Meet some of our adjunct faculty
David Burns, JD '91
David Burns is an attorney in private practice in Concord, NH. He established his solo/small firm practice in 1993. He practices extensively in the area of Family Law and Estate Planning and Probate. In the area of Family Law, his practice involves every aspect of domestic relations work, including divorce, custody, visitation, child support matters, guardian ad litem work, and domestic violence. He has successfully litigated contested Family Law matters statewide, including complex asset division cases, high-conflict custody cases, and cases involving contested fault allegations. He is also a Certified Neutral Evaluator before the Superior Courts, and actively participates in mediation/alternative dispute resolution (“ADR”), both as a mediator and as counsel for litigants. In the area of Estate Planning and Probate, he provides advice and counsel in the formulation and drafting of comprehensive estate plans for individuals and couples. His Probate practice includes estate administration, guardianship work, termination of parental rights, and trust and estate litigation.
Attorney Burns earned his undergraduate degree from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. He earned a Master’s Degree in Education at Harvard University and his Juris Doctor degree at Franklin Pierce Law Center. He is admitted to practice in the State of New Hampshire, before the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire and before the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Hampshire.
Brian J. Colandreo
Brian J. Colandreo is the Boston Patent Practice Leader and practices in the area of patent law as a member of the Intellectual Property Law Practice Group of the Litigation Section of Holland & Knight. A registered patent attorney, Brian focuses his practice on client management, general intellectual property prosecution, transactional work, litigation support, due diligence work, interference work, reexamination work, and opinion work. Mr. Colandreo has extensive technical experience in: business methods/web-based applications; graphical user interfaces; queue management and emulation; wireless network management; IP telephony; network intrusion detection systems; network compression algorithms; digital rights management; network encryption systems; audio/video streaming and advertisement insertion systems; securities trading systems; superconducting rotating machines and transmission cables; medical devices; personal media devices; and consumer goods. Mr. Colandreo’s clients range from small start-up companies to publicly-traded companies.
Prior to entering law school, Mr. Colandreo worked as a systems/software engineer for Johnson Controls. Prior to joining Holland & Knight, Mr. Colandreo practiced at Fish & Richardson P.C. in Boston and McDermott, Will & Emery in Boston.
Jacalyn A. Colburn, JD '96
Jacalyn A. Colburn has been the director of legal services at the New Hampshire Public Defender in Concord, New Hampshire for the past eight years, where she is the supervisor of approximately 100 attorneys and the administration of legal services in 10 offices. She received her B.S. from the University of New Hampshire and her J.D. from Franklin Pierce Law Center. She is admitted to the bar in New Hampshire and the U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire. She has taught Trial Practice and Advanced Trial Advocacy as an adjunct at Pierce Law Center for the last 10 years. She is also a National Trial Team Coach.
Daniel D. Crean
Daniel D. Crean is the education and training manager for New Hampshire Public Risk Management Exchange (Primex3) Concord, New Hampshire.
Before coming to Primex3, Dan practiced municipal law for more than twenty years and served as first legal counsel for the New Hampshire Municipal Association. He also was senior attorney with both the New Hampshire and Wisconsin legislative service agencies.
A graduate of Yale University and Wisconsin Law School, he has served multiple terms as chairman of the N.H. Bar Association Municipal and Governmental Law Section and is a frequent CLE panelist and speaker on municipal legal issues. He currently serves as the New Hampshire state chairman for the International Municipal Lawyers Association, and is state chair and reporter of the Personnel Section for IMLA. He founded and is president of the New Hampshire Municipal Lawyers Association. He currently is a member of the Pembroke Planning Board.
Crean also maintains a private municipal law practice, Crean Law Office, in Pembroke, and is an adjunct faculty member at Franklin Pierce Law Center where he teaches Environmental Law.
Eric Y. Drogin
Eric Y. Drogin is an attorney and forensic psychologist serving on the faculties of the Harvard Medical School and the Harvard Longwood Psychiatry Residency Training Program. In addition, he teaches at the University of Wales (Prifysgol Aberystwyth) on "Psychology and Crime" as an Honorary Professor of Law.
