Kevin C. Maynard

Born: Nashua, New Hampshire, 1958

Education: University of New Hampshire, B.A., magna cum laude, 1980, University of California, Hastings College of the Law, J.D., 1984

Practice Areas: Litigation

Admissions: 1987, Massachusetts

Miscellaneous Information: Phi Beta Kappa. Note Editor, Hastings International and Comparative Law Journal, 1983-1984.

Biography:

Kevin Maynard is a member of the firm’s Litigation/ADR Department. He focuses his practice on resolving commercial disputes for businesses and individuals through advice, negotiation, litigation, arbitration and mediation in matters involving contracts, shareholder and fiduciary disputes, financial services, insurance and ERISA issues, construction claims, professional liability and environmental claims.

Mr. Maynard’s clients have included large national corporations, small and large local businesses, banks, colleges, insurers, and individuals. He has litigated, arbitrated and mediated business matters involving such issues as noncompetition clauses, sales of businesses, real estate contracts, unfair competition and financial and other professional services. His experience includes the defense of several class action suits. Mr. Maynard has also represented both plaintiffs and corporate defendants in personal injury cases, including those involving products liability and environmental torts, and has litigated and negotiated settlements in large construction disputes. His litigation experience encompasses both state and federal courts, and he has won appeals before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, the state's Appeals Court, and the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. He has several times been named a Massachusetts "Super Lawyer" in Boston Magazine and has been designated one of the Best Lawyers in America in commercial litigation.

Mr. Maynard graduated magna cum laude from the University of New Hampshire, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and earned his law degree in 1984 from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, where he served as Note Editor of the International and Comparative Law Journal. He began his practice of law in San Francisco before coming to the firm in 1987. Mr. Maynard is a board member and past President of Springfield Day Nursery, Inc., a board member of the Pioneer Valley Community United Way, and President of the Board of World is Our Classroom Inc., and is active in a number of other community organizations.