Curtis L.S. Carpenter - Burlington, VT

Overview

Education

• Legal Education

  • New England School of Law, Boston, Massachusetts, 2003
    J.D.
    Honors: magna cum laude
    Honors: West Outstanding Scholastic Achievement; Dean’s List 1999-2003; Book Awards for Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Employment Law, Torts, Conflicts of Law, Property, Administrative Law
    Honors: 2001 Jessup Moot Court Team (Jessup is international moot court competition involving over 200 law schools from over 50 nations); Winner, Northeast Regional Championship; Winner, Best Brief Northeast Region; Second Place, Hardy C. Dillard Competition (The Dillard Award Recognizes the best set of briefs submitted in the Regional and International Jessup Competitions); Winner, Baxter Award for Applicant Briefs (The Baxter Award recognizes the best individual applicant and respondent briefs submitted in the Regional and International Jessup Competitions)
    Law Review: New England Law Review, Law Review Staff Member 2001-2002; Lead Articles Editor 2002-2003; Winner, 2002 Scribes Award (recognizing the year’s best student produced law review article)

• Non Legal Education

  • University of Vermont, 1992
    B.A.
    Major: Political Science

Current Employment Position(s)

• Associate

Representative Cases

• Fed. Ins. Co. v. Vulkan Kupplungs-U Getriebebau, 463 F. Supp. 2d 114 (D.C. Mass. 2006) (successfully argued that neither Massachusetts nor Florida possessed personal jurisdiction over German part manufacturer).
• Milward v. Acuity Specialty Prods. Grp., Inc., 664 F.Supp.2d 137 (D.C. Mass. 2009) (successfully argued that plaintiff’s experts’ opinions failed to satisfy the prerequisites to admissibility established by F.R.E. Rule 702 and the Daubert line of cases).
• Leblanc v. Logan Hilton Joint Venture, 78 Mass.App.Ct. 699, 942 N.E.2d 970 (2011) (successfully overturned summary judgment ruling by trial court, reviving hotel owner’s contribution claims against architectural and engineering firms).
• Leblanc v. Logan Hilton Joint Venture, 463 Mass. 316, 974 N.E.2d 34 (2012) (successfully preserved favorable Appeals Court decision upon further appellate review by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court).

Published Works

Articles

• Dental Malpractice Decision Takes Bite Out of Statute of Limitations Defense, THE STANDARD, Mar. 14, 2014, at 30.
  
• Massachusetts’ New “Disclosure, Apology and Offer Law”: A Prescription for Caution, THE STANDARD, Sept. 9, 2012, at 10.
  
• Milward v. Acuity: First Circuit Strike Blow for Junk Science, THE STANDARD, June 10, 2011, at 10.
  
• LPA, Inc. v. Herman’s Unanswered Question: Is the Clinton Administration’s Birth and Adoption Unemployment Compensation Regulation Consistent with the Federal Unemployment Tax Act?, 37 New Eng. L. Rev. 63 (2002).
  
• 2000 Philip C. Jessup International Moot Court Competition: Memorial for the Applicant, 8 ILSA Int’l & Comp. L. 271 (2001).
  

Bar Admissions

• Vermont, 2017
• U.S. District Court District of Vermont, 2019
• Maine, 2016
• U.S. District Court District of Maine, 2016
• Massachusetts, 2003
• U.S. District Court District of Massachusetts, 2005
• U.S. Court of Appeals 1st Circuit, 2009