Dean's Advisory Council

Spring blossoms in front of the law school

Council Members act as an advisory body to the Dean of the law school and thus contribute actively to the overall character and welfare of the school. Thank you to all of them for their important role in our law school!

  • Dawn N. Atlas, JD ’95
    • Vice President Enforcement and Assistant General Counsel, Calvin Klein
    • New York, NY
  • Mark W. Baer, JD ’88
    • Attorney
    • Salt Lake City, UT 
  • Steven M. Burke, JD ’87
    • Director and Chair of Tax Department, McLane Middleton Professional Association
    • Manchester, NH 
  • Brad Yee Chin, JD ’03
    • Partner and Registered Patent Attorney and Chair of Intellectual Property Practice Group, Bracewell LLP
    • Houston, TX
  • Mahua Roy Chowdhury, JD ’01
    • Principal Partner, ROYZZ & Co.
    • Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
  • Hon. Carol Ann Conboy, JD ’78
    • Ret. New Hampshire Supreme Court Justice
    • Bow, NH
  • Christina A. Ferrari, JD ’10
    • Shareholder, Bernstein, Shur, Sawyer & Nelson, P.A.
    • Manchester, NH
  • Thomas G. Field, JD ’96
    • Intellectual Property Counsel, Saint-Gobain U.S
    • Worcester, MA
  • Young-Wook Ha, JD ’92
    • Senior Managing Partner, Ha & Ha
    • Korea
  • John A. Harre, JD ’94
    • Special Counsel, Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky & Popeo P.C.
    • Boston, MA
  • Gloria G. Isla, JD ’88
    • Senior Partner and Founder, Isla del Campo, SC
    • Mexico City, Mexico
  • Timothy H. Joyce, JD ’92
    • President and Chief Patent Counsel, Bayer Corporation
    • Berkeley, CA
  • David J. Koris, JD ’83
    • Of Counsel, Da Vinci Partners
    • East Boothbay, ME 
  • Peter C. Lando, JD ’91
    • Partner, Lando & Anastasi, LLP
    • Boston, MA 
  • William H. Mandir, JD ’87
    • Partner, Sughrue Mion PLLC
    • Washington, DC
  • Micky Minhas, JD ’97
    • Executive Director, Franklin Pierce IP Center at UNH Franklin Pierce School of Law
    • Concord, NH
  • Robert J. O'Connell, JD ’97
    • Director of Intellectual Property, DexCom Inc
    • San Diego, CA 
  • Rajiv P. Patel, JD ’95
    • Partner, Fenwick & West LLP 
    • Mountain View, CA 
  • Michael B. Ray, JD ’86
    • Partner, Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox
    • Washington, DC 
  • Emily Gray Rice
    • City Solicitor, City of Manchester NH Office of City Solicitor
    • Manchester, NH 
  • Eric L. Sophir, JD ’02
    • Intellectual Property Partner, Foley & Lardner LLP
    • Washinton, DC 
  • Straat Tenney, JD ’10
    • Intellectual Property Attorney, Locke Lord LLP
    • New York, NY
  • Douglas J. Wood, JD ’76
    • Executive Partner, Reed Smith LLP
    • New York, NY 
  • Kaveh E. Rashidi Yazd, JD ‘04
    • Head of IP Department for United States
      Division IP Counsel for the Industrial Applications Division (SE I)
      Lead IP Counsel for the Service Controls and Digitalization Business Unit (SE SV CD)
      Siemens Energy, Inc.
    • New York, NY
  • Sherilyn Burnett Young, JD ’82
    • Founder, Rath Young & Pignatelli P.C. 
    • Concord, NH