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Chris Toll '81 Elected Next DLA President

In recognition of hundreds of hours of volunteer service to DLA in organizing its winter Ski and CLE meetings, the Board of Directors has elected Christopher Toll '81 to be the next President of the Dartmouth Lawyers Association. Chris will succeed Al Moncure '69 when Al's two-year term ends with the annual meeting in the fall of 2004.

Chris is a business litigation partner in the Denver Tech Center office of Holland and Hart, the largest law firm in the Rocky Mountain region. Chris has been with Holland and Hart since 1987, and is currently the chair of the firm's Business Litigation Practice Group. His practice is a mix of general commercial litigation, trade secrets litigation, and personal injury defense.

At Dartmouth, Chris was an English major and spent his junior year at University College London in the department's foreign study program. He was a Big Brother for four years and a member of Phi Delta Alpha. He went to law school at the University of Virginia, where he was a member of the Editorial Board of the Law Review. Chris is married with 3 kids, the oldest two of whom now dust him on the ski slopes and have become regular attendees of the DLA Midwinter Meeting.

Doug Simpson '70
Vice President and Webster
Dartmouth Lawyers Association