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Phone

Direct (603) 628-1177
Cell (603) 566-4154
Fax (603) 625-5650

Email

Tom.Hildreth@McLane.com

Office

City Hall Plaza
900 Elm Street
Manchester, NH 03101

Practice/Industry Groups

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Thomas W. Hildreth
Director

Tom is the chairman of the firm's Corporate Department. He has been counseling a diverse mix of closely-held business clients for nearly twenty years. In addition, Tom has substantial experience in the areas of real estate development, telecommunications, and franchise law. Tom founded and is the head of our Immigration Law Practice Group. He writes and speaks extensively on the subject of US immigration laws.

Department

Corporate
Real Estate

Areas of Practice

  • Closely held business organizations
  • Wireless communications network development
  • All aspects of immigration law
  • Real estate development and zoning
  • Franchise development and negotiation
  • Structuring and managing intra-owner relationships

Representative Clients & Work

  • Since 1994, Tom and McLane's Telecommunications Team have represented Verizon Wireless and its predecessors in more than 300 proceedings before land use boards in New Hampshire, Maine, and Massachusetts, as Verizon Wireless has developed the most extensive wireless network in America.
  • Tom, with his colleagues in the Immigration Law Practice Group, manage a large roster of foreign national employees for some of our region's most important companies, including Lonza Biologics in Portsmouth, Velcro Industries in Manchester, Hitchiner Manufacturing in Milford, Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, and Connecticut-based Greenfield On-Line.
  • From one-person start-ups, to multi-owner, multi-million dollar mature companies, Tom provides business counsel to a diverse range of closely held businesses, in a broad cross section of industries: manufacturing, electronics, health care, transportation, professional services, and more.
  • Tom represented Exceptional Properties, Inc., the developer of one of only two 55+ condominium projects in the Town of Hollis, New Hampshire, the 60-unit "Village at Hollis Depot, A Senior Housing Condominium." The final five units will be completed and sold in 2006.
  • Since 1999, Tom, along with Bruce Felmly in our Litigation Department, has represented a citizens group, "Residents Defending Their Homes," in a lengthy and complex land-use case which has already yielded one New Hampshire Supreme Court decision, Lone Pine Hunters' Club, Inc. v. Town of Hollis, decided on July 2, 2003: (click here to view). A different aspect of the case is back before the New Hampshire Supreme Court in 2006.
  • In 2004, Tom worked on a pro bono basis with several area agencies to bring seven children from the Congo to reunite them with their parents after they were separated due to peculiar limitations of US immigration laws. The effort involved the Committee on Rights and Justice from the University of New Hampshire, Danny's Team, a NH Seacoast based charity, the office of New Hampshire Congressman Jeb Bradley, and petitions signed by thousands of UNH students. The heart-warming reunion garnered considerable media attention, including coverage on the BBC's "The World" program. The full BBC report, including Tom Hildreth's interview, can be heard here: http://www.nhpr.org/?q=node/7207/

Admissions

Tom is admitted to practice in New Hampshire, Maine, and Massachusetts

Professional & Association Memberships

American Bar Association, American Immigration Lawyers Association, New Hampshire Bar Association, Nashua Bar Association.

Recognition

  • Recognized in Chambers USA
  • Woodward's Best Lawyers in America - Immigration Law

Community Involvement

  • Nashua Association for the Elderly, Inc., President, Board of Director
  • Beaver Brook Association, Inc., Member, Board of Trustees
  • Strategic Planning Committee, Town of Hollis, Member
  • First Colebrook Bank, Member, Board of Advisors
  • Former Selectman, Treasurer, and Budget Committee Member, Town of Hollis
  • Hollis-Brookline Rotary Club, Founding Member

Career

  • JD, Suffolk University Law School, 1987
  • Clerk, Honorable Endicott "Chub" Peabody, 1985
  • BA, Bates College, 1983

Recent Publications and Lectures