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 over thirty years of practice experience, including more than twenty years working on health care, non-profit and related matters. Dean focuses his practice on health care and non-profit law within the firm's health law, non-profit organizations and business law practice areas. In the health care area, Dean's emphasis is on professional practice issues and general regulatory matters for physicians and other health care providers and health care-related entities; in the non-profit area, Dean's focus is on governance and regulatory matters for non-profit organizations and associations, including ethics/conflict of interest and lobbying law compliance.

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. In that position, he was principal legal advisor for the Society's patient and physician focused health care policy and programmatic initiatives, and counseled the Society on corporate organizational 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). In addition to ASMAC, he is a member of the business and health law sections of the Boston and Massachusetts Bar Associations.  He is also 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; in addition, he was a peer reviewer for the chapter on physicians in the MCLE 2004 Massachusetts Health and Hospital Law Manual.  He is a member of the business and health law sections of the Boston Bar Association and the health law section of the Massachusetts Bar Association.

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.

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