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The Best of Boston Law 100+ SPONSORS The Boston Bar’s Growing List of Partners Supporting Excellence and Diversity & Inclusion in the Legal Profession and Access to Justice for Citizens of Boston 30+ YEARS SPONSOR FIRMS Brown Rudnick LLP | Goodwin | Anderson & Kreiger LLP | Arrowood Peters LLP | Atwood & Cherny, P.C. | Barclay Damon, LLP | Goulston & Storrs PC | Locke Lord LLP | Beck Reed Riden LLP | Berluti McLaughlin & Kutchin LLP | Beveridge & Diamond PC | Blake & Associates Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, | Casner & Edwards, LLP | Chu, Ring & Hazel LLP | Conn Kavanaugh Rosenthal Peisch & Ford, LLP | P.C. | Morgan Lewis | Ropes & Gray LLP | Dain, Torpy, Le Ray, Wiest & Garner, P.C. | Davis, Malm & D’Agostine, P.C. | Day Pitney LLP | Dentons | WilmerHale DLA Piper LLP | Donnelly, Conroy & Gelhaar, LLP | Donoghue Barrett & Singal, P.C. | Duane Morris LLP | Dwyer LLC | Fisher & Phillips LLP | Gardner & Rosenberg P.C. | Gesmer Updegrove LLP | Greenberg Traurig, LLP | Hartley Michon Robb LLP | Hinckley Allen | Hirsch Roberts Weinstein LLP 20+ YEARS | Holland & Knight LLP | Jones Day | Kotin, Crabtree & Strong, LLP | Krokidas & Bluestein LLP | Burns & Levinson LLP | Laredo & Smith, LLP | Looney Cohen & Aisenberg LLP | Mackie Shea, PC | Margolis & Bloom | Choate Hall & Stewart LLP | Collora LLP | McLane Middleton | Meehan, Boyle, Black & Bogdanow, P.C. | Morgan, Brown & Joy, LLP | Foley Hoag LLP | Hemenway & Barnes LLP | Murphy & King, P.C. | Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP | O’Connor, Carnathan and Mack LLC | Nixon Peabody LLP | Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. | Pannone Lopes Devereaux & O’Gara LLC | Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP | Peabody & Arnold LLP | Pepper Hamilton LLP | Pierce Atwood LLP | Pierce & Mandell, P.C. | Rackemann, Sawyer & Brewster | Posternak Blankstein & Lund LLP | Prince Lobel Tye LLP | Robins Kaplan LLP | Rose, Chinitz & Rose | Robinson & Cole LLP | Sherin and Lodgen LLP Rosenfeld Rafik, P.C. | Ruberto, Israel & Weiner, P.C. | Saul Ewing LLP | Schmidt & Federico, P.C. | | Sugarman, Rogers, Barshak & Cohen, P.C. | Schwartz Hannum PC | Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green PA | Sullivan & Worcester LLP | Todd & Weld LLP | Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Affiliates | Stone, Stone & Creem | Yurko, Salvensen & Remz, P.C. Strang, Scott, Giroux & Young, LLP | Sugarman and Sugarman, P.C. | Sunstein Kann Murphy & Timbers LLP | Tennant Lubell, LLC | Verrill Dana LLP | Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP | White and Williams LLP | Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati | Witmer, Karp, Warner & Ryan LLP IN-HOUSE LEGAL DEPARTMENTS Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Inc. | Coverys | Dell EMC Corporation | Haemonetics Corporation | LPL Financial | Partners HealthCare System, Inc. | NON-PROFITS GOVERNMENT The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Boston Planning & Development Agency | Spartan Race, Inc. | State Street Corporation Economic Justice | Committee for Public Counsel Services | Community Legal Services and Counseling Center Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources | LAW SCHOOLS | Greater Boston Legal Services | Massachusetts Department of Environmental Boston College Law School | Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corporation | Protection | Office of the Corporation Counsel of Boston University School of Law | Medical Legal Partnership | Boston | the City of Boston | Office of Labor Relations of the New England Law | Boston | MassHousing | Veterans Legal Services | City of Boston | Office of the Massachusetts Attorney Northeastern University School of Law | Volunteer Lawyers Project of the Boston Bar General Suffolk University Law School Association Boston Bar | bostonbar.org | 617.742.0615 | 16 Beacon Street | Boston 1 FROM THE PUBLISHER To our readers: Welcome to Lawyers Weekly’s annual review of the state’s Largest Law Firms. LARGEST LAW FIRMS We have been surveying the 100 largest firms in Massachusetts for more than a 100 decade and are proud to bring you this year’s edition. IN MASSACHUSETTS 2017 The directory is being mailed to all subscribers of Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly. We estimate that roughly 30,000 lawyers will have it available to them as a reference. It’s also being sent out to more than 3,000 readers of New En- gland In-House. That means we anticipate that this guide will be on the desks Alphabetical Listing By Firm of thousands of corporate decision-makers, available to them whenever they consider what law firm they wish to retain. Name . 