James T. Finnigan

James T. Finnigan, counsel, concentrates on civil litigation involving commercial disputes, eminent domain, construction, ERISA and employment matters. He also provides advice to individuals and companies about employment law. He has represented individuals and companies in state and federal court and in arbitration and administrative proceedings. He has successfully tried a number of eminent domain cases in the federal district court in Boston, Massachusetts in which he represented an interstate natural gas pipeline company. He has also obtained a summary judgment for a trucking company in a case in federal court in Texas in which the railroad sought more than $500,000 in demurrage charges and represented that same company in another action in federal court in Florida in which a different railroad sought demurrage charges in excess of $500,000 and the railroad dismissed the action with prejudice while the trucking company’s summary judgment motion was pending. He recently represented a landowner in an action in which the landowner was awarded a prescriptive easement over a private way to go to and from a Cape Cod beach and the private way was located ½ mile from a landowner’s home. Mr. Finnigan is a graduate of Boston University School of Law (J.D. cum laude, 1986) where he was an editor of the Journal of International Law, University of Virginia (M.A., American History, 1975) and Manhattan College (B.A., cum laude, 1973). Following law school, he was a law clerk during the 1986-1987 term for Judge Joseph R. Nolan, Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. He is admitted to practice in Massachusetts and New Jersey and before the United States District Court for the Districts of Massachusetts and New Jersey, the United States Claims Court, and the First, Third and Ninth Circuits. He is a member of the Massachusetts Bar Association, the Federalist Society and the Organization of American Historians.