Chris assists commercial and residential developers, lenders, businesses, buyers, sellers, Planning and Zoning Board applicants and abutters, homeowners, landlords, tenants, condominiums developers and associations, conservation easement grantors and grantees, with transactions, document drafting, permitting, financing and related litigation in matters very complex and simple. He has significant experience appearing before courts, planning and zoning boards, and other state and local agencies. An experienced real estate professional, Chris is an agent for First American Title Insurance Company.
Practice Areas
- Commercial and residential transactions
- Commercial lending/secured transactions
- Planning and land use boards/appeals
- Zoning and variances
- Private easement drafting and disputes
- Conservation easements
- Title searches and title insurance
- Municipal law
- Real estate litigation
Education
- University of Maine School of Law, J.D., 1980
- University of New Hampshire, B.A., magna cum laude, 1977, Phi Beta Kappa
Bar Admissions
- New Hampshire
- Maine
- U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Professional Associations & Memberships
- Agent, First American Title
- Member of the New Hampshire & Maine Bar Association since 1980
Community
- Greater Dover Chamber of Commerce
- Government Affairs Committee
- Past President & Board member
- Inaugural Committee Establishing Cochecho Arts Festival
- Past Board of Directors, United Way of the Greater Seacoast
- St. Thomas’ Episcopal Church, Dover, New Hampshire
- Past Senior Warden, Vestry
- Sugarloafer since 1986
