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[H1] Trusted Legal Advisors: Client by Client. Case by Case.

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May 6, 2026
[H6] Business NH Magazine Names McLane Middleton as New Hampshire...

April 28, 2026
[H6] Jesse Angeley to Present on Panel for AMAA

April 24, 2026
[H6] Ramey Sylvester to attend TerraLex Global Meeting in Edinbur...

April 23, 2026
[H6] John Weaver Receives Innovation Champion Award

April 22, 2026
[H6] Six McLane Middleton Lawyers Included in 2026 Massachusetts ...

April 8, 2026
[H6] McLane Middleton’s Aaron Fenton, Nancy Keller-Go, and Vict...

March 27, 2026
[H6] Cameron Shilling to Present at Cybersecurity Symposium

March 12, 2026
[H6] Peg O'Brien to Present at NHADA Conference

February 25, 2026
[H6] Shiva Karimi to Present at 13th Annual Probate Law Conferenc...

February 24, 2026
[H6] Cameron Shilling to Present on Webinar for Business NH Magaz...

February 19, 2026
[H6] Peg O’Brien and Mike Delaney to Present at Seminar for NH ...

February 10, 2026
[H6] McLane Middleton Welcomes Attorneys Alex Intile and Katarina...

February 6, 2026
[H6] McLane Middleton and the NHSCPA Present the 2026 M&A Confere...

February 5, 2026
[H6] McLane Middleton Presents the 2026 New Hampshire Employment ...

February 3, 2026
[H6] McLane Middleton Increases Seacoast Office Space Amid Rapid ...

January 27, 2026
[H6] Whitney Alexander Named Managing Director of McLane Middleto...

January 6, 2026
[H6] John Weaver Named a “Go To Commercial Real Estate Lawyerâ€...

January 5, 2026
[H6] McLane Middleton Elects Viggo Fish, Christina Krakoff, and G...

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[H3] McLane Middleton is dedicated to our clients’ businesses, acting in a consultative fashion and offering guidance through today’s complex legal system.

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[H6] McLane Middleton Welcomes Attorneys Anthony Miele, Justin Moore, Victoria Poland, & Kendall Spencer

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Our People
[H3] Our attorneys maintain integrity and expertise to earn long-term, trusting relationships.
McLane Middleton is a leader in representing businesses and their owners in all aspects of legal issues and transactions.
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[H6] McLane Middleton Receives Ranking in Chambers High Net Worth Guide 2025

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About Us
[H3] Every day we help our clients solve their toughest legal problems and create better outcomes.
McLane Middleton holds the respected honor of being listed as one of America’s leading law firms in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business. In addition, The Best Lawyers in America publication recently endorsed 57 of our attorneys; nearly all of whom have been listed multiple times. Our firm and select attorneys also carry the highest legal ability rating in Martindale-Hubbell, with 35 being included in the most recent edition of Super Lawyers.
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Careers
[H3] Join McLane Middleton
As an attorney at McLane Middleton, you'll have the opportunity to work on complex legal matters in a collaborative environment, while maintaining a flexible lifestyle.
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Government Affairs and Regulation

[H1] McLane Middleton GPS – Government & Public Affairs Consulting

[H2] McLane Middleton GPS provides clients with strategic guidance to successfully navigate the complex boundaries of government affairs, communications and public policy. We serve a broad range of clients – including energy and health care companies, educational institutions, advocacy organizations and not-for-profits – who rely on us for creative solutions to help them achieve their goals.

McLane Middleton GPS is able to assist clients with:
Strategic Planning
Good outcomes depend on good strategy. Whether it’s supporting or opposing legislation, driving a particular point of view or message, engaging directly with policymakers and elected officials, or building supportive coalitions, GPS provides expert and bipartisan guidance to help clients achieve their goals.
Message Development and Communications
Effective messaging depends on knowing your audience, but it depends even more on knowing yourself. What are your priorities? Strengths and vulnerabilities? How are you perceived by your target audience? What do your competitors say about you? GPS advisors work closely with clients to focus on these questions, and help craft the words and phrases to communicate effectively with a target audience. At GPS, we know New Hampshire, we’ve led dozens of winning campaigns, and we bring that experience to help clients craft winning messages.

Direct Government Relations
Our bipartisan GPS team advises clients on how to engage effectively with government officials and policymakers, and we also represent clients as registered lobbyists. We have helped clients achieve positive results on some of most significant public policy issues facing our state.
Understanding of State and Federal Funding and Contracting Opportunities
Our GPS advisors have worked at the top levels of State government, and have a deep understanding of the contracting and procurement process. We have represented clients with some of the largest contracts in the State.
Crisis Management
Of course, the best time to build relationships and plan for crisis is before a crisis happens. But when the unexpected crisis occurs, we work with clients to manage messaging, communications and government relations to help stabilize the situation and achieve positive outcomes.

