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McFall “Mac” Kerbey, is an accomplished attorney and businessman with a distinguished record of accomplishment in global technology, IP, and telecommunications licensing. Mr. Kerbey has completed over 250 telecommunications agreements throughout the country and has led successful licensing efforts in telecommunications, security, real estate and technology services. Mr. Kerbey is former city solicitor and coordinates Kerbey Harrington’s municipal law practice.
Prior to joining TIG and Kerbey Harrington, Mr. Kerbey was recruited to serve in a variety of key corporate roles. Mr. Kerbey served as the CFO and General Counsel of an Arizona based technology company where he helped produce annual growth rates of greater than 35%. He also served as COO of Urban Tax Services where he increased company revenues by 70% and positioned the company for a successful sale.
A magna cum laude graduate of Dartmouth College and Boston College Law School, Mr. Kerbey is a former City Solicitor and special assistant district attorney with extensive experience working with municipalities in Massachusetts. Mr. Kerbey has also successfully lobbied the Massachusetts State Legislature and has served as an advisor to a number of elected officials on the local and federal level.
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Mr. Harrington, a partner at Kerbey Harrington LLP, is a skilled commercial, IP and corporate lawyer with over twenty years of private practice and in-house experience. Mr. Harrington was a partner at Roche, Carens & DeGiacomo, General Counsel for the US holding company of a publicly traded UK building materials/construction company and Senior Counsel for a world leading telecommunications software provider. Mr. Harrington’s experience includes structuring, negotiating, drafting and analyzing commercial transactions related to the sale of telecommunications networks, telecommunications systems equipment, including both hardware and software, throughout North and South America, Europe and Asia.
Mr. Harrington has proven expertise in managing and implementing the full range of responsibilities performed by outside and in-house corporate counsel and business strategists for companies conducting business in the global marketplace. He has specific experience in the negotiation and drafting of commercial transactions involving high technology licensing, telecommunications/right-of-way agreements, energy and security licensing, cable television franchising and material supply agreements. Additionally, as in-house counsel, he has direct experience in corporate governance, Labor and Employment, Intellectual Property and Real Estate.
Mr. Harrington is a cum laude graduate of Suffolk Law School, a graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and former Town Moderator.
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Paul C. Trane is the lead Consultant for the Telecommunications Insight Group practice. Mr. Trane is a nationally recognized leader on telecommunications. In addition to his role for TIG, Mr. Trane serves as Government Insight Group’s honorary Chief Inspiration Officer and manages Kerbey Harrington LLP.
From an owner-builder of large scale fiber optic networks to negotiating cable television and telecommunications licenses throughout the country to serving as an expert witness on telecommunications, Mr. Trane has been involved in all aspects of the modern telecommunications industry.
Mr. Trane has provided expert testimony on many aspects of telecommunications to the United States congress, the Federal Communications Commission, and regulatory bodies throughout the United States. Mr. Trane frequently provides comments to major media outlets. He has appeared on National Public Radio, Bloomberg Radio, CBS Sunday Morning and has been quoted extensively in the Boston Globe, Boston Magazine, The Boston Herald, The Boston Business Journal, The Los Angeles Business Journal, Multichannel News, The Wall Street Journal and many other trade publications. In 2005, Mr. Trane brought together the personnel to form the Government Insight Group team (GIG). GIG is engaged in the practice of government affairs and is managed by lobbyist Joseph Capuano.
Mr. Trane’s has vast experience in political campaigns, government, and issues management. Mr. Trane has experienced unique success for clients at all levels of government. Taking the words of Tip O’Neil “All politics is local” as a foundation, Mr. Trane has served as Communications Director for the Mayor of one of Massachusetts’ largest cities and a Senior Campaign Advisor to successful campaigns for local, state and federal offices. Mr. Trane is an active fundraiser for a variety of organizations and candidates throughout the United States. Mr. Trane is a member of Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick’s finance team, Massachusetts State Auditor Suzanne Bump’s finance committee, serves as Congressman Michael Capuano’s (D-8 MA) finance chair, is a member of Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi’s Cabinet 100 Team and serves on several non profit board of directors.
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Bruce has successfully provided legal advice and counsel in the regulated utility field principally telecommunications for almost 30 years.
Prior to joining Kerbey Harrington, Bruce was employed by Verizon Communications for 28 years. His final position was as Vice President and General Counsel of Verizon’s New York and New England operations. As chief legal officer, he advised senior management on regulatory proceedings, public policy, and legislative matters and advised all levels of management regarding state and federal law in the fields of telecommunications, administrative law, and general business and commercial practices. During his career with Verizon and its predecessor companies, Bruce was at the forefront of the sweeping technological and legal changes that affected the telecommunications industry following the 1984 Bell System divestiture. He has litigated numerous rate cases and commercial disputes, negotiated and arbitrated many carrier interconnection agreements, oversaw New England’s successful compliance with the Telecommunications Act of 1996, and directed state proceedings seeking approval for major corporate reorganizations, such as mergers with Bell Atlantic and GTE and the sale of landline operations in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont. Prior to his employment with Verizon, Bruce served as counsel to the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities between 1979 and 1981 where he acted as hearing officer in gas and electric rate proceedings and advised commissioners on utility and administrative law. He also served early in his career as an Assistant Attorney General in Rhode Island and law clerk to a justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court.
