Office:              19 Main Street                                                  Home: 18 Trim Street

P.O. Box 1466                                                              Camden, Maine 04843

Camden, Maine 04843

 

Telephone:      (207) 236-3610                                                              (207) 236-2255

                        (207) 236-4117 (fax)                                                      (207) 763-3463 (summer)

 

 

E-mail:             lawyered@midcoast.com

 

Education:

 

Franklin Pierce Law Center                                                                   LL. M. in Intellectual Property,

Concord, New Hampshire                                                                      Technology & Commerce, 2005

                                                                                                                 

Suffolk University

School of Law                                                                                       J.D., cum laude, 1978

Boston, Massachusetts

 

Boston University

College of Business Administration                                                         B.S., cum laude 1972

Boston, Massachusetts

 

Employment:

 

Attorney in Private Practice                                                                   1986 - present

Camden, Maine

 

University of Maine at Orono

Hutchinson Center                                 Adjunct Professor                     2001 

Belfast, Maine                                       Business Law

 

Blackberry Inn                                      owner & operator                      1986 - 1998

Camden, Maine

 

New Level Technologies, Inc.                Director, Legal Applications       1985 ¿ 1986

Lawrence, Massachusetts

 

American Society of Law & Medicine    Executive Director                    1977- 1985

Boston, Massachusetts

 

Tufts -New England Medical Center      Ass't Administrator                    1972- 1977

Boston, Massachusetts                              for Research

 

Bar Admissions:

 

Maine                                                               1986

Massachusetts                                                  1978

United States District Court, Massachusetts        1980

United States Supreme Court                             1982

 

Honors:

 

Participant, Leadership Maine (theta class ¿ 2000-2001), Maine Development Foundation

Staff, Suffollk University Law Review

Who's Who in American Law (4th edition)

Men of Achievement (20th edition) (1987)

Book of the Year Award (Legal and Ethical Aspects of Health Care for the Elderly) by American Journal of Nursing (1987)

Nominee, James A. Hamilton Hospital Administrator¿s Book Award (Defining Human Life: Medical, Legal and Ethical Implications) by American College of Hospital Administrators (1985)

 

Public Service:

 

Blue Ribbon Committee on Economic Development                                             2005

Town of Camden

 

Finance Committee                                                                                            2002 - 2003

Northeast Health System

Rockport                                                                                                          

 

Committee Chair                                                                                               2000 ¿ 2004

Boy Scout Troop 200

Camden-Rockport

 

Municipal Land Use Committee                                                                         1999 - 2001

Town of Camden

 

Board of Directors                                                                                            1996 - 1998

Maine School Administration District #28

Camden ¿Rockport

 

Affordable Housing Committee                                                                          1992 - 1994

Town of Camden

 

Board of Trustees                                                                                             1989 - 1992

Penobscot Bay Medical Center

Rockport, Maine

 

Advisory Panel                                                                                                  1985 - 1986

Life Sustaining Technologies and the Elderly Project

Office of Technology Assessment

United States Congress

 

Board of Directors                                                                                            1985 - 1986

American Academy of Health Administrators

Washington, D.C.

 

Human Research Review Committee                                                                 1981 ¿ 1984

Joseph P. Kennedy Memorial Hospital

Boston, Massachusetts

 

Advisory Council                                                                                               1980 ¿ 1982

Handicapped Education Law Project

New England Medical Center

Boston, Massachusetts

 

 

Board of Editors                                                                                                1979 ¿ 1981

Health Law in Canada

Canadian Institute of Law & Medicine

Ottawa, Ontario

 

Publications (books):

 

Health Care Labor Law, co-edited (AUPHA Press, Ann Arbor) (1981)

 

Legal and Ethical Aspects of Treatment for Critically and Terminally Ill Patients, co-edited (AUPHA

Press) Ann Arbor) (1982)

 

Refusing Mental Health Treatment: Values in Conflict, co-edited (AUPHA Press, Ann Arbor) (1982)

 

Defining Human Life: Medical, Legal and Ethical Implications, co-edited (AUPHA Press,

Ann Arbor) (1983)

 

Institutional Ethics Committees and Health Care Decision Making, co-edited (Health Administration Press, Ann Arbor) (1984)

 

Legal and Ethical Aspects of Health Care for the Elderly, co-edited (Health Administration Press, Ann Arbor) (1984)

 

Publications (articles):

 

American Journal of Law & Medicine

Executive Editor                                                                                    1982 - 1986

 

Law, Medicine & Health Law, formerly Medicolegal News

Managing Editor                                                                                    1977 - 1986

Interim Editor-in-Chief                                                                           1984 ¿ 1985

 

¿Admission of Hearsay Evidence at Probation and Parole Revocation Hearings," Suffolk University Law Review 9:602 (1977)

 

"Current Status and Utility of Emergency Medical Care Liability Law," co-author, Forum 15:377

(Winter 1980)

 

¿Legal Aspects of Health Care for Children: An International Conference," International Digest of

Health Legislation 31:222 (1980)

 

"Legal Responsibility for Nursing Negligence," Today's Operating Room Nurse (August 1980)

 

¿Informed Consent: How Much Should the Patient Know?¿ in Rights and Responsibilities in Modern

Medicine, M. Basson, editor (A1an R. Liss, Inc., New York) (1981)

 

"Fetal Rights? It Depends,¿ Tria1 18:38 (April 1982)

 

"Section 504, Handicapped Newborns and Ethics Committees: An Alternative to the Hotline," Law,

Medicine & Health Care 11:200 (October 1983)

 

¿The Emergence of Institutional Ethics Committees," co-author, Law, Medicine & Health Care 12:13 (February 1984)

 

"Decision Making and Patients' Rights," American Health Care Association Journal (May 1985)

 

¿Durable Powers of Attorney in Health Care Decision Making," Journal of Legal Medicine (Spring 1986)

 

"New Developments in Medical Decision Making: Durable Powers of Attorney and Ethics Committees," in Primary Care Clinics of North America, M. Victoroff, editor (W.B. Saunders, Philadelphia) (1986)