| Biography: |
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Riverside Cemetery Corporation, Fairhaven: Trustee. |
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Social Law Library, Boston: Trustee 1994-1998. |
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Massachusetts Historical Society: Former member of the Council, present member of the Finance Committee and the Research Committee. |
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Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University: Associate in Research. |
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Speaker, Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, Inc. program, Asset Protection Planning and the 2005 Bankruptcy Act, March 8, 2006. |
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Co-chairman, Massachusetts Bar Association program, A Practical Guide to the Bankruptcy Law Amendments of 2005, June 22, 2005. |
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Panelist, Trial Tactics and Strategies in Bankruptcy Court Litigation, Northeast Bankruptcy Conference (American Bankruptcy Institute), July 2010. |
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Panelist, Evidence Symposium: Mortgage Documentation, Northeast Consumer Forum (American Bankruptcy Institute), January 2011. |
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Panelist, Bankruptcy Court Trial Practice Symposium, Northeast Bankruptcy Conference (American Bankruptcy Institute), July 2011. |
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Panelist, Trial Practice Symposium: Complaints and Dispositive Motions, Northeast Consumer Forum (American Bankruptcy Institute), January 2012. |
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Panelist, Bankruptcy Court Trial Practice Symposium, Northeast Bankruptcy Conference (American Bankruptcy Institute), July 2012. |
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Panelist, Bankruptcy Court Trial Practice Symposium, Northeast Bankruptcy Conference (American Bankruptcy Institute), July 2013. |
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Frequent speaker on bankruptcy and debtor-creditor issues. |
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| Representative Cases: |
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Eagle Insurance Company v. Bankvest Capital Corp. (In re Bankvest Capital Corp.), 360 F.3d 291 (1st Cir.)., cert. denied, 124 S. Ct. 2874 (2004). |
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Nicolaci v. Anapol, 387 F.3d 21, 23 (1st Cir. 2004). |
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| Publications: |
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Lead Author: Asset Protection Planning in Massachusetts, 1991 |
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Lead author, Sophisticated Collection Issues (Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, Inc., 1997) |
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Author, The New Landscape of the Bankruptcy Law Amendments of 2005, in Asset Protection Planning and the 2005 Bankruptcy Act (Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, Inc., 2006) |
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Contributor, How to Handle Consumer Bankruptcy Cases (Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, Inc., 1998 and 1999) |
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Co-author, Prosecuting the Lender Liability Case for the Borrower in Bankruptcy Lender Liability Litigation (Practising Law Institute, 1987 and 1988) (R. Tufaro, Chairman) |
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Author, Soaring Foreclosures Tied to "Bankruptcy Reform," Boston Business Journal, January 5, 2007. |
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The Angry Politics of the Era of the Founding of the Social Law Library, 80 Mass. Law Review 160 (December 1995). |
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Benjamin Austin, Jr.'s Struggle with the Lawyers, Boston Bar Journal (Volume 25, No. 8) (September 1981). |
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The Court Martial of Paul Revere, Boston Bar Journal (Volume 21, No. 5) (May 1977). |
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The Failure of the Li-ch'uan Hong: Litigation as a Hazard of Nineteenth Century Foreign Trade, American Neptune (Volume 48, No. 4) (Fall 1988). |
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The Failure of the Li-ch'uan Hong: Litigation as a Hazard of Nineteenth Century Foreign Trade, (in Chinese), Shi Lin (Historical Review) (Institute of History, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences) (2004, No. 4, Serial No. 79). |
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Hong Merchant Litigation in the American Courts, Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society (1987). |
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Merchants, Lawyers, and the China Trade of Boston, Boston Bar Journal (Volume 23, No. 8) (September 1979).
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Observations on the Pernicious Practice of the Law, 68 American Bar Association Journal 580 (May 1982).
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With Geoffrey C. Ward, A Fair, Honorable and Legitimate Trade, American Heritage (Volume 37, No. 5) (August/September 1986).
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Author, “The Chinese Cornerstone of Modern Banking: The Canton Guaranty System and the Origins of Bank Deposit Insurance 1780-1933" (Ph.D. Dissertation, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands, 2012). |
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Author, “The April 1820 Debt Settlement between Conseequa and Benjamin Chew Wilcocks,” pages 73-94 in Paul A. Van Dyke, ed., Americans and Macao: Trade, Smuggling and Diplomacy on the South China Coast (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2012). |
 
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| Author, "Franklin Roosevelt's Maritime Heritage," pages 57-68 in Mário Mesquita and Paula Vicente, eds., O Mar na História, na Estratégia e na Ciência” (“The Sea in History, Strategy and Science”) (Lisbon: Tinta-da-China, 2013). | |
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Author, book review of Rivalry in Canton: The Control of Russell and Co. 1838-1840 and the Founding of Augustine Heard and Co. 1840, by Tim Sturgis. Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Volume 50 (2010). |
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Author, "The Wings of a Butterfly: Private Creditor Strategies in the 'Chinese Debts' Crisis of 1779-1780," in Piere Gervais, Yannick Lemarchand and Dominique Margairaz, eds., Merchants and Profit in the Age of Commerce, 1680-1830 (London: Pickering & Chatto Publishers Ltd., forthcoming) (publication expected 2014). |
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| Attorney Grant in the News: |
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"How Chinese banking can profit from a borrowed idea of old Canton: Andrew Sheng discerns lessons about the importance of strong supervision of risk-taking" (South China Morning Post, January 19, 2013) |
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