Firm: Litchfield Cavo LLP
Practice Areas: Litigation
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Firm: Choate Hall & Stewart LLP
Practice Areas: Litigation
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Firm: Ropes & Gray LLP
Practice Areas: Litigation
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Firm: Holland & Knight LLP
Practice Areas: Litigation
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Firm: Parker Scheer LLP
Practice Areas: Litigation
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Firm: Law Offices of Collins and Collins, P.C.
Practice Areas: Litigation
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Firm: Littler Mendelson PC
Practice Areas: Litigation
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Firm: Bowditch & Dewey, LLP
Practice Areas: Litigation
Ariel Sullivan is a partner in the firm’s Labor & Employment and Higher Education groups, representing businesses and institutions of higher education in proceedings before state and federal courts, and administrative agencies, including the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the National Labor Relations Board, the Department of Labor, and the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”).. Ariel is committed to understanding her clients’ businesses, listening to their concerns, and providing guidance and solutions suited to fit their needs and growth. She advises clients on all aspects of employment, including hiring, termination, wage and hour practices, personnel policies and handbooks, leaves of absence, non-competition agreements, internal investigations, union avoidance and unfair labor practices, employee discipline and diversity initiatives. Ariel also assists clients with employment-based immigration matters, including work authorization (Form I-9), use of E-Verify, and temporary working visas (H-1B petitions).. Ariel counsels higher education clients on matters related to faculty and staff employment, student affairs and discipline, disability services, response to subpoenas, FERPA compliance, state authorization, research compliance, and student and faculty handbooks. Over the last several years, Ariel has been working hand-in-hand with college and university clients and their Title IX coordinators to help them navigate the complexities of Title IX, and revise their policies and procedures in accordance with federal, state, and local regulations and guidance. She frequently assists colleges and universities in responding to allegations of sexual assault on campus, conducts investigations, and provides training to various constituencies on campus, including Title IX coordinators, investigators and adjudicators, campus police and students.. Prior to joining Bowditch & Dewey, Ariel was a trial attorney at a Washington, DC-based law firm, where she represented professionals, corporations, and institutions of higher education in medical malpractice, products liability and employment discrimination matters before the state and federal courts.
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Firm: Bailey & Glasser LLP
Practice Areas: Litigation
Ben Lajoie’s civil litigation practice includes a diverse range of clients faced with high-stakes disputes, including multidistrict litigation, class action litigation, and business litigation. He is often called upon when complex, multi-party litigation is involved to vigorously protect and pursue the interests of his clients. For example, he has helped lead multidistrict litigation involving medical device product liability on behalf of nationwide consumers, represented companies in competitor suits from unfair and deceptive trade practice claims, represented parties to complicated UCC contract disputes, and represented a class of beneficiaries for breach of fiduciary duty against the institutional trustee.. Ben also provides a broad range of legal services as outside counsel to emerging businesses primarily in the life sciences and technology industries. Ben is an active member of the Boston Bar Association and serves on one of the Section's Steering Committees.. Bio: #Overview. Email:
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Firm: National Consumer Law Center
Practice Areas: Litigation
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Firm: Hermes, Netburn, O'connor & Spearing, PC
Practice Areas: Litigation
Tony Sbarra is a Shareholder at Hermes, Netburn, O'Connor & Spearing, P.C. Mr. Sbarra concentrates his practice in civil litigation with an emphasis on products liability and toxic torts. He defends manufacturers of automobiles, light, medium and heavy trucks, construction equipment, farm/agricultural equipment and other products in products liability cases. He also defends toxic tort actions, particularly those involving asbestos. He has served as lead examining counsel in multiple lay and expert depositions throughout the country and has experience in the direct and cross-examination of epidemiologists, industrial hygienists, pathologists, naval historians and practitioners of occupational medicine, among others. He has been a member of asbestos trial teams for major motor vehicle and other product manufacturers in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut, and has tried asbestos cases to verdict in New York. Mr. Sbarra began his litigation career at a midsized suburban firm where he focused his practice on the preparation and trial of cases involving personal injury and wrongful death, premises liability, products liability, construction, automobile liability, intellectual property and insurance related matters. He then became a Shareholder at a major Boston trial firm, defending products liability and toxic tort cases. He has over twenty years of experience litigating cases and has tried to verdict more than 30 Superior Court and 60 District Court actions and arbitrated or mediated several hundred cases. He has also served as an arbitrator in civil actions involving personal injury and has been appointed as guardian ad litem for injured persons in such cases.. Mr. Sbarra has served on the faculty for numerous continuing legal education programs sponsored by Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education (MCLE), the Massachusetts Bar Association, the Massachusetts Defense Lawyers Association and for the insurance industry. He has aslo lectured at national programs for the Defense Research Institute and the American Conference Institute.. Mr. Sbarra is admitted to practice in the state and federal courts of Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut. He has received the Preeminent AV rating from Martindale Hubbell and has been elected by his fellow trial lawyers as an Associate Member of the Massachusetts Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA). He is a Past President of the Massachusetts Defense Lawyers Association (MassDLA) and is a member of its Board of Directors. He was also named a Super Lawyer by the publishers of Law & Politics and Boston Magazine in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014. Additionally, he belongs to the American Bar Association and is the chair-elect of the Products Liability Committee of its Tort Trial and Insurance Section, the Massachusetts Bar Association, the Rhode Island Bar Association, the Defense Counsel of Rhode Island and in 2014 was elected as the Massachusetts State Representative to the Defense Research Institute.. Tony and his wife and children were affiliated with the Chernobyl Children’s Project, having served as a host family for five years. Tony is also a sustaining member of the Minuteman Club and an avid supporter of UMass/Amherst football and basketball.
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Firm: Porcello Law Offices
Practice Areas: Litigation
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Firm: Foley Hoag LLP
Practice Areas: Litigation
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Firm: Bowditch & Dewey, LLP
Practice Areas: Litigation
Tony Dragga joined Bowditch & Dewey, LLP in 2014 after graduating from Boston College Law School. While in law school, Tony clerked for the General Counsel’s office at Northeastern University (Fall 2013), and earned a Master of Arts in Higher Education Administration at Boston College’s Lynch School of Education.. Tony worked as a Summer Associate for Bowditch & Dewey, LLP (Summer 2013) and as a student fellow for the Boston College Legal Assistance Bureau (Summer 2012). Prior to his legal career, Tony was a teacher and administrator at the Nativity Preparatory School of New Bedford.
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Firm: Washienko Law Group, LLC
Practice Areas: Litigation
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Firm: Chartwell Law
Practice Areas: Litigation
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Firm: Dolan Connly, PC
Practice Areas: Litigation
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Firm: Anne L. Czerkawski, Esq.
Practice Areas: Litigation
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Firm: Cpcs Mental Health Litigation Division
Practice Areas: Litigation
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Firm: Sharkninja Operating LLC
Practice Areas: Litigation
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