Attorney, Bernstein Shur in PortlandAfter clerking for Maine Supreme Court Justice Robert Clifford for a year after law school, Mr. Bosse dove straight into construction law, defending architects and engineers in construction cases at a small Portland insurance defense firm. Since joining Bernstein Shur a decade and a half ago, Mr. Bosse has had the pleasure of representing the full panoply of participants construction projects: developers, owners, general contractors, subcontractors, suppliers, lenders, and sureties in everything from contract negotiation and administration to construction claims, collection efforts and litigation. He has quickly grown to the chair of the firm’s Construction Practice Group, building his practice into a truly regional one, covering primarily Maine, Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Mr. Bosse also has had experience with eminent domain matters, including litigation at the State Claims Commission, the trial courts in Maine and the Maine Supreme Court. In service to his firm, he ran for and was elected to the firm’s Compensation Committee and has served for the past five years in that capacity, and he also serves as the co-chair for the Litigation Practice Group.

Attorney, Curtis Thaxter in PortlandMr. Leoni focuses on land use and general civil litigation. Since 2011, he has represented clients in some of Maine’s largest boundary and water access and water rights cases. Mr. Leoni was co-counsel for landowners in the first phase of Almeder et al. v. Town of Kennebunkport, known as the “Goose Rocks Beach case,” which dealt with claims for prescriptive easements and easement by custom. He is currently lead counsel in the second phase of the Goose Rocks Beach case, which deals with water boundary descriptions tracing back to the mid-1600s. Mr. Leoni also successfully represented coastal owners against public prescriptive claims in what is known as the “Cedar Beach” case in Harpswell and he currently represents Acadian Seaplants, a seaweed harvesting company, in a landmark case concerning whether the public has the right to harvest living intertidal seaweed from the intertidal zone. He regularly handles boundary dispute claims, including adverse possession claims. Mr. Leoni earned his B.A. degree from Bates College in 2005 and his J.D. degree, magna cum laude, from Vermont Law School in 2011.

Partner with Murray Plumb & Murray in PortlandMr. Shumadine represents abutters, developers and towns in connection with all land use issues, from shoreland zoning, to Department of Environmental Protection regulations, to subdivision concerns. He has represented developers seeking subdivision, site plan, building permit and other approvals; landowners challenging proposed abutting development or rezoning, as well as those seeking tax abatements; and towns seeking zoning, subdivision and other land use advice.Mr. Shumadine’s practice also focuses on more general disputes involving land and roads, both public and private. He has extensive experience addressing zoning, subdivision and other similar issues before Maine’s Land Use Regulation Commission and presenting arguments before planning and zoning boards, as well as the Superior Court and Law Court. Mr. Shumadine is a member of the Maine State, Cumberland County and American Bar Associations.