PRACTICE FOCUS
Litigation, Arbitration, Media Law
BIOGRAPHY
Jon Piper, Managing Partner of Preti Flaherty,
focuses his practice on litigation and arbitration, and chaired the firm's
Litigation Group for eight years. He is well known and respected in the New
England legal community, is listed in Woodward-White's The Best Lawyers in
America, is AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell and is recognized in Super
Lawyers and Chambers USA Guide to America’s Leading Business Lawyers, the highly
regarded legal directories which ranks firms and individual attorneys.
REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS CONCLUDED AS LEAD COUNSEL
- Won a $7.4 million jury verdict against Fleet National Bank for
financial planning malpractice
- Achieved record award in Maine of $40 million for Kingspan Group plc, a
publicly traded Irish corporation, in claims for common law fraud and securities
violations.
- Received national media attention for successfully defending Forbes
magazine in a $10 million libel action.
- Successfully defended Peoples Heritage Savings Bank in a major lender
liability suit.
- Litigated on behalf of Bath Iron Works (a Division of General Dynamics) to
secure multi-million dollar recovery in construction claims involving its new
land level transfer dry dock facility.
- Negotiated multi-million dollar settlement award in an antitrust action
brought on behalf of Compañía Chilena de Fósforos of Santiago, Chile, a major
Chilean manufacturing company.
- Represented a significant PRP in Maine’s largest Superfund litigation and
served on the steering committee that negotiated a favorable remediation plan
with the EPA.
PREVIOUS LEGAL EXPERIENCE
Invited to serve as the first law clerk to the Honorable Edward S. Godfrey of
the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.
CIVIC INVOLVEMENT
- Member and Board Chair of Mercy Health System of Maine
- Member and Board Chair of Mercy Hospital
- Council Member and Chair of the Falmouth, Maine, Town Council
- Trustee, Portland Concert Association
- Falmouth Volunteer Fire Department
- Little League Baseball and Pee Wee Basketball coach
Admissions
Maine; U.S. District Court, District of Maine; U.S. Court of Appeals, First and
Third.
Other Bios: Securities Profile
Education
J.D., University of Maine, 1976 (Editor, Maine Law Review)
B.A., Bowdoin College, 1972 (Magna Cum Laude)
