Strategic Representation in Business, Real Estate and Complex Civil Disputes
DRG represents businesses, owners, property owners and individuals in significant disputes throughout Maine. Our Litigation Group handles commercial, ownership, real estate and other complex civil matters with an emphasis on understanding the client's objective, evaluating leverage early and pursuing the most effective path to resolution.
Civil & Appellate Litigation
Civil disputes across Maine courts, from business and property matters to significant personal claims, including appeals and appellate strategy.
Business & Property Litigation
Contract disputes, business torts, fraud claims, financing disputes, ownership disputes among members and shareholders, and contested real estate and property matters.
Mediation & Strategic Resolution
Representation in mediation before suit and during litigation involving business, ownership, real estate and complex civil disputes.
Intellectual Property
Patent and trademark counseling, registration and infringement disputes, led by a registered patent attorney.
Facing a dispute, or watching one take shape? Early strategy keeps more options open.
Winning the argument is not the same as achieving the objective.
DRG approaches disputes by identifying what matters most at the outset: preserving a business, separating owners, protecting property rights, enforcing an agreement, avoiding unnecessary disruption or positioning the client for trial when resolution is not possible.
DRG uses mediation strategically, when the timing, information available and parties' leverage create a meaningful opportunity to achieve the client's objective.
The firm represents clients in mediation both before suit is filed and after litigation is underway. In business and ownership disputes, mediation can provide opportunities for negotiated buyouts, restructurings and separations that address the underlying business problem rather than simply resolve a legal claim.
On sophisticated matters, the lawyers who understand the deal work beside the lawyers who try the case.
When business and real estate matters become contested, DRG's transactional attorneys remain substantively involved alongside the Litigation Group. That collaboration combines litigation experience with existing knowledge of the agreements, transactions, finances and relationships underlying the dispute.
On significant matters, the teams work together to interpret agreements, reconstruct transaction economics, evaluate valuation and damages positions and develop remedies that work commercially as well as legally. The collaboration also works in reverse, with litigation counsel brought into significant transactions when useful to pressure test agreements and anticipate potential disputes.