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Riverwoods Celebrates 20 Years

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DTC is proud to congratulate its client, RiverWoods at Exeter, on its 20th year in the greater Exeter community. RiverWoods at Exeter started as a dream in the early 1980’s. After hundreds of planning sessions, budget revisions and Town Meetings, the land and funding came together. The first campus opened in 1994. Today RiverWoods is a thriving, vibrant, independent community with three campuses all nestled on 200 wooded acres. DTC is proud to have played an active role in the acquisition and permitting of the entire RiverWoods community. Please join use in congratulating this wonderful fixture in our community. For more information on RiverWoods please visit http://www.riverwoodsrc.org/.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Attorneys Chris Boldt and Kate Miller to Speak at OEP Spring Planning and Zoning Conference

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Two attorneys from DTC will be making presentations at the 2014 Annual Spring Planning and Zoning Conference of the NH Office of Energy and Planning, scheduled for Saturday, May 3 at the Mountain View Grand Resort, in Whitefield, NH.    Attorney Chris Boldt has once 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.  Chris will also participate in the Conference’s ZBA/Planning Board Role Playing training session.  Attorney Kate Miller will speak on recent changes to federal and state law on the approval process for personal wireless services facilities.  For more information and on-line registration, please go to http://www.nh.gov/oep

Attorney Mansfield Contributing Author to A Practical Guide to Organizing a Business in New Hampshire (MCLE, Inc. 2014)

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DTC Partner, Doug Mansfield is the author of a chapter on Employment Law in the newly released A Practical Guide to Organizing a Business in New Hampshire (MCLE,  Inc. 2014).  The book is designed to assist lawyers in acquiring the professional and practical skills needed to represent their business clients in the formation and early stages of their businesses.

Attorney Miller Becomes Member of DTC

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Donahue, Tucker & Ciandella, PLLC, is pleased to announce that Katherine B. Miller has become a member of the firm. Kate came to DTC after practicing in California, serving as Counsel to Senator Patrick Leahy on the Judiciary Committee of the U.S. Senate, and clerking for the Chief Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court. As a partner at DTC, Kate will continue to advise our municipal, not-for-profit and individual clients, in matters including estate planning, trust and estate administration, telecommunications law and creating and maintaining tax exempt status for organizations. Kate is a graduate of Brown University and Northeastern University School of Law.

DTC has offices in Exeter, Portsmouth and Meredith, NH.

 

DTC Welcomes Attorney Patrick Collins

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DTC is pleased to welcome Attorney Patrick O. Collins as an Associate with the Firm.  Patrick graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and graduated from Connecticut College cum laude and from Albany Law School magna cum laude. While at Albany Law School he successfully completed a concentration in the field of estate planning and was elected a member of the Justinian Society for excellence in legal scholarship.   Patrick works predominately in the Estate Planning and Probate practice groups, while also assisting the firm’s Business, Land Use, Litigation and Real Estate clients.

 

 

Attorney Jessica Ecker is Now NH Certified Family Mediator

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Following an intensive training, internship and application process, Attorney Jessica L. Ecker has obtained her certification as a New Hampshire Family Mediator. While there are many attorneys and other persons out there who may have mediation skills, the New Hampshire certification board monitors and oversees the mediators who are certified, and requires a certain amount of continuing credits to ensure that certified mediators are up to date on the ever changing laws and regulations in the Family Division. Certified Family Mediators are the only mediators with whom the Family Division will order parties to mediate. For more information on the Family Mediator Certification Process, see: http://www.nh.gov/family-mediator/index.htm.

If you are interested in mediation services from Attorney Ecker, or have any other family law related questions, click here.

 

 

DTC Welcomes Attorney Eric Maher

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DTC is pleased to welcome Attorney Eric A. Maher as an Associate with the Firm. Eric graduated summa cum laude from the University of Massachusetts-Lowell and Suffolk University Law School. Before joining DTC Eric worked as a clerk to the Honorable James P. Bassett of the New Hampshire Supreme Court. Prior to serving as a clerk he was a student attorney for the Educational Advocacy Clinic in Boston where he assisted indigent students in disciplinary and special education matters and was a part-time New Hampshire Police Officer for four years, working for the Danville Police Department and for the New Hampshire Marine Patrol. Eric will be assisting the Firm’s Business, Employment & Labor, Family Law, Land Use, Litigation, Municipal, and Real Estate clients.

Attorney Chris Boldt to Speak at Northern New England Planning Conference

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Attorney Chris Boldt has been asked to participate in a panel discussion on the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in Koontz v. St. John’s River Water Management District. This decision addresses certain constitutional challenges to conditions of approval for the land use permits involved in the case.  The Conference is scheduled for Thursday and Friday, September 19th and 20th at Church’s Landing in Meredith, NH.; and this panel discussion is slated for the Friday luncheon starting at 12:15 p.m.  For more information and on-line registration, please go to  http://www.nnecapa.org.