Jennifer Archers Named a “Rising Star”

Jennifer Archer has been selected for inclusion in the 2011 New England Super Lawyers as a New England Rising Star in the fields of immigration and general litigation. New England Super Lawyers is a listing of outstanding attorneys based on peer recognition and professional achievement.

KRZ Lawyer Guest Speaks at University of Maine Law School

On June 6, 2011, John A. McArdle, III was a guest speaker at the University of Maine School of Law in Portland. Invited to speak at the Trial Practice Course, John spoke on the identification, establishment and use of case themes for trial. John drew from his background and experience in trial preparation and work to detail theme use in discovery, preparation for trial and at trial.

Tim Norton along with co-counsel Bill Robitzek successfully overturned the development approval for a 60 unit hotel development project on Great Diamond Island in Maine’s Casco Bay

Tim Norton along with co-counsel Bill Robitzek successfully overturned the development approval for a 60 unit hotel development project on Great Diamond Island in Maine’s Casco Bay. After two years of litigation and two separate trials in the case of Friends of Great Diamond Island, LLC v. The Inn at Diamond Cove, LLC, attorneys Norton and Robitzek obtained a judgment from the Maine Superior Court overturning the amendments of the Association documents which would have allowed the project to proceed. The Court agreed with the Plaintiff’s contention that the voting procedures for the Amendment were fatally flawed, concluding that these defects were not “technical shortcomings” but rather were “substantive” and that the Court’s intervention was necessary to provide recourse to “members of the association who are aggrieved by the associations breach of its agreements with its members”.