Faupel, Marian L.

Albert Farrah has over three decades of extensive trial practice in state and federal courts, before administrative agencies and in personal injury and complex business, real estate and construction litigation. He has secured for his clients numerous successful outcomes in a wide variety of matters, including a $7.3 million judgment after jury trial in a contract action against the Town of Rockport, MA; the first plaintiff's jury verdict in the Massachusetts Business Litigation Session in a lender liability action against a Boston bank; and several million dollar plus wrongful death settlements, including in matters involving service of alcoholic beverages to intoxicated persons, apartment building fires, construction and trucking and automobile accidents.  He has also successfully represented plaintiffs in numerous real estate contract, development and commercial partnership disputes, in municipal land use and zoning related matters, and in actions against banks and insurance companies.

Mr. Farrah has also secured dismissal or extremely favorable settlements of many actions brought against his clients, including in: various lawsuits by cities, abutters, architects and partners against real estate developers and property owners; suits against architects; a suit by a national broker dealer alleging multi-million dollar securities and c. 93A claims against an attorney and CPA; a million dollar partnership claim against a CPA; a six day jury trial involving a claim of adverse possession of Boston commercial land where a condominium project was to be built; a suit brought by a Mission Hill, Boston resident trying to stop the construction of a Roxbury mosque; and in cases concerning land use and deed restrictions.

For over 20 years Albert Farrah has represented Greater Boston Muslim organizations, including the Islamic Society of Boston, the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center, MAS Boston, Inc., Malik Academy, Al Noor Academy and the Islamic Society of Burlington, and their members in a wide variety of matters, including land use, construction, and permitting issues surrounding the building and operation of Muslim houses of worship.