Of Counsel | Partner, Shaheen & Gordon, P.A.

Barry Schuster is a partner at Shaheen & Gordon, P.A., and continues to serve as Of Counsel to Schuster, Buttrey & Wing. He has practiced business, real estate, and municipal law since 1978, representing individuals, businesses, and municipalities in a wide range of transactions and disputes involving land use, real estate, and corporate and business matters.

A trial lawyer with more than thirty-five years of experience, Attorney Schuster regularly appears before municipal boards, litigates in New Hampshire and Vermont trial courts, and has appeared in more than forty appeals before the Supreme Courts of New Hampshire and Vermont. He also served for many years as a Superior Court mediator.

Attorney Schuster actively participates in a number of civic organizations and has served on the boards of health care organizations, bank advisory committees, and numerous community service boards and committees. He was elected to the Lebanon School Board, where he served for eight years and chaired the Board for three years. An active cyclist, he and his wife have logged miles biking over hill and dale throughout New Hampshire and Vermont, over mountain passes in Colorado, and over “cols” in the Pyrenees and French Alps.

Attorney Schuster is a graduate of Brown University and Villanova University School of Law and pursued a year of study at the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College.

Attorney Schuster is admitted to practice in New Hampshire and Vermont and is a member of the New Hampshire Bar Association, Vermont Bar Association, and Grafton County Bar Association.

Some of Attorney Schuster’s representative trials and successful appeals include:

• Stowell v. Andrews — easement enforcement

• Granite Acres Owners Association v. Montgomery — easement enforcement

• Lebanon Hangar Associates, Ltd. v. City of Lebanon — arbitration contract enforcement

• Evans Group, Inc. v. Foti Fuels, Inc. — franchise dispute

• Atwater v. Town of Plainfield — zoning appeal

• Carleton, LLC v. Balagur — shareholder dispute

• W/S Lebanon, LLC v. City of Lebanon — building code appeal

• Carleton, LLC v. Balagur — stock valuation

• Wilder v. Town of Plainfield — property tax assessment

• Mahoney v. Town of Canterbury — damages for wrongly procured injunction

• Bayson Properties v. City of Lebanon — land use development appeal

• Mahoney v. Town of Canterbury — timber development

• Jenks v. Menard — boundary dispute

• Tausanovitch v. Town of Lyme — construction litigation

• Guaraldi v. Trans-Lease Group — contract dispute