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T. Christopher Donnelly
T. Christopher Donnelly concentrates his practice in business litigation, particularly in the fields of intellectual property including patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets; software, biotechnology and other scientific and technological areas; business torts; securities; contracts; corporate control and governance; covenants not-to-compete and related claims of unlawful competition; employment disputes; and accounting and other professional malpractice. Since co-founding DCG, Mr. Donnelly has successfully tried numerous cases, spanning more than 100 trial days, and successfully resolved countless others on dispositive motions and through favorable settlements.
In addition to his broad litigation practice in state and federal courts around the country, Mr. Donnelly has extensive arbitration and mediation experience. He has served as an arbitrator in approximately 50 cases, and has been a member of the American Arbitration Association Panel of Commercial Arbitrators since 1989.
A former senior partner of the Boston law firm of Nutter, McClennen & Fish, Mr. Donnelly chaired that firm's Technology Litigation Practice Group, co-chaired its Alternative Dispute Resolution Practice Group, and served as its hiring partner.
Mr. Donnelly is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After earning his law degree, with honors, at the University of Michigan Law School in 1980, he clerked for the Hon. Lawrence W. Pierce in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and then in the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Mr. Donnelly has lectured and published widely in the fields of commercial litigation and intellectual property law. His most recent publications and appearances covered trade dress law, business torts, intra-corporate disputes, and reviews of the latest patent, trademark and copyright developments within the First Circuit. Mr. Donnelly is an active member of the Boston Bar Association's Business Litigation, Intellectual Property Litigation, and Alternative Dispute Resolution Committees; and the American Bar Association Sections of Litigation, Business Law and Science and Technology Committees; and a former member of the Business Law Council of the Massachusetts Bar Association.
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