In a case of an unsafe workplace, the firm represented a young man who was a tenant in an apartment building where the septic system started to fail. The landlord also owned an excavation company and began to remove and replace the septic system without authorized state permits. He asked the tenants if they would help. They agreed, as their toilets were not functional until repairs were completed. The landlord, using his excavation equipment, was removing the old broken septic system and replacing it with a new one. According to one of the landlord’s helpers, the job was being rushed because of lack of permits and a rumor that the state DES investigator was coming to investigate the worksite.

The firm's client was told by the landlord to climb into the ditch and smooth the gravel base while the backhoe operator retrieved and then lowered a 2,000 lb. concrete septic tank into the hole. While the client was hunched over with a steel rake smoothing gravel, the backhoe operator dropped the 2,000 lb. tank on top of him, pinning him to the earth and crushing his leg. The earth was still laden with effluent from the septic failure, which invaded the wound. The client was airlifted to D.H.M.C. where, after unsuccessful attempts to save his leg and a life threatening infectious process, the leg was amputated below the knee. The firm brought claims of negligence, reckless conduct, and general contractor liability for an unsafe job site. The landlord settled by paying $1,375,000.00 to the client.

An employee lost his leg in an industrial accident when a construction worker dropped a truckload of plywood on top of him. The firm was successful in bringing suit against the construction company, which attempted to deny the claim on the theory that the injured worker should have kept a better lookout on the job site and that the loads of plywood falling off trucks were an open and obvious danger. The construction employee who was to blame then moved to Utah and refused to return to New Hampshire to give sworn testimony about the events. After the firm successfully secured a default order against the absent worker, the insurance company settled the lawsuit.

A one-year-old child was a tenant of defendant’s apartment when he was poisoned by lead paint (58 bdl). The defendant was a professional landlord with multiple rentals. The landlord admitted knowing about the risks of lead paint poisoning but claimed not to know that its apartment had lead paint. The apartment had chipping and peeling paint that went un-repaired by the landlord. The landlord further tried to claim that the child was not a legal tenant because he was a new grandchild who moved in after the apartment was rented. The firm produced evidence that children's toys were throughout the apartment and front yard when the landlord came to collect monthly rent, proving that the landlord did know that a young child was residing there. The firm further located, through a private detective, a previous tenant, an unwed mother who agreed to testify that the landlord did rent to families with children (they had rented to her and her four-year-old daughter). The defendant settled quickly thereafter for a confidential amount.

Our client was parked in a parking lot, sleeping in his vehicle, with the engine turned off, keys in his pocket, and in his work uniform. He was far from home, but nearby where he was working, and chose to rest in his vehicle rather than make a long trip home, only to return in the morning. A police officer approached our client’s vehicle during the night, detained him, and made him complete field sobriety testing. The officer then arrested our client and charged him with DWI. Our client was asked to submit to a breath test, which he agreed to do. The officer had difficulty running the breath testing machine, and decided to deem our client a refusal, and took his drivers license. Our criminal defense attorneys took the case to trial in the District Court, where the officer was questioned on the stand. We exposed how the officer treated our client improperly, and the officer’s testimony was called into question. Our client was ultimately found not guilty by the judge.

"Who done it" was a successful criminal defense presented by Seufert Law to the New Hampshire Supreme Court. The case involved our client and another occupant who were in a car that was involved in an automobile accident. The other occupant claimed our client was the driver. However, Seufert Law argued that this testimony was insufficient evidence to prove our client guilty without some corroborative evidence as to who was really driving. Seufert Law argued and the court agreed that the other occupant's statement was inherently untrustworthy—created to save himself from prosecution.

In a case paving the way for parents to pursue not only delinquent child support payments, but also entitlement to retroactive and future statutory interest awards on those non-payments, the firm was successful in convincing the court that child support non-payments were entitled to all the same remedies as any other court orders, including accumulating interest until paid in full. This increased a $25,000.00 back child support order to $65,000.00 with accumulated interest.