Honors & Distinctions
Recognized by the National Law Review as a "Go To Thought Leader in Class Action Mediation"
Recognized by Chambers USA for Commercial Litigation
Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® in the areas of Commercial Litigation and Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions - Defendants
Recognized by Massachusetts Super Lawyers as a "Top-Rated Class Action & Mass Torts Attorney" in Boston
Rated AV® Preeminent™ 5 out of 5 by Martindale-Hubbell
Recent Publications
Author, "The Arc of Class Actions: A View from the Trenches," 32 Loyola Consumer L. Rev. 266 (2020)
Author, "Book Review: The Conservative Case for Class Actions," American Bar Association, Class Actions and Derivative Suits Committee Newsletter, Spring 2020, Vol. 30, No. 3
Co-author, First Circuit Chapter, in Survey of Federal Class Action Law: A U.S. Supreme Court and Circuit-by-Circuit Analysis, ABA Publishing
Co-Author, Massachusetts Chapter, in A Practitioner's Guide to Class Actions, ABA Publishing
Selected Professional and Civic Activities
American Bar Association, Member, House of Delegates, 2022-present.
American Bar Association, Planning Committee, National Institute on Class Actions
President, Executive Board of Directors, Cornell Law School Alumni Association, 2022-present
President, Boston Bar Association, 2010-2011 (previously chaired the Class Actions Committee and the Litigation Section, among other roles)
Trustee, Boston Bar Foundation, 2008-2014
Member, Board of Directors, New England Legal Foundation, 2007-2016
Chair, Board of Trustees, The College of Wooster, 2017-2021 (board member and chair of two board committees 2007-2023)
Employment
Boston College Law School, Adjunct Professor of Law, Spring Semester, 2024
Cornell Law School, Adjunct Professor of Law, 2022-2023
Pierce Atwood LLP, Partner, 2011-2022
Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Shareholder, 2005-2011
McDermott Will & Emery, Partner, 1988-2005
Hale and Dorr, Associate and Junior Partner, 1980-1988
Law Clerk, Hon. Joseph L. Tauro, United States District Court, District of Massachusetts, 1979-1980
Education
B.A., College of Wooster
Phi Beta Kappa
William A. Galpin Award for General Excellence in College Work
J.D., Cornell Law School (cum laude)
Managing Editor, Cornell Law Review
American Jurisprudence Award in Constitutional Law