Previously chairing both the Committee on Legal Issues and the Committee on Professional Practice and Standards for the American Psychological Association, Dr. Drogin's current American Bar Association roles include Commissioner of the Commission on Mental and Physical Disability Law, and formerly included chairing both the Behavioral Sciences Committee and the Committee on the Rights and Responsibilities of Scientists. He is a former President of the American Board of Forensic Psychology and a former President of the New Hampshire Psychological Association.
Dr. Drogin received his Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree from Hahnemann University, and his Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from the Villanova School of Law. He teaches "Law & Mental Health" as an adjunct at the Franklin Pierce Law Center.
Robert E. Dunn, Jr.
Robert E. Dunn, Jr. is a member of the Government Relations Practice Group of Devine, Millimet & Branch, PA. His practice is focused primarily in the areas of health care, utilities, public safety, and religious institutions.
Previously, he served as the Assistant Commissioner of the NH Department of Safety, and as an Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Bureau of the NH Department of Justice. For his work on health care and Medicaid funding issues, he received the 2007 Profile Service Award from the NH Association of Counties, the 2006 President’s Award from the NH Nurses Association, and the 2004 President’s Award from the NH Health Care Association, the trade association representing New Hampshire’s non-governmental nursing homes and assisted living facilities. He has served on the NH Nuclear Decommissioning Finance Commission and several state advisory committees.
He is a member of the bars of New Hampshire and the First Circuit Court of Appeals. He received a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center and a B.A. from the College of the Holy Cross, where he graduated as Valedictorian and Bean Classics Scholar. He teaches Lobbying and the Legislative Process at Pierce Law.
Risa Evans
Risa Evans was a trial lawyer at the New Hampshire Public Defender for nearly five years, and an appellate lawyer at the Appellate Defender Program for several years after that. She has extensive experience doing legal research, writing and analysis, both as a clerk at the New Hampshire Supreme Court and as a consultant. She teaches Fundamentals of Lawyering, and has taught legal research and writing in the past. She is a graduate of Barnard College and Yale Law School.
Peter T. Foley
Peter T. Foley has practiced law in New Hampshire for the past 22 years, after serving for ten years as a senior assistant attorney general and director of civil litigation with the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office, he opened and maintains a solo practice specializing in mediation services, administrative law and sports law. He is a 1981 graduate (cum laude) of Georgetown University Law Center. He teaches Sports Law at Pierce Law.
Raymond J. Friel, BCL, LLM, BL
Raymond Friel graduated from the Faculty of Law, University College Cork, Ireland in 1984 and from the University of Exeter, England in 1986 with an LLM in European Law. He joined the faculty at the Law School in Limerick in 1989. He was appointed Head of the School of Law at the University of Limerick from 1996 to 2002. In 2007 he was re-appointed Head of the Law School for a further term of office.
He was a Visiting Professor at Boston College Law School during 2002/3 where he taught Torts, EU law and Antirust . He also regularly holds a Visiting Professorship at the University of Kansas School of Law.
He is the author of several monographs and has published widely in the sphere of Commercial and European law, with articles in journals such as the Fordham International Law Review, the International Comparative Law Quarterly and the Common Law World Review.
He is an examiner for the Law Society of Ireland (similar to the American Bar Association) which regulates entry to the legal profession and is external examiner for University College Cork, Ireland and the National University of Ireland, Galway.
He is a Reporter to the Trento Common Core Project on Pre-contractual Liability. His awards include the Government of Canada Research Award Recipient 1997. He was Director of the International Commercial and Economic Research Group which is based in the School of Law from 2002 until 2007.
Arthur G. Greene
Arthur G. Greene received an A.B. from Syracuse University and an LL.M. from Boston University. He has been trained as a mediator and serves in that capacity as a volunteer in the Superior Court. He is a member of the New Hampshire Bar and is also admitted to practice in the Federal Courts for the District of New Hampshire, the District of Maine and the First Circuit Court of Appeals.
