Faculty of the Daniel Webster Scholar Honors Program
John Burwell Garvey
Pierce Law Professor of Law
Director, Daniel Webster Scholar Honors Program
Prior to joining Pierce Law as a full time faculty member in 2005, Professor Garvey had a long association as a member of the adjunct faculty. He has extensive teaching experience and has been a frequent presenter to lawyers and judges. He first taught Evidence at Pierce Law in 1985, and continues to teach Evidence and other courses.
In addition to his teaching experience, Garvey brings to Pierce Law nearly 30 years of lessons learned in practice. He started his legal career as a Lieutenant in the United States Navy Judge Advocate General's Corps and successfully defended what is believed to be the first case of a military doctor ever charged with manslaughter arising out of the death of a patient.
During his three years in the Navy, Lieutenant Garvey had a distinguished courtroom career and received both the Navy Achievement Medal and the American Bar Association Award for Professional Merit.
David Cleveland
Dartmouth College, English/Shakespeare major
David Cleveland has a passion for the dramatic arts and arts education as well as a commitment to the future of New Hampshire. He was born and raised in New London, NH and is the son of the late Jim Cleveland, who for 20 years was the US Representative for New Hampshire's 2nd Congressional District.
David Cleveland began his career in the arts by performing with the Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Boulder Dinner Theater, the Country Dinner Playhouse, the Weston Playhouse in Vermont, the La Jolla Playhouse in California, and Off Broadway at the Equity Library Theater.
Since then he has performed, and/or produced and directed theater and award winning shows, in among other places, the prestigious Empty Space Theater in Seattle, the Lowenstein Theater in Denver and the Derby Dinner Theater in Louisville, KY.
In New York City, he appeared on Broadway in Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera. For 10 years he performed all of the male roles in all 4 productions of "Phantom" in North America. He established the Sharon Stage Educational Theater Program, in Connecticut, and many of his students have gone on to Broadway and feature films.
Arthur G. Greene
Green Lombardi Law Group, PLLC
Arthur G. Greene has a statewide trial practice focusing on land use litigation, tax abatement appeals, eminent domain cases, environmental litigation, municipal law, business disputes and personal injury cases. He has over 37 years experience conducting trials in the New Hampshire Superior Court, the Federal District Courts for the Districts of New Hampshire and Maine, and handling appeals to the New Hampshire Supreme Court and the First Circuit Court of Appeals. Arthur G. Greene is trained as a mediator and serves in that capacity as a volunteer with the New Hampshire Superior Court.
Greene has a consulting practice in which he advises and supports the legal profession. He conducts law firm retreats and consults on a wide range of law practice management issues, including trends in the profession, attorney/client dynamics, utilizing paralegals, increasing revenue and preparing lawyers for the future.
Arthur has been active in a number of professional associations and has held leadership positions in both the New Hampshire Bar Association and the American Bar Association.
Marcus Hurn
Pierce Law Professor of Law
Professor Hurn has taught fifteen different subjects and basic courses including Contracts, Civil Procedure and Business Associations as well as specialized subjects such as state and local taxation and historical development of the common and civil law.
He is regularly sought by practicing lawyers and legislative committees for expertise on corporate law, financial reorganization, state and local taxation and charitable trusts. A recognized expert on white collar crime, he has testified in the prosecution of several multimillion dollar fraud cases.
He is also co–author of several statutes including the NH Hate Crimes Law, the sexual orientation portions of the NH Law Against Discrimination, the Business Corporations Act and the Limited Liability Company Act.
Marilyn Billings McNamara
Legal Advice and Referral Center
Concord, New Hampshire
While starting out as a general practitioner in 1978, McNamara soon began to focus on family law and developed a statewide practice in family law litigation. During her 24 year tenure in private practice she participated in the New Hampshire Bar Association's Pro Bono program as a lawyer and board member, eventually chairing the program's governing board.
She has served on the New Hampshire Judicial Council and the New Hampshire Judicial Selection Commission. She has also served on a variety of Bar committees including Continuing Legal Education and Delivery of Legal Services and Professionalism. McNamara is the Bar Association vice president in 2009.
McNamara received the L. Jonathan Ross Award for Outstanding Service to the Poor in 1996. In 2001, McNamara accepted the position of Executive Director of the Legal Advice and Referral Center (LARC). She currently sits on the Board of Bar Governors of the Bar Association. She has coached Soughegan High School's Mock Trial team.
