Chelsea Lawyers

I concentrate my practice on all areas of divorce and family law litigation and mediation, including separation agreements, child custody and parenting plans, alimony, child support, prenuptial and postnuptial agreements, paternity, guardianship, modification, and contempt proceedings. In addition to representing one spouse in a family law matter, I am a trained mediator who helps couples amicably resolve their disputes. I believe in innovative solutions to complex family problems. I am a compassionate advisor, zealous advocate and creative problem solver, blending law and human services to provide my clients with choices, practical legal guidance and strategic advice while staying focused on each...

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...

Attorney Delaney is licensed to practice law in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Florida. Over the course of nearly 30 years in trial practice, Attorney Delaney has honed unique skills in the courtroom, having successfully defended many clients, particularly those in OUI/DUI cases. Attorney Delaney is highly regarded as one of the top OUI/DUI Defense Attorneys in Massachusetts due to his exceptional courtroom presence and experience. If you are facing OUI/DUI charges, having Attorney Delaney on your side is crucial.

Ronald Belluso is a Partner at BCL Law LLP, practicing extensively in the areas of both Worker’s Compensation and Social Security Disability. Attorney Belluso represents injured workers in all phases of litigation including Conciliations, Conferences, and Hearings before Administrative Law Judges at the Department of Industrial Accidents. Mr. Belluso has the unique advantage of having represented clients in Social Security Disability hearings on a national level. This experience has allowed him to successfully litigate claims before Administrative Law Judges in 48 states. In 2022, Attorney Belluso was elected as the First Circuit Board of Executive Directors of NOSSCR, a specialized Bar...

J. Eric Chisholm practices in the areas of Personal Injury, Workers' Compensation and Social Security Disability. Mr. Chisholm was an enlisted member of the Massachusetts Army National Guard from 1995 until 2001. Mr. Chisholm graduated with Honors from Salem State College in 2000, and 2003 from Suffolk University Law School. While attending Suffolk University Law School, Mr.Chisholm was involved with the Voluntary Prosecutor's Clinic representing the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as a 3.03 certified Assistant District Attorney. Upon graduating law school, Mr. Chisholm represented applicants throughout the United States seeking Social Security Disability benefits. However, since...

Attorney Mark Cashman represents victims of medical negligence, dangerous and defective products, landlord negligence, and motor vehicle collisions. He is licensed to practice in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. He has a great deal of experience handling sensitive and complex medical malpractice and personal injury cases over the course of his career. Of note, he has helped secure significant results including a $3.5 million settlement for a botched surgery, $2.8 million verdict for a delay in diagnosis of prostate cancer, $1 million settlement for the failure to recognize and treat retinal detachment leading to blindness, and a $900k settlement for the...

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).

Over 10 years of experience in handling business and family based immigration cases with successful outcome. Accepting clients from all 50 States in the U.S. Arunima Datta, is an attorney and an immigrant herself. She knows that today the immigration process is much more complex than it was few years ago and understands the difficulties, issues and anxieties immigrants commonly have. Please call our office at (781) 488-0315 today to learn more about how AKT Law, LLC can help you on your immigration journey.

William D. Keefe is a personal injury lawyer practicing in Essex County, Massachusetts. He began his education at Saint Anselm College where he earned a Bachelors of Arts, with Honors, in Politics. He graduated summa cum laude in the top 1% of his class in 2006 before earning a Juris Doctor Degree from Boston College Law School. Since 2009, Mr. Keefe has been working as a personal injury lawyer, specializing in automobile, motorcycle, and truck cases. Mr. Keefe also handles catastrophic construction accident cases, serious dog bite cases, product liability cases, and significant slip and fall accidents. William Keefe...

Alethea joined Express Bankruptcy Solutions in 2020. She focuses her practice in two areas, which often go hand in hand; bankruptcy and family law. Alethea handles chapter 7 and chapter 13 bankruptcy as well as divorce, custody, child support, modifications, and contempt proceedings.

Alethea earned her Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in Sociology from the University of Massachusetts. She was selected for induction into Alpha Kappa Delta, an international honor society for Sociology majors. She then obtained her Juris Doctor degree from Massachusetts School of Law. While attending law school, Alethea worked full-time as a bankruptcy paralegal. Alethea...

I am a graduate of Suffolk University Law School. After years as a successful prosecutor, I am now a Massachusetts DUI attorney focused on OUI DUI DWI defense. Contact me if you need a Boston DUI Attorney to defend a Mass DUI charge.

Attorney Leanna Hamill provides Estate Planning and related legal services to clients of all ages, with a focus on the needs of older individuals and their families. Based in Hingham, Massachusetts, Attorney Leanna Hamill provides the following services: • Estate Planning • Estate Administration • Guardianship and Conservatorship Services • Comprehensive Estate and Medicaid Planning Evaluations • Medicaid Advocacy Leanna works with her clients to plan for and face life’s exciting changes, unexpected challenges and inevitable transitions. By listening to her clients’ needs and helping them identify their goals, Leanna is able to provide solutions to the issues...

