DAVID E. HUNT

Home Address

6 Highland Street
Portland, Maine 04103

511 Congress Street
Portland, Maine 04101
E-mail: dhunt@mainewills.com

Employment

Present - LAW OFFICE OF DAVID E. HUNT, Portland, Maine. Practice is restricted to estate and trust planning and administration, administration of charitable organizations and related matters.

1992-1997 - McCANDLESS & HUNT LLP, Lawyers, Portland, Maine. Founder and partner. Firm restricted its practice to estate and trust planning and administration, administration of charitable organizations and related matters.

1981-1992 - PIERCE ATWOOD, Lawyers, Portland, Maine. Partner in Maine's largest law firm. Practiced in the tax and trusts-and-estates areas.

1978-1981 - DEBEVOISE & PLIMPTON, Lawyers, New York, New York. Associate in the trusts and estates practice. Assisted in administration of estates and trusts and in private foundation management.

Education

UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LAW SCHOOL, Chicago, Illinois. J.D. cum laude 1978. Associate Editor, University of Chicago Law Review.

DARTMOUTH COLLEGE, Hanover, New Hampshire. A.B. magna cum laude 1975 with highest distinction in Government (concentration: political theory) and high distinction in History (concentration: Germany 1914-1945). Editor-in-Chief: Dartmouth Classical Journal, 1973-1975. Recipient of the Class of 1846 Latin Prize for translations of Catullus, 1974. General Manager, WDCR-AM, 1974-1975. Managed the nation's only commercial AM radio station operated exclusively by college students.

THE PEDDIE SCHOOL, Hightstown, New Jersey. Graduated summa cum laude in 1971.

Publications

Co-Author, Maine Estate Administration (New York: Carlton Press, 1996). Manual for lawyers and paralegals on the administration of estates and trusts under Maine state law and federal tax law.

Co-Author and Editor, Maine Will and Trust Forms Annotated (Portland, Maine: Acadia Trust, N.A., 1994). Forms for use in drafting wills and trusts under Maine law accompanied by explanatory notes and comments, published by the state's third largest trust bank.

Author, "Fractional or Pecuniary: Who Cares and Why?" 8 Maine Bar Journal 280 (1993). An analysis of the application of federal rules on fiduciary income taxation in the context of Maine's rules on fiduciary accounting.

Author, "The Constitutionality of the Exercise of Extraterritorial Powers by Municipalities," 45 University of Chicago Law Review 151 (1977). Law review comment.

Other Information

Admitted to practice before state and federal courts in Maine and New York and the state courts of Florida. Certified as a specialist in wills, trusts and estates by The Florida Bar.

Fellow, Regent and former Maine State Chairman of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel.

Adjunct Faculty, University of Maine School of Law, 1991-1992 and 1999 to present. Courses taught include Federal Estate and Gift Taxation, and seminars in estate planning.

Past President of the Maine Estate Planning Council.

Member of the Maine State, New York State, American and Cumberland County Bar Associations, and The Florida Bar.

Listed in Best Lawyers in America and Who's Who in American Law.