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Practice Focus
Rob’s active business litigation practice concentrates on complex commercial disputes with a special emphasis on disputes in the federal courts involving federal jurisdiction and Constitutional law, and disputes involving intellectual property including trademark, trade dress, and copyright. His practice focus also concentrates on appellate work before the Supreme Court.
Rob also handles particular issues in residential and commercial real estate litigation – notably zoning, planning and land use cases, disputes over cell tower location under the federal Telecommunications Act, and realtor malpractice and misrepresentation cases. He is one of New Hampshire’s most experienced litigators on the scope and application of the New Hampshire Consumer Protection Act (RSA 358-A).Sample Matters
Prosecuted federal 42 USC 1983 civil rights and abuse of office claims against the Town of Salisbury, New Hampshire Board of Selectmen and Zoning Board on behalf of a local landowner attempting to build homes on a Class VI Road – obtaining all permits sought by the landowner and a significant reimbursement of attorneys fees and costs from the Town after a mediated settlement.
Successfully represented a well-known New York City literary agency against a major New York City publishing house and a best-selling celebrity author in a contract action for unpaid royalties and rights to subsidiary works.
Successfully argued that state statutory and regulatory law preempted local zoning in representing the Hawthorne-Feather Airport in establishing new, state-of-the-art hangars and other upgrades at its facility in Deering, New Hampshire.
Education
B.A., with distinction, Yale University
J.D., University of Pennsylvania Law School
Honors
Before joining Sheehan Phinney in 1999, Rob was a law clerk to Chief Judge Paul J. Barbadoro of the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire. At the University of Pennsylvania Law School, he was appointed as an H. Clayton Louderback Instructor in Legal Writing and served as Chairman of the law school’s Committee on Honors and Academic Standing, and published in The University of Pennsylvania Law Review.
Memberships and Admissions
Rob is a member of the New Hampshire Bar Association, and is licensed to practice in the New Hampshire state courts, the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire, and before the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
Community Involvement
Very active in the local community, Rob presently serves as President and of the Yale Club of New Hampshire, on the Board of Directors of Leadership Manchester, on the Board of Directors of Camp Belknap, and as a Community Allocations Team Captain for the United Way of Greater Manchester. Rob is a well-known published author whose books, including Law School Confidential, Med School Confidential and Campus Confidential are best-sellers in their fields and have been translated into multiple languages. | 