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Clyde Bergstresser is a shareholder in the Boston office of Campbell Campbell Edwards & Conroy. He is a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. After graduating magna cum laude from Newark Institute of Technology, Mr. Bergstresser earned his law degree from Boston College Law School. He is admitted to practice in all courts of Massachusetts.. Mr. Bergstresser represents plaintiffs in major personal injury litigation, including medical malpractice, legal malpractice, psychiatric malpractice and other professional liability. An experienced trial lawyer, he served as trial and appellate counsel in Glicklich v. Spievack, 16 . 488 (1983), the first reported decision in Massachusetts addressing the issue of causation in a case involving "delayed diagnosis" of cancer.. Mr. Bergstresser periodically lectures for Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education (MCLE), Massachusetts Bar Association, Massachusetts Association of Trial Attorneys, Harvard Risk Management, Massachusetts Psychiatric Association, Massachusetts Psychological Association, Harvard Continuing Medical Education, Boston University Law School, and Boston College Law School, among others. He continues to be invited to speak in training sessions for medical and psychiatric staff at are hospitals including New England Medical Center, McLean Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital.

Claudia Lagos began her legal career at the Committee for Public Counsel Services, where she worked for two years. At the Committee, Attorney Lagos successfully defended hundreds of clients accused of crimes including, but not limited to, drug transactions, hate crimes, failure to register as a sex offender, sex for fee, operating under the influence, various motor vehicle offenses, larceny, fraud, assault and battery, violations of restraining orders, and embezzlement.. Prior to joining the Committee, Attorney Lagos graduated from Boston College Law School, in Newton, MA, in 2011, during which she worked at Greater Boston Legal Services and the New Hampshire Public Defender. Attorney Lagos graduated from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, with honors in 2008. She is also fluent in Spanish.

Christopher S. Finnerty is an attorney in Nelson, Mullins, Riley & Scarborough's Intellectual Property Practice Group.  Mr. Finnerty represents clients in antitrust, distribution, Internet and intellectual property matters. He serves as antitrust counsel to both national and international corporations, advising on both legal and practical aspects of distribution. He concentrates his practice in the design and implementation of distribution strategies, with resale price maintenance strategies such as unilateral or "Colgate" policies for companies with annual sales ranging from $10 million to $5 billion. Mr. Finnerty routinely negotiates national and international distribution contracts for manufacturers.Mr. Finnerty's intellectual property practice includes trademark and copyright infringement litigation and advice regarding intellectual property dilution over the Internet. Specifically, Mr. Finnerty helps companies devise strategies to limit unauthorized resale of their products and importation of counterfeit products by targeting both consumer web sites (such as eBay) and business-to-business web sites (such as DHGate). The Brand Equity and Strategic Distribution group has working relationships with more than 100 of the world’s largest consumer and business-to-business web sites, in an effort to limit the grey market and eliminate counterfeit sales. Mr. Finnerty has more than five years of online monitoring experience with a focus on the eBay marketplace. He assists companies with the early detection and suppression of online counterfeits as well as providing companies with the tools to protect their distribution strategies and enforce their intellectual property rights.Mr. Finnerty's team has created a unique approach to combating the issues that arise on eBay by combining proprietary software and a knowledge of worldwide intellectual property laws. The number of auctions shut down on eBay by WolfBlock's Boston team in a year averages 15,000 per company. In addition to simply shutting down auctions, Mr. Finnerty has worked to identify marketplace trends and has successfully pursued litigation against the biggest sellers.Representative clients of Mr. Finnerty include GN Netcom, Inc., Corsa Performance and the Roll-N-Lock Corporation.Mr. Finnerty is a member of the Section of Antitrust Law of both the American Bar Association and the Boston Bar Association.Mr. Finnerty is admitted to practice in Massachusetts, the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts, the First Circuit Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court of the United States. He is a graduate of Suffolk University Law School and Gettysburg College.

Christopher J. Stow is Senior Patent Attorney at Waters Corporation.. Prior to moving in-house, Chris was an associate in the Intellectual Property group at Nutter McClennen and Fish LLP and a member of the firm’s Life Sciences practice. His practice focused on the prosecution of domestic and international patents in a variety of fields including medical instruments and devices, biotechnology, microfluidic applications, and various devices in the electrical and mechanical arts. Chris also provided strategic counsel to clients and manages patent portfolios for start-ups, mid-size businesses, large corporations, and academic institutions.. Chris’s professional career began at an intellectual property consulting firm where he led the Medical Devices Group. His work included analysis of competitor patent portfolios and products in support of litigation and due diligence projects. He also has considerable experience related to the development of I.P. portfolio strategies.. Chris’s consulting projects focused on minimally invasive medical devices, cardiac technologies, and vascular devices, and also included automotive technologies, heat exchangers, and other industrial technologies. Prior to joining Nutter, Chris was an intellectual property manager at Organogenesis Inc., a leading regenerative medicine company, where he helped develop the company’s intellectual property estate and assessed competitive and complementary technologies.

