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DAVID A. GOLDMAN brings a wide range of business law and litigation experience to his unusually diverse work on insurance defense, insurance coverage, employment and commercial litigation cases. He also assists in the preparation of personal injury and medical malpractice for trial, and in criminal defense cases. Mr. Goldman is a member of the Maine State Bar Association and the Cumberland County Bar Association. He earned his B.A. degree from Colby College and his J.D. degree, magna cum laude, from the University of Maine School of Law. MARK W. LAWRENCE is an experienced trial attorney with more than 20 years of practice before state, district, superior and supreme courts in both Maine and New Hampshire, as well as in federal courts in these states. Mr. Lawrence has handled real estate transactions, boundary disputes, divorce litigation, criminal matters, zoning issues, will contests, trusts, estate planning and bankruptcies for his clients. He has also had considerable experience counseling clients on strategies for resolving often complicated personal and business legal issues. Mr. Lawrence is a seasoned negotiator, skilled in assisting clients to resolve disputes without expensive court litigation. He is admitted to the bar in Maine and New Hampshire, and is a member of numerous legal societies including the York County, Maine State and New Hampshire bar associations; the Maine Trial Lawyers Association; and the American Association for Justice. He earned his law degree from the University of Maine School of Law where he was a member of the Maine Law Review. While in his second year of college, Mr. Lawrence was elected to the Maine House of Representatives. After graduating from law school in 1990, he entered the private practice of law. At the same time, he served 12 years in the Maine Legislature, first as a representative (1988-1992) and then as a senator (1992-2000), the last four years as president of the Maine Senate. During that time, he was involved in writing many of the significant changes in Maine law. In 2003, he became York County District Attorney and served two terms before deciding not to seek re-election in 2010 and return to private practice where he could apply his skills on behalf of his clients. As the district attorney, he prosecuted numerous criminal matters as well as oversaw all criminal and civil prosecutions brought by the fifteen assistant district attorneys who worked for him in Maine's second largest prosecutorial district. In eight years as district attorney, Mr. Lawrence's office handled approximately 100,000 matters. DAVID T. SLATERY is an attorney with the Lewiston law firm of Brann & Isaacson, where his areas of practice include real estate, finance, development and business matters. He has previously spoken for National Business Institute and other association seminars on limited liability companies, environmental law and housing finance programs. Mr. Slatery is admitted to practice in Massachusetts and Maine, and is a member of the Boston, Maine State and American bar associations. He earned his B.A. degree, cum laude, from Allegheny College and his J.D. degree from the University of Chicago. CHRISTOPHER G. STEVENSON is an attorney and certified public accountant with the law firm of Drummond Woodsum, where he focuses his practice on tax law and ERISA compliance. Mr. Stevenson is also a frequent speaker and author on a variety of tax and ERISA issues and enjoys breaking down his topics into a practical format that is understandable and useful to non-tax professionals. He earned his undergraduate degree in professional accounting from the University of Vermont's School of Business Administration and his law degree from Maine Law, where he graduated with honors and was the recipient of the Outstanding Scholastic Achievement Award for his work in the area of tax law, the Honorable Daniel E. Wathen Legal Writing Prize for Maine Law's first-year writing competition, and the Kenneth Clegg Memorial Writing Award from the Maine State Bar Association.
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