1991, Steven J. O’Neill has counseled and aggressively represented a broad spectrum of entities including: technology companies, contractors, developers, manufacturers, software firms, professional services firms, colleges and universities, government contracts vendors, start ups, and nonprofits. His experience ranges across numerous sectors of the economy including: construction, high tech, medical devices, transportation, electric utility, wind power manufacturing, export controls, distribution, window manufacturing, electronics retail, banking, the leather business, and tribal matters.

Our dispute resolution services include:

Dispute Avoidance Counseling

• Contract review, negotiation and drafting to properly and clearly allocate risks to the parties, insurance carriers and other third parties
• Advice concerning proper structure of dispute resolution clauses including sophisticated provisions for differential mediation, arbitration and litigation of different types of disputes that may arise out of a contractual relationship
• Development of legally defensible Document Retention Policies to manage informational assets and allow pre-dispute culling of documents in order to reduce litigation costs and risk of negative results
• General advice to organizations regarding risk reduction, legal compliance audits, insurance coverage issues and outside general counsel services

Dispute Resolution

• Litigation in State & Federal Courts (licensed in MA and CT; inactive and in good standing WA)
• Arbitration, Mediation and other Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR); available to serve as private arbitrator or mediator of disputes
• Complex litigation and arbitration involving high volumes of paper and electronic documents
• Corporate and other business matters
• Intellectual property
• Breach of contract
• Construction defects
• Payment disputes
• Representation on labor and employment issues
• Fraud and misrepresentation
• Consumer Protection & Unfair Trade Practices Act claims and defenses: MA Chapter 93A; CT CUTPA