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John brings care and compassion to the practice of law. Not only does he have the academic and technical skills to be an excellent practitioner, but John also brings the personal skills needed to guide his clients through what is often the most emotionally difficult time in their lives and the lives of those that they love.
The son of a well known Boston trial lawyer who suffered from Parkinson's Disease and a registered nurse who worked in nursing homes for many years, John came to the practice of elder and probate law naturally. Over the years he has been called upon as a legal expert in the media, including Fox News, The Boston Globe, Aging Well Magazine, The Journal of the National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association and many others; he has also served as keynote speaker for several regional and national organizations including The Massachusetts Nurse Managers Association, The American Land Title Association, The National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association, Lahey Clinic, Salter Healthcare, Tufts Health Plan, New England Baptist Hospital, Minuteman Elder Services, Elder Services of Merrimack Valley and many others.
John's practice specialties within the context of Elder Law, Probate and Real Estate Law are: Crisis Intervention for Elders; MassHealth Qualification (including Asset Protection); Reverse Mortgages; Fiduciary Law (including advising and serving as Executor, Trustee, Guardian and Conservator); and all aspects of Residential and Commercial Real Estate Lending and Title Insurance. Over many years, John has had the pleasure to be on the adjunct faculty at the Sawyer School of Management's Graduate Program in Finance as a Professor of Real Estate Finance. Additionally, John speaks French with near native fluency and regularly assists French citizens and corporations with legal matters in the United States.
John is a graduate of Middlebury College with a degree in International Politics & Economics with a focus on Contemporary France. Additionally, John attended the prestigious Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) where he studied diplomacy and global finance. He received his Juris Doctorate from New England School of Law in Boston where he clerked for Hon. Martha Sosman while she was a Superior Court Trial Judge (Hon. Sosman went on to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court) and completed an internship with the Massachusetts Attorney General's Bureau of Special Investigations where he worked in the Medicaid fraud detection unit. Mr. Gosselin holds numerous licenses in New England including: Massachusetts Real Estate Broker; Massachusetts Insurance Producer; New Hampshire Bar; New Hampshire Real Estate Broker; New Hampshire Insurance Producer; Maine Title Insurance Producer and others.
John is an active member of his community. In addition to being an Eagle Scout, he is the proud Cubmaster of the Pack of which two of his sons are members; the third joined the same Boy Scout troop from which he received his Eagle Award. He is also a member of William Parkman Lodge AF&AM and the Aleppo Shriners. John serves as a corporator of Winchester Hospital and Cambridge Savings Bank and as a member of the Gamiel Painter Society and Alumni Admissions Committee of Middlebury College. Additionally, he is honored to serve in his second term as a Public Administrator for Middlesex County.
Personally, John enjoys spending time with his wife and three sons engaged in outdoor activities, most notably boating, skiing and golf. John frequently travels to the various regions of France to sample their food specialties and greatly enjoys discovering new recipes to prepare for family and friends.
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