Christopher DiBella is the founding partner of DiBella Law Offices, P.C. Few attorneys are able to understand and relate to the hardships accident victims suffer. Chris remembers vividly as a child receiving the call no one ever hopes to receive, that his older brother was involved in a life threatening car accident. He remembers the impact the accident had on him and his family. Chris recalls the stories about his grandfathers who immigrated to the United States with nothing and were forced to work in abhorrent conditions with little to no regard for their safety. He recalls the needless injuries his father suffered as a laborer in the construction industry. As the first generation in his family to attend college, Chris’s father pushed him on the path towards law school very early on. Chris recalls his father coming home from a hard day’s work on the construction site with a 400 page legal textbook for him to read.. His parents saw the legal profession as a place that one could have meaningful and profound impact on behalf of others. Early in his career, Chris fought on behalf of employees who were fired or laid off. He went on to serve the community as a prosecutor in district court. Chris understands that the practice of law is and always has been about the people.. Attorney DiBella offers a free consultation to evaluate your case. No fee unless we win!

Chris has devoted his entire legal career litigating personal injury cases fighting on behalf of those everyday people injured due to the carelessness of others. He understands fully the devastating impact that a sudden injury or death has upon an injured person and his/her family and is committed to vigorously fighting for them. His practice encompasses representing those who have been the victims of accidental injury and wrongful death. Chris has over 30 years of experience advocating for people injured and killed due to: motor vehicle/motorcycle/bus/truck/pedestrian/bicycle accidents including drug and alcohol related, construction and work related accidents, drowning, burns and scalding, paintball guns, negligent security, sexual assault, fall down accidents, dog attacks and other traumatically induced accidental injuries.. Clients, past and present, routinely refer their relatives and friends injured in accidents to Chris for help. They recommend him because they have experienced first-hand his successful advocacy skills and know that he treats each client with respect and compassion. He understands the turmoil an accident imposes upon a person and his/her family’s daily life, along with all the questions, fears and uncertainties that such upheaval creates. Chris candidly addresses all his clients’ concerns every step of the way, and takes the mystery out of the legal process while advancing their legal rights.. Chris is experienced representing those injured and killed by drunk drivers. In one such tragic matter, a woman was driving home in the early evening with her teenage daughter when a drunk driver traveling at an excessive speed crossed over the center line and crashed head on into their car sadly causing the mom’s death in front of her daughter who survived. In another matter a man driving home to his family on a major highway from work late at night was hit head on by a drunk driver traveling the wrong way on the highway. That man suffered severe injuries and had to be transported by Med Flight to a Boston hospital where, although he thankfully survived, he was left with life altering injuries. These are the types of awful occurrences that happen to good people, through no fault of their own, every day. In these actual case examples, Chris secured significant recovery for the survivors from the drunk drivers. Through aggressive and thorough litigation, he was also able to identify the licensed liquor establishments where the drivers had been drinking preceding the crash, and was able to hold them accountable to secure financial recovery from them as well.. People are also frequently injured in the course of performing their everyday work duties. In another real case example, while a heavy equipment mechanic was still working under a truck, the operator started it while in gear, the tires rotated, and the truck lurched off its jacks onto the mechanic, causing massive injuries. Chris represented the injured worker and recovered for his injuries, pain and suffering, lost wages and lost future earning capacity. Under the law, the injured worker’s spouse and their two minor children were also entitled to a financial recovery for the losses they sustained. Chris was successful in advancing claims for loss of consortium for the worker’s wife and loss of parental society claims for the children.. Chris has also been admitted Pro Hac Viceby the presiding Judge in Laredo, Texas in the jury trial of a Wrongful Death action stemming from a horrific motor vehicle crash that claimed the life of a divorced father of two young children who was killed when the car he was driving collided with a tractor trailer. He represented the two minor children of the deceased in that lengthy trial which revealed evidence of the truck operator’s inadequate training and also identified relevant maintenance issues with the truck itself. Cognizant of the incredible emotional impact this loss had upon the decedent’s surviving children, Chris kept their mom informed every step of the way, spent considerable time with the kids including preparing them to ensure their trial appearance and testimony would be as painless as possible. Although no dollar amount may ever replace a parent, the economic recovery secured in the case helped relieve the financial burdens of life and college in the aftermath of losing a parent.. Chris started his career at a Boston firm concentrating in plaintiff’s personal injury where through his tenacious efforts in helping secure justice on behalf of his injured clients, he knew for certain that he had found his calling in life. He rose through the ranks there achieving the status of Managing Attorney. Seeking even greater challenges, he next represented injured folks at another plaintiff’s personal injury firm in Newton where his efforts and talents secured the largest, actual financial recovery for a client in that firm’s 23 year history. Chris also ran his own private practice for several years.. Chris earned his Juris Doctorate in 1988 from New England School of Law and his Bachelor of Science in Government in 1985 from Suffolk University. He is admitted to the Bar of Massachusetts as a licensed attorney and is also licensed to practice before the Federal Court in Massachusetts. During his career, Chris has held memberships in the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys, Massachusetts Bar Association, American Association for Justice, American Bar Association and Boston Bar Association. Chris, his wife and children make their home in Quincy where he serves on the board of the Finance Council at Divine Mercy Parish, as he has since 2009.

