Attorneys

Dan W. Thornhill
Email: dthornhill@shaines.com

Dan concentrates his practice in commercial and real estate matters, including the acquisition, financing, construction, sale and development of real estate projects. Dan also has an extensive practice in business entity formation and business representation, including corporations, limited liability companies, partnerships, and other entities. Dan also spends much of his time involved with real estate foreclosures throughout the State of Maine on behalf of several national lenders, as well as local banks. Dan also has experience and practice in estate planning and probate, commercial litigation and personal injury claims. He is a director with the firm of Shaines & McEachern and is principally located in their Kittery, Maine office of McEachern & Thornhill.

Dan was born in Biddeford, Maine on June 15, 1949 and was educated in Maine and Ohio elementary and secondary schools. Dan received his B.A., cum laude, from Ohio State University Arts in 1971 and his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1974. He was admitted to the New Hampshire Bar and the U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire in 1974 and to the Maine Bar and the U.S. District Court for the District of Maine in 1975.

Dan has been actively involved with the local communities. He was a charter member of the Kittery Rotary Club, an active member of the Kittery-Eliot Chamber of Commerce, served for many years on the Board of Trustees of the Rice Public Library and the York Land Trust. Dan was Chairman of the York County Bar Association Speech Scholarship Contest for many years and received an appreciation award in 1994 and the President's outstanding member award in 2004.

Dan lives in Kittery with his wife, Catherine, a local artist, and enjoys spending time with his two grown children, Lindsay and Michael.

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