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the business litigation can fall into a
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couple of different categories one is
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relationships with shareholders or
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partners one is employee you know
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employer employee relationships and then
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there are the other types of business
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litigations more contract disputes
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vendor disputes or supplier disputes
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franchisor or whatever the case may be
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by far the most difficult dispute to
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resolve are the relationship disputes
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partners have oftentimes known each
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other for many years prior to becoming
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partners and then some have worked
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together for many years and at some
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point in time the relative contributions
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of the two partners have do not not then
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equal in the eyes of each other and so
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invariably when those disputes arise
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you’re not just dealing with the matter
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that’s right in front or the or the
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disputed matter that’s right in front of
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them it really goes back years and years
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in terms of what their relative
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contributions were and that’s what makes
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it so difficult the same thing in
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employment disputes and employment
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dispute sometimes employees have worked
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at a company for a very long period of
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time so the company has a view that
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they’ve given this employee a great
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opportunity and have allowed them to
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earn a lot of money etc the employee and
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the other hand believes that they’ve
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made great contributions that have added
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to the success of the employer and
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there’s just a you know mismatch of an
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appreciation of one side to the other
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those are much more difficult to resolve
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than just a contract dispute in which
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the two parties really don’t know each
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other very well and it’s really limited
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just to the exact dispute that’s right
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in front of them
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Boston, MA commercial litigation attorney Robert R. Berluti talks about the types of business litigation cases that he handles.