Family Law

• Guardianship
  The Probate & Fiduciary Litigation practice handles estate and trust litigation at both the probate and superior court levels, including will contests and fiduciary liability matters. We represent fiduciaries, and prospective fiduciaries, with respect to both contested and non-contested probate matters including guardianship, conservatorship, and trust and estate administration.

Criminal Law

• Money Laundering

Business and Corporate Law

• Corporate Law
  A company faced with a lawsuit or investigation involving federal or state securities laws requires a legal team that understands both the legal issues involved as well as the potential ramifications to the business.  Our securities litigation and corporate governance dispute attorneys are experienced, creative thinkers who can quickly evaluate the factual and legal issues involved and develop a prudent and sensible strategy to achieve resolution.
• Mergers and Acquisitions
  PSH’s team of attorneys has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions involving middle market privately held companies across a myriad of industries in both taxable transactions and tax-free reorganizations.  Our goal is to help our clients achieve their desired result while protecting their interests.
• Business Disputes
  As a midsize, full-service business law and litigation firm, PSH attorneys are dedicated to providing excellence in legal services and business counsel to our clients in a responsive, efficient, and insightful manner. The PSH team is committed to working collaboratively with our clients to develop a deep understanding of their industries, goals, and unique ways of working to help them solve their business needs and legal challenges to achieve success.
• Business Transactions
  PSH’s Banking & Financial Institutions regulatory compliance attorneys provide services for banks and other financial institutions on regulatory issues, business transactions, corporate governance, and enforcement matters at both the state and federal levels.
• Limited Liability Companies
  Our attorneys have significant experience in analyzing and structuring tax-deferred mergers and taxable acquisitions; forming joint-ventures, limited partnerships, limited liability companies, corporations, and S corporations; and advice and analysis with respect to incentive based compensation. Additionally, our tax group is heavily involved in fund formation and real estate syndications, including advice and structuring relating to qualified opportunity zone investments and historic tax credit deals.
• Trade Secrets
• Intellectual Property
  Commercializing intellectual property often leads to business disputes. While we attempt to resolve business disputes in a cost-effective manner, sometimes litigation cannot be avoided. Our attorneys have decades of experience in litigating all types of intellectual property disputes in federal and state courts, including those involving patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, and right of publicity, as well as disputes involving contracts, license agreements, and joint venture agreements.

Employment Law

• Employment Contract
  Our attorneys also develop employment agreements and non-competition agreements that require disclosure and protection of ideas, as well as limit the use of intellectual property following cessation of employment. We provide counsel regarding the establishment of internal controls to protect trade secrets.
• Employment Litigation
  We have extensive experience in state courts, federal courts and arbitrations in various jurisdictions involving discrimination, wage & hour, class action, and other employment-based claims.  We also have extensive experience before state and federal regulatory agencies such as the state and federal departments of labor, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination and Rhode Island Commission for Human Rights. The unique experience of our employment attorneys not only provides rigorous defense against the claims by employees, but also provides wholistic advice to clients as to how to lessen the negative impacts of employment litigation on the employer and existing workforce.
• Severance Agreement
  On February 21, 2023, the National Labor Relations Board (“Board”) ruled that an employer violated its employees’ rights under federal law by offering severance agreements that included standard confidentiality and non-disparagement provisions.

Property Law

• Real Estate Litigation
• Real Estate Transactions
  PSH’s Environmental practice advises clients on environmental issues that inevitably arise on small and large development projects, renewable energy projects, and residential and commercial real estate transactions.  Our attorneys have experience with wetlands and coastal permitting issues, negotiation of Brownfields Settlement Agreements and development of Brownfields sites, and hazardous materials enforcement and environmental regulatory issues. We bring specialists together at the beginning of a project to advise the developer, business, lender, or governmental entity on how to mitigate risk while maintaining the ability to deal strategically with the complex regulatory environmental issues and enforcement actions that arise during project development or day-to-day business operations.
• Land Use and Zoning
  Our talented and deep bench of Land Use attorneys recognize that each project and zoning matter presents a unique set of challenges and considerations.  We will tailor individual strategies to help meet every need and obtain the desired approvals, whether through representation before state and local boards and committees or – if judicial intervention becomes necessary – in court.  Our Land Use team consults with and represents regional and national developers, landowners, engineers, architects, and project managers throughout Rhode Island and Massachusetts on all aspects of their real estate development projects and zoning matters, including...

Trusts and Estates

• Estate Planning
  Our Estate Planning & Administration practice employs a collaborative approach to render the most responsive and cost-effective services to a wide variety of individual clients on personal estate planning matters, including wealth preservation, intra-family asset transfers, probate, and taxation issues. Our attorneys have significant experience in the planning and implementation of complex estate and business succession matters.
• Wills
• Trusts
  Of particular interest to many of our clients are gifting and wealth strategies under the 2010 Tax Relief Act.  In addition, we advise families with developmentally challenged members on the benefits of creating Supplemental Needs Trusts (SNT), commonly known as Special Needs Trusts. We administer revocable and irrevocable trusts, including Crummey Trusts. We advise and work directly with institutional or professional fiduciaries regarding all estate and trust administration matters. We also provide counsel to several local charities and charitable foundations regarding compliance, trust administration, and gift giving issues.
• Probate

Finance Law

• Bankruptcy
• Foreclosure
  – Massachusetts Governor, Charlie Baker, has extended Chapter 65 of the Acts of 2020, An Act Providing for a Moratorium on Evictions and Foreclosures During the COVID-19 Emergency, by 60 days through October 17, 2020. Click
• Tax Law
  The Tax practice counsels a wide variety of individual and business clients on federal, state, and local tax issues and in the development of strategies to enhance tax savings positions.
• Debt Collection
  Claims under federal lending statutes including Fair Credit Reporting Act, Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, Truth-in-Lending Act, Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act