Experience

Jeremy practices primarily with the firm's litigation department, working on litigation matters in a wide range of areas, such as contract, land-use, association governance, partition, employment, civil rights, negligence and constitutional litigation.

As a member of the firm's Media Law and First Amendment group, Jeremy has defended television, newspaper and internet clients from lawsuits at the trial and appellate court levels. Most recently, he briefed and argued Implode Explode Heavy Industries, Inc. v. Mortgage Specialists , a case before the New Hampshire Supreme Court that has garnered national attention for the issues it raises concerning the application of the First Amendment to anonymous speech on the internet, and the protection of online journalists writing on matters of public significance.

Jeremy's developing practice in appellate law, with four cases currently pending before the New Hampshire Supreme Court, provides clients with highly effective written and oral appellate advocacy at a comparatively low cost. For instance, Jeremy's research and briefing were instrumental in bringing about a result in a recent case, Gilman Trust v. Lake Sunapee Properties , argued by the firm's Jim Bassett, that overturned two hundred year old assumptions about New Hampshire law in the matter of property partition. As a third year associate, Jeremy's relatively low cost permits clients to take advantage of all the resources of Orr & Reno at a comparably good rate. Recently, in Burke v. Pierro, Jeremy successfully defended an appeal for a lakefront lot owner who had prevailed at trial with local counsel. The local counsel had assembled a superb trial record and obtained a very favorable result for the client, but didn't have the resources in-house to handle appeal proceedings. Working closely with the client and the trial record put together by the local team, Jeremy was able to bring Orr & Reno's resources to bear in a way that added significant value to the process. For this reason, Jeremy is an excellent referral option for small firms and solo practitioners in New Hampshire who just don't have the time and resources to prosecute or defend an appeal for a valued client.

Prior to his legal career, Jeremy worked for a decade in non-profit management, both overseas and in the United States. He spent four years with Peace Corps and the International Rescue Committee in West Africa, overseeing upcountry operations for IRC's Guinea relief program, which provided services to 750,000 Liberian and Sierra Leonean refugees. Upon his return to the US, he worked with Lutheran Family Services, a refugee resettlement agency in Raleigh, NC, and for the Rockefeller Center for Public Policy at Dartmouth College. The latter position marked his happy return to New Hampshire, as he grew up in Moultonborough in the northern Lakes Region. He continues to maintain an interest in international issues.

He speaks French and German.

Honors and Distinctions

• Boston College Law School: Best Oral Advocate, Class of 2007
• 2007 Phillip C. Jessup International Moot Court Competition
• Best Oralist (Northeast Region)
• Best Brief (Northeast Region)
• Fourth Best Oralist (International Rounds, Washington D.C.)

Bar Admissions

Jeremy is admitted to practice in the state courts of New Hampshire and the Federal District Court of New Hampshire.

Education

Boston College Law School, J.D., cum laude, 2007; Tufts University, B.A., 1994

Publications

“A Measure of Justice: The Special Court for Sierra Leone and the Development of Domestic and International Criminal Law,” Praxis, the Fletcher Journal of Human Security, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University (2007).