Robert G. Funke
Member
Email: attyfunke@verizon.net

Practice Areas: Real Estate; Municipal; Probate; Corporation; Civil Trials and Appeals.

Admitted: 1957, Massachusetts; 1959, U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts; 1960, U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit; 1981, U.S. District Court, District of Rhode Island

Law School: Harvard University, J.D., 1957

College: Harvard University, A.B., cum laude, 1954

Member: Taunton (Vice-President, 1970), Bristol County and Massachusetts (Member, Committee on Residential Conveyancing, 1982) Bar Associations; Massachusetts Conveyancers Association (Member: Committee on Improvements, 1985; Practice Standards Committee, 1984; Member and Chairman, Title Standards Committee, 1978-1983); Massachusetts City Solicitors & Town Counsel Association (Member, Executive Committee, 1966-1969); Bristol County Estate Planning Council.

Biography: Instructor in Legal Research, Legal Writing and Administrative Law, Boston College Law School, 1962-1964. City Solicitor, City of Taunton, 1964-1969. Member: School Committee, Town of North Attleboro, 1958-1962; Taunton Rotary Club.

Reported Cases: Howard vs. Zilch, 346 Mass. 33, 190 NE2d 77 (1963); Pass vs. Seekonk, 4 Mass. Appeals Court 447, 351 NE2d 219 (1976); Sandberg vs. Board of Appeals of Taunton, 349 Mass. 769, 211 NE2d 341 (1965); Siner vs. Seekonk Center, Inc., 400 Mass. 1104, 24 Mass. App. Ct. 1107 (1987); Kagan vs. Planning Board of Easton, 403 Mass. 1103, 26 Mass. App. Ct. 1106 (1988); Goff vs. White, 37 Mass App. Ct. 128, 636 NE2d 1369 (1994); Joblon vs. Lantz, 44 Mass. App. Ct. 1103 (1997); S&H Petroleum Corp., Inc. vs. Register of Deeds for County of Bristol, 46 Mass. App. Ct. 535 (1999).

Born: North Attleboro, Massachusetts, April 29, 1933

ISLN: 902476415