GARRICK F. COLE
Of Counsel
Direct dial: 617 228-4417
Education:
- Boston College Law School (cum laude)
- Harvard College
Practice Areas:
- Administrative and Government Law
- Intellectual Property Litigation
- Construction Litigation
- Commercial Litigation
Experience:
Garrick Cole maintains a diverse practice that includes administrative and government law as well as intellectual property, construction, and commercial litigation. He provides legal advice and services to several of the largest administrative and government agencies in Massachusetts as well as one of the Commonwealth's major health care institutions. He has served as an Assistant Attorney General for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and Chief Counsel of the Criminal Investigations Bureau for the Massachusetts Department of Revenue.
Publications: "An Act to Regulate Group Legal Services Plans," 11 Harv. J. on Legis. 68 (1973); "Freedom of Choice and Group Legal Services," 9 Suffolk U.L. Rev. 671 (1975); "Live Organ and Tissue Transplants from Minor Donors in Massachusetts," 55 B.U.L. Rev. 159 (1975); A Model State Act to Authorize and Regulate Physician-Assisted Suicide," 33 Harv. J. on Legis. 1 (1996).
Mr. Cole represented the Commonwealth of Massachusetts before the Supreme Court of the United States in Bellotti v. Baird, 443 U.S. 622 (1979). A recording of the oral argument before the Court is available from the Northwestern Law School, and the text of the Court's decisions is also available here.
A more recent administrative law decision in a case in which Mr. Cole represented the City of Boston's community action agency is available. Also available is the Supreme Judicial Court's opinion in Levy v. The Acting Governor, 436 Mass. 736 (2002).
