Elaina Hoeppner

Kathleen represents both private and public educational institutions, as well as other private and public sector employers, in all areas of employment law, including hiring, discipline and discharge, wage and hour requirements, discrimination and wrongful discharge claims and family and medical leave requirements. She assists employers in the development of personnel policies and negotiating and drafting of employment agreements. Kathleen has represented employers in both state and federal co...

Attorney Michael ("Mike") Iacopino has represented people accused of crimes in New Hampshire for more than 35 years. He is the Senior Partner at the Manchester Law Firm, Brennan Lenehan Iacopino & Hickey. Before joining Brennan Lenehan, Mike was a public defender in Manchester. He joined Brennan Lenehan in 1987. Besides representing the criminally accused, Mike has a select plaintiff's personal injury practice. Mike is the current Chair of the Board of Directors of New Hampshire Public De...

Gareth Orsmond focuses his practice on commercial real estate, land use, environmental, and energy matters in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. His practice encompasses transactional work, permitting, and litigation. Gareth started his career as an environmental and land use lawyer before building his commercial transactional practice. This background enables him to negotiate and implement complex real estate deals while resolving challenging environmental and land use issues.

Margaret has over twenty-five years of experience concentrating on high-asset and complex divorce cases. Margaret’s clients include business owners, public figures, elected officials, executives of publicly traded companies, successful inventors, tech entrepreneurs, attorneys, doctors, dentists, retirees, those with generational wealth, and many others. Her cases regularly involve issues relating to the valuation and division of complex assets such as business interests, private equity,...

Sean O'Connell is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Employment Law - Individuals and Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs. Sean, who practices law in Dover, New Hampshire, has been recognized since 2023. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Sean is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

Frank has 40+ years experience in litigating commercial cases. Much of his practice is devoted to construction matters, where he regularly represents owners and developers, contractors, suppliers, sureties and lenders at every level of the construction process. Frank also handles all types of contract disputes, shareholder and partnership issues, antitrust and trade regulation matters, real estate controversies and lender liability cases. He has extensive experience in arbitrations and trials...

Since 1978, Joe has dedicated his legal career to the representation of individual plaintiffs in personal injury litigation. Joe is currently a member of the New Hampshire Supreme Court Committee on Character & Fitness. He is a member of the American College of Trial Lawyers and the Million Dollar Advocates Forum and he has been a 20 year member of Best Lawyers in America. Joe McDowell was one of the lead lawyers in the $2.5 Billion settlement for the victims of the Dalkon Shield birth co...

I chair our firm’s Mergers & Acquisitions Team of 15 transactional attorneys and tax specialists and assist our firm clients with regard to achieving their estate planning objectives. Having more than 30 years’ experience as an M&A attorney and corporate advisor, combined with being a CPA and having a master’s degree in taxation, provides me with a unique background and perspective to advise the firm’s business clients in achieving their goals in the most timel...

Keriann Roman is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Land Use and Zoning Law and Litigation - Municipal. Keriann, who practices law in Manchester, New Hampshire, has been recognized since 2026. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Keriann is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

Ovide’s expertise encompasses substantial legal territory. He has experience in complex business and litigation transactions, and has also served as an advisor to various non-profit and charitable institutions. From representing 350 manufactured housing owners both in litigation and in a complex real estate transaction in order to enable them to purchase their community to dissolving and reorganizing a major healthcare merger, Ovide brings strategic, creative and practical solutions to ...