Woodville Lawyers

Miriam G. Altman concentrates her legal practice in divorce and family law matters. Following her admission to the Massachusetts Bar in 1985, she represented individuals in matrimonial law cases and civil litigation at the Boston law firm of Sherburne, Powers & Needham, PC, now known as Holland & Knight, LLP. As a partner, she served as chair of the firm’s family law department. In 2002, she established the predecessor firm to Law Offices of Miriam G. Altman, PC, in Lexington, MA.

Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Ms. Altman received a BA from Barnard College, magna cum laude, and a JD degree, cum...

Attorney Richard C. Hyman has over thirty-five years experience assisting clients in need of legal assistance. His focus of practice is in the areas of personal injury (car accidents, slip and fall accidents), workers' compensation and bankruptcy filings (Chapter 7 and Chapter 13).

I help clients in divorce, family law, and social security disability claims.

I practice divorce, family law and child welfare law in the greater Boston area. My goal is to assist both men and women in divorce, child custody and support proceedings and paternity, in addition to modifications that arise post judgement. I have extensive experience working with victims in court, particularly women and children who were physically or sexually abused. Most victims want an attorney who "just gets it," and it has been my experience than many do not "get it" nor do they feel comfortable representing or relating to clients with a domestic violence component to their case. Family...

Eliot T. Brais is the sole and managing shareholder in his North Attleboro, Massachusetts office. He began his law career in 1988, joining his father, Ronald A. Brais, who had enjoyed a 40 year practice primarily concentrating on estate planning and small business law.

In his father’s footsteps, Eliot T. Brais’ areas of expertise include estate and business planning. Over the years, Eliot’s practice areas expanded to include real estate, real estate development and criminal law having handled in excess of 1,000 criminal cases and 50 trials.

Eliot T. Brais’ representation of clients’ interests goes well beyond the award of monetary sums...

Attorney Gilman is an experienced license suspension and criminal defense attorney. His practice areas include Massachusetts criminal defense, hardship license law, RMV license suspension hearings, Division of Insurance Board of Appeal hearings, drunk driving defense, and domestic relations matters.

Before passing the bar he worked as a Registry of Motor Vehicles (RMV) hearings officer, he made decisions about whether tens of thousands of people just like you lost or kept their licenses. He uses the knowledge of the Registry to help clients navigate through difficult OUI/DUI and License Suspension cases.

Matthew is a graduate of Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts,...

William F. Ahern, Jr. has been a civil trial attorney for over 30 years. For most of his career, he has litigated high value, complex cases. That he represents both plaintiffs and defendants provides him with a unique perspective providing an advantage in understanding how best to represent each.

Mr. Ahern is an experienced, successful litigator. He continues to specialize in catastrophic personal injury litigation representing both plaintiffs and defendants in the state and federal courts of Massachusetts and the state courts of Rhode Island. He has litigated wrongful death, disfigurement, traumatic brain injury, burns, amputations, paraplegic and quadriplegic cases. He...

Adam concentrates his practice in Worker’s Compensation, Social Security Disability, Personal Injury, Employment law, and Automobile accidents.

Jessica M. Gray is a passionate litigator handling a wide variety of cases including wrongful death, personal injury, premises liability, and products liability. Attorney Gray is sought after as an advocate by injured individuals and referring attorneys alike who have come to recognize her special ability to empathize with clients and in being able to communicate movingly to judges, juries, arbitrators and mediators, as well as insurers. She has achieved six and seven figure resolutions in multiple cases both before and during litigation. Most recently, she helped achieve a seven-figure settlement for the wrongful death of a young man walking...

My name is Claudia Jocelyne Kokaz Muslu. I am an immigrant and an immigration attorney.

I have a law degree from the University of Istanbul; a Master of Law from Cornell University, and a Master of Business Administration from Simmons College Graduate School of Management. I am fluent in English, Turkish and French.

I started my legal career as a corporate attorney at White & Case, Istanbul, Turkey. When I moved to Boston, in 1999, I started to experience the many facets of the US immigration system. As I dealt with the immigration system, I became very frustrated. During 14...

