Practice Focus

Complex Commercial Litigation, Employment Litigation, Professional Liability Defense, General Civil Litigation, Alternative Dispute Resolution

Experience

Marty is a trial attorney with extensive trial experience in both state and federal courts, representing clients in complex commercial litigation, legal and other professional malpractice defense, and employment matters. She is frequently retained as a private mediator, and often presents at continuing legal education programs on professional ethics, profession liability, employment law and trial practice. Marty's recent experience includes:

• Representing general partner in multi-million dollar partnership dispute
• Serving as a special master to the Hillsborough County Probate Court In Re: Optima Health, Inc. (disaffiliation of acute care facilities)
• Successfully enforcing non-competition provision against a physician, Concord Orthopaedics v. Forbes, 142 N.H. 440 (1998)
• Obtaining summary judgment for employers in employment discrimination and wrongful discharge cases
• Securing arbitration award for employer in employment discrimination case

Practice Areas

• Alternative Dispute Resolution
• Commercial Litigation
• Educational, Religious and Non-Profit Organizations
• Employment
• Insurance Litigation
• Litigation
• Medical Malpractice and Risk Management

Professional Activities

• Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers
• American Arbitration Association's Roster of Neutrals, Commercial and Employment Panels, Boston Regional Office
• Former Adjunct Professor, Vermont Law School
• Former Adjunct Professor, Pierce Law Center
• Former President, New Hampshire Bar Association
• Vice Chair New Hampshire Bar Foundation
• Chair, Professional Conduct Screening Committee, 2003-present
• Mediator for the Superior Court Rule 170 Program Court Mediation Program, New Hampshire Human Rights Commission and the Federal District Court for the District of New Hampshire
• New Hampshire Board of Bar Executers
• Member, Amercan Law Institute - American Bar Association

Honors and Distinctions

• AV Peer Review Rated, Martindale-Hubbell
• Cited in The Best Lawyers in America since 1995, for legal malpractice defense
• Recognized in Chambers USA, America's Leading Business Lawyers 2003 - 2007, for general commercial litigation
• New England Super Lawyers Civil Litigation Defense 2009
• Recognized in Who's Who Legal: USA - Commercial Litigation
• New Hampshire Women's Bar Association's Marilla M. Ricker Achievement Award

Community Involvement

• Former Trustee, Friends of the Norris Cotton Cancer Center
• Former Director, New Hampshire Endowment for Health
• Chair Board of Directors, Merrimack County United Way

Bar Admissions

Marty is admitted to practice in the state courts in New Hampshire, Vermont and Massachusetts, the Federal District Courts in New Hampshire, Vermont, and Massachusetts the First Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court.

Education

Middlebury College, B.A., magna cum laude, English Literature, Highest Honors in English Literature, Phi Beta Kappa, 1975; Northeastern University School of Law, J.D., 1978

Publications

Co-authored with Hon. Walter L. Murphy, “Please Be Careful With The Constitution: A Call for the Preservation of Judicial Independence,” New Hampshire Bar Journal Vol. 42, No. 2, June 2001.