David Wallace is the firm's specialists in employment law and has concentrated his practice in this area for nearly 30 years. His practice includes most areas of employment law including representation of clients before the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, unemployment hearings before the Massachusetts Division of Unemployment Assistance, and Massachusetts district and superior courts. In addition, he counsels his clients with regard to severance and separation agreements as well as noncompetition agreements and related restrictive covenants.
Mr. Wallace also is active in the areas of real estate law, civil litigation, municipal law, and probate matters.
Mr. Wallace is a former two-term member of the Sudbury Board of Selectmen. He regularly represents clients before Sudbury's Planning Board, Board of Selectmen, Zoning Board of Appeals and Conservation Commission. He has successfully represented clients in obtaining three Comprehensive Permits (for affordable housing developments) from the Sudbury Zoning Board of Appeals.
He has served on the Town of Sudbury's Capital Improvement and Finance Committees, and was a director of the Vernon House, an assisted living facility in Framingham. Since 1976 he has done pro bono work for South Middlesex Legal Services
He carries the highest peer rating for competency and integrity by the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory. Mr. Wallace is a graduate of Suffolk Law School and Ohio Wesleyan University. He served in the U.S. Army Reserve, Judge Advocate General. He was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar in 1972. He and David O. Whittemore formed the partnership firm in 1984.
Among his reported cases is Germain v. Girard, 72 Mass. App. Ct. 409, 892 N.E. 2d 754, August 21, 2008.