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Lissa McKinney graduated Suffolk University and Suffolk University Law School, initially starting as a trial lawyer with the Public Defender's Office/ Committee for Public Counsel Services the Worcester office, serving in CDC and all of the north county courts inluding Fitchburg, and Leominster. She later transferred into the Boston offices and was largely in the Boston Municipal Court "BMC" and Suffolk Superior Court. As a bar advocate, she spent 10+ years in Brighton, Roxbury, and Chelsea and grew her practice throughout all of eastern MA, Suffolk, Norfolk, Middlsesex, and Worcester Counties. If you have been accused or arrested, she has been to your court before, or is regularly there now.. Her courtroom and trial experience spans 40+ years and thousands of prceedings such as bench or jury trials, probable cause hearings, restraining order trials (209A) and harrassment order trials (258E) and evidentiary suppression hearings. Her criminal practice includes extensive experience in Superior Court, District Court, and some Appeals work over most of her career.. Lissa presently focuses her practice on all criminal complaints in the District Court all over the state. Her District Court work also includes clerk magistrate hearings on many issues including shoplifting, fake ID's, minors with alcohol or adults serving to minors, and traffic violations including tickets for speeding, unlicensed or uninsured operation, negligent operation  etc.  She also handles administrative hearings  at the Registry of Motor Vehicles, for license suspensions including immediate threats, tickets, accidents etc; and firearms licensing appeals. On the civil side, she handles all  domestic violence restraining and harrassment order cases; wage cases, and personal injuries from accidents or animals.. In addition, Lissa has previously been an Adjunct Clinical Trial Practice Instructor at Suffolk University Law School where she supervised third year law students providing indigent criminal defense.  She also served as Staff Attorney for Suffolk Lawyers for Justice (SLJ) the bar advocate program assuring the quality of lawyers representing indigent criminal defendants in Suffolk County. She has  been an instructor and lecturer at numerous educational seminars sponsored by Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education (MCLE), the Boston Bar Association, Suffolk County Bar Advocate Program, Suffolk Lawyers for Justice, and the Committee for Public Counsel Services, such as: District Court Bar Advocate Training; Essential Rules of Criminal Procedure; Trying Drug Cases in Massachusetts; Emerging Areas of Criminal Practice; Hot Tips for Trying Criminal Cases, Probation Violation Proceedings; Defending on a Shoestring; Pre-Trial Conference Rules; Evidence-Getting It In and Keeping It Out.. She is highly regarded by her peers and clients, as reflected in the reviews on this site and others. She  has been designated a "SuperLawyer" from 2019-2024 as well.. Lissa is a member of the Massachusetts Bar, the U.S. District Court for the First Circuit, the Florida Bar, and the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.. Membership: Massachusetts Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (MACDL); National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL), Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys (MATA).

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Established in 1995, Attorney Patria’s law office handles all personal injury and criminal defense cases.Attorney Patria gives his personal attention and commitment to every client from start to finish. Initial consultations for personal injury and criminal defense matters are always free of charge.All personal injury cases are accepted on a contingency fee basis; the attorney only gets paid when you get paid. If no recovery occurs, you owe nothing.Fee agreements for criminal cases are reasonably priced such that clients pay only for the services they receive and never for anticipated services that are avoided. As with all such engagements, a copy is always provided to the client.Attorney Patria has been obtaining proven results for nearly 30 years. He has recovered millions of dollars in compensation for his injured clients and has overseen and successfully managed thousands of favorable outcomes for individuals facing serious criminal charges of all types.The law office of Kris Patria has locations in Acton and Fitchburg. Please contact the law office of Attorney Patria at your convenience to discuss your case.

Since becoming a licensed attorney, Kevin Crick has garnered a reputation for being fair, straight forward, hard-working, and tough in his advocating for the rights of consumers, and for individuals in general. He understands that individuals can be victimized by businesses.. Attorney Crick is amongst the most active consumer protection attorneys residing in his home state of Massachusetts on a yearly basis. He has been lead counsel in not only class action lawsuits, but also in approximately 200 individual actions in federal courts around the country.. Attorney Crick believes that all citizens and residents of this country should be treated with respect and decency by all individuals and businesses alike, and started Rights Protection Law Group, PLLC to help in ensuring that.