His consulting practice focuses on both practice management and the strategic and financial aspects of maintaining a healthy firm. His consulting involves conducting firm audits, facilitating retreats, providing recommendations, assisting with the implementation of change and conducting educational programs. He teaches Law Office management as an adjunct at Pierce Law Center. read more>>>
Benjamin J. Hauptman, JD '80
Benjamin J. Hauptman has practiced for more than 20 years in the fields of patent and trademark matters, including preparing and prosecuting patent applications in the complex mechanical and electrical arts, and in counseling clients in all aspects of intellectual property protection, including enforcement and infringement of intellectual property rights. He has extensive experience in all patent prosecution aspects of semiconductor and display technologies, automotive, laser machining and complex mechanical and instrumentation arts.
As an adjunct professor of law at Franklin Pierce Law Center he lectures on intellectual property topics, with emphasis on patent applications and infringement opinion drafting. He is also a professor of law at the National Law School of India University in Bangalore, India.
He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Juris Doctor Degree from Franklin Pierce Law Center. He is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and Virginia, and before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Virginia and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Hauptman serves as coordinator and lecturer of intellectual law seminars presented from time to time at Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP for foreign practitioners both in the United States and abroad. He also works closely with foreign associates in obtaining worldwide patent protection. He is also primarily responsible for the training of foreign trainees (e.g., from Japan, Korea, China and Vietnam) who train within the firm on a regular basis, often in satisfaction of their Masters in Intellectual Property (M.I.P) Degree from Franklin Pierce Law Center.
Russell F. Hilliard
Russell F. Hilliard, is associated with the law firm of Upton & Hatfield, LLP. He has taught as Professional Responsibility as an adjunct at Pierce Law Center for many years.
Martin Jenkins
Martin Jenkins is currently legal counsel for the New Hampshire Department of Labor. He has been an attorney in New Hampshire for 30 years. He received his B.A. degree from Dartmouth College and his J.D. degree from Boston University School of Law. He teaches Graduate Programs Litigation Analysis as an adjunct at Pierce Law Center.
David J. Kera
David J. Kera is the senior member of the Trademark and Copyright Department of Oblon Spivak. His practice includes opinions, practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, contested proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, and federal court litigation. He is a nationally recognized authority on trademark licensing. Kera received his law degree from Harvard University, and his bachelor of arts degree from New York University. He is admitted to practice in Virginia, the District of Columbia and New York. He teaches Inter-Parties Practice in the USPTO as an adjunct at Pierce Law Center.
Barbara R. Keshen
Barbara R. Keshen spent the first third of her life as a prosecutor, from 1978-1985 in the Essex County District Attorney’s Office where she prosecuted hundreds of misdemeanor and felony cases, and was appointed deputy director of the Sexual Assault Unit. From 1985-1990 she was a prosecutor in the Criminal Justice Bureau of the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office, prosecuting mostly homicide cases.
From 1992 to 2006 she worked for the New Hampshire Public Defender’s Office, defending serious felony and homicide cases. She have served on the faculty of NITA (National Institute of Trial Attorneys), and has taught Trial Advocacy as an adjunct at Pierce Law on and off for several years. She is currently the first staff attorney that the New Hampshire Civil Liberties Union has had.
Connie Boyles Lane
Connie B. Lane is an attorney with the law firm of Orr & Reno with her practice focus in business and real estate. She has 25 years of diversified legal experience in small business, banking and real estate, and is admitted in the state courts of New Hampshire and Connecticut. She received a B.A. from the University of Georgia, and a J.D. from the University of Virginia. Lane participates in the Pro Bono Referral System of New Hampshire. She teaches Nonprofit Law & Management as an adjunct at Pierce Law Center.
Behzad Mirhashem
Behzad Mirhashem has served as a staff attorney with the New Hampshire Public Defender for many years where he represented hundreds of indigent clients charged with felonies and misdemeanors. He has defended clients at dozens of jury and bench trials. He earned a B.A. degree from Williams College, a Ph.D. in physics from University of Maryland and a J.D. degree from Northeastern University School of Law. He has taught Evidence as an adjunct at Pierce Law Center for eight years.
