David Mulhern

David Mulhern is a founding partner of Mulhern & Scott, PLLC in Portsmouth and concentrates on sophisticated estate planning, trust and estate administration, and business transactional matters. He leads the firm’s trust department and regularly serves as a trustee and in other fiduciary capacities for estate-planning clients. His work focuses on structuring plans that address wealth transfer, asset protection, fiduciary responsibilities, and related business concerns for individuals and families.

David graduated from Cornell Law School in 1983 and earned a J.D. His legal training supports a practice centered on trusts, estates, probate-related issues, and business transactions. Over the course of his career, he has developed a particular focus on inter-generational estate planning and creditor protection, advising clients on structures designed to transfer wealth in a tax-favorable manner while addressing long-term family and fiduciary objectives.

David’s practice includes estate planning, trust administration, estate administration, and business transactional work. He routinely serves in fiduciary roles and advises clients whose planning requires coordination among tax, trust, business, and family considerations. His professional writing and teaching have addressed trusts and estates, probate and probate litigation, business law, and banking law, giving him a broad platform for explaining complex planning concepts to clients and professional audiences.

David Mulhern has written business-law articles for NH Business Review, appeared on PBS’s NH Chronicle, and frequently lectures for the New Hampshire Bar Association. He has presented seminars and written for legal professionals on trusts and estates, probate, probate litigation, and business and banking law. He has received peer recognition in Best Lawyers in America for his professional work in estate planning and related legal matters.

Law Office Affiliations

• Founding Partner, Mulhern & Scott, PLLC
• Member, New Hampshire Bar Association

Licensed State

• New Hampshire

Education

• Cornell Law School
  Juris Doctor (JD)

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