David W. McGrath - Manchester, NH

Overview

Awards and Honors

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Education

• Legal Education

  • Cornell Law School, Ithaca, New York
    J.D.

• Non Legal Education

  • Framingham State College
    B.A.

Current Employment Position(s)

• Shareholder

Pro Bono Activities

• Diaconate at his local Church
• Board of Directors of The Upper Room, a Southern New Hampshire family resource Center
• Warren B. Rudman Center for Justice, Leadership and Public Policy, Board of Advisors
• Strawbery Banke Museum, Board of Trustees
• New Hampshire Bar Association, Immediate Past President
• New Hampshire Professional Conduct Committee
• Leadership New Hampshire, Class of 2013

Representative Clients

• Successfully defended national insurance company in non-compete battle, leading to summary judgment.

• Successfully defended local municipality in a wrongful discharge lawsuit, leading to a jury verdict for the town.

• Successfully defended area hospital in an Americans with Disabilities lawsuit and preserved the win at the Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.

• Successfully defended an international corporate client in a wrongful discharge lawsuit, leading to summary judgment.

• Successfully defended national corporate client in defense of substantial wage claims.

Published Works

Articles

• Vigilance: The Watchword for Dealing with Employee Migration in “Hard Times”
  
• Fixing Your Non-Compete Agreements Before You're in a Fix: Ten Common Employer Mistakes That Threaten Your Non-Compete
  
• Non competes Can Protect Your Company's "Goodwill"
  
• Lessons from the trenches: Choosing a good mediator
  
• Litigation and Mediation: Friends Not Foes (page 25)
  
• Client Alert: A Closer Look at the FTC’s Proposed Ban on Non-competes
• Fixing your non-compete agreements before you’re in a fix
• NH Legal Perspective: New law prohibits noncompete agreements for low-wage employees
• Assessing NH’s New Noncompete Law
• Mediation Proceedings: Cloaked in Confidence?
• NH Legal Perspective: Are Employee Noncompete Agreements Worth the Paper they are Written On?
• Federal Rules of Civil Procedure: A Rule 68 Cautionary Tale
• Lessons from the Trenches: What Makes a Good Mediator?
• CEO on the Go: David McGrath
• NH Legal Perspective: Mediating business disputes
• Out of the Courtroom and Back to the Boardroom

Bar Admissions

• New Hampshire, 1992
• U.S. District Court District of New Hampshire
• U.S. Court of Appeals 1st Circuit

Other Affiliations

• New Hampshire Bar Association (Member)
• Ethics Committee (Member)