Nov. 5, 2019

9:00am - 11:00am

Primex Training Facility

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  Dean B. Eggert

  Dean resides in the Town of Bow with his wife Cheryl. As an attorney he has extensive experience representing school districts in the areas of general school law and federal special education law. Dean served as legal counsel for the City of Manchester School District from 1985 to 2008. Today he represents numerous school districts throughout the state. Dean has authored numerous articles in the field of school law and speaks both locally and nationally on federal special education law and other school law issues. He has been selected as Lawyer of the Year in the field of education law and has served as president of the New Hampshire Council of School Attorneys. He is certified as a mediator and has served as a court-appointed mediator in over 80 cases. He is AV rated and has been selected by his peers for the past few years as one the Best Lawyers in America in the field of education and municipal law.

  Dean has served on a number of nonprofit boards and is active in local, national and global relief projects. He earned a BA in Communications from Wheaton College and received his JD from the University of California at Los Angeles where he served as a member of the UCLA Law Review from 1983-1985.

  He is admitted to practice law in New Hampshire, the United States District Court, District of New Hampshire, the First Circuit Court of Appeal, and the Supreme Court of the United States. He has tried numerous cases, has argued before the New Hampshire Supreme Court, the First Circuit Court of Appeal and has successfully defended two cases appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States.

  He has served on the board of his church and the board of a private school. He currently serves on the Board of Good Soil Partners and assists in formulating the vision and direction for the organization in Malawi. He is a veteran of eleven trips to Malawi, Africa where he works with Good Soil in providing scholarships and leadership training to secondary and post-secondary students.

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  Gordon B. Graham

  Gordon Graham received his undergraduate degree from Duke University (A.B., cum laude, 1980) and his law degree from Suffolk University (J.D., 1986). He was admitted to the New Hampshire Bar in 1986. He was a Law Clerk for the New Hampshire Superior Court from 1986-1987. Gordon has been a member of the firm since 1987.

  He concentrates his practice in school law and municipal law. He is a past President of the New Hampshire Council of School Attorneys and is a member of the Municipal Law Section of the New Hampshire Bar Association; New Hampshire Municipal Lawyers Association; New Hampshire Council of School Attorneys; and the New Hampshire and American Bar Associations. He was a member of the Derry Town Council from 1995-2001 and was its Chairman in 1997.

  Gordon has taken an active role in many community organizations, including the Derry Conservation Commission, the Derry Development and Preservation Corp., the Derry Main Street committee, and he served as a trustee for the Alexander Eastman Foundation. He is currently a member the Derry 21st Century Learning Community Corporation and the Derry Village Rotary. He devotes his legal practice to advising town and school district clients on their complex legal needs, including the Right-To-Know Law, municipal budget law issues, annual meeting procedures and warrant article drafting, election law, management and use of capital reserves and trust funds, public policy and ordinance development, special education law, student discipline practices and procedures, bullying and harassment issues, administrative procedures and hearings, road law, and recreation, land and conservation issues. He also has extensive experience with public works contracts and municipal lease/purchase agreements.

  He frequently represents public sector clients during construction contract negotiation, and has represented public sector clients in construction litigation, and arbitration. Gordon frequently advises clients on school tuition contracts, student assignment issues, manifest educational hardship cases, AREA and Cooperative school district issues, and SAU organization and reorganization. He has also represented municipalities during labor negotiations and has successfully negotiated many collective bargaining agreements.

  Gordon has attended well over a hundred school district and town meetings for the firm’s clients and he has appeared successfully on behalf of public sector clients in the New Hampshire District Court, the New Hampshire Superior Court, the New Hampshire Supreme Court, the New Hampshire Federal District Court, the New Hampshire Department of Education, the Department of Labor, the PELRB and the Water Resources Board. Gordon is also a frequent presenter at municipal conferences and often provides in service training programs for the firm’s clients.

  In 2019, the New Hampshire Association of School Business Officials selected Gordon as recipient of the Alexander J. Blastos Distinguished Service Award for his long record of guidance and support to the New Hampshire school business community.

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  Mike Ricker

  Mike Ricker serves as General Counsel for Primex³ and oversees the Primex³ Legal and HR Services team.  Prior to joining Primex³, Mike operated his own civil litigation firm for municipal and business clients and worked as a litigation attorney at Devine, Millimet.  Mike also served as an Assistant Attorney General for the State of New Hampshire; judicial law clerk for the Hon. Sherman Horton of the New Hampshire Supreme Court; and judicial law clerk for the Hon. Justices of the New Hampshire Superior Court.  Mike regularly works in the areas of employment practices liability, governmental liability, civil litigation, insurance law, contract law and on a variety of regulatory, business and risk management matters.  Mike is a graduate of UNH (BA History), New England Law (JD with honors), and Harvard University Extension School (ALM Management with honors).

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