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Mr. LaPlante is a principal of the firm, with decades of experience in complex business (contracts, purchase and sale, financing, employment, and litigation) and real estate (contracts, purchase and sale, leasing, condominium, zoning and land use, litigation, and construction). Mr. LaPlante carries Martindale Hubbell’s AV® Preeminent™ rating based upon his peers ranking him at the very highest level of professional excellence. He is a frequent continuing education lecturer and author of treatises and seminar materials for attorneys and other professionals. In addition to counseling individuals, businesses, government agencies, and financial institutions concerning property and business transactions, he also litigates in the state and federal courts of Rhode Island and Massachusetts, as well as before alternative dispute tribunals.

Born in Waterville, Maine, Mr. LaPlante earned his B.S. in finance from the University of Connecticut and his law degree from Suffolk University Law School in Boston, Massachusetts.