Attorney Suzanne McDonough represents patients and families injured by medical malpractice in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. She has participated in some of the largest verdicts and settlements in both states for more than a decade. She won a $2.5 million verdict in Lowell, MA related to the death of a young mother and a $1.75 million verdict in Nashua, NH on behalf of a man blinded by surgical negligence. Attorney McDonough was involved in the negotiation of a $5 million settlement on behalf of a brain-injured man and a $5 million settlement on behalf of a brain injured baby –...

Timothy Wilton is an experienced litigator and trial lawyer with over 40 years of practice in both civil and criminal cases. He has handled cases at every level of the state and federal trial and appellate court system in Massachusetts and in the Supreme Court of the United States. He is also a tenured Professor of Law at Suffolk University Law School in Boston, where he is the Director of the Trial and Appellate Advocacy Concentration and teaches courses in litigation and trial practice.

Professor Wilton began his teaching career at Harvard Law School, while studying for his advanced legal studies...

HEARD LAW OFFICE provides bespoke services tailored to drivers’ personal needs. With Heard Law Office as legal counsel, drivers get new trials, get off probation, avoid car insurance rate increases, license suspensions, mandatory driving classes, and a plethora of other unexpected financial and personal logistical nightmares. Heard Law Office is Massachusetts’ one-stop shop for drivers.

We do everything except change your oil.

Meeting Your Business And Personal Legal Needs
Your needs are our needs. Your goals are our goals. We strive to provide our clients the best representation we can, employing rigorous legal analysis and considerable experience to develop client relationships where we consistently deliver success. From common to complex legal issues we seek solutions that are creative, inventive, even counter-intuitive – but always practical.

Our areas of practice include:

Debt Collection Regulation - Federal and Massachusetts
Construction Supplier Litigation
Real estate transactions – buying, selling, mortgages title issues, title insurance
Commercial and Consumer Collections
Commercial And Consumer Mortgage Foreclosures
Personal injury
Chapter 7 and 13 for Individuals and Small Businesses
Bankruptcy...

Attorney Angel J. Silvestrini has been practicing law in Puerto Rico and in the continental U.S. for almost 20 years. He is fully bilingual and is licensed in 6 different states and in Puerto Rico (Massachusetts, California, Connecticut, New York, Florida, Texas and Puerto Rico). He has represented clients from all over the United States with their Puerto Rico legal needs. He focuses on litigation matters for the firm and assists clients from the continental U.S. with their divorce / probate/ inheritance cases in Puerto Rico. Because Puerto Rico has a very different system than many states in...

Garrett D. Lee is co-managing partner of Morgan & Morgan’s Boston office. He concentrates his practice on representing permanently injured people in lawsuits concerning catastrophic motor vehicle accidents, bicycle accidents, trucking accidents, wrongful death and premises liability. Garrett also currently serves as Chair of the Massachusetts Joint Bar Committee for Judicial Appointments. Garrett is a lifelong Massachusetts resident. Garrett has obtained substantial compensation for victims of injury through settlements and trial verdicts. He has a winning record trying cases in the Superior Court, District Court, and Housing Courts in Massachusetts. Garrett is the author of “Preparation of a Plaintiff’s...

Joseph R. Linnehan, Jr. is the founder and principal attorney at the Law Office of Joseph R. Linnehan, Jr., a personal injury law firm serving people throughout the greater Boston area. Joe is an experienced personal injury attorney who focuses his practice on all types of motor vehicle accidents, premises liability, and workplace accidents, but he also accepts cases involving medical malpractice, products liability, or other causes of personal injury. Joe is committed to achieving excellent results for his clients and has diligently represented people with the most serious and catastrophic types of injuries. Joe is a life-long resident of Boston...

Since 1993, Attorney John Sheehan is an AV Preeminent rated Boston, MA workers compensation, construction accident, car accident and personal injury litigation attorney serving injured workers and accident victims throughout Metro Boston and Massachusetts. Call 617-925-6407 for a free consultation. All calls answered 24/7. Evening and weekend appointments available. No fee unless successful. Se habla Español.

