JEFFREY L. MCCORMICK is a partner in the Springfield law firm of Robinson Donovan, PC, where he specializes in general trial practice, business litigation, personal injury law, and federal litigation. He is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts and Seton Hall University School of Law, where he served as the editor-in-chief of the law review. He served as a law clerk to the Honorable Frank H. Freedman in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. He is a past president of the Massachusetts Bar Association. (June 2005)