Alan describes himself as a professional problem solver. He has been in practice for 27 years in Kennebunk. He has a general area of practice with a focus on real estate, municipal law (zoning), boundary disputes, divorce, personal injury, general litigation, business formations, OUI defense and estate planning. He also provides mediation services.

He has recently developed the concept of Fixed Price Divorce, to provide
a new concept for divorse resolution. He also completed a 40 hour certficate program in mediation, to augment his 30 years of practice in the divorce field.

Alan is a current president of the Kennebunk Free Library Board of Trustees, and a member of Kennebunk Portside Rotary (Past president and District Secretary), Heartwood College of Art Board of Director, and is currently on the Board for Maine Stage Shakespeare.

He is a former member of the Board of the Brick Store Museum,the Kennebunk Planning Board, and the Zoning Rewrite Committee. He also served on the MSAD 71 Board of directors for 9 years, and was the chairman of the building committees for the Middle School of the Kennebunks, and the Kennebunk Elementary School. His hobbies include, tennis, running, flyfishing, scuba diving, paddle tennis,road biking, hiking,jazz (tenor sax) photography and writing.

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Sampling of Law Court cases argued:

• River Dale Ass’n v Bloss
  Case involving the interpretation of and enforcement of a restrictive
  covenant restricting vinyl siding and modular construction.
• Anchorage Realty Trust v Donovan
  Case involving a boundary dispute on adjoining properties at Goose Rocks
  beach. The legal issue was Boundary by Acquiescence.
• Hutz v Alden
  Partition dispute between sisters who co owned family property at Parsons Beach in Kennebunk.
• Central Maine Power Co v Town of Lebanon
  Challenge by CMP against the Town of Lebanon’s No Spray Ordinance. Law Court upheld the ordinance as valid exercise of home rule authority, rejecting the challenge by the utility of state and federal preemption.
• Town of Lebanon v East Lebanon Auto Sales LLC
  Town defended its 80K enforcement action against used care dealer selling junked automobiles.
• Commerce Bank and Trust Co v Dworman
  Commercial litigation challenging long arm statute, and subject matter jurisdiction.
• Twigg v Town of Kennebunk
  Appeal of a Zoning Board denial of a variance. Changed law concerning standard of “self imposed hardship”.
• Malonson v Town of Berwick
  Landuse case on the definition of “boardinghouse” and the establishment of a “sober home”.
• Comeau v Town of Kittery
  Land use case on behalf a several abuttors to a proposed Recreation Center in Kittery.