
Harold Beede
Hal has been solving legal problems and “righting wrongs” for his clients in various civil law matters through
+ effectively advocating clients’ claims to their adversaries,
+ constructing and asserting well-supported settlement demands and negotiation,
+ engaging productive mediation to the client’s advantage, and
+ diligently pressing civil lawsuits and skillfully conducting trials in the courts, as well as winning appeals,
in Massachusetts since 1992 and in New Hampshire since 1997.
Attorney Beede has successfully litigated or settled a ranging variety of civil cases at virtually all levels of Massachusetts and New Hampshire state and federal courts, including the New Hampshire Supreme Court and the U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals, for individual and corporate plaintiffs and defendants since 1992. Cases include contract disputes between businesses or between consumers and businesses; bringing or defending against wrongful job termination, workplace discrimination, harassment, or other employment claims; boundary / property line disputes; landlord – tenant disputes; personal injury claims and family law issues, among others. Hal has also represented both employees and businesses before the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination and the New Hampshire Commission for Human Rights.
- Appeals & Appellate
- Civil Appeals, Federal Appeals
- Employment Law
- Employee Benefits, Employment Contracts, Employment Discrimination, Overtime & Unpaid Wages, Whistleblower, Wrongful Termination
- Real Estate Law
- Commercial Real Estate, Condominiums, Easements, Homeowners Association, Land Use & Zoning, Neighbor Disputes, Residential Real Estate, Water Law
- Landlord Tenant
- Evictions, Housing Discrimination, Landlord Rights
- Municipal Law
- Boundary / Property / Land Disputes
- Probate Litigation/ Will or Trust Disputes
- Massachusetts
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- New Hampshire
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- 1st Circuit
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- U.S. Supreme Court
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- Suffolk University Law School
- Juris Doctor (1991) | I interned with the Department of Justice, U.S. Attorney's Office in Providence, RI, and also with the Honorable Ernest C. Torres, U.S. District Court Judge for the District of Rhode Island. I also studied International and European Communities Law with
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- Massachusetts State Bar
- Member
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