What We Do . . .       

Edward Wiest has spent over two decades working in many legal disciplines bearing on the needs of individuals and business owners.  His practice encompasses: 

the preparation, trial and appeal of civil actions on issues including corporate control, the constitutionality of banking regulations, zoning, and professional liability
service in the capacity of counsel for customers and broker-dealers as well as an arbitrator in proceedings before the National Association of Securities Dealers
representation of debtors and creditors in bankruptcy;
advising clients how to avoid litigation over employment discrimination and environmental compliance disputes

. . . and What It's Meant to Clients

Clients don't measure results by billable hours--but by tangible results.  During his career, Edward Wiest has  benefited clients through the development of winning--and costr-effective  strategies which

		secured the pretrial recovery of damages on behalf of a start-up manufacturing company for the sale of chemicals that failed to meet specifications—even though the supplier claimed that there was no warranty on the product in question (see Winter Panel Corp. v. Reichhold Chemicals, Inc., reported at 823 F.Supp. 963 (D.Mass. 1993));
		led to the reversal of a judge's decision to increase the damages awarded to a victim of  employment discrimination from the less-than-$30,000 found by the jury to over $100,000 (see Troy v. Bay State Computer Group, Inc., 141 F.3d 378 (1st Cir., 1998));
		convinced the Massachusetts Appeals Court to reinstate a complaint for fraud of a condominium purchaser against a realtor who allegedly failed to respond to his inquiry concerning noise levels and the trustees of a condominium association that refused to take action to remedy the noise (see McEneaney v. Chestnut Hill Realty Corp., reported at 38 Mass.App. Ct. 573 (1995))
		facilitated settlement of a capital leasing company’s antitrust claims against a Fortune 10 manufacturer and two of its largest competitors (see Travelers Rental Co., Inc. v. Ford Motor Co., reported at 116 F.R.D. 140 (D.Mass. 1987));
		restored a client's equity in her home after it was sold at a sheriff’s sale for one-eighth of its actual value (see In re Mase, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, District of Massachusetts, Case No. 93-15966-WCH);
		provided substantial payments in the settlement of claims that securities brokers churned of a retired couple's account through the undisclosed use of option contracts and encouraged a couple nearing retirement to purchase hundreds of thousands of dollars in unsuitable foreign  energy stocks. (NASD Cases No. 92-01764, 00-5050)