Practice Focus

Complex Commercial Litigation, Intellectual Property Litigation, Media, Land Use Litigation

Experience

As a litigator, Jeff advises his clients on a broad array of topics, representing them during mediation, arbitration, trial, and appeal. His practice focuses in the areas of complex commercial litigation, land use disputes, telecommunications law, trademark and trade dress infringement, and media law. Jeff's experiences include:

• Successfully representing the New Hampshire General Court in a right-to-know and constitutional access dispute. Hughes v. Speaker of the N.H. House of Representatives, 152 N.H. 276 (2005)
• Successfully representing a group of regional and national broadcasters and newspapers in a landmark effort to gain access to the courtroom for video and still cameras. Petition of WMUR Channel 9 7 148 N.H. 644 (2002)
• Successfully representing condominium unit owners who were denied standing to challenge a town planning board decision. Johnson v. Town of Wolfeboro Planning Board, 157 N.H. 94 (2008)
• Overturning, on preemption grounds, a local decision to restrict a client's use of a dock on Lake Sunapee. Lakeside Lodge, Inc. v. Town of New London, 158 N.H. 164 (2008).
• Successfully defending the City of Concord from a challenge under the Telecommunications Act of 1996. USCOC of New Hampshire RSA #2 v. City of Concord, 2006 WL 248010 (D.N.H. 2006)
• Successfully representing abutting landowners in disputes regarding the placement of cell phone towers. USCOC of New Hampshire RSA # 2 v. Town of Bow, 493 F.Supp.2d 199 (D.N.H. 2007); Industrial Tower & Wireless, LLC v. Town of Epping, 2009 WL 2461708 (D.N.H. 2009); Industrial Tower & Wireless LLC v. Town of East Kingston, 2009 WL 2704579 (D.N.H. 2009).

Practice Areas

• Commercial Litigation
• Intellectual Property and Technology
• Land Use
• Litigation
• Media and First Amendment

Professional Activities

Board of Directors, Concord Boys and Girls Club

Honors and Distinctions

Voted as a Rising Star for intellectual property law by New Hampshire attorneys, in an online poll conducted by New Hampshire Magazine, October 2004.

Bar Admissions

Jeff is admitted to practice in the state courts of New Hampshire and Oregon, the Federal District Courts in New Hampshire and Oregon, and the Federal and Ninth Circuit Courts of Appeals.

Education

Bowdoin College, B.A., magna cum laude, Philosophy, 1989; New York University Law School, J.D., 1994

Publications

"Expert Disclosures After the Exchange of Initial Reports" as published in New Hampshire Bar News, August 12, 2005.

Co-authored with James P. Bassett, “The Reporter's Privilege in New Hampshire,” a chapter in The Reporter's Privilege Compendium: A Guide to State and Federal Law Concerning News Media Subpoenas, published by The Reporter's Committee for Freedom of the Press, 2002.