Derek D. Lick

Director, Litigation Department

Derek is a seasoned litigator, with nearly 25 years of representing clients in a variety of complex legal matters, including business, real estate, construction, and property tax disputes, and suits involving personal injury and product liability claims. Derek has represented clients in federal court, in all eleven of the state’s superior courts, as well as multiple times before the New Hampshire Supreme Court. He also represents clients throughout the State of New Hampshire in land use matters before local Planning Boards and Zoning Boards of Adjustment.

In his spare time, Derek enjoys accompanying his travel-agent wife on the many jet-setting adventures, voyages and explorations she arranges for their family. Closer to home, he also spends his time biking on various back roads and trails on his fat-tire e-bike.

Professional and Community Involvement

Professional Involvement

Current President of the Bar Association.
Appointed by the New Hampshire Supreme Court to the Court’s Rules Advisory Committee.
Former Chairperson of the New Hampshire Bar Association’s Committee on Cooperation with the Courts.
Former Merrimack County representative of the New Hampshire Bar Association’s Board of Governors.
Former Press Secretary in the Washington, D.C. Capitol office of a long-serving, senior member of the U.S. House of Representatives, handling press inquiries from the Congressman’s top-20 media-market districts, as well as from national media outlets such as CNN, NBC News’ Meet the Press, National Public Radio, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal.

Community Involvement

Moderator, Town of Sutton
Moderator, Kearsarge Regional School District
Chair, Sutton Zoning Board of Adjustment
Board Member, Sugar River Bank
Founding Board Member, Concord-Lake Sunapee Rail Trail
Served as Governor John Lynch’s designee on the New Hampshire Transportation Enhancement Advisory Committee
Former Chair, Board of Directors of the Kearsarge Area Council on Aging
Former Board Member, Plan NH
Former Member, Board of Directors, League of New Hampshire Craftsmen
Former Member of the program committee of Leadership New Hampshire
Decade-long volunteer, Warner Fall Foliage Festival
Former youth baseball coach
Former leader of local Cub Scout pack
Graduate of Leadership New Hampshire

Honors & Distinctions

Cited in The Best Lawyers in America for Appellate Practice, Commercial Litigation, Land Use and Zoning Law, Litigation – Insurance, Litigation – Land Use and Zoning, Litigation and Controversy – Tax, Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants, Product Liability Litigation – Defendants, and Real Estate Law, since 2022
After an extensive vetting and peer review process, elected as a Member of the Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel. Membership is by invitation only.
Awarded a Martindale-Hubbell Distinguished rating from the nation’s preeminent independent legal review organization.

Education

Vanderbilt University School of Law, J.D., 1999
Boston University, B.S., Journalism, 1992

Bar Admission

New Hampshire
U.S. District Court – New Hampshire

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