Attorney Brian Hatch is a 1984 graduate of Boston College Law School and a 1981 graduate of Colgate University, where he majored in political science. After graduation from law school, he served as a law clerk for the judges and magistrates of the New Hampshire Superior Court. A 2000 graduate of the M.S. program in Labor and Industrial Relations at the University of Rhode Island, he has maintained a law office in Attleboro, Massachusetts since 2002.
He has represented clients in a variety of employment, business, litigation, malpractice, divorce and privacy law situations, and has appeared before Massachusetts trial and appellate courts, federal administrative agencies, the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, the Department of Unemployment Assistance, the Department of Industrial Accidents, and the Board of Registration in Dentistry.
The founder of Hatch Legal Group, a dental practice specialty law firm, Attorney Hatch has represented dental practices and dentists in business, employment, privacy law, dental regulations and other matters. In 2003 he began publishing Dental Practice Legal Update, a free newsletter distributed as a courtesy to dentists in Massachusetts.
Attorney Brian T. Hatch
8 North Main Street Suite 403
Attleboro, MA 02703
508-222-6400 / 508-222-6478
brianhatch@hatchlawoffices.com
Recent Blog Posts
Is it Insurance Fraud?
Have you received a request for patients' dental records due to an insurance "utilization review" or audit? Initially, it can seem to be just an administrative task of producing about thirty patients' dental records [...]
Valuing the Practice-Beyond the Figures
There are simple methods of using income, expenses and collections to determine what the market value of a practice is, and most involve what are called “multipliers” to calculate the value of a practice [...]
Legalities of NonCompetition and Non-Solicitation Covenants
Provisions in dental employment agreements and dental practice purchase and sale agreements restricting the abilities to compete after employment as a dentist or after selling a practice, described as restrictive covenants, have been more [...]
Will Your Practice Be Confronted With a Whistleblower?
One of the more common unjust discharge employment lawsuits is based on one of the many “whistleblower” statutes that protect employees from retaliation when they report violations of regulations or other laws. Dental offices [...]
AI in Dentistry-Legal and Ethical Issues
Discussions about the limits on the use of Artificial Intelligence (or “AI”) have dominated the news cycle lately, even to the point where executives of companies which promote AI and essentially profit from its [...]
After Dental School: Owner or Associate
The graduates of dental school are faced with a unique quandary: what is their next step in starting their career as a practicing dentist? They invariably have a tremendous amount of debt accumulated through [...]
Restricting Cell Phone Use in the Dental Practice
Nowadays it seems like the use of smartphones constantly is such an important part of people’s lives that it would be considered a personal invasion to attempt to limit their availability around the clock. [...]
Protecting Goodwill Key to Long Term Success
Goodwill makes up a great percentage of the value of a dental practice and signifies at what stage of development a dentist is in his or her career. The factors making up goodwill start [...]
Is There Embezzlement in Your Office?
The cost of embezzlement or theft within dental offices is probably something that many dentists overlook when determining the daily operating practices of the practice, but it is a widespread phenomenon which costs dentists [...]