Amy Saunders, Esq. is attorney and founder of Legal Solutions in Dedham, Massachusetts (www.legal.solutions). An experienced litigator, she now devotes her practice primarily to family law. Outgoing and down-to-earth, she makes clients and attorneys feel at ease in solving family and divorce disputes. She was legal counsel in what would become the most important decision of the year, by Massachusetts Lawyer Weekly for changing the way bias cases are handled in Massachusetts. She successfully argued 11 out of 11 cases before the Supreme Court, Supreme Judicial Court and Massachusetts Appeals Court. As a full-time, single mother and divorcee, she brings...

Since 1990, Mr. Hopengarten has been a lawyer handling federal communications law matters -- especially those involving land use for antennas and towers. He has also been a consultant to venture capital firms. For example, he has advised on an investment in a two-way radio peripheral hardware manufacturer, and performed due diligence with a valuation on one of the largest mountain top antenna farms in the United States . He has also advised broadcasters with regard to leasing space on their towers, and land owners with respect to leasing land for towers. In addition, he founded Strong...

Susannah Brown practices primarily in Divorce and Family Law. She represents clients in a full range of family matters including divorce, child custody, parenting plans, child support, alimony and marital property division. Her experience extends to post divorce issues as well, such as modifications, contempt actions, adoptions and guardianships. Attorney Brown is also a Certified Mediator. Whether providing amicable mediation or acrimonious litigation, she will pursue the best possible results. Attorney Brown is dedicated to both aggressive representation, and compassionate advocacy for your rights and needs, in an effective, expeditious and affordable manner.

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I founded McGowan & Associates in 2001 after serving as a name partner at another prominent Boston-based law firm. Throughout my career, I have tried over 400 cases to verdict. (Ask any other lawyer you are considering how many verdicts they have taken.) These cases have ranged from premises liability and environmental claims to catastrophic personal injury cases and multi-million dollar fire losses. I have also extensively lectured and published on defending environmental claims, including topics such as lead poisoning, sick building and indoor air quality claims, the rights of burn victims, carbon monoxide poisoning, and animal attacks. Recent results...

I joined McGowan & Associates in September 2007 after developing a successful solo practice with a focus on real estate transactions. I bring over two decades of experience in representing buyers, sellers, and lenders across all aspects of residential real estate transactions. My comprehensive experience and meticulous approach ensure that real estate closings proceed smoothly for my clients. I am also recognized as a dedicated litigator, actively representing a diverse range of clients in state and federal courts for over ten years. Before my successful career in private practice, I served as a prosecutor for the Norwell Police Department and as...

I have been in private practice exclusively in special needs law, elder law, and estate planning for 27 years. I have taught law school at the JD and LLM level since 2005, and recently stepped down as a full-time Professor and Director of the Graduate Program (LL.M.) in Elder Law and Estate Planning at Western New England University School of Law to return to full-time private practice as a partner at Special Needs Law Group of Massachusetts, PC (“SNLG”). I continue to teach in the LLM program at Western New England as an Adjunct Professor.

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Kimberly Winslow is a special education attorney, representing families of students with disabilities seeking to reach their full educational potential. She helps children with a variety of special needs and disabilities who are not making expected progress in school to get the help they need. Kimberly is licensed to practice law in Massachusetts.

Attorney Mary E. Bono is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts School of Law - Dartmouth where she served as both the Editor-in-Chief and Managing Editor of the University of Massachusetts School of Law Roundtable Symposium Law Journal and participated in the UMASS Law Immigration Law Clinic. While at the University of Massachusetts School of Law - Dartmouth, Attorney Bono received the Dean's Service Award and the Aquilla Ward Memorial Scholarship Award. Attorney Bono is a member of the Board of Directors for the Young Lawyer's Division of the Bristol County Bar Association and is also a...

Michael G. Furlong founded the Furlong Law Group in 2004. Prior to opening his own firm, Attorney Furlong served as a law clerk to the Justices of the Massachusetts Superior Court and over the last 24 years worked for some of the premier Merrimack Valley law firms. Today Attorney Furlong’s practice is focused on estate planning, estate administration, real estate, asset protection, business law and select litigation cases. Attorney Furlong is a member of the Haverhill, Lawrence, Essex and Massachusetts Bar Associations and for a number of years volunteered in the Haverhill District Court Conciliation Program. Attorney Furlong...

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Practice areas: litigation and mediation of all areas of divorce and family law, business law, estate planning, and probate of estates. Every case is unique and every case's factual, economic, and emotional details are considered in order to provide the optimal service to every client.

Matthew Barach is a seasoned family law and divorce lawyer serving clients throughout Framingham, MA. He offers counsel for same-sex divorce, child custody, paternity, and various other legal issues. Attorney Barach holds a 9.3 Superb Avvo Rating and 20+ years of proven experience. It is Attorney Barach’s goal to resolve his clients’ cases in an efficient manner so that they can move forward with their lives. He is well-versed in all the laws surrounding divorce and similar cases and uses this insight to benefit his clients’ situations. Attorney Barach is also familiar with local judges, giving him an insider perspective...

