JOhn C. Ottenberg

John C. Ottenberg (ottenberg@odllp.com; direct phone: 617-939-6242) serves as a fiduciary in a variety of capacities. Mr. Ottenberg is regularly appointed by courts as a receiver, special master, commissioner and trustee in cases arising out of contested litigation. He has served as a court-appointed fiduciary in over one hundred such cases. He also has been appointed by courts to serve as a personal representative to administer the estates of decedents and as a conservator. In addition, he serves as a trustee at the request of private parties. Mr. Ottenberg is the author of the book, Massachusetts Receivers, Special Masters and Other Court-Appointed Fiduciaries, published by Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, Inc. Mr. Ottenberg graduated from Haverford College in 1970 and from Boston University Law School in 1974, where he was a member of the Law Review. He served as law clerk to the Honorable David A. Rose of the Massachusetts Appeals Court. He has been in private practice for more than forty-five years and represented businesses and individuals in the litigation of disputes before federal and state courts and arbitration panels. He is a past President of the Frank J. Murray Inn of Court. He has been a member of the Zoning Boards of Appeals in the towns of Hanson and Lincoln, Massachusetts. Representative assignments in which Mr. Ottenberg served as a fiduciary: • Court-appointed receiver of parking garage at Intercontinental Hotel and Residences in Boston. • Court-appointed receiver of multiple large suburban office buildings. • Court-appointed trustee of assets of directors of insolvent national credit union. • Court-appointed receiver of partially constructed, multi-use real estate development in Newton, Massachusetts. • Administered decedents’ estates, resulting in fulfillment of large bequest to university endowment. • As court-appointed conservator, oversaw investment of ward’s interests in large portfolio of private and public securities and other assets. • Trustee of family trust that owns portfolio of income producing real estate.