Belcher, Starr & Fitzgerald LLP: Civil Litigation Matters

Financial Services Litigation and Arbitration:

Our broker-dealer litigation and arbitration practice reaches well beyond the borders of New England, to the Mid-Atlantic, Midwest and often beyond. Our clients have included broker-dealers, investment advisors, stockbrokers, issuers of insurance and annuity products, hedge funds, and investors.

If it relates to an issue in the securities industry, we probably have seen it: from claims relating to sales practices (including unsuitability, fraud, misrepresentations and omissions, unauthorized trading, churning, and failure to supervise) to intra-industry issues (such as enforcement of promissory notes, Forms U-4 and U-5 reporting, financial privacy issues, and defamation, state wage act and wrongful termination claims). Our attorneys appear regularly in courtrooms and FINRA arbitration forums where we provide focused, cost-efficient advocacy enhanced by our daily commitment to staying abreast of the issues, arguments and legal claims which are being pressed across the industry. We also have the skills, both technical and interpersonal, to make mediation an often viable, inexpensive, and successful alternative.

Trade Secret and Unfair Competition Litigation:

Our attorneys regularly counsel and represent clients across all manner of industries both with respect to protecting their valuable trade secrets, and to obtaining redress for misuse, misappropriation and/or other aspects of unfair competition.

Recruiting/Restrictive Covenant Litigation:

Belcher, Starr & Fitzgerald LLP represents a diverse client base in the financial, clean energy, digital technology, banking, construction, and commercial real estate industries in matters relating to restrictive covenants in employment and other business agreements. We are also well versed in the securities industry’s Protocol for Broker Recruiting, and have represented both “Protocol” and “non-Protocol” firms in recruiting matters. We have obtained and defended against preliminary and permanent injunctions in courts and arbitration proceedings throughout New England and in diverse states nationwide, and have won significant monetary damages on behalf of clients.

Commercial Contract Disputes:

Having started our careers in large, prominent law firms representing all manner of Fortune 500 companies and industries, there are very few areas of commercial contracts we haven’t dealt with in one context or another.

From obtaining an arbitration award in excess of $140 million on behalf of an electric utility arising out of the bankruptcy and breach by its power trading counterparty of a multi-year tolling agreement, to a dispute between a construction contractor and a leading U.S. insurer over reporting of workers compensation policy data, to actions for breach of vendor service agreements, we apply the same rigorous analysis and tenacious advocacy. That commitment to excellence applies whether our opposing counsel is a behemoth Wall Street powerhouse, a smaller regional firm, or a local sole practitioner.

Retail Bank Payment Systems:

We regularly represent retail banking clients in claims arising from all aspects of the customer relationship and daily operations, including account fraud and branch employee calls. Our considerable knowledge of the Uniform Commercial Code allows us to proactively advise our clients in structuring their policies and account relationships to minimize risk and to quickly evaluate claims to facilitate efficient resolution.

Christine R. Fitzgerald, Head of Litigation Practice

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