Primmer Piper Eggleston & Cramer PC

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Telecommunications Funding

Attorney Eli Emerson assisted the East Central Vermont Telecommunications District in securing $40M in funding over the past 8 years. The funding has helped the utility expand to 31 member towns, making high speed internet available to over 27,000 residential and business locations in rural Vermont.

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Bankruptcy

Attorney Ryan Long negotiated a complex sale and settlement of a Chapter 12 matter for a financial institution related to farm debt. Client received payment in full on claim exceeding $1M, while farm owners were able to pay down debt and keep partial assets.

Mortgage Litigation

Through litigation, attorney Ryan Long was able to generate a negotiated solution reforming our client’s mortgage-including a six-figure reduction in principal. This put the client in the place she would have been, had the build and the financing gone to the original plan.

Employment Law

The firm secured a significant victory before the Vermont Supreme Court for one of its bank clients against a former employee claiming unpaid overtime wages. The Supreme Court agreed with the lower court’s conclusion that the bank’s method for calculating commissions complied with the law.

Medical Malpractice Defense

Richard Windish and Elizabeth Willhite successfully defended a non-profit agency from claims that it failed to meet the standard of care in its delivery of Medicaid waiver services. After a two-week jury trial, the jury returned a verdict in favor of the client.

Tort Law Defense

Richard Windish successfully argued before the Vermont Supreme Court on behalf of a utility company, preventing the expansion of Vermont’s tort law to allow recovery for witnesses to accidents who are outside the “zone of danger” for NIED claims.