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Mr. Dennison is a general commercial litigator, who co-chairs the Complex and Restructuring Litigation Practice Group and chairs the real estate and telecommunications litigation practices at the Firm. He has significant experience in complex commercial litigation, including class action, contract, construction, land use, bankruptcy, telecommunications, environmental and public interest litigation. Mr. Dennison works with clients of various size, from individuals to public officials to Fortune 500 corporations.
Mr. Dennison has represented major developers and nationally recognized commercial tenants in a wide variety of leasing and land use litigation. He has successfully defended the then Acting Governor of Massachusetts against a federal civil rights action brought by another public official, and after jury trial, helped secure a complete defense verdict on behalf of a Fortune 500 company in a $12.5 million breach of contract case. Mr. Dennison has acted as lead trial counsel to a potentially responsible party in a five-week federal Superfund trial, and as lead trial counsel to this Country’s largest baking company in post-acquisition contract litigation. He has also served as trial counsel to a number of wireless telecommunications companies in dozens of telecommunications, contract, and land use cases in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Maine.
Mr. Dennison was appointed as a Special Assistant Attorney for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for purposes of its tobacco litigation and, in this capacity, helped secure the largest monetary settlement in Massachusetts history.
Representative Matters
• Mihos v. Swift, defended Acting Governor in federal civil rights suit.
• Tiverton Power Association v. The Shaw Group, successfully defended multimillion dollar construction contract litigation.
• In re: WorldCom Inc., helped secure multimillion dollar recovery for trade creditors in major bankruptcy matter.
• Connecticut Valley Sanitary Waste Disposal, Inc. v. Zielinski, 436 Mass. 267 (2001). Successfully represented lessor of landfill property in precedent setting commercial litigation before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.
• Sprint Spectrum L.P. v. Town of Easton, 982 F. Supp. 2d. 47 (D. Mass. 1997). Successfully represented major telecommunications carrier in precedent setting civil rights litigation.
Publications
• Co-author, “A Special Report on White Collar Crime,” published in the International Financial Law Review.
• Co-Author, “Product Liability Litigation Against Cigarette Manufacturers – The State Attorney General Actions,” published by the American Bar Association.
Awards & Honors
• Who’s Who in Tobacco Litigation, published by American Lawyer
Community Involvement
• Adjunct Professor and Lecturer-in-Law, New England School of Law
• Board of Directors, Boston Bar Association Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights
• Former General Counsel, Massachusetts Promise (General Colin Powell’s Youth Initiative)
• Former Board Member, New England Shelter for Homeless Veterans and Vietnam Veterans Workshop, Inc.
• Former Member/Associate Member Town of Duxbury Historical Commission and Zoning Board of Appeals
• Former Co-Chair of Town of Duxbury Democratic Town Committee
Bar Admissions & Memberships
• Admitted, Massachusetts and New York Bars
• Member, Boston Bar Association
• Member, Board of Directors, Brown Rudnick Charitable Foundation
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