Massachusetts Lawyers - Boston

Firm: Bowditch & Dewey

One International Place , Boston , Massachusetts 02110

Practice Areas: Civil , Corporate , Elder , Insurance , Litigation, Litigation, Litigation, Litigation, Litigation, Litigation, Litigation

David Viens is an experienced business/commercial litigator and tort defense lawyer with substantial experience representing a broad variety of clients in business/commercial disputes and high exposure tort matters.  Dave also has significant experience representing clients in the hospitality industry in a broad variety of litigation matters.  Dave’s practice includes general contract/business/commercial litigation, close-corporation shareholder/partnership disputes, construction litigation, real estate litigation, employment litigation, insurance litigation and litigation involving financial institutions/professionals, as well as litigation implicating other professionals (insurance, medical, etc.).  Dave also devotes a large portion of his practice to defending corporate clients and large property owners, as well as an international utility company, in tort matters, including premise and product liability actions, negligence, strict liability, G.L. Chapter 93A, wrongful death and catastrophic injury cases.  Dave’s experience representing clients in the hospitality industry includes representation of large national hotel chains, convention centers, sporting arenas, event/entertainment venues, liquor licensees, food services businesses and public and private transportation authorities and businesses.. Dave represents clients throughout Massachusetts, has successfully tried cases (first and second chair) in the Massachusetts (state) Superior and District Courts and has appeared in every state and federal court department in Massachusetts.  Dave has also successfully appeared before the Massachusetts Appeals Court and Supreme Judicial Court (“SJC”).  See, e.g., Fillepp v. Boston Gas Company, Inc., 85 Mass. App. Ct. 901 (2014); Lev v. Beverly Enterprises-Massachusetts, Inc., 457 Mass. 234 (2010).

Firm: Dimov Tax Specialists

897 Boylston St , Boston , Massachusetts 02199

Practice Areas: Tax Services, Accountants, Bookkeepers

Firm: Sheff Law Offices, P.C.

10 Tremont Street , Boston , Massachusetts 02108

Practice Areas: Personal Injury

Donald R. Grady, Jr. is an experienced trial attorney and litigator practicing before the Courts of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the Courts of the State of New York. He has represented injured parties in many areas of law, brain injury, construction site accidents, workplace accidents, medical malpractice, products liability, railroad injuries, and general negligence cases. In addition to his twenty years experience in personal injury matters, Attorney Grady has litigated cases involving contractual disputes, real estate matters, construction disputes, and other business law litigation. Attorney Grady has spoken extensively before various groups, including lawyers, law students, and business professionals. He has lectured on the topics of trial technique, trial practice, civil practice, and corporate liability. Donald Grady is a member of the American Association for Justice (AAJ) and the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys (MATA), and is involved in other legal groups dedicated towards the zealous representation of tort litigation.Certified by the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, Donald (Don) Grady has participated and has advocated in numerous mediations and arbitrations during his legal career. In his current position at CMCI and in his 42-year tenure as a civil trial lawyer, Don has participated in complex mediations and arbitrations. He has advocated in multiple mini-trials, Master hearings and other forms of alternative dispute resolution. As a trial lawyer, he served as chief litigation counsel and lead trial counsel in multiple high profile matters in the Greater Boston area. He has tried more than one hundred cases to verdict, including several multi-million-dollar verdicts. His trial experience includes general negligence claims, construction site claims, medical malpractice cases, auto/trucking cases, premises liability cases, abuse cases, Federal Employers’ Liability Act (Railroad) matters, Jones Act cases, Dram Shop cases and products liability actions.. Don’s trial and litigation experience also includes commercial construction claims, advertising claims, breach of contract claims, Multi-District Litigation matters, tortious interference with contract claims and professional liability claims. He has appeared in the District of Massachusetts (Federal) Courts and the Superior Courts of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He has also practiced in multiple New York State Supreme Courts and the Federal District Courts in the State of New York. He has been admitted pro hac vice in other jurisdictions, including New Hampshire, Maine, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and Arizona. As a litigator and trial lawyer, Don has received multiple awards, including recognition as a Super Lawyer, a Lawyer of Distinction and Top Lawyer Award Recipient from the National Trial Lawyers Association.. Don has served in local and national bar associations, including multiple terms in Section Council in Civil Litigation and Judicial Administration in the Massachusetts Bar Association. He was a Governor for the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys and a speaker at the American Association for Justice. He has lectured to a wide variety of audiences, including practicing attorneys, paraprofessionals, in-house legal counsel, law students, undergraduates, and members of the public.