Attorney Peter Bellotti is a preeminent trial lawyer who has had a major impact in Massachusetts in the practice areas of criminal defense and personal injury.  As founder and president of Bellotti Law Group, Attorney Bellotti has been instrumental in the firm’s stellar reputation and continues to play a vital role in most cases undertaken by the firm. A distinguished and respected trial attorney, fellow lawyers often turn to Peter to try complex cases for their clients.  His inexhaustible zeal, dedication, and skill have netted his clients millions of dollars.  Attorney Bellotti is extremely well regarded by his peers, clients, and others in the legal and judicial community, as showcased by his AV Preeminent peer review rating, an honor he has held since 2000.  Often, he is immediately recommended to clients facing difficult or unique circumstances, as Attorney Bellotti embraces the challenge of a complex case and ensures the best possibility of success for his clients.  Peter has had success in front of every court in Massachusetts and consistently brings the same level of attention, detail, and skill to every case he tries, whether modest or prominent.. Attorney Bellotti began his career as a former senior assistant district attorney for Middlesex County.  As a prosecutor, he perfected his skills to become a talented and tenacious litigator who has tried hundreds of cases in the superior and district courts and presented arguments before the Appeals Court and the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.. As his long practice and impressive record of success shows, Attorney Bellotti is one of the Commonwealth’s foremost trial attorneys in civil and criminal litigation.  He is also a former senior assistant district attorney for Middlesex County. As a prosecutor, he perfected his skills to become a talented and tenacious litigator who has tried hundreds of cases in the superior and district courts and presented arguments before the Appeals Court and the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.. In 1989, Attorney Bellotti transferred his skills into private practice when he opened Bellotti Law Group (then known as Bellotti & Barretto, before Attorney James Barretto was nominated by Governor Deval Patrick and later accepted a judgship as Associate Justice of the Massachusetts District Court).  After decades of successful practice, Peter has gained unique experience, valuable insight, and a keen perspective on nearly every facet and nuance of litigation, while losing none of the enthusiasm, diligence, and meticulousness he possessed as a younger attorney.  Peter built Bellotti Law Group on the promise of being client focused and results driven.  He has never strayed from that belief and practices law daily with those ideals in mind.. In his practice, Attorney Bellotti is an industry leader in the area of personal injury. He is a resolute and successful plaintiff’s counsel, who will relentlessly pursue his client’s best interests. Attorney Bellotti has more than 15 years experience with personal injury cases and cases that involve catastrophic injuries. Attorney Bellotti has an excellent reputation and credibility with insurance companies who know he is willing to take a case to trial on behalf of his client. Attorney Bellotti always considers the best needs of his clients when making decisions or recommendations and his superior negotiation skills at mediations have yielded seven and six figure settlements on behalf his personal injury clients.  Peter’s reputation often leads to favorable settlements for his clients, but when his client’s interests are not maximized, he is prepared to bring sharp, knowledgeable, and thorough litigation on behalf of his client.. Attorney Bellotti remains active in the legal and academic community and has a wide range of experience as an attorney for the Public Protection Bureau and the Medical Malpractice Tribunal and as a mediator for the Middlesex Superior Court. For the past ten years, he has been an adjunct professor of Constitutional Law at Curry College in the Department of Government and History.  He is also a keynote speaker and lecturer on various topics of law, namely Constitutional issues, whose speaking engagements has been enjoyed by thousands in attendance and in syndication.. Attorney Peter Bellotti’s legal prowess is appreciated in Massachusetts and on the national stage, as he is a sought after legal analyst and has appeared on WB-56 television network in Boston, and has appeared on several national news programs, including Good Morning America, Catherine Crier, FOX News, and CNN’s Nancy Grace. He also makes regular radio appearances as a legal analyst on WBZ’s Paul Sullivan Show.. Attorney Bellotti is a life-long resident of Massachusetts and lives on the North Shore with his wife and his three sons. He is actively involved in his community and is a youth basketball coach.