As a founding partner of Crowe & Mulvey, LLP, Elizabeth N. Mulvey has tried over 250 cases in courts throughout New England. Having gained recognition and respect amongst her legal community, Elizabeth has appeared in appellate courts that have resulted in many important decisions in the area of personal injury law. Her hard work and dedication towards her clients has gained her the status as one of the top lawyers in Massachusetts by "Super Lawyers" every year since 2005. Outside of her practice, Elizabeth frequently teaches trial advocacy courses for the Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, Harvard Law School, the National...

Michael Kelley founded the law firm, New England Disability. The firm specializes in representing claimants seeking disability benefits from the Social Security Administration, Veterans Administration, Long Term Disability Insurers, Federal Worker's Compensation, State Disability Retirement. My firm represents Claimant's seeking benefits throughout the entire Northeastern United States from initial claims through Federal Court Appeals.

Evan Hoffman concentrates his practice areas in complex financial fraud class actions, qui tam, and False Claims Act cases. He has successfully represented private whistleblowers and public pension funds in groundbreaking state and federal multi-district litigation against global custodial banks for foreign exchange fraud. In addition to his class action work, Mr. Hoffman represents and has helped obtain substantial settlements for plaintiffs who have contracted mesothelioma as a result of exposure to asbestos. He is involved in the firm’s Birth Defects and farmworker pesticide litigation practice, working for clients exposed to dangerous and unsafe chemicals. Evan...

Massachusetts Award Winning Attorney Richard Mucci is the founder of Winchester MA based Law Offices of Richard Mucci. Attorney Mucci is an experienced litigation lawyer who understands all facets of business, civil litigation and criminal defense. His law firm has strong expertise in employment law, personal injury, real estate law, divorce, estate planning, criminal law and construction law to name a few.

Knowing that clients, like patients, rarely have just one issue, Attorney Mucci is able to move seamlessly among diverse practice areas. Ahead of the curve, the Law Offices of Richard Mucci provides a one-stop shop to the surrounding...

Christian Uehlein is of counsel to Thornton Law Firm LLP. He joined the firm as an associate in 2006. Mr. Uehlein is a graduate of Colorado College (B.A. 2002) and New England School of Law (J.D. 2006). He was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar in 2006, the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts in 2007, Montana in 2016, and Wyoming in 2020, and the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts in 2007. Mr. Uehlein focuses his practice on representing victims of toxic exposures as well as employers and business in insurance premium disputes. Since...

Mr. Lesser heads Thornton Law Firm’s False Claims Act / Qui Tam litigation section, representing whistleblowers that report fraud on the Federal and State governments. While practicing in traditional areas of False Claims litigation, including Medicare and Medicaid fraud, Mr. Lesser also handles litigation involving finance and bank fraud. In 2020 Mr. Lesser's client, an FX trader who worked for Bank of New York Mellon, was awarded the then largest individual SEC whistleblower award in the history of SEC whistleblower litigation. The client's almost $50 million dollar award was for providing original information to the Securities and...

Attorney Joe Serpa is a criminal and civil trial attorney located in Boston with a winning record in the trial courts of Massachusetts. With an innovative and assertive approach to the law, Attorney Serpa has successfully defended his clients in serious felony prosecutions charging murder to sexual assault to operating under the influence of alcohol (DWI / OUI). He has consistently tried cases to acquittal before juries in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Attorney Serpa's clients have been found not guilty in ninety percent of those trials over nearly two decades. ...

Brad Mitchell is a partner at Thornton Law Firm LLP. His main area of practice is toxic exposure litigation, including cases involving birth defects, cancer, and exposure to glycol ethers, benzene, solvents, and other hazardous substances. Mr. Mitchell has represented clients who have been exposed to toxic substances working in semiconductor chip manufacturing, printing, parts washing, and other industries and occupations. Brad J. Mitchell is a graduate of Colby College (B.A., May 1989) and Vermont Law School (J.D. 1998). Mr. Mitchell was a Note Editor for the Vermont Law Review. Mr. Mitchell is a member of...