Chris focuses his practice on the defense of complex employment cases in federal and state courts, arbitration, and before administrative agencies.. He has represented a broad range of clients in employment, contractual, and traditional labor matters, specializing in the defense of class and collective actions; complex wage and hour issues; matters involving race, sex, age, disability, and pregnancy discrimination; wrongful termination; trade secrets and noncompetition agreements; ERISA; RICO; and various state law claims, including wage and discrimination claims under the Massachusetts General Laws. Chris also assists employers in responding to administrative complaints and investigations before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office and various other state agencies, and defends employers in such actions.. Prior to joining Constangy, Chris served in the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination's enforcement/investigations division, was a labor and employment litigator at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, and worked as a judicial intern for Judge Angel A. Cortiñas of the Third District Court of Appeal of Florida.  He was also a certified legal intern for the Office of the Public Defender for Miami-Dade County, where he defended indigent clients in felony criminal cases.. Chris graduated valedictorian from St. Thomas University School of Law and cum laude from Boston College, also working as a congressional aide to Congressman Lincoln Diaz-Balart.

Chris advises and defends companies, organizations and individuals on contracts and agreements, construction and development, workforce management and product integrity and safety.  His clients are local and national, and represent industries as diverse as real estate, construction, manufacturing, health care, pharmaceuticals, medical devices and food services. Chris also represents public officials and political candiates on election law and public policy matters.. Chris also brings his expereince as a trial lawyer to work with clients on advise, risk management, negotiation, mediation, arbitration and courtroom strategy.

Charles N. Le Ray is a founding partner of Brennan, Dain, Le Ray, Wiest,
Torpy & Garner, P.C. His practice focuses on representing real
estate developers and property owners with complex land use,
development, regulatory compliance, and environmental matters. His
areas of concentration include zoning, wetlands, MEPA, and site
remediation. He also maintains an administrative law and land use
litigation practice, and is experienced in negotiating project
agreements, modifications and settlement agreements with municipalities,
neighbors, project opponents, and regulators. Before co-founding
Brennan, Dain, Le Ray & Wiest, Mr. Le Ray was an attorney with
Goodwin Procter LLP for over eleven years, most recently in its Real
Estate Development and Permitting Practice Group. He is a LEED
Accredited Professional.

Carter Bacon has represented both U.S. and foreign companies, investors, buyers, and sellers in transactions involving organizations in almost every business category, including technology companies, service companies, software companies, banks, trading companies, and manufacturers, retailers and distributors of industrial equipment, medical devices, food products, petroleum products, and consumer and office products. Mr. Bacon devotes a substantial portion of his practice to work as counsel for several New England companies, including venture capital, manufacturing, technology and Internet, retail, and professional service firms. In addition to advising on day-to-day legal and business matters, he assists entrepreneurs with personal legal and financial planning, and serves as trustee for several family trusts. Prior to opening his own office in 2009, Mr. Bacon was a partner of Nixon Peabody, LLP, which he joined following graduation from law school in 1979.