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.

The firm's founder, Travis Pregent, is an experienced litigator with an extensive track record of successfully representing individuals in complex employment law and personal injury matters. Outside of Pregent Law, Attorney Pregent has many years of experience working as a consultant with MIT where he has focused on legal issues impacting the workplace.. Attorney Pregent has successfully litigated cases in both state and federal jurisdictions and secured many large settlements on behalf of clients.. Attorney Pregent has been rated a Super Lawyer “Rising Star,” and a “Top 40 Lawyer Under 40” by the American Society of Litigation Attorneys. Attorney Pregent has been featured on CBS News and a variety of other news sources.. Attorney Pregent is a Juris Doctor and is a member in good standing with the Massachusetts Bar and the United States District Court. He is also a member of the Boston Bar Association, Massachusetts Bar Association, and Essex County Bar Association.. Attorney Pregent currently resides in Beverly, Massachusetts with his wife and two children.

Michael C. Akashian is a founding partner of Landman Akashian, LLP. Since 1995 he has worked in the Boston office. He is a graduate of the University of Miami School of Law in Coral Gables, Florida in 1983 and a graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1980.. Upon graduation he began his legal career as in house counsel for American Mutual Insurance Company from 1984 - 1986. Thereafter, he was an associate and then partner with Laurence Locke and Associates and Wynn and Wynn, P.C. from 1986 - 1995.. He is an active member of the Massachusetts Bar Association Bench/Bar Practice Group, The Worker's Law, Advocacy Group (WILG), and the One Hundred Club of Massachusetts. He has also been a member of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, Brookline Lodge 886 for over 30 years.. He concentrates his practice in areas of Workers' Compensation, Social Security Disability and Accidental Disability Retirement and has handled thousands of cases since 1983.. He has continuously appeared as a trial attorney at the Department of Industrial Accidents, Social Security Administration, many Retirement Boards, Superior Court, the Appeals Court and the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts.. He is admitted to practice law in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the United States District Court and the U.S. Court of Appeals. He is also a licensed real estate broker.. He has been named by Boston Magazine to the Annual List of SUPER LAWYERS since 2011. He has also been named by the ALM Media Properties as one of Boston’s TOP RATED LAWYERS since 2012.

Alan S. Pierce at  Pierce, Pierce & Napolitano  has been representing injured workers and their families for over 30 Years.. Alan is Past President of the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys, and has been on the editorial board of the Journal of Workers Compensation where his column From The Courts appeared quarterly.. For 9 years he was an appointed member of the Governor's Advisory Council on Workers' Compensation.. He has served on the Board of Governors of the Mass. Academy of Trial Attorneys, the Board of Directors of the Essex County Bar Association and the House of Delegates and the Executive Management Board of the Massachusetts Bar Association He recenly was a member of the Rules Committee of the Department of Industrial Accidents.. He currently is immediate past chair of the ABA TIPS Workers' Compensation Section and board member of WILG, Workers Injury Law and Advocacy Group.. For the past several years he has been the host of Workers Comp Matters which can be heard at .. In 2007 he was among the first 40 lawyers in the country to be inducted as a Fellow in the College of Workers' Compensation Lawyers of the American Bar Association.. He has been listed as a Super Lawyer for Workers' Compensation in Boston Magazine in every year since 2004 through 2012,the only lawyer listed for 9 consecutive years in this category.. He appears in the Best Lawyers in America 2007-2012 editions.. In 2011 he was the chair of the Workers' Compensation Centennial Commemoration held in Boston to mark the 100th anniversary of Workers' Compensation in the United States.. He has authored dozens of articles pertaining to Workers' Compensation practice and is a frequent lecturer in Massachusetts and around the country on compensation and disability legal issues.

