Admitted
1965, Massachusetts; 1966, U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts; 1982, U.S. Tax Court; 1984, U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit; 1986, U.S. District Court, District of Vermont
Law School
College of William & Mary, B.C.L., 1964; College of William & Mary, J.D., 1964
Law School Graduation Year
1964
College
College of William & Mary, B.A., 1960
Memberships
American Bar Association (Member: Business Bankruptcy Committee); American Bankruptcy Institute (Member, Board of Directors, 1994-2000; Chairperson, Business Reorganization Committee, 1994-1998); Commercial Law League of America (Chairperson, Bankruptcy and Insolvency Section, 1989-1990; Recipient of President's Cup, 1991); Massachusetts Bar Foundation, Inc.; Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Committee on Certification of Lawyer Specialization, 1991.
Biographical
Co-Editor and Co-Author: Chapter 11 Theory and Practice: A Guide to Reorganization, LRP Publications, 8 Vol., 1994. Co-Editor and Co-Author: Bankruptcy Reform Act Manual (4th Edition) 1988. Board of Editors, Commercial Law Journal, 1986—. Contributing Editor, LRP Bankruptcy Court Decisions, 1990—. Author, The Doctrine of Excusable Neglect: The Search for Absolution from Error, Commercial Law Journal, May, 1983; Author: Attempting to Define The Scope of Bankruptcy Court Jurisdiction: No Miracle Drugs for the Patient, Commercial Law Journal, Winter, 1987. Author: Practical Pre-Filing Considerations in Chapter 11 Cases, Commercial Law Bulletin, July/August, 1987; An Enlightened Approach to Small Business Reorganization, Commercial Law Bulletin, January/February, 1992; Managed Care: Waltzing with the Media in Chapter 11, Commercial Law Bulletin, June 2000. Panelist and Moderator: Hot and Emerging Issues in Bankruptcy, National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges, San Diego, CA., 1996; Philadelphia, PA., 1997; Dallas, TX., 1998; San Francisco, CA., 1999. First Circuit Court of Appeals Bankruptcy Judge Merit Selection Panel, 1986, 1991, 1993, 2000. Adjunct Faculty, Boston College Law School, Drafting in the Context of Insolvency, 2001. Member, Board of Directors, American Bankruptcy Board of Certification, 1997—. Facilitator: U.S. Bankruptcy Court, District of Maine, Editor of Report on Allocation of Bankruptcy Court Resources to Best Serve the Members of the Bar and General Public, October 1999. Fellow, American College of Bankruptcy (Regent, 1st Circuit, 1999). Adjunct Faculty, Boston College Law School (Drafting in the Context of Insolvency) 2001.