ALAN D. ROSE formed Rose, Chinitz & Rose in 1995. Mr. Rose began his career as Law Clerk to U.S. District Judge W. Arthur Garrity, Jr. in 1972-1973, during the trial of the Boston school desegregation case. Mr. Rose worked as an Assistant U.S. Attorney from 1975-1980, investigating and prosecuting fraud and public corruption cases. In 1980, Mr. Rose joined Nutter, McClennen & Fish, became a partner there in 1985, and for three years headed the firm’s litigation department. While at Nutter, McClennen, Mr. Rose handled civil and criminal litigation, and tried employment, commercial, and criminal cases to verdict. He also successfully argued the leading choice of law case (Bushkin v. Raytheon); and UCC case (McCarthy, Kenney & Reidy v. Bank of Boston) in the Supreme Judicial Court. In federal court, he successfully argued the leading case on punitive damages at the time (Rowlett v. Anheuser Busch); and other precedent-setting cases in matters of procedure (Speigel v. Tufts University) and several substantive areas of the law (including disability claims, Wynne v. Tufts University School of Medicine).

Mr. Rose has represented colleges and universities since 1981. Clients have included Boston College, Boston University, Bentley, Brandeis, Harvard, Princeton, NYU, University of Pennsylvania, Regis, and numerous university presidents, trustees, provosts, deans, tenure committees, department chairs, and faculty members. He is a member and frequent speaker at national conferences of the National Association of College and University Attorneys and, locally, MCLE and the Boston Bar Association College and University Group. He has appeared on CNN, New England Cable News, and Channel 5 on higher education legal matters.

Since 1981, Mr. Rose has also represented corporations and individuals in a full range of criminal matters. He has tried criminal cases in state and federal court, and argued criminal cases in the Massachusetts Appeals Court, and United States Court of Appeals for the First and Eleventh Circuits. He has been a member of the United States District Court’s court appointed list since 1982.

In the last few years, Mr. Rose has successfully argued the leading case in the Massachusetts SJC on student discipline (Schaer v. Brandeis), a leading case under the Massachusetts Anti-SLAPP statute (Hartlage v. Stansell), a precedent-setting case representing a law firm charged with handicap and age discrimination (Dziamba v. Warner & Stackpole, LLP), a legal malpractice case brought against another law firm by its former client who had pleaded guilty to violating campaign contribution laws (Fireman v. Dwyer & Collora, LLP), and a federal case in which Mr. Rose successfully defended the City of Everett and its Mayor who were accused of political discrimination (Rosenberg v. City of Everett and David Ragucci).

In December 2004, the Supreme Judicial Court appointed Mr. Rose to be Chair of the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers. The Court first appointed him to the Board in December 2002. From 1990-1992, Mr. Rose was a member (and Vice Chair) of the Joint Bar Committee on Judicial Appointments. From 1980-1982 Mr. Rose was a Lecturer on Federal Litigation at Harvard Law School.

Mr. Rose is a graduate of Harvard College (B.A. cum laude, 1967), the London School of Economics (M.Sc. 1969), and Virginia Law School (J.D. 1972), where he was Notes Editor of the Virginia Law Review.

Mr. Rose is a corporation member and former chairman of the board of the City Mission Society, a social service agency in Boston, and member of the Harvard Club of Boston. Alan and his wife, Janet Clift Rose, have six children.