I have nearly 40 years of courtroom and litigation experience,  getting compensation for people hurt on construction sites, car accidents, by falls, and by defective products -- whether at work, at home, or on the road. I'm a lifetime member of the Multimillion Dollar Advocates Forum, having litigated multiple cases paying more than $2 million dollars to injured clients, and have been selected as a member of the Top 100 National Trial Lawyers Association.  No case is too big -- or too small.  I've handled everything from 'fender benders' to being one of the attorneys who sued 'Big Tobacco.' I'm known as a tough and creative advocate for my clients, and find out of the box solutions to difficult cases.  I'm also a "lawyer's lawyer", with many other attorneys, and even law professors, coming to me to solve their hardest cases.. No one will work harder to get you fair compensation.

As an experienced, Rhode Island and Massachusetts Family Court trial lawyer, Attorney Rui P. Alves practices before all Rhode Island and Massachusetts State Courts, including the Providence, Kent, Washington and Newport Family Courts. He strives to help his clients get their fair day in court and their proper justice each time he steps before a court of law. Rui P. Alves is a tri-lingual attorney who is fluent in both Portuguese and Spanish. He learned these languages because he is a native of Portugal but was raised here in Rhode Island.. Before joining the law firm of Barton Gilman, Mr. Alves ran Alves Law Offices Inc. with multiple locations in Rhode Island. Mr. Alves worked for the RI law firm of Schreiber & Schreiber, P.C. working in a variety of different types of cases. Rui also gained legal experience addressing check fraud, money laundering, corporate governance, and other corporate legal issues while employed with Citizens Financial Group, Inc. in the Legal Department.. Rui Alves legal education is from Roger Williams School of Law in Rhode Island. While he law school he also attended the Catholic University of Portugal, School Of Law in Lisbon, where he learned about the legal system of the European Union. His undergraduate education was in Boston at Northeastern University where he obtained a B.S. in Criminal Justice.. Mr. Alves is currently the President of the Board of Directors for the Samaritans of Rhode Island. The organization provides community outreach and education in order to prevent suicide and help those grieving the loss of another to suicide.

J. Tucker Merrigan is co-managing partner at Sweeney Merrigan Law, LLP. He started Sweeney Merrigan Law with his brother and fellow co-managing partner, Peter M. Merrigan, in 2010. Since, Sweeney Merrigan Law has become a Massachusetts and National powerhouse in the practice of plaintiff’s litigation. It has been many years since the firm began with its first settlement of $9, and has evolved to recovering over $30 Million in its most recent litigation.. Much of the success attributable to Sweeney Merrigan is a direct product of Attorney Merrigan’s commitment the firm’s reputation as practicing with the highest integrity and genuine commitment to the craft of passionately advocating for his clients. Along with his brother, Peter, they have assembled a team of New England’s very best and most aggressive litigators and trial attorneys in the area of plaintiff’s injury litigation.. Attorneys Tucker and Peter Merrigan have devoted much of their practice to representing over 125 Massachusetts Cities and Towns in the National Opioid Litigation, filing lawsuits against some of the world’s largest companies for their roles in causing the Opioid Crisis. Born in Greenfield, Massachusetts, Tucker takes great pride that his hometown of Greenfield was the first City to file suit in the Opioid Litigation in December 2017.. Boston personal injury attorney Tucker Merrigan is admitted to practice law in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. His practice concentrates on cases involving personal injury, defective medical devices, dangerous drugs, wrongful death, premises liability, products liability, medical malpractice, and insurance law.. Attorney Merrigan is currently a member of the American Association for Justice, Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys, the Boston Bar Association, and Massachusetts Bar Association. From 2015-2021, J. Tucker Merrigan was named a Top 40 Under 40 Trial Attorney by National Trial Lawyers. From 2018-2021, Attorney Merrigan was named a Rising Star by Super Lawyers. Tucker graduated from New England School of Law and earned his bachelor’s degree in Political Science at Tufts University.. J. Tucker Merrigan is a graduate of New England Law, Boston. While in undergraduate at Tufts University, Tucker was captain of the Varsity Men’s lacrosse team at Tufts, earning All-American and Scholar All-America honors. He volunteers as a Big-Brother in the Big-Brother Big-Sister foundation of the greater Boston area.

