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
Selected Publications
Co-author, First Circuit Chapter, in Survey of Federal Class Action Law: A U.S. Supreme Court and Circuit-by-Circuit Analysis, ABA Publishing (multiple years)
Co-Author, Massachusetts Chapter, in A Practitioner's Guide to Class Actions, ABA Publishing (multiple years)
Editor and Author, First Class Defense Blog, Pierce Atwood LLP, 2012-2022
"The Arc of Class Actions: A View from the Trenches," 32 Loyola Consumer L. Rev. 266 (2020)
"Book Review: The Conservative Case for Class Actions," Class Actions and Derivative Suits Committee Newsletter, American Bar Association, Spring 2020, Vol. 30, No. 3
Co-Author, "AT&T Mobility, Inc. v. Concepcion: Is Feeney Finis?," Boston Bar Journal, October 15, 2011
"Feeney v. Dell Inc.: Consumer Class Actions and Public Policy," Boston Bar Journal, Winter 2010
"Consumer Class Actions: An Unauthorized Biography," Class Action Litigation, BNA,, Inc., 10 CLASS 144, February 13, 2009
"Aspinall: Defining Injury in Consumer Class Actions," Boston Bar Journal, January/February 2005
"Class Certification in RICO Fraud Cases," For the Defense, December 2004
Co-Author, "The Problem of Class Certification in Product Liability Cases," Mass Torts Litigation Newsletter, vol. 1, no. 1, American Bar Association
"SJC Lowers Bar for Certifying Deceptive Advertising Class Actions," New England In-House, September 17, 2004
Co-Author, "Class Certification in the War Against Big Food," Newsletter, Toxic Torts and Environmental Law Committee, American Bar Association, Summer 2004
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, 2022-2024
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, Class Action Law, 2024, 2025 (pending)
Cornell Law School, Adjunct Professor of Law, Class Action Law and Practice, 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