Firm: Lawson & Weitzen, LLP

88 Black Falcon Avenue , Boston , Massachusetts 02210

Practice Areas: Commercial

Firm: Prince Lobel Tye LLP

One International Place , Boston , Massachusetts 02110

Practice Areas: Appellate , Domestic Partnership, Family, Family, Family, Family, Family, Child Custody, Divorce & Separation

DONALD G. TYE is a founding partner and co-chair of the Domestic Relations Practice Group at Prince Lobel Tye LLP in Boston (a multi-practice firm which handles matters of local, regional, national, and international reach). He has forty years of experience as a trial attorney, a guardian ad litem, a master, a mediator, a conciliator, an attorney for children (including the Massachusetts ARC program), and an arbitrator.. He has prepared and argued numerous cases to the Massachusetts Appeals Court and the Supreme Judicial Court. Mr. Tye is a fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML). He was national co-chair of national AAML’s legislation committee; during 2009 and 2010 he served on its Special Concerns for Children Committee, which was responsible for updating and revising the AAML’s Standards for Attorneys for Children in Custody or Visitation proceedings.; In 2014 he was appointed to AAML’s Impact of Special Needs Children Committee; and in 2013, 2015, and 2017 he was appointed to be a member of its Continuing Legal Education Committee. He was president of the AAML Massachusetts chapter from 2005 through 2007 and received the Massachusetts chapter’s “President’s Award” in 1998 and 2004. Since 1999, he has been a member of the family law curriculum advisory committee of Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education and was co-chair from 2006 through 2008. He is a member of the Family Law Section of the American, Massachusetts, and Boston Bar Associations and was appointed to the MBA Family Law Section council, on which he has served since 2010.. He is an editor emeritus on the board of editors of Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly. His work has also been published in the Massachusetts Family Law Journal, the Boston Bar Journal, the ABA’s Family Advocate, Massachusetts Bar Lawyers’ Journal, Best of Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education Journal, and ABA Family Law Quarterly. A frequent lecturer and panelist, he has lectured and conducted workshops and seminars in the areas of trial practice, divorce, and child-related issues at Harvard Law School; Boston College Law School; Northeastern University Law School; Suffolk University School of Law; MCLE and its Family Law Institute; Brown University Medical Center; Boston University Graduate School of Social Work; the American Psychological Association; the Boston public schools (Partners in Education, Inc.); the Maine, Massachusetts, and Boston Bar Associations; the ABA Family Law Section annual meetings in Jacksonville, Florida, in 2011, and in 2015 for the ABA Family Law Section Fall CLE in Portland, Oregon; the AAML annual meeting in Chicago in 2013, and in 2015; the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Lawyers; the Massachusetts Association of Guardians Ad Litem (MAGAL), and in 2017 at the AAML AFCC Conference “Advanced Issues in Child Custody: Evaluation, Litigation and Settlement” in San Diego, CA, and at the Annual Meeting in Chicago of the AAML CLE he will be co-presenting on “the Intersection of Alienation and Custodial Issues”.. Active in the community, Mr. Tye has been a Board Member and a vice president of Ford Hall Forum at Suffolk University, the nation’s oldest continuously operating free public lecture series. From 2009 through 2014 he was a member of the Massachusetts Judicial Nominating Commission (appointed by Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick); and has been active on the civil rights committee of the Anti-Defamation League. In 2012 he was appointed to serve as a member of the statewide taskforce Voice of the Child by the then-chief judge of the Massachusetts Probate & Family Court Department. In January 2015, he was appointed to a three-year term as a hearing officer by the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers; and is a member of the Board of MAGAL, Inc.. In May 2018 he received MCLE’s Annual Scholar- Mentor Award for his life time contributions to Family Law in Ma. (Four of these awards are presented annually by the premier CLE program in Massachusetts among all fields of practice among Ma. lawyers).. Since 2004, he has been recognized as a “Massachusetts Super Lawyer.” He has also been named as one of the “Top 100 Lawyers in Massachusetts” as featured in Boston Magazine and as a “Top Attorney in New England” by New England Super Lawyers. He was coeditor of the “Domestic Relations” chapter in Summary of Basic Law, a selection of the Massachusetts Practice Series (published by West Publishing Company), was editor of the “Divorce” chapter in the Massachusetts Bar Association publication, Traps for the Unwary, and in Fall 2017 his article “Preferences and Voices of Children in Massachusetts and Beyond” was published in the ABA Family Law Quarterly. The article he co-authored, Navigation of the Culture of the Immigrant Experience in the Family Courts, will appear in the in Fall 2017 Journal of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. Mr. Tye is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis School of Law, and its Brown School of Social Work (M.S.W.),and Tufts University.

Firm: Pierce Atwood, LLP

100 Summer Street , Boston , Massachusetts 02110

Practice Areas: Civil , Class Actions, Drugs & Medical Devices, Employment & Labor , Environmental , Health Care & Hospitalization, Toxic Substances, Litigation, Litigation, Litigation, Litigation, Litigation, Litigation

Firm: Posternak Blankstein & Lund LLP

Prudential Tower , Boston , Massachusetts 02199

Practice Areas: Business & Commercial, Leases and Leasing, Real Estate , Real Estate, Real Estate, Real Estate, Real Estate, Real Estate

Firm: Peabody & Arnold

600 Atlantic Avenue , Boston , Massachusetts 02210

Practice Areas: Litigation

Dom is committed to providing insurers with strategic, creative and meticulous advocacy to resolve claims in the most cost-effective manner. He represents insurers in matters involving directors and officers, employment practices, professional liability, and general liability coverage. His experience spans a wide range of disputes involving Fortune 500 companies across the United States and internationally. Serving as monitoring or litigation counsel, Dom assists clients in complex high-profile cases against corporate directors and officers, including securities class action lawsuits, governmental and regulatory investigations, shareholder derivative suits, and employment-related litigation. He also has experience litigating cases involving insurance coverage, bad faith, and commercial litigation matters.