Carla M. Moynihan, partner and chair of the firm's Real Estate Department, has over 25 years of transactional experience advising clients in all aspects of their acquisition, disposition, leasing, permitting, construction, and financing projects.. Carla’s clients include owners, institutions, developers, retailers, individual investors, hospitals, hotels, state agencies, municipalities, and lenders. She represents these clients in single asset and portfolio transactions for hotel, retail, office, multi-family, or industrial uses, advising on purchase and sale agreements, joint ventures, investments, financings, development agreements, and architectural and construction contracts. Her financing experience includes advising on complex CMBS loan agreements.. In addition to her transactional practice, Carla guides clients throughout the permitting and public land approval process at federal, state, and local levels, including the Massachusetts Environmental Protection Act, the Massachusetts Historical Commission, the City of Boston Board of Appeal, the Boston Planning and Redevelopment Agency, and neighborhood architectural/landmark commissions.

Buchanan & Associates was created by Jamy Buchanan Madeja as a small, enviornmental and land use focused speciality law practice after she served as General Counsel for Environmental Affairs to Governor William F. Weld, preceded by a time as an associate at MintzLevin, in Boston. Ms. Madeja provides sophisticated, experienced counsel for clients ranging from neighborhood associates to development entities, usually with envioronmental permitting or enforcement needs or concerns throughout Massachusetts.  She has been recognized by her peers as one of the Top 50 Women in Law in Massachusetts and multiple times as a SuperLawyer in her practice area.  She is married with two children and lives in Rockport, Massachusetts.

Brian J. MacDonough, chair of the Employment Department, counsels and represents executives and professionals in sophisticated employment and compensation matters and employment litigation.. He handles a wide range of matters, including contract negotiation and enforcement, discrimination, whistleblowing, wage and hour issues, and wrongful termination. In particular, Brian advises executives and professionals regarding employment agreements, change of control agreements, equity and deferred compensation vehicles, non-competition and other restrictive covenants, severance /separation terms, and transition agreements.

Brian Freer concentrates his practice in the Firm’s personal injury, products liability, financial and insurance fraud areas, as well as asbestos and mesothelioma claims.

Bradley M. Henry is a trial lawyer at SANTORO & GRAY, LLC focused on wrongful death, catastrophic personal injury and commercial property loss cases. In 2016, the US Supreme Court sustained a $63 million trial verdict and $ million judgment that Henry won with a former law partner, against a global pharmaceutical giant for devastating, life-long adverse drug reactions suffered by a child. See Reckis v. Johnson & Johnson, 471 Mass. 272 (2015), cert. denied, 136 S. Ct. 896 (2016). From 2018 through 2022, he served as Co-Liaison and Class Counsel for the plaintiffs in a record-breaking $143 million dollar settlement of the Merrimack Valley Gas Explosion disaster case against Columbia Gas and NiSource.. After his first year of law school, Henry joined a traditional civil law firm in 1989 and initially defended airlines, aircraft manufacturers and aviation interests in federal court, before transitioning to plaintiffs' practice. From 2006 to 2009, he served as Plaintiffs’ Liaison Counsel in Boston's “Big Dig” tunnel ceiling collapse case of DelValle v. Bechtel, a products- and construction-related wrongful death case that ultimately settled with 15 defendants for $28.1 million. Before that, Henry was the primary handling attorney of the college alcohol hazing death case of Krueger v. MIT from 1997 to 2001 as well as the commuter rail cardiac death case of Allen v. MBTA from 2002 to 2005. Henry’s practice has included plane crashes, mid-air collisions, complex product and weapons cases, refinery explosions, mass shooting tragedies, hazing deaths, building / bridge / tunnel and other construction collapses, MBTA, railroad and other transportation disasters, electrocutions and gas explosions as well as nursing home and pharmaceutical cases. Henry speaks regularly at seminars and conferences around the country on media, the law and handling high-profile cases. He has been voted to Best Lawyers in America each year since 2012 (and named "Lawyer of the Year" in 2019, 2021, 2024), has been named to Super Lawyers of New England and of Massachusetts each year since 2006 and has been a Boston Magazine's Top Lawyer each years since it first published in 2020. Henry speaks regularly at seminars and conferences around the country on media, the law and handling high-profile cases.

Boston-based business and regulatory attorney.

