Attorney Chris Boldt will once again be presenting at the 2019 Annual Spring Planning and Zoning Conference of the NH Office of Strategic Initiatives (formerly known as the Office of Energy and Planning), scheduled for Saturday, June 1^st at the Grappone Conference Center in Concord, NH. Chris has again been asked to speak at a double session on the basic procedures ZBA members should use in making their various decisions on variances, special exceptions, appeals of administrative decisions and waivers of dimensional criteria. For more information and on-line registration, please go to http://www.nh.gov/osi.

As of April 2, 2019 the Town of Exeter will officially change our street name from Windsor Lane to Acadia Lane. We have not moved, but we have a new address, 16 Acadia Lane, Exeter, NH.

As some of you may know there was also a Windsor Lane in Brentwood, NH that was causing confusion for clients and deliveries. The Town heard our concerns and voted for the name change. It is our hope that Google Maps and other electronic address sources will show the new street right away. We recommend you call the office at 778-0686 for directions if you have any trouble.

Attorney Sharon Cuddy Somers has been selected to be on a panel of speakers who will present on Wednesday, March 27th, to the New Hampshire Bar Association members as part of the NHBA Continuing Legal Education series.  The topic is condominium law and Attorney Somers will be speaking about the statutory framework for condominiums and obtaining local land use approvals for condominiums.

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Donahue, Tucker & Ciandella, PLLC is pleased to announce that Justin L. Pasay has become a member of the firm. Justin joined DTC as an Associate in 2012 after five years of active duty service as a Navy JAG. His experience and practice involves various aspects of municipal law, land use and permitting and civil litigation. Justin graduated cum laude from the Honors Program at the University of New Hampshire and received his J.D. degree from the Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law. He is admitted to Practice in all New Hampshire courts and the U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire.  For more information on Justin, click here.

Donahue, Tucker & Ciandella, PLLC is pleased to announce that Eric A. Maher has become a member of the firm. Eric joined DTC as an Associate in 2013. His experience and practice involves various aspects of municipal law, employment and labor, environmental and land use, litigation and real estate law. Eric graduated summa cum laude from the University of Massachusetts-Lowell and Suffolk University Law School. He is admitted to practice in New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Vermont. For more information on Eric, click here.

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After 45 years as a lawyer, Mike Donahue has transitioned to Senior Counsel at DTC, handing over day to day responsibilities to his colleagues at the Firm. In a long planned evolution, Mike will formally retire next summer. Between now and then he will be available to assist clients in transition and as a resource for DTC lawyers and paralegals in matters where his experience will be useful for our clients. In a letter to his clients announcing the transition Mike wrote:

“This long planned transition has been well facilitated by the Firm. We have been able to develop an excellent group of experienced partners and younger attorneys, backed by an experienced and dedicated support staff, who are fully able to maintain and improve upon the high quality work which has characterized this Firm over the years. For clients, this transition should be seamless. For our attorneys who stand ready to help you, it will mean an opportunity to enhance existing client relationships. For me, it will mean more leisure time with Diane and my daughters, and an opportunity to pursue some volunteer interests and other activities.”

“It is difficult for me to fully express how much I have enjoyed working with you over these many years. I would be remiss if I did not close by conveying my appreciation to you, my clients and friends, whom I have been honored to serve. I’ve learned much more than I’ve taught. I’ve been truly fortunate to have had so many positive and interesting relationships with my clients and other dedicated professionals with whom I’ve worked. I look forward to maintaining those relationships in a different context, confident that your legal needs will continue to be met by DTC, a Firm I’ll always be proud I had a hand in creating.”

The Firm hosted a Celebration attended by many of Mike’s clients, municipal officials and land use and other professionals with whom he worked over the years, recognizing Mike’s service to his clients and contributions to DTC, which he co-founded with Charlie Tucker in 1985. In recognition of Mike and his long standing commitment to work force housing, land use planning and other community projects, the firm is proud to support the production of a film project entitled “Communities and Consequences II—Solutions for a State at Risk”. This will be a multi-platform exploration of ideas designed to ensure that New Hampshire communities continue to prosper for future generations.

The Celebration and Mike’s 45 year career was chronicled in part in an article published in the Seacoast Sunday Business Section on October 28, 2018 available at: http://www.seacoastonline.com/news/20181028/case-closed-45-year-lawyer-michael-donahue-calls-it-career

Please join all of us in wishing Mike and his wife Diane, the best in his transition and many years of a well-earned retirement ahead.

Austin Mikolaities and Katherine Miller will be giving a presentation on “Small Cell Wireless Facilities, DAS, and Requirements for Allowing Wireless Facilities in Public Rights of Way” at the New Hampshire Municipal Association conference in Manchester, NH on Wednesday, November 14th. Click here to read the article they have submitted on this topic.

For more information on the New Hampshire Municipal Association, click here.

Brendan became an associate at DTC in September of 2018.  Before joining the firm, Brendan worked as a judicial law clerk for two years for the Honorable Robert J. Lynn, Chief Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court. Currently, Brendan is a member of the New Hampshire Bar Association and the Daniel Webster-Batchelder American Inn of Court, and he volunteers with the Friends Program out of Concord.  He is excited to be a part of the DTC Team and hopes to continue its tradition of excellence, dedication, and public service. Click here for more information on Brendan O’Donnell.