1. Poole Construction Co., Inc. v. Town of Rockport (Massachusetts), Essex Superior Court C.A. #88-5134

Judgment: $7.2 Million judgment after 27 day jury trial

On February 22, 1996, the 27th day of trial, after deliberating for less than three hours, a Massachusetts Superior Court jury returned a $3.7 million verdict for lost profits for Albert Farrah's client. This was the fourth largest verdict in Massachusetts in 1996, and is believed, at the time, to have been the largest verdict in the history of Essex County. With interest, judgment entered in the case for nearly $7.2 million.

This case arose out of the Town of Rockport's termination of a contract in which Poole agreed to build a ten acre reservoir for the Town. The Town was to pay Poole no money for this job. Instead, Poole was to keep the materials excavated in constructing the reservoir as its profit. The contract was for an initial five years and was to be renewed for an additional five years.

The Town terminated the contract after the first five year term, claiming Poole breached. Suit was filed shortly thereafter, and Mr. Farrah replaced Poole's prior counsel in 1993.

Forty (40) witnesses testified at trial. The jury considered One Hundred Forty (140) exhibits, ranging from documents between the parties to video tapes, aerial photographs, rock corings and crushed rock samples from the land in question and from adjacent quarries. 
read more

2. Successful resolution of multi-property commercial real estate partnership dispute (Arbitration)

After 17 days of hearing before a three lawyer board of arbitrators (including one CPA/attorney) presiding over this partnership dispute involving a number of Boston commercial real estate properties, this action was settled. Confidentiality agreements prevent any further disclosure of this action or the terms of this settlement.

3. Wing Fook, Inc. v. Boston Bank of Commerce, Suffolk Superior Court C.A. #96-3967BLS

Judgment: $712,000 after 7 day jury trial

On December 6, 2000, after seven days of trial, a Suffolk Superior Court jury returned a verdict in favor of Albert Farrah's client, Wing Fook, Inc. This was the first plaintiff's verdict in the history of the Massachusetts Superior Court Business Litigation Session. With interest, judgment entered on behalf of Wing Fook, Inc., the proposed developer of a new Asian owned funeral home targeted to serve Boston's Asian community, in the amount of $712,000. read more

4. The Computer Merchant, Ltd. v. Zadeh, et al, Essex Superior Court

Albert Farrah represented The Computer Merchant, Ltd. (TCM), a business specializing in the placement of IT professionals with major corporations, in litigation it brought against two former TCM employees who, in violation of agreements not to compete, left TCM, and utilizing confidential lists and information, established a competing business.

In the early stages of a lawsuit filed on his client's behalf, Mr. Farrah was able to secure a court ordered two year injunction against the former employees continuing in business. This court order allowed TCM to grow its business unfettered by the challenge of the competition of the former employees, into one of the largest privately owned companies of its kind in the country.

5. A. Steven Buonopane, et al v. Paul T. Buonopane, et al, Middlesex Superior Court C.A. #98-0795

In this dispute between four brothers, Albert Farrah successfully represented two brothers in their claims of breach of fiduciary durty and conversion in the operation of a highly successful construction company. After a 10 day arbitration, a $470,000 award was entered by a single arbitrator CPA/Lawyer. That amount was subsequently confirmed by a Middlesex Superior Court judge, and judgment in that amount entered.

6. Shawmut Forgery

In this four day jury trial, Albert Farrah successfully represented the owners of estate bank accounts upon which hundreds of thousands of dollars of checks and withdrawal orders, forged by the estate's attorney, had been wrongfully paid. The bank denied the signatures were forgeries and defended vigorously, including by way of testimony from a nationally recognized handwriting expert that the signatures were not forgeries. The jury returned a verdict for Mr. Farrah's client on all counts, and the bank made full restitution.

7. Fassil v. Fassil, Suffolk Superior Court C.A. #95-4727; C.A. #98-04062 and C.A. #98-02691

In this dispute between several brothers, Albert Farrah successfully represented the owner and developer of a highly profitable Boston convenience store against a series of claims made by several of his brothers over a number of years that they were partners, in both the business and the real estate in which the business was housed. All such claims were ultimately abandoned.

8. J. Thomas Hurley v. Kevin P. Martin & Associates, P.C., et al, American Arbitration Assocation #11 166 02728 03

In September of 2004, after two days of arbitration before an attorney/CPA arbitrator, Mr. Farrah successfully secured an award of over $100,000 in a partnership dispute between certified public accountants. He did this despite the fact his client had made no effort to collect monies owed to him for over 8 years. In response to Mr. Farrah's client's claim for arbitration, the respondant, Kevin P. Martin & Associates, P.C. asserted a $1 million counterclaim against Mr. Farrah's client. Mr. Farrah also successfully defended against that counterclaim and no award was made to Martin in connection with the counterclaim.

9. Case Name Withheld, United States District Court