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Alyssa Fitzgerald is a counsel in the firm's Trusts and Estate Planning practice. She focuses her practice on advising tax-exempt organizations. She provides guidance to tax-exempt and taxable entities on a variety of issues ranging from formation, sale of assets, mergers, joint ventures and partnerships, foreign activities, political campaign activity and lobbying, charitable sales promotions and corporate sponsorship, planned giving and compliance with intermediate sanctions and self-dealin...

Vic counsels clients on regulatory compliance and permitting matters in all areas of environmental and land use law. He represents clients with respect to environmental, zoning and other land use aspects of business and real estate transactions and has worked on various major Boston area developments, including waterfront projects. Vic oversees environmental due diligence for acquisitions and financings of residential, industrial and commercial properties throughout the country, representing ...

Sam Goldblatt, former chair of Nixon Peabody’s Litigation Department represents manufacturing and service businesses in disputes in federal and state courts and before arbitration panels. What do you focus on? I leverage my more than 30 years of experience to help clients manage their complex and high-stakes disputes with other businesses, individuals and governmental agencies. My practice focuses on three main areas. Products Liability, Mass Tort and Class Actions I’ve represente...

Brian M. Gibbons is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Insurance Law. Brian M., who practices law in Boston, Massachusetts, has been recognized since 2026. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Brian M. is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

Mr. Kajko is an experienced trial attorney who concentrates his practice in the litigation of complex domestic relations, custody, civil and criminal cases in all trial courts of the Commonwealth including the Probate and Family Court, Superior Court and District Court. He has handled divorce cases with marital estates valued over seventy million dollars. Mr. Kajko also represents clients in the negotiation and drafting of prenuptial and post-nuptial agreements. He represents business executi...

Mark E. Tully is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Commercial Litigation and Corporate Law. Mark E., who practices law in Boston, Massachusetts, has been recognized since 2013. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Mark E. is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

Michael Goldberg’s clients look to him for advice on difficult and complex restructuring issues, where he is known for his creative approaches to the solution of financial problems. Mike specializes in the areas of business bankruptcy, financial restructuring and business transactions as well as commercial real estate transactions. In his over 25 years of practice, Mike has represented a broad spectrum of clients in insolvency matters, including debtors, creditors’ committees, tru...

Bruce Sunstein’s strategic approach to intellectual property has enabled a wide range of enterprises to achieve dominant patent positions in their markets. Patents issuing on applications that Bruce has handled have been enforced for 8- and 9-figure infringement recoveries. He is a patent & IP strategist for market leaders and startups in diverse industries including computer hardware and software, electronic circuits and systems, communications and speech, medical devices, pharmace...

Deborah J. Manus is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Trusts and Estates. Deborah J., who practices law in Boston, Massachusetts, has been recognized since 2016. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Deborah J. is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

Pete Palladino has been chairman of Choate’s Business Department since 1999. He also served as chairman of the Finance & Restructuring Group from 1997 to 2005. Mr. Palladino is listed among the leading lawyers for business in America in Chambers USA , and is the only lawyer in Boston to be named at the top of his field for his work in finance every year from 2008 - 2013. He has been named the 2014 Boston “Lawyer of the Year” for Project Finance Law by Best Lawyers , a de...