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Fred Poter

Fred Potter
fpotter@sulloway.com
TEL: 603-223-2816
FAX: 603-223-2916

Fred L. Potter

Fred L. Potter is Senior Counsel to Sulloway & Hollis, where he concentrates his practice in the areas of insurance regulatory, corporate governance (in both profit and non-profit sectors), commercial finance and transactional (including M&A) matters. He also has expertise in legal issues involving computer and software companies.

He was President of Christian Mutual Life Insurance Company from 1980 to 1996, and has served as a board member or key advisor to several business corporations, both privately and publicly held.

Mr. Potter is the managing member of CML Administrators, an organization which specializes in serving not-for-profit organizations. Through CML, Mr. Potter served as the founding Executive Director of the New Hampshire Individual Health Plan (which offers health insurance to all medically-uninsured New Hampshire residents) and of the New Hampshire Vaccine Association (which provides funding so that 100% of New Hampshire children have access to all medically-recommended vaccines, without charge).

Since 2009, Mr. Potter has served as the Executive Director and CEO of the Christian Legal Society, a nationwide association of Christian lawyers headquartered in Metro DC and now approaching its 50th anniversary. Through CLS, Mr. Potter leads the work supporting four major ministry activities throughout the United States: Attorney ministries, Law Student ministries, Advocacy (primarily 1st Amendment Religious Liberty concerns) and Pro Bono services for the poor and needy through over 60 legal aid clinics.

  • Insurance
  • Business Law
  • Harvard University, cum laude
  • MBA, Harvard University, 2nd year honors
  • J.D., University of Michigan Law School, magna cum laude
  • New Hampshire, including U.S. District Court
  • Interstate Commerce Commission (inactive)
  • Completed well over $3 billion of Mergers and Acquisition Transactions
  • Leadership roles in complex commercial and class action litigation matters
  • Successful defense of hostile takeover of publicly-traded company
  • Led or participated in numerous bench / bar initiatives
  • Created new financing structures and completed the nation’s only investment grade rated church mortgage backed securitization
  • Restructured reinsurance programs generating savings of over $1million in one claim alone
  • Order of the Coif, the national law student honor society
  • National Award of Excellence (Management) from the Institute for Certification of Computer Professionals
  • AV rated in Martindale-Hubbell
  • Who's Who in Insurance
  • The Best Lawyers in America (Corporate Law)
  • New Hampshire Bar Association, having served as President in 1986-1987
  • Trustee of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and Chair of its Finance Committee
  • Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Concord Christian Academy
  • Fred, working beside his wife Mertie, regularly serves on foreign medical mission service teams to third-world countries
 

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