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With 20 years’ experience, I concentrate my practice in the areas of commercial litigation and health care law.. I have a broad-based litigation practice before state, federal, administrative tribunals and arbitration panels.  My practice includes extensive experience  in contract, construction, leasing, employment and general litigation matters.  I co-author The Litigators’ Blog writing on current litiation topics for the Krokidas & Bluestein website.  I have also written for several publications on topics relating to my practice areas.. In my health care and non-profit practice, I provide regulatory and general counseling to non-profit and for-profit health care and social service institutional providers, as well as licensed practitioners, on a variety of matters.   My experience includes HIPAA and privacy matters, Tarasoff issues, fraud and abuse, credentialing and privilege disputes.  Advising institutional clients that include hospitals, community health centers, nursing homes and other providers on governance, employment, compliance, administrative appeals, survey matters and ethical issues.. I also represent providers in licensing and discipline matters before various boards of registration, as well as government and private insurers.  I have substantial experience conducting internal investigations regarding employment, billing, potential false claims, compliance and ethics issues and reporting and self-disclosure under self-disclosure protocols and corporate integrity agreements.

My practice focuses on complex business and real estate litigation. I have represented financial institutions, landlords, tenants, individual property owners, developers and title insurance companies in a wide variety of real estate and commercial disputes in both state and federal courts.  My experience includes contract claims, resolution of title defects, title insurance litigation, permitting and zoning, and commercial and residential summary process eviction actions, including post-foreclosure eviction litigation.. I also have extensive experience defending financial institutions, national banks, institutional lenders and other creditors from various lender liability claims, including M.G.L. c. 93A, private causes of action under the Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) and other modification programs, the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, the Truth in Lending Act, the Predatory Home Loan Practices Act, and the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act.

Kenneth R. Berman is a partner in Nutter’s Litigation Department. He co-chairs the firm’s Business Litigation Practice Group and co-chairs the firm’s Pro Bono Committee. Ken is a seasoned litigator representing clients in complex business cases, intellectual property disputes, intra-company and intra-family disputes, and real estate and land use litigation. He is also the author of the acclaimed American Bar Association book Reinventing Witness Preparation: Unlocking the Secrets to Testimonial Success, which explains the dangers of conventional witness preparation and teaches a transformative approach on how lawyers should work with witnesses to help them achieve a higher level of testimonial performance. The approach is a paradigm shift from how lawyers have historically prepared their clients and witnesses to testify.

I am the Managing Director of the Litigation Group at Bernkopf Goodman and a trial attorney specializing in construction, surety, malpractice, commercial and bankruptcy cases. I have tried to verdict in excess of 150 cases throughout the United States representing general contractors, subcontractors, architects, engineers, lenders, sureties and owners, among others, on a wide array of commercial, construction, surety and bankruptcy disputes. In particular, I have represented clients on numerous and diverse construction-related disputes including litigation involving defects and project mismanagement arising out of the construction of a nuclear power plant, defending the officers and directors of a defunct subcontractor for claims by a general contractor arising under the federal RICO statute, banks, a real estate partnerships dispute involving a $3 billion development and construction project, and prosecuting and defending claims arising out of failed or failing construction contractors and subcontractors.

I am a trial attorney practicing civil and criminal litigation in state and federal courts including the district, superior, and appellate courts as well as civil litigation in the Land Court.  My practice includes general business litigation, real property and title claims, tax abatements, brokerage disputes and employment law.  I have significant experience in criminal law as a former Assistant Attorney General in the Criminal Division of the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office prosecuting white collar crimes and homicides, and as a criminal defense lawyer with a Massachusetts firm before joining Bernkopf Goodman in 1981.  During my career, I have tried numerous jury cases, and have substantial appellate court experience, and have been a frequent participant in the resolution of cases through mediation.  Recently, I obtained a substantial jury verdict in Suffolk Superior Court in favor of a real estate brokerage firm, successfully represented a national title company in a lengthy arbitration proceeding involving a title dispute with a golf course owner, and on behalf of a securities firm and its broker, favorably resolved through mediation an investor’s claim filed in an arbitration proceeding with the Financial Industry Regulation Authority.

Frank Porcelli is a Senior Principal of Fish & Richardson in the firm’s Boston and Delaware offices. His practice emphasizes patent and trade secret appellate work, and he is Co-Chair of the Fish & Richardson Appellate Group (1996 – present). He joined the firm in 1971. Over the first 28 years of the existence of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, Frank has successfully argued some of the highest profile and most legally significant patent appeals in this Court, including Minnesota Mining v. Johnson & Johnson Orthopedics, 976 F.2d 1559, 61 USLW 2236 (1992) ($129 million judgment for 3M was the highest district court patent infringement judgment upheld by the Federal Circuit over its first 25 years; case was featured in Time and Business Week) and Johnson & Johnston Assocs. v. R.E. Service Co., 285 F.3d 1046 (2002 en banc) (12-1 decision established the doctrine of dedication as a limitation on the doctrine of equivalents). He also successfully argued a trade secret appeal in the Supreme Court of Connecticut that effectively established the right to jury trial in trade secret cases brought under the Uniform Trade Secrets Act. Evans v. General Motors, 277 Conn. 496, 893 A.2d 371 (2006).

Experienced Civil attorney serving clients in Boston and surrounding areas.

Experienced Civil attorney serving clients in Boston and surrounding areas.

Experienced Civil attorney serving clients in Boston and surrounding areas.

Experienced Civil attorney serving clients in Boston and surrounding areas.

Experienced Civil attorney serving clients in Boston and surrounding areas.

Experienced Civil attorney serving clients in Boston and surrounding areas.

Experienced Civil attorney serving clients in Boston and surrounding areas.

Experienced Civil attorney serving clients in Boston and surrounding areas.

Experienced Civil attorney serving clients in Boston and surrounding areas.

Experienced Civil attorney serving clients in Boston and surrounding areas.

Experienced Civil attorney serving clients in Boston and surrounding areas.

Experienced Civil attorney serving clients in Boston and surrounding areas.

Experienced Civil attorney serving clients in Boston and surrounding areas.

Experienced Civil attorney serving clients in Boston and surrounding areas.

Experienced Civil attorney serving clients in Boston and surrounding areas.

Experienced Civil attorney serving clients in Boston and surrounding areas.

Experienced Civil attorney serving clients in Boston and surrounding areas.

Experienced Civil attorney serving clients in Boston and surrounding areas.