McTeage Higbee talks about protecting employees during difficult economic times

Legal woes
Bad times bring more lawsuits and insurance to protect against them

By REBECCA GOLDFINE
Mainebiz Contributing Writer

Article date 11/30/09

Excerpt from article: Jeffrey Young, a partner at the Topsham law firm McTeague Higbee, which specializes in employment law and exclusively represents employees, says his firm is very busy. “We have had a lot more calls [recently] than in the 20 years I’ve been practicing,” he says.

His firm fielded 35% more labor-related intakes in the first quarter of 2009 over the same quarter in 2008, and 46% more in the second quarter of 2009 than in 2008. Now, in the third quarter, those numbers are beginning to decline, Young says.

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