Mark F. Itzkowitz, Esq. is a highly experienced and well respected trial attorney who protects the legal and Constitutional rights of Massachusetts residents in civil litigation, particularly in cases involving victims’ rights, sexual assault/rape, wrongful death, discrimination, and civil rights violations.. He was admitted to practice in Massachusetts in 1983 and in New York in 1984. Mark has a reputation for providing practical and compassionate legal advice in highly complex cases and has argued and/or participated in many cases before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, and state and federal trial and appellate courts.. Mark is a tenacious and competent trial litigator who has earned an AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rating by Martindale-Hubbell® for his high ethical standards and professional ability. He has been selected as one of Massachusetts Super Lawyers in 2007 and 2010-2021, a recognition given to only the top 5% of Massachusetts attorneys, and he has been named a Top Lawyer by Boston Magazine in 2021. He has written and lectured for attorneys, professional audiences, and non-professionals throughout the country.. Mark has successfully litigated and/or resolved complex cases for decades, often through trial, appeal, mediation, and/or negotiation with insurance carriers.. Traumatized and severely injured people rarely can afford to pay a lawyer. Understanding that, consultations are free and Mark accepts almost all of his cases on contingent fee–meaning that Mark only takes his fee if he is successful helping his client recover compensation.

After working for large corporations (Prudential Insurance, a subsidiary of ITT, and mega-lawfirm Ropes & Gray) for about ten years as an accountant, auditor, programmer and systems analyst, I wanted to work for individuals in a field where I could make a difference for the better.. I started with primarily a tax practice, but when April 15, 1985 came and went I developed a very general practice including criminal defense, personal injuries, consumer protection, landlord tenant and, through the untimely death of my partner, Phillip Henkoff in 1991, Workers Compensation.

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With more than 30 years of trial experience in the area of criminal law, Attorney Topazio has become a well-qualified criminal defense lawyer whose professional skills have become equally suited to the resolution of both criminal as well as personal injury law. Though felony or misdemeanor defense and negligence litigation involve entirely different legal principles and procedural rules, there are many parallels between them that tap into the same skill set and client service values that Attorney Topazio has developed. Both involve the protection of individual rights against powerful institutions — government prosecutors and insurance companies and both often depend on your lawyer's skill with handling evidence — facts relating to guilt or innocence in the former, and facts relating to liability and damages in the latter.  Boston Criminal Lawyer Steven J. Topazio has adopted a tough and aggressive approach to solving cases which delivers the highest legal representation you can obtain anywhere in Massachusetts.

Attorney Robin Gouveia joined the Law Firm of d'Oliveira & Associates in June 2011. Please call for a free - no obligation case evaluation.  Since joining the firm, she has been exclusively practicing personal injury law. She and her legal staff are always ready, willing, and able to represent you. They provide personal service for each and every client, and we will be by your side throughout the legal process.  Attorney Gouveia works with clients from the East Providence, Boston, Pawtucket, Fall River, Worcester, Taunton, Attleboro, Wareham, Woonsocket, Brockton and New Bedford areas.. Robin has spent more than 25 years being an advocate for victims’ rights and fighting for the rights of her clients against the insurance companies. She is passionately devoted to maximizing the compensation for her clients.. Robin graduated from Bishop Stang High School in Dartmouth, MA in 1985. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in 1989 from UMASS Dartmouth. She received her law degree from Southern New England Law School in 1998.. Attorney Gouveia is admitted to practice law in RI and MA state court and MA United States District Court. Attorney Gouveia’s professional association admissions include the Rhode Island Bar Association the Massachusetts Bar Association, the New Bedford Bar Association, the Bristol County Bar Association and the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys.. Attorney D Robin Gouveia has just been selected to the Rhode Island Association for Justice Board of Governors (formerly RI Trial Lawyers Association).  She is also the Chairman of the Membership Committee and is a founding member of the Woman's Caucus.  The Board of Governors is the governing body in the state of Rhode Island for members of the trial bar and consists of experienced and highly recognized Rhode Island Attorneys.. The mission of the American Association for Justice is to promote a fair and effective justice system, and to support the work of attorneys in their efforts to ensure that any person who is injured by the misconduct or negligence of others can obtain justice in America's courtrooms, even when taking on the most powerful interests.