Boston injury attorney Erin E. McHugh represents clients in personal injury cases involving: motor vehicle accidents, premise liability, products liability, medical malpractice, bicycle accidents, and dangerous drugs. She is licensed to practice law in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the State of Connecticut.. Attorney McHugh Graduated from Suffolk University Law School and earned a bachelor’s degree from Lafayette College. As a law student, she served on the board of the Suffolk Public Interest Law Group, and was a member of the Lefkowitz Moot Court Team. She also graduated from Suffolk Law with Pro Bono Honors, having completed over 100 Pro Bono hours throughout the course of her law school career. As an undergraduate student, Attorney McHugh double majored in Government & Law and Spanish, and was inducted into Sigma Delta Pi, the National Collegiate Spanish Honors Society.. Prior to joining Sweeney Merrigan Law, Attorney McHugh worked for a small business litigation firm in Boston, as well as for the Boston Public Schools’ Office of Legal Advisor.. She’s a member of the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys and the Boston Bar Association.

Boston Criminal Defense lawyer, Brad Bailey, a Massachusetts native white collar, sex, drugs & violent crimes (including homicide) attorney, graduated cum laude from Harvard College in 1980. He received his J.D. in 1983 from the University of Virginia, one of America’s premier (top 10) law schools. He began his legal career working for the New York County (Manhattan) D.A. as an Assistant District Attorney in the Nation’s largest and busiest D.A.’s Office. While there, he prosecuted serious street level felonies, including armed robberies, burglaries, attempted murders, felony weapons charges and felonious assaults. He achieved a conviction rate of 94% and handled thousands of cases during his tenure. From there, he returned home to Massachusetts and joined the Middlesex County D.A.’s Office, where he continued his career as an Assistant District Attorney. A senior Trial Attorney assigned to both the Cambridge and Lowell regions, Brad prosecuted some of the most serious cases in the D.A.’s Office including murders, rapes, attempted murders, armed robberies, child sexual assaults, and cocaine and heroin trafficking. In a mere 22 months, he tried 26 felony cases to verdict in the Superior Court (an Office record at the time). Losing only twice, Brad achieved an overall conviction rate of over 92%. Brad moved on from the Middlesex D.A.’s Office to the prestigious United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts, where he served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Boston, first with the Organized Crime Strike Force and later with the Drug Task Force (OCDEFT). While in the Strike Force, Brad directly participated in the prosecution of a number of members and factions of the Patriaca Crime Family of La Cosa Nostra (LCN) including reputed Underboss Charles Quintina, Capos Biagio DiGiacomo and Sonny-Boy Rizzo, and Soldiers Spucky Spagnuolo, Vincent “Dee Dee” Giachinni, Pryce Quintana and Freddy Chiampa. He also authored and oversaw numerous court authorized wire-taps. When in the Drug Task Force, Brad prosecuted numerous local, regional, national and international drug conspiracies, principally involving Colombian and Dominican distribution cells and Syrian and Lebanese drug traffickers. Also the co-lead prosecutor in a case involving the then largest marijuana smuggling ring in New England history, Brad never lost a trial as a federal prosecutor and achieved the Office’s highest ranking: “Outstanding Prosecutor.”. Brad went on to serve as Sheriff of Middlesex County for two years from 1995-1996. In that role, he was responsible for the daily care, housing and transportation of close to 2,000 inmates and detainees at correctional facilities in Cambridge, Framingham and Billerica and oversaw a staff of more than 750 county employees. He was also responsible for courthouse security and the service of civil process throughout Middlesex County. While Sheriff, he was honored as one of the 1996 “Ten Outstanding Young Leaders” by the Greater Boston Jaycees.. Brad returned to the private sector in 1998 and has concentrated since then in high-end state and federal criminal defense involving all types of crimes and charges.  He has defended some of the highest profile cases in Massachusetts, as well as throughout the New England Region and elsewhere in the U.S. He routinely defends clients in cases alleging: murder, rape, robbery, home invasion, larceny, theft/embezzlement, white collar offenses, fraud, public corruption, narcotics distribution/trafficking, arson, racketeering, child sexual assault, child pornography, felony assault, DUI, and all other types of federal crimes and charges.. A longtime member of the select CJA panel (approved by the U.S. District Court to represent indigent clients in federal court) as well as a member of the select CPCS murder list (for indigent murder clients), Brad is admitted to practice before the United States Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit, and also licensed full-time to practice in the District of Massachusetts (federal), the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York (federal), as well as in all state courts, at all levels, in both Massachusetts and New York.  Despite being based in Boston, because of his national reputation, in addition to handling numerous cases in New Hampshire and Connecticut on a pro hac vice basis, Brad has also been admitted pro hac vice in federal or state courts in ME, CA, AZ, MD, WI, VA and NJ and has extensive appellate experience having filed and/or argued cases in the Federal 1st Circuit Court of Appeals, Supreme Judicial Court, and Massachusetts Court of Appeals. He also appears before regulatory agencies including the SEC and the NASD, as well.. A regular guest analyst on local radio and television stations, Brad now provides exclusive television commentary for FOX television’s Boston affiliate regarding cases of local, regional, and national importance.  A repeat Massachusetts Super Lawyer, including this year (2014), Brad has also been recognized as a New England Super Lawyer.  He received top ratings from Martindale Hubbell (“AV”) and AVVO (“Superb”) and was voted a National Top 100 Trial Lawyer.. A former Harvard Football Player, with four adult children, all of whom were accomplished high school athletes, three of whom also participated in varsity sports at the inter-collegiate level, Brad is well-versed in MIAA rules and regulations, as well as governing codes of discipline of high school and collegiate athletics. He remains active in his local community.

