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New Rules and Procedures Intended to Aid Trademark Owners In today’s business world dominated by a proliferation of internet companies, acquiring rights to valuable trademarks and protecting them against infringement has been a daunting, often complicated and frequently expensive undertaking. This has been particularly true for trademark owners initiating and maintaining a civil trademark infringementRead More
The 2021 legal landscape for employers and human resources professionals continues to be a “wait-and-see” game as we enter the third month of 2021. It’s now been almost a year since COVID-19 shut down many workplaces and generally disrupted everything about life as we all knew it, and the after-shocks continue to ripple. With statesRead More
My clients always express concern, and rightly so, with the potential costs and expenses to bring and maintain a trademark infringement claim in federal court, and if successful, what the client might recover as damages. Within this context, it is imperative that the client fully understand from the outset what types of damages are potentiallyRead More
As we all eagerly anticipate the end of 2020, the end of the year also means the expiration of the mandated leaves under the FFCRA on December 31, 2020. Indeed, as of the evening of December 21, 2020, Congress has voted to hold firm on the FFCRA expiration time table, and President Trump has signedRead More
The Sun Journal interviewed attorneys Amy Dieterich from Skelton, Taintor and Abbott and Mike Malloy from the Malloy Firm about the legal issues employers and employees are dealing with as the COVID-19 pandemic continues into 2021. With the Families First Coronavirus Response Act set to expire on December 31st despite the pandemic cresting in MaineRead More
AUBURN, Maine (November 23, 2020) – Skelton Taintor & Abbott announces the hiring of Reeve Wood as Of Counsel, focusing on title work and real estate transactions, effective November 23, 2020. Wood began his career as a teacher in New York and then moved on to work as an investigator of police misconduct for theRead More
Skelton, Taintor and Abbott shareholder Amy Dieterich is quoted in the Portland Press Herald regarding Portland’s newly-passed hazard pay ordinance. She counseled employees and employers that there is serious litigation risk if they do not start paying certain employees time and a half for working during a declared emergency in December. Employment lawyers at Skelton,Read More
Many of us are eager to leave 2020 behind, and it’s time to start preparing your employee handbook for the change. On the first of the new year, private Maine employers with more than 10 employees will be required to provide 1 hour of paid leave for every 40 hours worked, up to a maximumRead More
AUBURN, Maine – Skelton Taintor & Abbott has been named a Tier 1 Metropolitan “Best Law Firms” for Family Law, and Medical Malpractice Law – Plaintiffs, by U.S. News – Best Lawyers® in 2021. Tier 1 rankings are determined through a combination of impressive feedback from peers and clients as well as information provided inRead More
Skelton, Taintor and Abbott Shareholder Amy Dieterich and attorney Michael Malloy from the Malloy Firm will be discussing the latest workplace-related COVID issues for the L/A Chamber of Commerce on November 5th about leave issues under the ADA, FMLA and FFCRA, the new Maine paid leave law going into effect on January 1st and COVIDRead More
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