Rich May: News

March 16, 2007


Rich May Scores Trial Victory


On March 16, 2007, after a week-long trial in Suffolk Superior Court, a jury returned a verdict in favor Rich May’s client Pier Fish Co., Inc., a seafood wholesaler with facilities in Boston and New Bedford, in a lawsuit against the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. The dispute centered on the MBTA’s broken promise to arrange for a sale of MBTA-owned land to Pier Fish outside the public bidding process, following the MBTA’s eminent domain taking of Pier Fish’s property in the Boston Seaport District. Rich May’s Frank Gaeta served as lead trial counsel to Pier Fish. The MBTA, represented by the world’s second largest law firm, vigorously contested Pier Fish’s claims from the outset of the lawsuit, filed more than two years ago. The jury awarded Pier Fish every dollar of damages that it sought in the case.


About Rich May


Rich May’s diverse practice embraces the organization and operation of business ventures, venture capital, private placements, hedge funds, public offerings, technology licensing, mergers and acquisitions, contracts, joint ventures, internet and e-commerce law, employee relations, intellectual property, litigation and dispute resolution, energy, telecommunications, public utilities, wealth planning and real estate. Rich May provides superior legal and strategic counsel through its extraordinary commitment to clients’ success, outstanding professional competence and straightforward ability to communicate. Rich May embraces an entrepreneurial spirit and maintains a mission execution culture that distinguishes Rich May from other law firms.


Rich May combines the stability and experience of one of Boston’s oldest preeminent law firms with the innovative spirit and energy of a venture catalyst intensely focused on serving high-tech entrepreneurs, emerging companies and investors in New England and throughout the United States.


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