Boston Criminal Defense Attorney David Yannetti’s polished trial skills and professional demeanor have earned him the respect and admiration of clients, peers, competitors and judges throughout Massachusetts and the country. Attorney Yannetti has successfully tried important, high-stakes cases that were broadcast gavel-to-gavel on Court TV, New England Cable News and other networks, earning high praise from other commentators and legal experts. Mr. Yannetti himself has appeared as a legal analyst on Fox News, CNN, and I.D. Channel. Attorney Yannetti competed in the 2008 “Battle of the Lawyers” sponsored by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, a charity event designed to showcase masterful trial lawyers re-creating their famous closing arguments. Attorney Yannetti was chosen by a celebrity jury to have given the “Most Compelling Argument”, thereby naming him the winner of the event.. Boston Magazine 2024 “Super Lawyer”Attorney Yannetti has been selected to the exclusive Massachusetts and New England “Super Lawyers” list in Boston Magazine every year since 2007. In order to be named a “Super Lawyer,” an attorney must survive a rigorous and discerning selection process. Lawyers nominate other lawyers, who are then evaluated by a blue-ribbon panel consisting of top attorneys within each practice area. The blue-ribbon panel considers such factors as an attorney’s honors and awards, his experience, his scholarly lectures and writings, his education and employment background and other outstanding achievements. In the end, only 5% of Massachusetts lawyers are selected for inclusion in the Super Lawyers list. Attorney Yannetti is proud to be among them, as a highly rated criminal defense attorney. Read Attorney Yannetti’s Super Lawyers profile page.. An “AV- Rated,” Pre-Eminent LawyerAttorney Yannetti has earned an “AV” Rating* – the highest rating possible – from the Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Ratings* every year since 1999. These ratings reflect the confidential opinions of judges and fellow lawyers regarding two aspects of an attorney’s practice: his or her legal ability and general ethical standards. An AV-Rated attorney is recognized to be pre-eminent in the practice of law and highly ethical. In fact, Attorney Yannetti’s AV Rating has qualified him for inclusion in The Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers* every year since 1999. Only 5% of all U.S. law firms qualify and are included — confirming that Attorney Yannetti is one of the most distinguished and respected criminal defense lawyers in the country.. One of the “Best Lawyers in America” for 2021U.S. News and World Report recently named Attorney Yannetti one of the “Best Lawyers in America” for the second straight year and featured him in its magazine. According to its website, “Best Lawyers® is the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession. A listing in Best Lawyers is widely regarded by both clients and legal professionals as a significant honor, conferred on a lawyer by his or her peers. For more than three decades, Best Lawyers lists have earned the respect of the profession, the media, and the public, as the most reliable, unbiased source of legal referrals anywhere. [The] lists of outstanding attorneys are compiled by conducting exhaustive peer-review surveys in which tens of thousands of leading lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional peers. If the votes for an attorney are positive enough for inclusion in Best Lawyers, that attorney must maintain those votes in subsequent polls to remain on the list for each edition.”

Boston Attorney * Dedicated to Employment Law * Exclusively on Behalf of Employees. Based in Boston, David is the Founder of Conforto Law Group.. He dedicates his practice to employment law and exclusively represents employees. David has successfully represented hundreds of employees in numerous industries in cases involving sexual harassment; severance negotiations; whistleblower retaliation; and employment discrimination based on age, gender, pregnancy, race, disability, and religion.. We welcome the opportunity to put our expertise to work for you:.. Your Success | Our Goal. Let Us Help.. Conforto Law Group, P.C.20 Park Plaza, Suite 402Boston, MA 02109

Ben’s practice is dedicated to the litigation and trial of personal injury cases, with an emphasis in the areas of product liability, medical malpractice, construction site accidents, and premises liability.   In connection with this practice, he has also litigated through trial and appeal cases aimed at obtaining insurance coverage for injured clients where coverage is disputed.  Ben’s success for clients both in and out of the courtroom is the result of his in-depth understanding of the law and trial practice, his tireless attention to detail in developing the facts of a case, and his commitment to his clients.   Ben is a member of numerous bar organizations and committees, is a regular lecturer at continuing legal education programs and to local law students.

