Chuck DiMare
has over 30 years experience in the successful litigation of hundreds
of civil and criminal cases before a wide variety of federal and state
courts and administrative agencies. This experience includes a
substantial
number of jury trials, judge trials, summary jury trials, mini-trials,
mediations, case evaluations, hearings, motions, depositions, settlement
conferences, appeals and other matters. Many of these cases have been
reported and can be found by conducting a search through West Law and
Lexus. A significant number of these cases have also been reported in Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, The Western Massachusetts Law
Tribune,
and other legal publications, web news articles, general circulation
newspapers and magazines (i.e., New York Times, Boston Globe,
Springfield Union).
Chuck’s areas
of practice include civil rights law, labor & employment law, higher
education law, property rights, family law, professional negligence and personal injury.
Chuck has been
admitted to practice law in Massachusetts, the State of Vermont (pro
hac vice), the United States Supreme Court, the United States Court
of Appeals for the First Circuit, Second Circuit, Third Circuit, Ninth
Circuit, Federal Circuit, and also the U.S. District Courts for the
Districts of Massachusetts, Vermont, Northern and Western Districts
of New York, Northern District of California, and the Districts of New
Hampshire (pro hac vice) and Maine (pro hac vice).
Chuck teaches
graduate, undergraduate, and combined courses in the School of Education
(Department of Educational, Policy, Research and Administration) at
the University of Massachusetts Amherst. In the past, he has also taught
law related courses in the Departments of Political Science, Legal
Studies
and the Honors Program. In addition to lecturing at numerous other
colleges
and universities, he has been a Visiting Professor at Vermont Law School
and at Northeastern University’s Graduate Criminal Justice Program,
where he taught courses in Law Enforcement Civil Liability and Policy
Development.
He has authored
many newsletter articles and training manuals for lawyers, legal
assistants,
and students, and is the author of a chapter on intentional torts for
"ATLA's Litigating Tort Cases," published by Thompson/West.
Chuck has been
involved in a broad array of leadership and community service work
including,
Chair of the Zoning Board of Appeals for the Town of Shutesbury, the
Massachusetts Bar Association Individual Rights & Responsibilities
Section, the Massachusetts Bar Foundation and various local and state
boards and committees.
Chuck is also
a mediator and trainer at New
England Civil Rights Training & Mediation,
where he has facilitated mediations in a wide range of issues involving
civil rights, police misconduct, race discrimination, age
discrimination,
disability discrimination, sexual harassment, personal injury, legal
malpractice, property damage and labor & employment law. He has
made numerous presentations and participated in trainings on the subject
of civil rights, constitutional law, labor & employment law, higher
education law, police misconduct, consumer protection law, trial
advocacy
and mediation.
Chuck has
lectured
to professional associations and groups including the Massachusetts
Association of Law Enforcement Administrators, the Massachusetts State
Police Academy, the Massachusetts Association of Chiefs of Police, the
Massachusetts Municipal Management Association, the Campus Police
Officers
and College Administrators, the Massachusetts District Courts (Hampshire
County), the Springfield Police Academy, the Massachusetts College
Personnel
Association, the Western Massachusetts Labor Action Committee, the
United
Auto Workers Union, the Service Employees Union, AFL/CIO, and numerous
police departments, public schools, cities and towns, student groups,
fraternities, sororities, and private businesses. He has also trained
lawyers, law students, and legal assistants at continuing legal
education
seminars for various groups including the National Legal Aid and
Defender
Association, the Massachusetts Bar Association, the American Trial
Lawyers
Association, the National Lawyers Guild, the Legal Services Corporation,
the Migrant Legal Services Association, the United States Attorney’s
Office (District of Massachusetts), the Massachusetts Attorney General’s
Office, the Northwestern District Attorney’s Office, the National
Jury Project, the Hampshire County Bar Association and the New York
City Bar Association.
Chuck has also
held legal positions with the federal government, a labor relations
law firm, various legal clinics, a public defender's office, the
Massachusetts
Commission Against Discrimination and the University of Massachusetts
Amherst.
He is a member
of the American Association for Justice, the National Police
Accountability
Project, the National Legal Aid and Defender Association (Student Legal
Services Section), the Massachusetts Bar Association, the Massachusetts
Bar Foundation, the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys and the Hampshire and Franklin County Bar Associations.
Chuck was
raised
in the Boston area. He has both an undergraduate degree (magna cum
laude)
and a Masters Degree in Public Administration from the University of
Massachusetts Amherst, and graduated from Vermont Law School (cum laude)
in 1977.
