Ann McLane Kuster is a shareholder of the firm, and Director of the firm's Education and Non-Profit Law Practice Group.  Ann focuses her legal practice primarily on legislative and policy matters, and is registered as a lobbyist for clients such as Fidelity Investments, Dartmouth College and Dartmouth Medical School, Merck Vaccine Division, The New Hampshire College and University Council, New Hampshire Independent Schools, as well as Access Sports Medicine and Bedford Ambulatory Surgical Center. 

Ann and the strong team of government relations professionals at the firm represent businesses before the N.H. Legislature, as well as various administrative agencies.  With respect to public policy matters, Ann focuses on state legislative and regulatory issues involving health, financial and educational institutions. 

In recent years, she has been actively involved in a number of significant health and education policy issues, including the creation of the N.H. Medication Bridge Program and the N.H. UNIQUE College Savings Program.

In addition, Ann is a member of the American Academy of Adoption Attorneys and maintains a private adoption practice.

Prior to joining the firm in 1986, Ann practiced law with the McLane law firm in Manchester, N.H.  A legislative assistant to former Congressman Pete McCloskey of California, Ann has been active in numerous political campaigns, including the bid of her father, Executive Councilor Malcolm McLane, for governor in 1972, and that of her mother, State Senator Susan McLane, for Congress in 1980.  She served on the Campaign Finance Committee for Governor Jeanne Shaheen and was a member of the 2004 N.H. Delegation to the Democratic Convention in Boston.