Benjamin Duggan is a litigator and trial lawyer. Prior to joining the KJC Law Firm, Ben worked as a staff attorney for the Committee for Public Counsel Services in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Ben has represented hundreds of clients in the trial courts of the Commonwealth of Massachusets, in cases ranging from drug possession and operating under the influence of alcohol or drugs, to armed robbery and aggravated rape. At trial, Ben has successfully obtained not guilty verdicts on a variety of charges, including reckless operation, firearm possession, and assault with intent to murder. Ben has been equally successful in getting his clients’ cases dismissed prior to trial, prevailing in dozens of motions to dismiss and motions to suppress. And when his clients’ suffered adverse rulings, Ben obtained reversals on appeal to the Supreme Judicial Court and the Massachusetts Appeals Court. In one particular case, Commonwealth v. Jessica McDonald, No. 13-P-1365 (Nov. 13, 2014), Ben was able to convince the Appeals Court to reverse a decision against his client, based on a cutting-edge issue in Massachusetts law related to the decriminalization of marijuana. Due to his work in the case, Ben was asked to author a guide for defense attorneys on issues related to changes in Massachusetts marijuana laws. His article, “Recent Case Law Developments Related to Marijuana,” was published in June 2015 by Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education as part of their Cutting Edge Issues in Northern Massachusetts Criminal Law Practice seminar.. Ben has also worked on a wide variety of civil cases, including personal injury, wrongful death, medical malpractice, contract, consumer protection, employment, foreclosure, and intellectual property. He has written dozens of memoranda of law regarding motions to dismiss and motions for summary judgment, filed in Massachusetts District and Superior Court and the United States District Court. He has also written several appeals briefs, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court, the Massachusetts Appeals Court, and the First Circuit Court of Appeals.. Ben graduated summa cum laude from Suffolk University Law School in 2012. While at Suffolk, Ben was a member of the Suffolk Defenders student clinic, where he was appointed to represent indigent defendants in the Boston Municipal Court. Ben received several academic accolades, including awards for Dinstinguished Oral Advocate and Distinguished Brief. He was also a member of Suffolk’s nationally-ranked mock trial team, where he won a regional championship in the American Association for Justice’s annual competition, advanced to the regional final in the National Trial Competition, and was invited to compete, along with advocates from the top-16 mock trial programs in the country, in the “Top Gun” mock trial tournament at Baylor University, where he advanced to the semi-finals. Ben continues his involvement with Suffolk’s mock trial team by volunteering as a coach.

Based in downtown Boston, Massachusetts, Weiss Immigration Law Group offers highly effective, tailored immigration solutions for individuals and businesses from a wide range of industries throughout the United States and around the globe. With more than two decades of experience in the full range of immigration and nationality services, we have the expertise to successfully address our clients’ visa, citizenship, and compliance needs.. Business Immigration and Corporate ComplianceWe advise and assist employers, entrepreneurs, and foreign nationals with the full range of business immigration matters, such as nonimmigrant visas, green card filings in all preference categories, corporate compliance, and consular processing.. Family ImmigrationWe work closely with individuals and their family members to identify the visa and green card sponsorship options that best meet their specific immigration needs.. US Citizenship and NaturalizationWe understand the value of United States citizenship. We provide our clients with a comprehensive review of the steps they will need to take to become US citizens or document their citizenship, and represent them before USCIS.