[H4] Practice Area Members

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Senior Advisor GPS Group

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[H5] Rich Sigel

Senior Advisor GPS Group

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[H5] Debra J. Vanderbeek

Senior Advisor GPS Group

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Practice Areas
[H1] Cybersecurity and Privacy

[H2] McLane Middleton's Cybersecurity and Privacy Group can help your business manage and address the risks inherent in our digital world.

[H3] Cybersecurity – A Compliance and Litigation Minefield
Businesses must take adequate precautions to protect the personal and health information of their customers and employees and the public at large. While companies involved in health care, banking, financial services, education, and credit services have been subject to rigorous compliance standards for some time, every business is now facing the need to comply with the multiplicity of laws and regulations enacted by the various states, including nationwide application of Massachusetts, Texas and California law.
McLane Middleton’s Cybersecurity and Privacy Group has the depth of subject matter knowledge and breadth of industry experience necessary to help your business become and stay data security compliant. Even careful companies, however, can experience a data security incident or breach. Our prompt, level-headed and meticulous responses to such breaches have helped many clients control and avoid litigation and the other potentially disastrous consequences of a breach.

[H3] Privacy – A Brave New Digital World
McLane Middleton’s Cybersecurity and Privacy Group also guides clients through the complex legal and business issues inherent in data privacy. We approach these issues proactively, starting with comprehensive information use policies and procedures tailored to each particular business and designed to avoid internal problems and costly litigation. We also train business executives, leaders, managers and employees about appropriate data use and privacy.
Our legal professionals fuse legal and technical knowledge to help clients address the myriad of data privacy issues that arise on a daily basis, particularly with respect to social media, email, webmail, mobile devices, surveillance, background checks, laptops, personal computers, servers, databases, and the many other technologies used by companies and individuals today. We also have a unique depth and breadth of business litigation experience to handle the wide variety of data privacy lawsuits that arise today.

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[H4] For additional information, contact Cameron Shilling, chair of the firm's Cybersecurity and Privacy Group.

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[H4] Artificial Intelligence
Among fast-evolving economic segments, artificial intelligence stands alone in terms of technological innovation, market potential, and ethical controversy. As AI changes lives and reinvents industries, legal challenges abound – some of them never previously encountered.
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[H5] CLIENT ALERT: Canvas/Instructure Data Breach – Action Items for Independent Schools
By Cameron G. Shilling and Brian B. Garrett
May 8, 2026

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Cybersecurity and Privacy

[H5] The Compliance Trap in Lead Generation Services
By Alex E. Intile , Katarina C. Overberg and Muhammad Usman
April 10, 2026

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[H5] $2.75 Million Record Settlement with Disney and California DOJ
By Katarina C. Overberg
March 2, 2026

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[H4] Practice Area Members

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[H5] Cameron G. Shilling

Director, Litigation Department & Chair of Cybersecurity and Privacy Group

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[H5] John F. Weaver

Director, Corporate Department and Chair, Artificial Intelligence Practice Group

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Associate, Corporate Department

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Associate, Corporate Department

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[H5] Muhammad Usman

Associate, Corporate Department

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Practice Areas
[H1] Education

[H2] McLane Middleton offers multidisciplinary depth and knowledge in all facets of education law. The firm’s education law practice group represents K-12 independent schools and colleges in New England, and provides consultation and training services to schools and school associations nationwide and internationally.

We have extensive experience in understanding and mitigating against all risks facing educational institutions. We thrive when  responding to legal and compliance challenges, always with a school’s own mission and culture in the mix as we partner to problem-solve with our clients.
Educational Programming
Each year, McLane Middleton’s Education Practice Group puts on an independent school webinar series where our experienced education attorneys cover topical and challenging issues that your school may be facing throughout the academic year. Our upcoming webinars can be found on our Events page by clicking here.
Webinars that we have presented so far can be found by clicking here. If you are interested in listening to any of these webinars, please contact McLane Middleton’s Marketing Department at marketing@mclane.com.

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[H4] For additional information, contact Brian Garrett, chair of the firm's Education Group.

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[H4] For additional information, contact Amanda Brahm, vice chair of the firm's Education Group.