Firm: Dolan Connly

50 Redfield St , Boston , Massachusetts 02122

Practice Areas: Personal Injury

Firm: Roach, Ioannidis & Megaloudis LLC

50 Congress Street , Boston , Massachusetts 02109

Practice Areas: International & Trade, Litigation, Litigation, Litigation, Litigation, Litigation, Litigation, Litigation

Firm: Rich May, P.C.

176 Federal St , Boston , Massachusetts 02110

Practice Areas: Business

David is an experienced business lawyer and handles a variety of general corporate law matters including mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity financings (including venture capital transactions on both the company and investor sides) and corporate governance issues. David also frequently represents corporate clients with respect to intellectual property, entity formation, securities law compliance, and complex contract matters.. David routinely represents clients in the manufacturing, health care, and financial services industries, but focuses his practice in the technology space, including the representation of internet-based ventures and mobile application developers. David especially enjoys representing early stage companies in connection with capital raising matters.Representative Matters

Firm: Burns & Levinson, LLP

125 Summer Street , Boston , Massachusetts 02110

Practice Areas: Estate Planning

Firm: Attorney at Law

225 Franklin St Fl 26 , Boston , Massachusetts 02110

Practice Areas: Criminal Defense

Attorney Dianna Abdala was born in Springfield, Massachusetts. She attended Agawam High school. While still in high school, Dianna clerked for her father, George S. Abdala at his law office. Upon skipping her last year in high school, as a reward for her tireless work, she moved across the state to Boston. In Boston, Dianna L. Abdala attended Boston University in 1998 and took up a major in Economics. Skipping her last year once again, Abdala graduated and obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and continued immediately to law school. She enrolled in Suffolk University Law School and built her coursework around the criminal law and trying criminal cases. While at Suffolk Law, Attorney Abdala practiced law as a student attorney with the Suffolk Defenders and maintained a caseload of criminal matters while studying. She graduated after studying law for 3 years full time and immediately passed the Massachusetts Bar Examination. She is certified to practice law in the District, Superior, and Federal District Courts. Attorney Abdala still works closely with her father, George S. Abdala, Esq. while their law offices are across the state, and confer with one another regularly regarding the law. Dianna L. Abdala specializes in all criminal law matters.. Dianna Abdala’s father, Attorney George S. Abdala, currently practicing in Hampden County, has been a criminal defense attorney for 60 years. While still in the beginning of his career, he was approached by the District Attorney of Hampden County, Matthew Ryan at the time, and offered the position of first Assistant District Attorney. George Abdala accepted the appointment and for 14 years would prosecute cases for the State of Massachusetts. Following that 14 years, Attorney George Abdala would find himself back on the defense side with an extra set of tools, technique, and knowledge from both angles to utilize against the opposition. Approximately 40 years later, Attorney George S. Abdala still tries criminal cases regularly and conducts his business zealously in the Massachusetts court system. He most recently awarded the Honorable Kent B. Smith Award for his contribution to the practice of criminal law on June 14th, 2012.

Firm: Holland & Knight LLP

10 Saint James Avenue , Boston , Massachusetts 02116

Practice Areas: Bankruptcy, Civil , Bankruptcy & Debt, Bankruptcy & Debt

11 Beacon Street , Boston , Massachusetts 02108

Practice Areas: Personal Injury

Firm: Burns & Levinson, LLP

125 High Street , Boston , Massachusetts 02110

Practice Areas: Intellectual Property

Firm: Salerno Firm

53 State Street, Suite 500 , Boston , Massachusetts 02109

Practice Areas: Family

Attorney Coka is a family law attorney, focusing on divorce and custody litigation as well as matrimonial planning, prenuptial and post-nuptial agreements, removal actions, and complex marital asset division.. She is an experienced family law litigator and works to negotiate favorable settlements for her clients outside of the courtroom whenever possible.. Attorney Coka guides clients with compassion and honesty. Understanding that individuals are often facing the most emotionally, psychologically and financially challenging time of their lives, she takes the time and care to listen to their specific concerns, determine their needs and goals, and customize a strategy that achieves those goals, while being clear and forthright about the process.. Attorney Coka counsels clients as part of the Middlesex County Probate and Family Court’s Lawyer for the Day Program and is a certified Conciliator through the Norfolk County Bar Association Conciliation Program.

Firm: ATWOOD & CHERNY

101 Huntington Avenue 25th Floor , Boston , Massachusetts 02199

Practice Areas: Family

Firm: Office of the Suffolk County District Attorney

One Bulfinch Place , Boston , Massachusetts 02114

Practice Areas: Appeals

, Boston , Massachusetts 02111

Practice Areas: general practice attorney