Francis D. Dibble, Jr.

Born: Holyoke, Massachusetts, 1947

Education: Amherst College, A.B., 1971, Suffolk University Law School, J.D., magna cum laude, 1974

Practice Areas: Litigation; Antitrust and Trade Regulation; Health Law; Employment Law

Admissions: 1974, Massachusetts

Miscellaneous Information: Note Editor, Suffolk University Law Review, 1973-1974. Associate Editor, Massachusetts Law Review, 1980-1984. Law Clerk to Hon. Francis J. Quirico, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1974-1975. Adjunct Professor of Evidence, Western New England College School of Law, 1979. Chapter Contributor, ABA Criminal Antitrust Litigation Manual, 1983; Massachusetts Deposition Practice Manual, 1992 and Supp. 1996; Federal Court Litigation in the First Circuit, 1995; Top 10 Mistakes Employment Lawyers Make, 1996.

Biography:

Sandy Dibble focuses on resolving disputes for businesses and individuals through advice, negotiation, litigation, mediation and arbitration. He is Chairman of the firm’s Executive Committee, chairs its Litigation/ADR Department, and is a member of its Employment Law and Health Law Practice Groups.

Since joining the firm in 1975, Mr. Dibble has worked closely with in-house counsel and the senior executives of client companies to achieve successful, cost-effective results in a wide variety of matters. In addition to advantageous settlements, these results have included outright victories in many high-profile and high-stakes cases involving antitrust, health care, employment, insurance, construction, shareholder and fiduciary duties, intellectual property, personal injury, constitutional rights and other issues. Mr. Dibble regularly represents well-known entertainers and artists, hospitals, physicians, managed health care organizations, insurance carriers, manufacturing companies, banks, governmental authorities, colleges and schools and other clients. Newspaper surveys of lawyers and others have recognized him as the “Best Lawyer” in Springfield and the “Outstanding Business Litigator” in Western Massachusetts. Mr. Dibble has been named one of the “Top 100 Massachusetts Super Lawyers” in each of the last three years by Boston Magazine. He has been listed for many years in The Best Lawyers in America, Who’s Who in the World, and Best’s Directory of Recommended Insurance Attorneys.

Mr. Dibble graduated from Amherst College and then, magna cum laude, from Suffolk University Law School, where he served as Note Editor of the Law Review and ranked first in his class. Following law school, he clerked for Justice Francis J. Quirico of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. While with the firm, he has served as an Adjunct Professor of Evidence at Western New England Law School, as an Editor of the Massachusetts Law Review, and as a frequent speaker at continuing education seminars. He has contributed numerous chapters and articles to professional publications on subjects including antitrust, employment law and federal and state court civil litigation, including summary judgment and deposition practice. At the request of various state and federal courts, Mr. Dibble has served as a Special Counsel, Commissioner or committee member in matters of public interest.