John Keefe is an experienced disability attorney practicing in the greater Boston area. Keefe Disability Law helps clients with all aspects of their Social Security disability claims, including the initial application for disability, appeals after a denial, Administrative law Judge hearings, and further appeals. Since 1994 we have handled over 12,000 Social Security disability claims. Keefe Disability law also helps clients with claims under Long Term Disability (ERISA) insurance policies. Keefe Disability law serves our disability clients who have a personal injury claim, a workers compensation claim, or been injured by a defective medical device or a defective drug....

Kevin W. Gaughen, Jr. joined the firm in August of 2009 from the Norfolk County District Attorneys office. Gaughen served as an Assistant District Attorney in the Wrentham, Quincy, Stoughton and Dedham District Courts and as the Assistant District Attorney in charge of the Brookline District and Juvenile Courts. Attorney Gaughen is known for his zealous trial advocacy. In an appeals court case, opposing counsel characterized him as to have "pummeled into the jury's consciousness"1 important portions of the case. The case was decided in his client's favor.

Attorney Gaughen is a graduate of...

The Law Office of Russell J. Matson, P.C., represents criminal defendants in all Massachusetts State, Federal and Appellate court systems, from investigation through trial. The firm handles every type of criminal matter and employs skilled trial attorneys who are in court on a regular basis. As Senior Trial Counsel and Chief Operating Officer, Attorney Berman brings 20 years of experience as a criminal and civil litigator - as an Assistant District Attorney, insurance defense attorney, Criminal Defense Attorney and Special Prosecutor - to ensure that your matter is handled in a professional, aggressive and efficient manner. Andrew is a...

Attorney Robert S.C. Meltzer will relentlessly fight for the rights of those charged with a crime, thoroughly pursuing all legal options at each step from clerk's hearings and arraignments through trial. As an experienced criminal trial attorney, he is not afraid to take your case to a jury and fight for a not guilty verdict. He will be dedicated to you, and will always thoroughly discuss court procedures, case strategies, and different outcomes to give you the best criminal defense advice possible. Prior to entering private practice, Attorney Meltzer was an Assistant District Attorney in the Middlesex District Attorney's Office for...

Kevin Prendergast began practicing law in 1999 as an associate at the law firm of Palmer & Dodge. Within a year's time he passed the Massachusetts Bar Exam and started a legal career that led to the founding of his own firm 4 years later. As a criminal defense and divorce attorney in Salem, Mr. Prendergast has helped dozens of individuals receive the legal help they need. If you would like his assistance with a criminal or family law matter, call his office immediately, or visit his website for more information.

John A. Norton Jr., an attorney at Pulgini & Norton, offers diligent representation to individuals throughout the Boston region who are buying or selling property, or recovering from workplace injuries. He provides clients with the personalized representation they need to assert their rights and protect their interests.

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EDUCATION: New England School of Law
J.D. - Cum Laude - June, 1975

Suffolk University
B.A. - Government Administration - June, 1970

Various Continuing Legal Education Courses

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Attorney Goldsmith pursued a liberal arts education at Haverford College where he graduated with a degree in Philosophy in 1987, following those studies with the immediate pursuit of a law degree. While at the University of Maine School of Law, Attorney Goldsmith was the only student in his class selected as a member of both the law school’s Law Review and Moot Court Competition Board, and did publish during his senior year an article entitled Contracting out of Maine’s Employment-At-Will Doctrine, 42 Maine Law Review 553 (July 1990). While in law school, he likewise interned at well-respected law...

Former Assistant District Attorney in Boston, MA providing professional, prepared and passionate advocacy with extensive jury trial experience focusing on criminal defense, family law, litigation, land use/zoning matters in Waltham, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.

Margaret has experience implementing asset protection plans, family business entities such as Family Limited Partnerships (FLPs) and Limited Liability Companies (LLCs), and valuation discounting. She focuses her practice on estate planning, elder law and long-term care planning (Medicaid), MassHealth applications for long-term care (Medicaid applications), MassHealth fair hearings (appeals on Medicaid denials), estate (probate) and trust administration, Federal estate tax returns (Form 706), Massachusetts estate tax returns (Form M-706), and gift tax returns (Form 709). Learn more http://www.Beliveaulaw.net

As a third generation lawyer, John S. Tangusso is proud to continue a legacy of more than 100 years of legal excellence, started by his grandfather, Sebastian Tangusso, who began practicing law in Boston in 1913 and was joined by John’s father, Joseph, in 1952. John joined his father in 1983 and they practiced together for 21 years until his father’s retirement in 2004. Attorney Tangusso has practiced in every court in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts including the District Court, Superior Court, Probate Court, Land Court, Appellate Court, Massachusetts Supreme Court and U.S. District Court. Over the course...