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Theodore M. Hess-Mahan, Of Counsel, specializes
in the practice areas of:
- Complex civil litigation
- Shareholder and consumer fraud
- Unfair Business Practice claims
- Class and Derivative Actions
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| Theodore M. Hess-Mahan received his BA from Tufts University and a JD from Suffolk University Law School, where he was lead articles editor of the law review and director of the Honorable Frank J. Donahue Lecture Series. He has been admitted to practice in Massachusetts, the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court. Prior to joining the firm, he was a law clerk for an associate justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, a litigation attorney at Ropes & Gray LLP, representing individuals, businesses, insurers, governmental agencies, and non-profit institutions in state and federal trial and appellate courts and administrative proceedings, and at Shapiro Haber & Urmy LLP, representing consumers, shareholders, businesses and institutional investors in class, derivative and individual actions involving claims under state and federal antitrust, civil rights, consumer protection, environmental, securities and unfair business practice laws.
Ted is a former co-chair of the Boston Bar Association Class Action Committee and a former member of the BBA Litigation Section Steering Committee, has lectured at legal seminars and published articles on class actions, securities, special education, and medical records privacy laws, and has been a guest lecturer on voting rights at the New England School of Law. Most recently, he co-authored a chapter on depositions in class actions published in the Massachusetts Deposition Practice Manual (MCLE Supp. 2006). He lives with his family in Newton, where he has served on the Board of Aldermen since 2003, and previously served as a Commissioner on the Newton Human Rights Commission. He is also the former President of CAN-DO, a non-profit developer of affordable housing in Newton.
His email address is thess-mahan@hutchingsbarsamian.com. |