James H. Moir
James H. Moir is manager of the Concord law firm of Moir & Associates, LLC. His focus is upon criminal defense in both State and Federal Court. From 1984 until 1994, Attorney Moir was employed by the New Hampshire Public Defender Program where he was a member of the homicide unit. He is admitted to the bar of the State of New Hampshire and the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire. He recieved a BA from Macalester College in 1976 and a JD from the University of Pittsburgh in 1984. Attorney Moir has taught trial advocacy at Pierce Law Center for nearly 20 years.
Sally O'Brien
Sally O’Brien works for New Hampshire Ball Bearings as their Senior Counsel, and she also holds the positions of Secretary for the Corporation and the Assistant Export Control Compliance Officer for NMB USA and its subsidiaries. Her duties include being responsible for all legal matters relating to NHBB, including compliance, security, acquisitions and divestitures, litigation management, negotiations, transactional matters and government contracting issues.
She earned a BS in Business with high honors from the University of New Hampshire in Manchester, NH, an Executive Summary in Business with a concentration in Strategic Management and Finance from MIT, in Cambridge, MA and she obtained her Law Degree from Franklin Pierce Law Center in Concord, NH. She is currently licensed to practice law in the State of New Hampshire.
R. Drew Ogden, JD '86
R. Drew Ogden is a founder and managing member of the Henniker River Group and a principal and managing member of Henniker River Advisors. Drew’s role at Henniker River involves facilitating the business development needs of high tech ventures and creative enterprises, including advising clients in the areas of strategic planning, channel expansion, licensing, international business and private equity fund raising and facilitating strategic partnerships, mergers and acquisitions. He holds a B.S. degree from Franklin Pierce College, and J.D. degree from Franklin Pierce Law Center. He teaches Mergers & Acquisitions as an adjunct at Pierce Law Center.
David William Plant
David W. Plant practiced law in New York City with Fish & Neave for many years, where his practice focused on trials and appeals in federal courts, proceedings before the ITC, FTC, and USPTO and various ADR processes. He holds degrees in engineering and law from Cornell University, and is a member of the bars of New York, the United States Supreme Court, various U. S. courts of appeals and district courts and the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office. He currently teaches Negotiations Workshop as an adjunct Professor in the Daniel Webster Scholars Program at Pierce Law Center. read more>>>
Parker B. Potter, JD '99
Parker B. Potter received his B.A. degree from Washington & Lee University, his M.A. from Brown University and his J.D. from Franklin Pierce Law Center. He has served as a law clerk in the U. S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire, the New Hampshire Supreme Court. He teaches Judicial Opinion Drafting as an adjunct at Pierce Law Center.
Scott Pueschel
Scott Pueschel is a partner in the law of Pierce Atwood in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Prior to that he was a partner at the law firm of Hale and Dorr, LL.P. in Boston, MA. Scott maintains a practice focused on emerging companies, early and late stage venture capital transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and public and private offerings of securities, while providing day-to-day counsel to his clients.
His clients have included both public and privately held software, computer hardware, telecommunications, life sciences and other technology companies, as well as companies involved in alternative energy and more traditional businesses. He teaches Mergers & Acquisitions as an adjunct at Pierce Law Center.
Emily Gray Rice
Emily Gray Rice is a member of the adjunct faculty at Pierce Law where she teaches Trial Advocacy in the Daniel Webster Scholar Honors Program. She is a shareholder in the law firm of Orr & Reno, P.A. in Concord. She was formerly with the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office as a senior assistant attorney general. Currently she is the chair of the board of directors of the New Hampshire Bar Foundation and the chair of the Advisory Committee on Rules of the U. S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. read more>>>
David W. Ruoff, JD '96
David W. Ruoff is an attorney at the law firm of Nixon Peabody, LL.P. in Manchester, New Hampshire. He served previously as an assistant attorney general of New Hampshire for 5 years in charge of leading homicide investigations, prosecuting homicides, high-profile white collar, environmental and public integrity crimes; prosecuting criminal appeals in the New Hampshire Supreme Court and defending the State in federal habeas corpus cases. He received a B.A. from University of New Hampshire, and a J.D. from Franklin Pierce Law Center. He has taught Advanced Trial Advocacy as an adjunct for 10 years at Pierce Law Center.