Barbara O'Donnell has more than 20 years of experience in matters of insurance coverage, extra contractual liability, insurance agent/broker liability, employment, and professional liability law. Ms. O'Donnell's practice is regional, and she has handled matters in several state and federal courts and before administrative and arbitration tribunals.Ms. O'Donnell's insurance coverage practice includes the resolution and litigation of a broad range of liability coverage issues under commercial, specialty lines, professional, directors and officers, employment practices, and other standard form and manuscript policies. She regularly advises and represents insurers in complex coverage disputes involving allocation issues, primary/excess obligations, advertising injury coverage, additional and other insured questions, application misrepresentation defenses, and the application of exclusions under claims made and occurrence based policies.  Ms. O'Donnell also counsels insurers concerning claims handling obligations and effective ways to minimize exposure to extra contractual liability claims.Drawing on the breadth of her insurance coverage and industry experience, Ms. O'Donnell also drafts policy forms and endorsements for insurers.   Ms. O'Donnell also prepares and presents custom tailored training programs for insurance professionals on claims handling best practices, emerging issues, and effective ways to resolve difficult coverage disputes.  Ms. O'Donnell's professional liability practice includes the representation of insurance agent/brokers against claims alleging the failure to procure requested or appropriate coverages.  In defending agent/brokers against these claims, Ms. O'Donnell often draws upon her insurance coverage experience to establish that the agent/broker's conduct did not cause the alleged loss in any event.     In her employment law practice, Ms. O'Donnell counsels employers about effective ways to minimize liability exposure under the expanding array of state and federal laws governing employee/employer relations. Ms. O'Donnell regularly negotiates and prepares agreements to resolve disputes, including separation, nondisclosure, and settlement agreements.Ms. O'Donnell holds leadership positions in national bar and insurance industry organizations. She is the current chair of the Reinsurance, Excess and Surplus Insurance Section of the Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel ("FDCC") and a past chair of the FDCC's Extra Contractual Liability Section and the ABA/TIPS Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee.  Drawing on her expertise in resolving complex insurance coverage and bad faith disputes, Ms. O'Donnell served on the faculty of the FDCC's Graduate Litigation Management Program attended by senior level corporate and insurance industry litigation management professionals for a number of years. Ms. O'Donnell is the incoming co-chair of the ABA/TIPS Book Publishing Board and a liaison to the ABA Standing Committee on Publishing Oversight.  She is a past editor of TortSource, an ABA/TIPS publication, and also served for several years on the editorial board of the ABA/TIPS Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Law Journal. For over ten years, Ms. O'Donnell served as the articles editor for The CGL Reporter, a biannual International Risk Management Institute publication.. Ms. O'Donnell has also been recognized as one of the leading insurance coverage attorneys on the Massachusetts and Corporate Counsel Super Lawyers list in each of the past ten years.. Ms. O'Donnell frequently writes and speaks on emerging insurance coverage issues and effective ways to avoid or minimize bad faith liability. Her 2015 presentations included a panel discussion on "Making (and Avoiding) the Case for Bad Faith" at the February 2015 ABA/TIPS Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee Midyear Meeting and moderating a program entitled "Navigating Extra Contractual Insurance Claims" at the May 2015 ABA/TIPS Spring Meeting. In February of 2014 she addressed "Current Battlegrounds in Defective Construction Coverage Disputes" at CLM's Insurance Bad Faith/Construction Conference. In March 2012, she spoke at DRI's Insurance Coverage Claims Institute on the topic "Defenses To Bad Faith Actions: Do They Exist And Do They Work" and moderated a panel discussion on "Multiple Claimants and Insufficient Limits - Can Insurers Lessen their Exposure to Bad Faith Claims" at the Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel Winter Meeting. Ms. O'Donnell's article entitled "Asserting the Genuine Dispute Doctrine as a Defense to Extracontractual Suits" appears in the Spring 2014 issue of DRI's For the Defense. She also authored the opening chapter on "Insurance Policy Interpretation and Construction" in the West Group/American Bar Association (ABA) treatise entitled "The Law and Practice of Insurance Coverage Litigation". Ms. O'Donnell's article entitled "The First Wave of Decisions Interpreting Employment Practices Liability Policies" appeared in the Fall 2005 issue of The Brief, an ABA Tort and Insurance Practice Section (TIPS) publication.. Ms. O'Donnell received her B.A., with distinction, from the University of Virginia and her J.D., cum laude, from Boston College Law School.  She is admitted to practice in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and in the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. Ms. O'Donnell also holds a Martindale-Hubble AV (preeminent) rating.

Background. A lifelong resident of Stoneham, with offices in Boston, MA serving the Greater Boston and North Shore area.  With a passion for solving problems, I'm grateful for the opportunity to help my clients and local community achieve their goals. I pride myself on leaving lasting impressions amongst my peers and clientele, and thrive on the referrals that my business was built on.  When I'm not at the office, I spend my time with my wife, Becky, and two dogs, Lucy and Ashley.. Education. Attending Stoneham schools from K-8, I graduated from the Northeast Metropolitan Regional Vocational High School where I was enrolled in the schools Electrical Program. I completed undergrad at Suffolk University and Florida Gulf Coast University with a major in Criminal Justice and minor in Sociology. I earned my Juris Doctorate from Massachusetts School of Law before becoming an attorney.