Dean P. Nicastro

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Practice Areas Non-Profit Organizations Business Law Health Law

Dean Nicastro is of counsel to Pierce & Mandell, with extensive practice experience, including more than twenty-five years working on health care, non-profit and related matters. Working in the firm's health law, non-profit organizations and business law practice areas, Dean represents and advises physicians, physician groups, medical and specialty societies, medical staffs, hospitals and other health care providers, and medical malpractice insurers on professional practice matters, regulatory compliance and business transactions, practice arrangements, CME, provider credentialing and reimbursement, medical staff bylaws and peer review; also non-profit organizations on corporation and programmatic matters, including ethics/conflict of interest and lobbying law compliance and real estate.

A graduate of both Harvard College (summa cum laude) and Harvard Law School, Dean previously served as Vice President and General Counsel of the Massachusetts Medical Society, where he was principal legal advisor for the Society's physician and patient focused health care policy and programmatic initiatives, and counseled the Society on corporate organizational and business matters and in its membership and publishing activities, including the New England Journal of Medicine. Dean is also a former City Solicitor of the City of Quincy, Massachusetts, and a former Assistant Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Dean serves as an honorary director emeritus of the Professional Liability Foundation, Ltd., and as a trustee of The Massachusetts Medical Benevolent Society.  Dean's past professional activities have included service as Vice Chair of the American Medical Association/State Medical Societies Litigation Center Executive Committee, and as President of the American Society of Medical Association Counsel (ASMAC).  He is also a member of the business and health law sections of the Boston Bar Association and the health law section of the Massachusetts Bar Association.  He is a past member of the Massachusetts Medical Society/Massachusetts Bar Association Liaison Committee and the Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, Inc. (MCLE) Health/Hospital Law Curriculum Advisory Committee; and he was a peer reviewer for the chapter on physicians in the MCLE 2004 Massachusetts Health and Hospital Law Manual. 

Dean has authored many published articles on healthcare and non-profit legal topics (see www.piercemandell.com "Media Room" tab), and has given numerous CME and CLE presentations, and helped plan educational programs, on these same topics for medical and legal audiences both in-state and nationally.

Dean enjoys reading historical biographies, gardening and bicycling on Cape Cod, and taking an active part in his college reunion activities. He is a member of the Chatham (MA) and Quincy (MA) Historical Societies, and a past member of the City of Quincy (MA) Planning Board.  At Harvard, Dean was Phi Beta Kappa (Senior Sixteen) and Latin Orator at university commencement.

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