Daniel Sklar
Daniel Sklar is Senior Counsel at the firm of Nixon Peabody, LLP in Manchester, NH, where his practice areas are Bankruptcy and Financial restructuring. He concentrates his practice in lending transactions, loan workouts and liquidations, bankruptcy reorganizations, and lender liability. He also has extensive experience in the area of corporate law and commercial transactions. Over the past twenty years and more, Mr. Sklar has represented debtors, trustees, secured creditors, committees, stockholders, lessors, and senior executives in large Chapter 11 cases around the country, and has also been involved in a number of international insolvencies.
Mr. Sklar lectures frequently in these areas for both bar associations and private continuing education groups. Mr. Sklar is also an adjunct professor of law at Franklin Pierce Law Center, where he teaches a course on bankruptcy and reorganization. He also handles general business transactions.
Mr. Sklar is admitted to practice before the state courts of New Hampshire, the U.S. District Court of New Hampshire, the First Circuit Court of Appeals, and the U.S. Supreme Court.
Shane R. Stewart
Shane R. Stewart is an adjunct professor of Military Criminal Justice at Pierce Law Center. He is presently a member of the law firm of Tarbell & Brodich in Concord. He is certified for duty as a judge advocate and a member of Army’s JAG Corps. He served a 15-month tour of duty in Iraq as a brigade judge advocate and trial counsel for the 197th Field Artillery Brigade with emphasis on criminal prosecution, operational law, administrative law, claims, contracts, fiscal law and legal services.
Peter Tamposi
Attorney Peter Tamposi represents debtor in all aspects of reorganization and liquidation, including pre-petition negotiations with secured creditors, negotiation of prepackaged plans, workouts, restructuring and forbearance agreements. He also has extensive experience representing creditors in bankruptcies, including involuntary bankruptcies, litigation in the bankruptcy court for stay relief, foreclosure and secured party sales, creditor committee representation, negotiation of cash collateral and debtor in possession financing arrangements, negotiation, documentation and restructuring of loan obligations, defense of avoidance claims and lien termination actions, objections to discharge and dischargeability and third party plans.
Peter also has extensive litigation experience, including conducting and coordinating all aspects of general commercial litigation in both state and federal court representing plaintiffs and defendants.
A member of the American Bar Association, American Bankruptcy Institute and the New Hampshire Bar Association, Attorney Tamposi also serves on the board of directors of the Nashua Children's Home and the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, Greater Nashua Region.
Tamposi earned his B.S. from UNH Whittemore School of Business, 1989, cum laude and his J.D. from Suffolk Law School, 1995.
Ronald N. Weikers
Ronald N. Weikers, is an adjunct professor, who teaches CyberCrime each spring semester. He is the principal of Weikers & Co., a law firm that handles high technology licensing and litigation matters for clients across the country. Ron has handled mostly software-related matters since having worked in Silicon Valley.
He has authored several books and regularly speaks and publishes articles on a variety of computer law issues. Ron received a J.D. from Villanova University School of Law, where
he was a published member of the Villanova Law Review, and a B.S. from
Carnegie Mellon University. He can be reached for comments and questions at
(603) 647-2000 and Software-Law.com.
Michael L. Wood
Michael L. Wood is a partner in the law firm of McSwiney, Semple, Hankin-Birke & Wood, P.C. in New London, New Hampshire. He was admitted to the New Hampshire Bar in 1992, having earned his J.D. from Suffolk University Law School in 1992, and his B.A. from St. Mary’s College of Maryland in 1986. He teaches Estate Planning and Wealth Transmission as an adjunct at Pierce Law Center.