Bruce is an honors graduate of both the College of the Holy Cross and Syracuse University College of Law.
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Mr. McGrail serves as Sr. Consultant for the Government Insight Group, Telecommunications Insight Group and as of Counsel to Kerbey Harrington LLP. Mr. McGrail brings a unique industry understanding in telecommunications and transportation.
Mr. McGrail served as the Undersecretary of Transportation for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, General Counsel for the Executive Office of Transportation, and Assistant to the Commissioner of the Massachusetts Highway Department, Chief of Staff at the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority and General Counsel at the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority. Mr. McGrail has been a part of many of the most important development and transportation projects in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
In the telecommunications arena, Mr. McGrail has negotiated telecommunications franchises throughout New England and negotiated essential infrastructure agreements for several large scale land developments.
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Mr. Parr is a strategic business leader, attorney and equity investor, who has advised, created and led successful organizations in the private, public and not for profit sectors. He has achieved performance improvements and objectives and increased entity value through a combination of analysis, innovation, advocacy, process and communications enhancement, team building and management. Most recently, he took over a poorly performing public company with a long history in manufacturing and technology, and remade it into the largest and most successful independent global provider of systems for the early identification of breast cancer. Prior to that, Mr. Parr served as CEO and as General Counsel for several high-technology corporations in high growth or turn-around situations and as a business attorney providing counsel in financing, organizational, strategic and contractual issues.
Mr. Parr also has significant experience in government and politics. He has set up and run local government and state programs in employment, education and environmental sectors and has served as a senior campaign executive for several state and federal political campaigns. Most recently, he was Campaign Chairman in a US Congressional race. Mr. Parr began his public service as a Senate Investigator for United States Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities (Watergate Committee).
Mr. Parr is active in local government relations and advocacy, telecommunications licensing, personal emergency response device licensing, business formation and finance and energy. Mr. Parr obtained his J.D. from Harvard Law School, a Masters in Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University (where he was a Littauer Scholar) and an A.B. in Economics from Brown University. He has been a Lecturer in Public Management at the College of the Holy Cross, and a Visiting Lecturer at the Harvard University School of Public Heath.
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Lindsey Apple, an associate in the firm's telecommunication practice, provides advocacy, regulatory research, and business planning advice for the clients of Kerbey Harrington. Ms. Apple continues to focus her efforts in telecom as well as the regulatory and governmental issues related to sustainable energy and cleantech law.
Before joining Kerbey Harrington, Ms. Apple worked in the finance department of a major telecommunications company, serving as the operations manager in the strategic accounts sector where she was responsible for managing a multimillion dollar financial plan, assisting in the competitive bid process, and complex contract negotiation.
Ms. Apple is admitted to practice in Massachusetts and is a member of the Boston Bar Association and the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association. In the course of her legal career, Ms. Apple has represented low-income tenants as 3.03 attorney through Suffolk’s Housing Clinic and provided services for the Volunteer Lawyers Project. Currently, Ms. Apple assists non-profit start-ups through the Green Pro Bono initiative and serves on the Emerging Leaders Council for the Boston based charity, Cradles to Crayons.
Ms. Apple obtained her B.S., magna cum laude, from the University of New Hampshire in 2004 and her J.D., from Suffolk University in 2009 where she was a member of the Environmental Law Society.
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Attorney Patrick Aufiero provides regulatory research and advice to telecommunications, energy and real estate clients of Kerbey Harrington.
Most recently, Mr. Aufiero coordinated successful licensing efforts in telecommunications, energy and security. Mr. Aufiero has done extensive research on ‘green’ energy policies being implemented or proposed throughout the United States.
Mr. Aufiero graduated from Boston University in 2002 where he was a four year letter winner in ice hockey. His achievements on the ice earned him a Hockey East Second Team All Star selection (2000), a First Team All-New England Selection (2000), and being drafted in the third round (90th overall) by the New York Rangers in the 1999 NHL entry draft. Mr. Aufiero signed a two-year entry level contract with the New York Rangers, making his professional debut with the Rangers' American Hockey League affiliate, the Hartford Wolf Pack, in the 2002–2003 season. He went on to play for the Wolf Pack for another season before signing with Providence Bruins of the American Hockey League during the NHL lockout. Mr. Aufiero played for Augsburger Panther of Germany’s Deutsche Eishockey Liga during the 2005–06 season where he suffered a career ending knee injury.
Mr. Aufiero is a graduate of Suffolk University Law School.
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Joshua S. Grubman is an attorney at Kerbey Harrington, LLP. Mr. Grubman advises corporate telecommunications clients on regulations, transactions, and assists with nation-wide advocacy for new telecommunications products.
Mr. Grubman has appeared in courts throughout Massachusetts, arguing on behalf of clients in areas including business litigation, family law, premises liability, and contract law. He has provided a variety of services to family businesses, including coordinating and managing services with other business professionals. He also has provided consultation and drafting services to clients with needs in estate planning, trust administration, settlement negotiation, and business formation.
Mr. Grubman began his work in legal practice by managing cases for a full-service family-business law firm, while earning his JD at Suffolk University Law School. During his time at Suffolk, Joshua focused on legal drafting, litigation, family law and business services, and received recognition for skills in oral advocacy. In addition to legal practice, Joshua has given presentations on estate planning and is a full member of the Boston Estate Planning Council.