Edward J. Normand is a prominent lawyer known for representing

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in the dispute over the extent that its insurance covered the September 11 attacks on the

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Biography.

He grew up in Windham,

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and attended the

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. In 1992, Normand graduated from the

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and

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. He then clerked for Marjorie O. Rendell on the

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and Joseph M. McLaughlin on the

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. In 1995, he received a J.D. from the

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, where he served as editor-in-chief of the

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. He served as assistant to the Special Master to the

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for the controversy regarding the

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. He was a partner at the law firm

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. In early 2020, Normand co-founded the law firm of Roche Cyrulnik Freedman, and he currently serves as one of the firm's co-chairs. He demonstrated a passion for the law at an early age, winning the

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’s

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Essay Contest while a senior in high school.Winners of Globe Essay Contest on the Constitution, Boston Globe, December 6, 1987 at 34 (reprinting Normand's winning essay, ''A Progressively Perfect Union'')

Publications

*''The Supreme Court, EPA and Chevron: The Uncertain Status of Deference to Agency Interpretations of Statutes'', 25 Envtl. L. Rep. News & Analysis 10, 127 (March 1995)

References

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