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Thornton Law Firm
Beverly Hills, California
6 Best Lawyers awards
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Pierce, Pierce & Napolitano
Salem, Massachusetts
1 Best Lawyers award
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Cetrulo
Boston, Massachusetts
3 Best Lawyers awards
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Michael I. Flores
Orleans, Massachusetts
1 Best Lawyers award
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Adam R. Satin has been a partner with Lubin & Meyer since 2004, specializing in medical malpractice and general liability litigation. His cases have generated more than $60 million in gross awards for clients of the firm. In 2012, Attorney Satin achieved two of the five largest verdicts of the year—a $5.83 million verdict for the family of a patient who died after his primary care physician discontinued his aspirin regimen, and a $3,582,831 judgment for the mother of a 12-year-old b...
Andrew C. Meyer, Jr. is widely recognized as one of Boston’s top lawyers and an innovator in medical malpractice and personal injury law. Meyer has consistently achieved record-setting verdicts and settlements, including one of the largest personal injury awards in Massachusetts' history — $30 million including interest. He is the founder of Boston-based Lubin & Meyer PC , a firm known for taking on such high-profile cases as one involving shock treatment at the Judge Rotenber...
Attorney Krysia Syska has been actively involved in numerous record-setting medical malpractice verdicts and settlements; many of which have been highlighted and featured in various publications from Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly and The Boston Globe to several national verdict reporting publications. Most recently, she participated in securing a $5 million settlement for birth injuries sustained when a nurse and midwife failed to act on signs of fetal distress. Attorney Syska joined the firm ...
Bill Thompson is a trial lawyer with more than 25 years of experience who specializes in personal injury and medical negligence cases. He has represented victims in hundreds of cases throughout Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New Hampshire. Attorney Thompson also handles product liability and wrongful death claims and has vast experience before judges and juries in all types of personal injury cases. He has been successful in obtaining numerous multi-million dollar awards for victims of medic...
Jeff Dretler is a seasoned litigator and trusted counselor. He has more than twenty years of experience representing employers in state and federal courts and administrative agencies in cases involving discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wage and hour issues and the enforcement of non-competition agreements and protection of trade secrets.
Michael Riseberg is a litigator with 20 years of experience representing businesses, insurers, and professionals in a wide range of matters involving construction law, legal malpractice defense, employee stock option disputes, real estate development, products liability, trucking accidents, general liability defense, insurance coverage, environmental coverage, and bad faith. Michael has tried a number of significant cases in the state and federal courts in Massachusetts.
Paul is a Partner and the Chairman of Rubin and Rudman’s Real Estate Practice Group. Paul is also a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. Paul has considerable experience in all aspects of real estate development and related corporate practice, including acquisitions, dispositions recapitalizations, financing and property management as well as office, retail and warehouse/distribution leasing from both the landlord and tenant side.
A member of Rubin and Rudman’s Executive Committee, Robert Vigoda focuses his own practice on high net worth families in areas such as estate planning, administration, and business succession for family owned businesses. Rob has been recognized for his experience, imagination, and strong sense of service. Rob represents some of the most financially successful entrepreneurs and families in the country. His proactive approach to identifying and implementing practical strategies has preser...
Mr. Maycotte concentrates on family law and has practiced in the fields of international arbitration and litigation, business litigation, commercial litigation, and general civil litigation. He has extensive trial experience representing clients in a wide variety of family law matters. Mr. Maycotte currently serves as Co-Chair of the Family Law Section of the Boston Bar Association. He has earned his certification as a Certified Financial Litigator from the American Academy of Certified Finan...
JEFFREY A. SOILSON is a partner at Fitch Law Partners LLP where he represents clients in a broad range of divorce, family law and probate litigation matters. Mr. Soilson is the President of the Massachusetts Chapter of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML), and a Fellow of the International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (IAML). He serves as a certified divorce mediator, family law arbitrator, trained conciliator and court-approved parenting coordinator - often in an effort to re...
Kurt Kusiak is a graduate of Trinity College (B.A. Honors thesis in economics, 1984) and Boston University School of Law (J.D., magna cum laude, 1991) where he was a member of the Law Review, a Liacos Distinguished Scholar, and winner of the American Jurisprudence Award for excellence in trial advocacy. Following law school, Kurt was a law clerk for the Hon. A David Mazzone, U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts. Kurt then worked as a trial lawyer for Ropes & Gray and Todd & ...
Prior to joining Fitch Law Partners LLP in January, 1995, Steve Reilly had been with the Boston law firm of Hale and Dorr, where he became a junior partner in the litigation department in 1994. Steve graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1989. He earned his undergraduate degree summa cum laude in 1986 from Middlebury College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Since 2004, Steve has been recognized as a Massachusetts Super Lawyer in an annual list published by a Thomson Reuters r...
