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John E. LaPlante

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Experience

John LaPlante is an associate in the Professional Practices Group at Donovan Hatem LLP. Prior to joining Donovan Hatem, John was an associate practicing in the Insurance and Commercial Litigation sections at Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi, LLP., where he contributed as a team member in the arbitration concerning property insurance coverage for the World Trade Center; served as a senior associate in cases involving property and business interruption claims; and worked on a variety of complex intellectual property and commercial litigation matters. John was also an associate with Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, PC, where he conducted legal research and analysis for complex business, insurance and other civil litigation, and participated in all levels of discovery. He also researched and drafted a memorandum summarizing the Massachusetts judicial system for inclusion in a report of the Visiting Committee on Management for the Courts ("Monan Commission").

Admitted to Practice

• Massachusetts
• United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Education

• Cornell Law School (J.D., cum laude, and L.LM, cum laude, International and Comparative Law, 2002)
• Cornell Law School & Universite de Paris (Institute of International and Comparative Law, Summer 2000)
• Princeton University A.B., magna cum laude, English, 1993)

Articles and Publications

The Case for Abandoning the Term "Patent Troll," Intellectual Property Litigation, Vol. 17, No. 2, Winter 2006.

• Adjunct Professor of Legal Research and Writing, Northeastern University School of Law, Boston MA, 2007-2009.
• Name Massachusetts Rising Star in 2007.
• Teacher of English Language and Literature, French American International School, San Francisco CA, 1997-1999.
• Head of English Department, Institut Montana, Zug Switzerland, 1993-1997.
• Reading and writing ability in Spanish. Working experience in German, Swiss German, Russian, French, and Italian.

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