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| The firm of Vitt & Rattigan has substantial experience in the federal and state courts of Vermont and New Hampshire, particularly in cases in which the stakes were high.
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- The firm represented a non-profit foundation from trial through appeal to the Vermont Supreme Court and obtained a property tax exemption for the foundation that faced financially crippling property tax claims.
- The firm defended a British software development company in a trade secret misappropriation case where the plaintiff (relying on the controversial "inevitable disclosure doctrine") sought a preliminary injunction prohibiting the employment of four high-level software engineers.
- The firm has defended many businesses (including a national defense contractor, an international specialty chemical company, a trucking company, a restaurant, among others) and corporate officers in employment cases involving sexual harassment, sexual discrimination, age discrimination, disability discrimination, wage & hour, wrongful discharge, retaliation, and whistleblower claims.
- The firm represented a major pharmaceutical company in responding to threats by the Vermont legislature to issue broad subpoenas for sensitive financial and pricing data as part of the State's consideration of price-control legislation.
- The firm represented an international bank in a trial and subsequent appeal that finally resolved a 14 year litigation that involved a challenge to a debtor's attempts to hide assets, a resolution of a challenge by competing lenders to the priority of claims, the enforcement of a foreign judgment, and foreclosure of a Watergate apartment.
- The firm represented several law school professors in an age discrimination law suit lasting twelve years, stewarding the case through state and federal courts, up through the U.S. Supreme Court, with ultimate resolution in state agency proceedings.
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