Thomas C. Csatari

Tom Csatari has accumulated specialized expertise in several fields during his career – including trusts and estates, healthcare and business law. His principal area of practice is trust and estate planning. During his last ten years in private practice he has advised clients on a wide variety of estate planning tools, including traditional A/B trust tax savings strategies, charitable remainder unitrusts, qualified personal residence trusts, irrevocable life insurance trusts and family limited liability companies. In addition, he has had substantial involvement in complex probate administration and, when needed, related litigation.

Tom is also an experienced healthcare lawyer. He developed specialized skills in this area while serving as in-house counsel for major non-profit education and healthcare institutions and has handled the diverse legal issues facing such organizations including local, state and federal regulations, corporate governance issues, risk management, tax exemption standards and employment and medical staff issues.

Tom also provides general business advice to clients, including a wide variety of commercial transactions, including financing transactions and asset purchase transactions.

Tom practiced law with Daschbach, Csatari & Young, PLLC and its predecessor for 10 years before that firm joined with DRM in 2007. Previously, he held positions as assistant and associate college counsel at Dartmouth College, where he worked closely with the staff in Dartmouth's bequests and trusts program.  Prior to his move to New Hampshire, he served as general counsel at Methodist Hospitals of Dallas, Texas. He started his career in private practice in Hartford, Connecticut.

Tom is a member of the New Hamphsire Estate Planning Council.

Tom is a trustee at Colby-Sawyer College in New London, New Hampshire. He serves as the moderator for the Hanover School District, the Dresden School District and the Church of Christ at Dartmouth College, and is an assistant football coach at Hanover High School. Previously, Tom served as a director and president of David's House, Inc., a home-away-from-home for families of children receiving treatment at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, and as a director of the Upper Valley Habitat for Humanity.