Lecturers and Adjunct Professors

Doug Cornelius

Doug is the Chief Compliance Officer at Beacon Capital Partners, a real estate private equity firm, registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission as an investment adviser. Before joining Beacon Capital, Doug practiced law with the law firm of Goodwin Procter LLP in their Boston office from 1995 to 2008. Doug is an Investment Adviser […]

Leo J. Cushing

Leo J. Cushing is the founding partner of Cushing & Dolan PC, a Boston based law firm established in 1984 specializing in closely held businesses, taxation, sophisticated estate planning, elder law and real estate. Leo’s practice includes all aspects of sophisticated estate planning techniques, asset protection, trust planning, charitable giving and resolution of tax controversies. […]

Joseph B. Darby

Joseph (“Jay”) B. Darby III has more than thirty years of experience representing clients in a wide range of tax, estate planning, and related business matters. His goal is to help clients enjoy their lives by reducing taxes, avoiding (or resolving) problems with taxing authorities, and passing personal wealth to the appropriate next destination.  Jay […]

Sannoy Das

Sannoy Das, alongside teaching at Boston University, is an SJD Candidate at Harvard Law School, and Assistant Professor (on leave) at Jindal Global Law School (India). His dissertation deals with the history of postwar international law–shaped on the one hand, by a conflict between the imperatives of empire and anticolonial thought; and on the other, […]

Jim Davy

Jim Davy is the founder of All Rise Trial & Appellate, where he litigates appeals across the country. Among other victories, Jim has: • Prevailed on issues of first impression, see HRDC v. U.S. Park Police, 126 F.4th 708 (D.C. Cir. 2025) (rejecting the government’s use of so called “claw back” orders to recover inadvertently […]

Mark J. DeFrancisco

Mark DeFrancisco serves as Chairman of the Massachusetts Appellate Tax Board where he presides as an administrative law judge over trials of contested state and local tax appeals. He has over 40 years of experience in the area of state and local taxation, in both the public sector and in private practice as a tax […]