Lecturers and Adjunct Professors

Laurie Burlingame

Laurie Burlingame is a Member of the Corporate Practice Group at Morse, Barnes-Brown & Pendleton, PC. She counsels clients across the life sciences and technology industries in a wide range of transactional matters, including venture capital and debt financings, mergers and acquisitions, licensing and strategic collaborations, supply and manufacturing arrangements and capital market transactions. Laurie […]

Stephen Cesso

Steve is a lecturer for the course Governance, Compliance, Sanctions and Risk at Boston University School of Law, LLM Banking and Financial Law.   Prior to retirement in 2025, Steve was Computershare’s U.S. General Counsel, Executive Director Corporate Trust and was on the Board of Directors Computershare Trust Company, N.A. and Computershare Delaware Trust Company. Computershare […]

Tom Clark

Tom Clark is a partner with The Wagner Law Group, a certified woman-owned law firm specializing in ERISA and Employee Benefits.  He also serves as the firm’s chief operating officer and manages the St. Louis office.  Tom’s expertise encompasses all aspects of employee benefits including a robust practice assisting service providers such as investment advisors […]

Kate Cochrane

Kate Cochrane is a Legal Information Librarian. Prior to joining Boston University she interned at the Suffolk University School of Law. Before getting her MLIS degree, Kate practiced law as a labor and employment associate at Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. Kate obtained her AB from Dartmouth College where she played ice hockey. […]

John F. Cohan

John Cohan is a corporate partner at Gesmer Updegrove LLP in Boston, where he focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions, venture capital and private equity financings, bank financings, private placements of equity and debt securities, intellectual property licensing, software licensing and technology law. John’s practice ranges from multi-million dollar acquisitions, venture capital and private […]

Jared B. Cohen

Jared B. Cohen is an Assistant Attorney General in the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office, where he has handled criminal and civil rights matters, including investigations and litigation at both trial and appellate levels. Before joining the AG’s office, Jared served as a prosecutor in the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office, a litigation associate at WilmerHale, […]