Mr. Thomas W. Hildreth

Practice Details

• Firm Information
  Position

  Director, Corporate Department

  Firm Name

  McLane Middleton, Professional Association
• Representative Cases & Transactions
  Cases

  Representative Work:Since 1994, Tom
  McLane's Telecommunications Team have represented Verizon Wireless
  its predecessors in more than 300 proceedings before l
  use boards in New Hampshire, Maine,
  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,
  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,
  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
  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
  complex l
  -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: 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
  Justice from the University of New Hampshire, Danny's Team, a NH Seacoast based charity, the office of New Hampshire Congressman Jeb Bradley,
  petitions signed by thous
  s 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/