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[H4] Risk Management and Counseling
We provide day-to-day counseling assistance on every aspect of school operations affecting both students and employees. We help our clients with faculty performance management, boundary challenges, leaves of absence, investigations, layoffs and furloughs, and terminations.
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[H4] Crisis Response
McLane Middleton is experienced at dealing with virtually every kind of crisis a school might face, including natural disasters and pandemics, to serious misconduct toward students and employees, including alumni reports of sexual abuse that surface in the current day.
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[H4] Consulting and Investigations
We understand that the quality of an investigation will enhance our clients’ efforts to provide a safe and supportive environment and can reduce the expenses of litigation and reputational harm posed by inadequate responses to allegations of harassment, discrimination, sexual and other misconduct.
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[H4] Trainings
Our education group provides risk management training for administrators, faculty and staff, health center staff and counselors, and students to help prepare them to address the myriad issues that arise during the daily routines at day and boarding schools.

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[H4] Expert Witness
Our attorneys serve as expert witnesses in numerous lawsuits involving the duty of care for child safeguarding applicable to youth-serving organizations, including schools, athletic clubs, and religious institutions. Many of these cases involve sexual misconduct by trusted adults, such as educators or coaches. Other cases involve misconduct by peers of children, including hazing, bullying, and other forms of harassment.
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[H4] Governance
Our attorneys counsel educational institutions on governance matters, including updating bylaws, ensuring compliance with state and federal non-profit regulations and filings, and establishing gift acceptance, conflict of interest, document retention, and whistleblower policies.
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[H4] Corporate
McLane Middleton is a leader in representing businesses and business owners in and outside New England in all aspects of corporate law and transactions. Our extensive experience and industry knowledge ideally position us to identify and implement innovative solutions to complex, high stakes issues.
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[H4] Real Estate & Land Use
McLane Middleton’s real estate attorneys make it their mission to know clients’ objectives and focus on their needs to best serve them in completing transactions.

With decades of combined experience, McLane Middleton’s knowledgeable real estate attorneys give comprehensive counsel to lenders and borrowers in general, commercial, and construction financing. We deal with loan workouts, land use matters, conservation, and zoning.
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[H4] Trusts & Estates
The Trusts & Estates Department at McLane Middleton is designed to meet all of your estate planning needs. We will work with you to devise an estate plan that achieves your goals, and minimizes administrative costs and taxes.
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[H4] Tax
McLane Middleton understands that taxes directly affect the bottom line of every business.

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[H4] Cybersecurity and Privacy
McLane Middleton's Cybersecurity and Privacy Group can help your business manage and address the risks inherent in our digital world. Technology is ingrained in every aspect of our business and personal lives. Society can hardly move fast enough to adopt today's newest technologies before tomorrow's arrive in our workplaces, homes, cars and the palms of our hands. Along with such tremendous new developments come significant new risks.
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[H4] Intellectual Property
McLane Middleton's intellectual property group works with companies to manage and execute their intellectual property strategies.

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[H4] Trial Practice and Litigation
McLane Middleton has been a leader in litigation for nearly 100 years. Our attorneys appear extensively in state and federal courts throughout New Hampshire and Massachusetts, and are frequently retained outside of New England.
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[H4] Latests Insights

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Cybersecurity and Privacy

[H5] CLIENT ALERT: Canvas/Instructure Data Breach – Action Items for Independent Schools
By Cameron G. Shilling and Brian B. Garrett
May 8, 2026

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Education

[H5] An Employee Handbook Refresher Course for Independent Schools
By Mclane Middleton
April 23, 2025

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Education

[H5] Student Handbooks - Essential Updates for the New School Year
By Mclane Middleton
March 26, 2025

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[H4] Practice Area Members

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[H5] Brian B. Garrett

Director, Litigation Department and Chair, Education Law Practice Group

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[H5] Amanda M. Brahm

Of Counsel, Litigation Department and Vice Chair Education Law Group

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[H5] Michael A. Delaney

Director and Chair, Litigation Department

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[H5] Linda S. Johnson

Director, Litigation Department and Education Law Practice Group

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Director, Litigation Department

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Of Counsel, Education Law Group

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[H5] Amanda K. Archambault

Associate, Litigation Department

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[H5] Margaret "Peg" O'Brien

Director, Litigation Department and Chair, Employment Law Group

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[H5] Cameron G. Shilling

Director, Litigation Department & Chair of Cybersecurity and Privacy Group

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[H5] Gena Lavallee

Director, Corporate Department

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[H5] Shiva Karimi

Director, Corporate Department; Chair, Immigration Law Practice Group; Managing Director, Boston Office

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Director & Chair, Tax Department