David William Plant
New London, NH, USA
Cornell University degrees in engineering and law
From 1957 through 1998, David William Plant practiced law in New York City. Since January 1999, he has worked full time as an Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) neutral and as a teacher. For the past 25 years, he has served as a Special Master in U.S. District Courts, as a mediator and as an arbitrator in US and international disputes.
He has written and spoken on ADR issues and has led courses and workshops in arbitration and mediation around the world. His most recent book is We Must Talk Because We Can, ICC 2008. He is an adjunct professor at Cornell University Law School and Franklin Pierce Law Center, has been a Senior Fellow at the University of Melbourne Law School, and has been invited to teach at the University of Hong Kong in January 2009.
He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, the American College of Civil Trial Mediators, the College of Commercial Arbitrators, and the International Academy of Mediators. He is an accredited CEDR mediator. In 2006, Mr. Plant received the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution’s “Lawyer As Problem Solver Award”.
Alan L. Reische
Shareholder, Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green, P.A.
A.B., Harvard University
LL.B, University of Pennsylvania School of Law
LL.M. in Taxation, Boston University
Alan L. Reische's practice is focused on transactional matters: business acquisitions and mergers; planning for next-generation internal ownership transfers; and debt and equity financings from institutional and non-institutional sources. He also has completed complex transactions for U.S. companies seeking to establish a presence outside of the United States, as well as with foreign companies commencing activities within the U.S. He has had extensive experience working with the New Hampshire Bureau of Securities Regulation in assuring client compliance with the New Hampshire Blue Sky Statute.
Reische sits on the Board of Directors of the New Hampshire International Trade Association. From 1990-1995, he was a Bar Examiner for the State of New Hampshire. He also served as a member of the Business and Industry Association's Special Subcommittee on Corporations and Securities Law Revision; and presently serves as vice-chair and a member of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of the Workforce Opportunity Council; and as a member of the Governor's Advisory Committee on Capital Formation.
For three years, he served as president and director of the Court Appointed Special Advocates of NH, Inc. He also is a member New Hampshire Community Loan Fund - Vested for Growth Committee, a micro-capital fund for companies dedicated to open book management.
Emily Gray Rice
Boston University, B.A., cum laude, Philosophy and Political Science
Boston University, M.A., Political Science
Northeastern University Law School, J.D.
Appellate Advocacy Course, Attorney General's Advocacy Institute at the United States Department of Justice.
Emily Gray Rice is a trial attorney with extensive experience in federal and state courts. She also maintains a private mediation practice. She regularly defends legal, medical and other professional malpractice claims, and also defends clients in employment, media and civil rights litigation.
Earlier in her career, Emily served as chief of the Civil Bureau in New Hampshire's Department of Justice. Emily is committed to actively and efficiently resolving problems in conjunction with clients. Emily's experience includes: successfully defending obstetrician-gynecologists and other physicians before New Hampshire juries; successfully defending in the First Circuit an IP law firm's right to enforce the arbitration clause in a retainer agreement; for over a decade, serving as legal counsel to WMUR-TV, New Hampshire's largest television station; obtaining a defendant's verdict in Fair Labor Standards Act litigation; negotiating a federal court consent decree in a class action involving thousands of plaintiffs, addressing the services available to educationally-handicapped youth in residential placements
She is admitted to practice in the state courts in New Hampshire, the Federal District Court in New Hampshire and the First Circuit Court of Appeals.
Arpiar G. Saunders, Jr.
Shareholder/Director
Shaheen & Gordon, P.A.
Arpiar G. Saunders, Jr. received his Bachelor of Law Degree, cum laude, from Boston University School of Law in 1968. From 1978 through 1996, Saunders, Jr. was a professor of law at the Franklin Pierce Law Center where he taught in the areas of constitutional law, federal practice, remedies and mental health law.
With extensive civil practice experience in both federal and state courts, Saunders Jr. has an active business law practice with an emphasis on health law. He served as counsel to Optima Health as it moved through the complex disaffiliation process from its member hospitals. This representation is one of first impressions and has presented a challenging intersection of health care administration, business, physician and patient interest that are to be unwound within a process that fairly protects the interests of all concerned.
As lead counsel for Optima Health, Saunders, Jr. has been involved in oftentimes difficult and demanding administrative and court proceedings related to the disaffiliation. As a result of his health law efforts, he has been repeatedly recognized as one of America’s top health law attorneys in the publications, The Best Lawyers in America and Best of the U.S.