Jennifer Bingham is a family law attorney with twenty years of experience representing individuals in all aspects of divorce, including complex property division, business valuation, alimony, child support, child custody and antenuptial agreements. Rooted in the Wellesley area since 2004, Attorney Bingham has earned a reputation with clients for her practical strategic judgment and responsiveness to client needs. Jennifer has been named a “Best Lawyer in America” and repeatedly ha...
Tannaz Saponaro is a highly recognized family law attorney specializing in sophisticated divorce matters with complex financial family estates, child custody, alongside ancillary probate and business disputes. She was born in Tehran, Iran before moving to Los Angeles, California with her family at a young age. She attended California State University in Northridge and of L’Universite Pour Les Etudiants Etranges in Aix En Provence, France before obtaining her J.D. from Suffolk University...
Terri L.B. Partridge, who heads the firm's family law group, has held the highest Martindale-Hubbell rating, AV, since 1996. She has been, again, listed as one of the top Family Law Attorneys in Massachusetts Super Lawyers 2010, as seen in Boston Magazine November 2010 and at superlawyers.com. Throughout her 21-year career, she has handled numerous divorce cases involving complicated issues such as the validity of postnuptial and antenuptial agreements and trusts; and the valuation of closely...
A. Davis Whitesell provides reasoned analysis and experienced counsel to help clients resolve legal and financial problems. His practice focuses on transactional and litigation matters involving commercial law and insolvency issues, with an emphasis on Chapter 11 bankruptcy matters. Davis has over 25 years of experience in commercial bankruptcy cases, out-of-court debt restructurings, and acquisition and disposition of distressed businesses, and he represents debtors, fiduciaries, creditors, ...
Joanne E. Romanow handles high-conflict disputes in family law. Her practice encompasses all aspects of domestic relations and probate litigation, including divorce, custody, modification, child support, paternity, guardianship, and will contests. Joanne handles a variety of litigation involving asset division, complex business valuation, inheritances, custody disputes, domestic violence and non-traditional family structure. She has been appointed as a guardian ad litem by the Probate and Fam...
John Morrier works with troubled companies and their owners in business restructuring matters, both court-supervised and out of court, and advises clients in buying and selling assets in distress situations.Both a litigator and a deal lawyer, John has extensive experience in all aspects of bankruptcy and commercial law, including litigation in federal and state courts and structuring and documenting complex transactions. He represents debtors, secured and unsecured creditors, executives, insu...
Oliver F. Ames, Jr. is a partner whose practice is concentrated in the areas of trusts & estates and exempt organizations. Olly's practice focuses on estate planning, estate and trust administration, charitable giving and private foundation matters. In addition to having extensive experience with probate law and gift and estate tax issues, Olly frequently handles real estate and corporate matters as they relate to clients' estate planning needs. Prior to joining Casner & Edwards, LLP,...
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Featured "Lawyer of the Year" Honorees
Robert M. Higgins is highly recognized as one of Massachusetts’ top medical malpractice trial attorneys who has achieved much success in the courtroom including the Commonwealth’s largest personal injury award — a $40 million verdict for a baby brain damaged at birth. Rob, who received Best Lawyers’ “ Lawyer of the Year ” for Medical Malpractice - Boston distinction in 2015, started off 2018 by recording a plaintiff’s verdict in February for $1.6 mill...
Michael F. Connolly, a Partner and the Co-Chair of Rubin and Rudman’s Litigation Department, is one of Massachusetts’ most seasoned litigators with extensive civil and criminal trial experience. Across federal, state, and administrative courts and agencies, Mike has tried numerous cases involving complex securities, commercial and real estate litigation.
Michael B. Bogdanow is a Principal and Director of Meehan, Boyle, Black & Bogdanow, P.C., and oversees all of its appellate litigation. He has handled numerous appeals on a wide range of issues. Attorney Bogdanow successfully handled the appeal of a $63 million verdict on behalf of his firm's clients, a young girl who was given over the counter Children’s Motrin® to treat a mild fever (and her parents, who were also plaintiffs in the case). She developed the side-effects Stevens...
Antonio Ponvert III focuses on civil rights, constitutional law, prisoner rights, police misconduct, product liability, wrongful death, catastrophic personal injury, and other complex individual and class action cases in Federal and State courts in Connecticut and across the nation. He has represented plaintiffs in hundreds of high profile lawsuits, and has argued more than 40 appeals in State Appellate and Federal Circuit Courts.Since joining Koskoff Koskoff & Bieder in 1999, he has achi...
Jonathan W. Fitch, managing partner, has over 30 years of experience representing clients in complex domestic and international business disputes involving: international commercial agreements; intellectual property; technology license agreements; trademark and patent agreements; distribution and supply agreements; software licensing; technology support agreements; executive employment contracts; employment discrimination; proprietary information; invention assignment; non-solicit and non-com...
In Brief
Success and Leadership by All Measures
Lubin & Meyer Continues to Secure Medical Malpractice and Injury Results That Protect Victims and Inspire Change
New England States With Incoming Legislation
Best Lawyers takes an in depth look at newly proposed bills, litigation and cases coming out of four New England states.