Boston --  Attorney John Hitt recently negotiated a favorable settlement in an employment discrimination / wrongful termination case involving an employee fired for allegedly having violated safety protocols during the Covid-19 pandemic.  As investigation of the facts revealed, the employee had been unfairly singled out for termination by a multinational chain not because of the [...]

Boston – LexisNexis® Martinale-Hubbell® has awarded John Hitt its highest rating for legal ethics and legal ability, AV® Preeminent™ Rated.  Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Ratings have been the gold-standard for attorney ratings for more than a century.  The Martindale-Hubbell AV® Preeminent™ rating is the highest possible rating for an attorney for both ethical standards and legal [...]

Boston – Thomson Reuters® Super Lawyers® has named John Hitt, and David Hadas to its 2020 list of New England Super Lawyers. Each year, Super Lawyers rates attorneys who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. Lawyers are chosen on a state-by-state basis from more than 70 practice areas. The selection [...]

Boston -- John Hitt served as a panelist for the MassBar Association’s Training for c. 30A Cases in Middlesex Superior Court, which was held on December 15, 2020 via Zoom.  Other panelists included Chief Justice Judith Fabricant, Hon. Kenneth Salinger, Hon. Valerie Yarashus, David Kerrigan, Esq., and Julie Green, AAG. The panel was the kick-off [...]

Boston – Thomson Reuters® Super Lawyers® has named Thomas Drohan, John Hitt, and David Hadas to its 2019 list of New England Super Lawyers. All three were named as top business litigators in Massachusetts. This is the seventh consecutive year that David Hadas has been named to the list and the fourth consecutive year for [...]

Boston – Thomson Reuters® Super Lawyers® has named Thomas Drohan and David Hadas to its 2018 list of New England Super Lawyers. Both were named as top business litigators in Massachusetts. This is the sixth consecutive year that David Hadas has been named to the list and the third consecutive year for Thomas Drohan. Each [...]

Boston – LexisNexis® Martinale-Hubbell® has awarded John Hitt its highest rating for legal ethics and legal ability, AV® Preeminent™ Rated.  Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Ratings have been the gold-standard for attorney ratings for more than a century.  The Martindale-Hubbell AV® Preeminent™ rating is the highest possible rating for an attorney for both ethical standards and legal [...]

August 22, 2018 Boston –  Following a two-day public hearing, the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (“MCAD”), is a decision dated August 8, 2018, found that a Subway®-restaurant franchisee in Easton Massachusetts, 2 Belsub Corp., discriminated against Arab-American customers based on their race, national origin, ethnicity, and religion in violation of the state’s Public Accommodations Law.  [...]

August 21, 2018   Boston – A case being handled by Drohan, Hitt & Hadas LLC member David Hadas was featured on June 28, 2018, on a segment of WGBH’s Greater Boston.  The case involves the privacy rights of an employee under Massachusetts law who was fired from her job based on her lawful use [...]

April 17, 2018 Boston – A case being handled by Drohan, Hitt & Hadas LLC member John Hitt was recently decided in favor of DHH’s client by the Massachusetts Appeals Court.  A link to the decision in Beach v. Town of Norfolk & others, can be found here:  https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=16640567913677861835&hl=en&as_sdt=6&as_vis=1&oi=scholarr The case involved a developer’s civil [...]