General practice firm located in south suburbs of Boston, MA, offering services across Boston Metro and Cape Cod areas in the following areas:Domestic Relations & Family Law; Plaintiff Personal Injury Claims (Auto, Motorcycle, Medical Malpractice, Products Liability, Slip & Fall), Residential and Commercial Real Estate (Transactions, Development, Permitting & Litigation), Wills & Estate Planning, Corporate Organization, Governance & Litigation, and Mediation Services.

In-house counsel to a consortium of real estate development entities, focusing on residential, commercial and mixed-use projects; developed documents and best practices for organizational structure and liability exposure, and involved in all phases of property acquisition, sale, permitting, drafting of ordinances, statutory and regulatory compliance and interpretation, green development efforts; prosecute or defend all development-related litigation

* Conservation Commission, 9 years (appointed position, twice serving as chair)* Board of Selectmen (chief executive board; elected to two 3-yr. terms, one year as chair), * Master Plan Committee, 4 years (appointed)* Affordable Housing Committee 3 years (appointed, serving as co-chair). * Responsible for and very experienced in the drafting of legislation and regulations and in the procedures of the legislative, administrative and regulatory processes.

Tombari, Burbine & Callahan, LLC - Holbrook & Norwell, MA Oct. 2003-Jan. 2006Law Office of Thomas J. Callahan - Holbrook, MA May 1994-Oct. 2003* Built a successful litigation & transactional practice in general civil litigation (commercial, tort, contract). real estate, municipal law, environmental law & permitting, business law, business organization & counseling, and domestic relations/probate.

* In-house senior attorney in a subrogation/cost recovery services company * Responsible for the identification, assessment and prosecution of insurance subrogation claims, litigating claims throughout the US, particularly on the issue of Federal pre-emption* Developed plan provisions, best practices and research database * Served as first dedicated Director of Marketing, establishing and implementing a successful marketing plan for growth of the client base.

Tucker, Biegel & Goldstein - Boston, MA & East Brunswick, NJ -Mar. 1990-Feb. 1994(predecessor: Roberts, Carroll, Feldstein & Tucker - Providence, RI - June 1989-Feb. 1990)* Asst. regional mgr. for a Fortune 500 corp. in nationwide asbestos litigation.* Helped develop client's self-directed litigation management structure.* Successfully managed the litigation of hundreds of cases pending in multiple jurisdictions. * Supervised paralegals, in-firm counsel and outside local counsel.* Successfully planned and implemented litigation strategies, defense cost/indemnity budgets; adept at verdict prediction and risk assessment. * Responsible for regular management reporting to client* Primary representative of the client in court and ADR proceedings.* Responsible for post-trial/appeal activity.* For the predecessor firm, attached to its corp. law dept. in Boston branch office. General corporate, real estate, commercial lending and insurance defense litigation matters.