Throughout his career, Shaw McDermott has handled complex civil litigation. His experience extends to trials and appeals in the state and federal courts on commercial, real estate, zoning, banking, first amendment, medical malpractice, toxic tort, probate, and employment matters. In financial services cases, Shaw has represented underwriters, broker/dealers, banks, mortgage companies, officers, directors, professional advisors and individuals in class action and complex federal court cases involving allegations of lender liability, violations of RICO and claims under the securities laws and other statutes. Shaw has organized internal investigations and defenses of complex problems for clients in the securities industry, anticipatory to and following upon, investigations by the Securities and Exchange Commission. In addition, Shaw was appointed by the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts to serve as special master in the Lomas Securities litigation, where he supervised pre-trial discovery and preparation for trial of ten large securities actions consolidated by the Judicial Panel on Multi-District Litigation in Boston.
