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Preti Flaherty is a law firm based in Portland, Maine. It is one of Maine’s four largest law firms with more than 100 attorneys and five offices with additional offices located in Augusta, Maine; Concord, New Hampshire; Boston, Massachusetts; and Washington, D.C. The Augusta, Concord, and Boston offices each offer a similar grouping of practice areas to the firm overall. The firm’s Legislative and Regulatory practices, as well as its Energy practice, are managed from the Augusta office. The primary focus of the Concord office is corporate work with a concentration in bankruptcy, but its attorneys are also involved in Employment and Litigation. The Boston office is the home to many of the firm's Intellectual Property attorneys.
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Preti Flaherty provides legal services in multiple practice areas, including but not limited to Business, Environmental, Energy, Climate Strategy, Employment, Legislative and Regulatory Services, Intellectual Property, International Law, Litigation, Real Estate and Land Use, Tax, Trusts and Estates.
The firm is an active member of TerraLex, a global network of independent law firms with members in more than 100 countries, which further enables attorneys to serve clients' international interests by tapping into a pool of experienced and respected attorneys around the world.
Lobbying
Preti Flaherty is well known in Maine for its Legislative Group and registered lobbyists, including founding partner Severin Beliveau, and Ann R. Robinson, the former chair of the practice group. Ann Robinson served as co-chair of Governor Paul LePage's transition team, with specific responsibility for policy and regulatory review, and continues to serve in an advisory capacity. She was also recently appointed to Governor LePage's Judicial Selection Committee, a group that advises on judicial nominations.
Harold C. Pachios, also a founding partner, practices Business Law, International Law, and Legislative Law. In 1993, Pachios was nominated by President Clinton and confirmed by the U.S. Senate as a member of the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy. He served as the firm's managing partner for eight years.
History
Preti Flaherty is the result of the 1972 merger of Preti, Peabody, Johnson, and Smith, an outstanding corporate and commercial firm, and Berman, Berman, Wernick, and Flaherty, one of Maine’s top trial practice firms. The successor firm of Preti and Flaherty merged in 1978 with Beliveau and Beliveau, a broad-based general practice firm with a heavy concentration in governmental services and regulatory work. The firm became known as Preti, Flaherty, Beliveau and Pachios with offices in Portland and Augusta.
In 1999, the firm merged with Haley and Champion, adding five attorneys and an office in Bath, Maine. In February 2001, Preti Flaherty opened its Concord office, and in March 2005, opened an office in Boston. The firm closed its Bath office in 2006 and has since opened satellite offices in Washington, District of Columbia; Bedminster, New Jersey; and Salem, Massachusetts. In 2013, the firm was joined in its Boston office by the seven attorneys of the former Weingarten, Schurgin, Gagnebin and Lebovici, LLP.
John M. Sullivan is the firm's managing partner.
Subsidiaries
In July 2007, Preti Flaherty partnered with Boston's Minahan Companies, led by Alfred A. Minahan, to create a public affairs subsidiary, Preti Minahan Strategies, which integrates crisis management and public affairs services with Preti Flaherty's legal services.
Awards and rankings
Preti Flaherty has earned multiple awards and rankings for providing legal services across a broad range of practice areas. Its most notable recognitions are listed below.