Leah McMorris is a partner at Thornton Law Firm LLP in Boston. She has been with the firm since 2005 as a clerk and joined full time as an associate in 2011. Her practice focuses on mesothelioma, toxic exposures, products liability, and catastrophic injury litigation. She has tried several cases in Massachusetts, obtaining significant verdicts and settlements for her clients. A female mesothelioma lawyer, Ms. McMorris represents victims of mesothelioma exposed to asbestos in the workplace, as well as mesothelioma victims exposed to asbestos-contaminated cosmetic talc.

Ms. McMorris earned her Bachelor’s degree from Fairfield University and her Juris Doctor degree from...

Andrea Marino Landry is a partner at Thornton Law Firm LLP. She joined the firm as an associate in 2005 after previously clerking at the firm. During her time at Thornton Law Firm, Ms. Landry has successfully represented clients in a variety of the firm’s practice areas, including mesothelioma and asbestos claims, personal injury litigation, products liability litigation, toxic exposures, including children born with birth defects from their parent's exposure to chemicals in the workplace, and consumer class actions. She represents clients throughout Massachusetts and nationally. She was trial co-counsel for Lydon v. Turner & Newall, a $9.3 million...

Joe Culgin represents injured workers in all aspects of Workers’ Compensation and Social Security matters before the Department of Industrial Accidents and Social Security Administration. Prior to joining Keches Law Group, P.C., Attorney Culgin worked for 6 years as Staff Counsel for a national insurance company handling Workers Compensation and General Liability claims. Having worked for both the insurance company and injured workers, Mr. Culgin has an in depth knowledge of all aspects of the workers compensation claims process. While attending law school, Mr. Culgin worked as a clerk at a firm that focused on Workers’ Compensation and Social...

Robert “Bobby” Shea grew up in Massachusetts. He attended Xaverian Brothers High School in Westwood, Massachusetts, college at the University of Connecticut and returned to Massachusetts to attend Suffolk University Law School.

David Russcol’s practice encompasses all aspects of litigation, from preliminary investigation to filing suit, through trial and pursuing appeals. He focuses on university sexual assault and discipline matters, appellate advocacy, employment and other civil actions, civil rights, and criminal defense. David is quick to grasp complex factual situations and legal principles, but he takes the time to develop a thorough understanding of all aspects of his cases. David’s experience clerking for state and federal judges and his attention to detail enable him to make forceful and innovative arguments on behalf of his clients. In 2016, 2017, and 2018, David Russcol...

Rachel Stroup focuses her litigation practice on employment law and criminal defense. Rachel is a compassionate and tenacious advocate who is dedicated to fighting for her clients.

Rachel listens carefully to each client’s needs, and works with the client to devise a case strategy aimed at meeting those needs. She recognizes that many of her clients want to focus on a strategy that compensates them for the injuries they have suffered without a protracted trial. Rachel’s strong advocacy, thoughtful decision making, and hard work have led to substantial settlements for her clients in cases she litigates. Rachel has successfully represented...

I am an attorney licensed to practice in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the United States Tax Court. Additionally, I hold certifications as a Certified Public Accountant in both Massachusetts and Illinois, as well as a Certified Management Accountant in the United States. My legal practice is focused on tax law, business law, trust and estate planning, property law, domestic relations, and forensic accounting. I earned my MBA from Providence College before pursuing a law degree at the University of Massachusetts School of Law. During my law studies, I gained practical experience working for the Massachusetts Probate Court and the City...

I provide Massachusetts family law mediation services for couples seeking an affordable alternative to hiring two lawyers and heading to court. I handle uncontested and contested divorces and work with couples who have children and were never married. I am considered a top-rated divorce lawyer who is experienced, trusted and thorough. My mission is to help families minimize the financial and psychological impacts of separation and divorce. I hold a B.A. in child development and earned my law degree from the Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law. After working for the Department of Children and Families and a...

Sean is an attorney at Morgan, Brown & Joy, LLP where he represents employers in labor and employment matters. Sean represents both public and private sector clients in litigation before federal and state courts as well as administrative agencies throughout the country. Sean litigates and counsels clients on the full range of labor and employment matters. Some of the most common issues he handles concern: claims of discrimination, retaliation and harassment; disability accommodation and leaves of absence matters; wage and hour disputes; non-competition and non-solicitation violations; trade secret misappropriation; claims of wrongful discharge; and unfair labor practice charges. In...