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Director, Litigation Department

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Director, Tax, Trusts & Estates, and Corporate Departments

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Director, Litigation Department

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Director, Litigation Department

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Director, Litigation Department

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Director, Litigation Department

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Of Counsel, Corporate Department

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Associate, Corporate Department

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Director, Administrative Law Department and Managing Director of the Concord Office

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Director, Litigation Department & Chair Business Litigation Practice Group

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Counsel, Litigation Department

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Director, Administrative Law and Litigation Departments and Managing Director Portsmouth Office

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Director, Corporate Department

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Director and Chair, Intellectual Property Practice Group

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[H5] William V.A. Zorn

Director and Vice Chair, Trusts & Estates Department

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Practice Areas
[H1] Trusts & Estates

[H2] The Trusts & Estates Department at McLane Middleton is designed to meet all of your estate planning needs.

McLane Middleton Trusts and Estates attorneys will work with you to devise an estate plan that achieves your goals, and minimizes administrative costs and taxes.
Our services cover essentially all aspects of estate planning, including:
Creating and implementing plan documents
Serving in fiduciary capacities
Administering trusts
Probating wills
Assisting with the transfer of non-probate assets
Tax planning
Members of our Trusts & Estates Department are fellows of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC), members of the New Hampshire Trust Council, and have written a number of articles related to estate planning.

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[H4] For additional information, contact Ryan Swartz, chair of the firm's Trusts and Estates Department.

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[H4] Trusts & Estates Planning
The Trusts and Estates Group at McLane Middleton is designed to meet all of your estate planning needs. Our goal is to work with you to devise an estate plan that works for you and to implement the plan in a manner that minimizes administrative costs and taxes.
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[H4] Asset Protection
McLane Middleton's Asset Protection & Wealth Preservation Practice Group adopts a multi-disciplinary approach to developing client solutions. The group consists of attorneys who are experienced in trust and estate planning, Medicaid planning, business entity selection and formation, commercial litigation, bankruptcy and family law matters. We have combined these areas of law because asset protection strategies and solutions vary greatly depending on each client's personal and business circumstances, as well as the nature of the assets to be protected.
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[H4] Probate Litigation
McLane Middleton has the most active probate / estate litigation practice in New Hampshire and regularly appear in Massachusetts courts. These cases often involve difficult legal issues, sometimes with important tax implications, as well challenging family dynamics and tensions. Our experience helps us provide knowledgeable and thoughtful guidance and representation.
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[H4] Elder Law and Special Needs Law
McLane Middleton’s Elder Law Practice Group is experienced in providing assistance to and enhancing the lives of individuals and families who are planning for or facing issues related to aging, incapacity, and illness.
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[H4] Tax Planning
McLane Middleton attorneys regularly represent clients confronting state and local tax issues, including: State and Local Audits; Tax Litigation; Reasonable Compensation; Rulemaking; and Real Estate Tax Appeals.
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[H4] Trust Services
Our Trust Services Group provides comprehensive administrative services for your trust, which are managed with careful attention to the needs of beneficiaries and visions of grantors.
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[H5] You Left Massachusetts - Your Real Estate Didn’t
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May 1, 2026

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[H5] Know the Law: Estate Planning with Dementia Diagnosis
By Cameron J. Cantelmo
December 20, 2025

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[H5] Know the Law: Is Massachusetts Real Estate Subject to Massachusetts Estate Tax for...
By Philip L. Tizzano
October 4, 2025

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[H4] Practice Area Members

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[H5] Ryan J. Swartz

Director and Chair, Trusts & Estates Department

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[H5] Christopher R. Paul

Director and Vice-Chair, Trusts & Estates Department

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[H5] William V.A. Zorn

Director and Vice Chair, Trusts & Estates Department

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[H5] Steven M. Burke

Director, Tax, Trusts & Estates, and Corporate Departments

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[H5] Patrick O. Collins

Director, Trusts and Estates

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Director, Trusts & Estates Department

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Director & Chair, Tax Department

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Director, Trusts & Estates Department

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Director, Trusts & Estates Department

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Senior Counsel, Trusts & Estates Department

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Director, Trusts & Estates Department

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Senior Counsel, Trusts & Estates Department

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Of Counsel, Trusts and Estates

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Of Counsel, Trusts and Estates Department

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Counsel, Tax Department

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Senior Counsel, Trusts & Estates Department

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Of Counsel, Trusts & Estates Department

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Associate

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Director, Trusts & Estates Department

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[H5] Philip L. Tizzano

Associate, Trusts and Estates Department

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