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Law Firm Upton & Hatfield, LLP, Names James Raymond Managing Partner

March 13, 2009

Joining the firm in 1986, James Raymond has more than 25 years of experience assisting business clients with commercial and real estate transactions, business planning and related activities. He is listed in the current Super Lawyers Corporate Counsel Edition for New Hampshire business lawyers.  He is admitted to practice in the states of New Hampshire, Maine and Massachusetts.

Raymond is also a member of the Goffstown Planning Board, moderator of the Goffstown School District and sits on the board of directors of the Concord Family YMCA.

Justin Richardson and Matthew Serge Named Partners at Upton & Hatfield, LLP
March 13, 2009

Juston Richardson, who joined the Portsmouth branch of the firm in 2005, practices in the areas of municipal and environmental law and focuses on regulatory issues impacting both municipalities and industry. He is also Chairman of the Newington Conservation Commission and was appointed by New Hampshire Governor John Lynch in 2007 to a commission to study the causes, effects and remediation of siltation in the Great Bay Estuary. He is a member of the Environmental Law and the Telecommunications and Energy Sections of the NH Bar Association.  

Formerly with George Sansoucy, PE, LLC, and the NH Attorney General’s Office, Environmental Protection Bureau, Richardson earned his J.D. from the Franklin Pierce Law Center.

Matthew Serge, an attorney at the Concord office of Upton & Hatfield, practices municipal and school law, focusing on serving the needs of municipalities and their local administrative boards. He also participates in numerous New Hampshire Supreme Court appeals, individually and as co-counsel.

Serge is an active member of the NH Bar Association, the NH Board of Bar Examiners, Daniel Webster Inns of Court, Concord Chorale Board of Directors, Friends of Tuckerman Ravine Board of Directors and is Vice Chair of the New Hampshire Bar Journal Editorial Board. A summa cum laude graduate and valedictorian of his class at New England School of Law, Serge resides in Manchester.

November, 2008

In the Nov 2008 issue of New England Super Lawyers, James Raymond is listed under Business/Corporate and Robert Upton is listed under Real Estate, Gary Richardson is listed under Personal Injury Plaintiff: Medical Malpractice and Russell Hilliard is listed in the top 100 under Business Litigation.

July 25, 2008

Attorneys Upton and Richardson obtain ruling for the City of Nashua to acquire Pennichuck Water Works.

July 9, 2008
The New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission approved the Fryeburg Water Company's petition for a rate increase.

Dec. 15, 2007
Six Attorneys at Upton & Hatfield Named "The Best Lawyers in America"® for 2008

Aug. 24, 2007
Russell Hilliard Ranked #1 by Chambers USA for Commercial Litigation

Aug. 24, 2007
Upton and Raymond Ranked by Chambers USA for Real Estate Law

May 12, 2007
Attorney Michael McGrath Joins Firm

May 1, 2007
Fred Upton To Receive New Hampshire Bar Foundation Kenison