4 Many law firms in this directory take advantage of an opportunity we offer to Practice Areas of publish an “enhanced listing,” which includes a wealth of additional informa- Massachusetts . 90 tion about the firm. That’s the reason why some listings appear more elaborate than others. Firms of all sizes take advantage of this option to get their name in Largest Law Firms At A front of countless in-house attorneys. Glance . 98 Information for this directory was compiled by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly. Law firms were asked to provide information as of Jan. 1, 2017, in order to Net Change In Firm Size get the most accurate details for the 2017 edition. Please note that unlike with At The Top 20 Firms . 104 some past editions, diversity numbers are for Massachusetts attorneys only. For additional copies of this directory, please call (617) 451-7300 or visit Starting Salaries For Associates https://books.lawyersweekly.com. At The Top 10 Firms . 104 Thank you. We hope you enjoy and make use of this directory. Sincerely, METHODOLOGY: To determine the largest law firms in Massachusetts, Lawyers Weekly mailed surveys to hundreds of firms based on Susan A. Bocamazo, Esq. information from previous surveys and other Publisher/Editor-in-Chief sources. Firms are ranked by the number of Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly attorneys they employed in Massachusetts as of Jan. 1, 2017. The total includes lawyers in all offices worldwide. Firms that have the same number of attorneys are listed alphabetically. N/A = not applicable, N/R = no response Published by Lawyers Weekly Inc ., 10 Milk St . 10th floor, Boston, MA 02108 . Photocopying and data processing storage of all or any part of this issue may not be made without prior written consent . Rates quoted on request . Copyright ©2017 Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly . Material published herein is compiled at substantial expense and is for the sole and exclusive use of purchasers and subscribers . The material may not be republished, resold, recorded, or used in any manner, in whole or in part, without the publisher's explicit consent . Any infringement will be 2 subject to legal redress . 2 LARGEST LAW FIRMS | 2017 First Annual Trial Skills Workshop 2017 PROGRAM: THE OPENING STATEMENT PROGRAM 3:30 P.M. – Registration begins. 4:00 P.M. – Craft your own mock civil and criminal opening statement from mock trial materials. Statements will be critiqued by experienced American College Fellows in small groups (optional). 6:00 P.M. – Watch four Fellows provide mock openings for a panel of judges, who will offer helpful commentary. 7:00 P.M. – Watch brief presentations: “Cicero on Openings and the Harmonica” and “Hollywood Movie Clips on Opening Statements”. 7:30 PM – Join our networking reception and mix and mingle with Fellows. Michael Keating is past Chairman of Foley Joan Lukey, partner and practice group Pamela Robillard Mackey practices criminal Hoag’s Litigation Department and has been leader of the complex trial & appellate group defense and complex civil litigation as a share- the firm’s leading trial lawyer for over thirty at Choate, Hall & Stewart, has tried complex holder at Haddon, Morgan and Foreman, P.C. years. He practices extensively in both the business litigation, employment, and other in Denver, Colorado. Known for her defense federal and state courts and in 2011 he was cases in state and federal court in Massachu- of high profile clients, such as Kobe Bryant, named “Lawyer of the Year” by Massachusetts setts and New Hampshire and nationwide for Patrick Roy, Fred Mueller, Brandon Craig and Lawyers Weekly. more than 30 years. Don Vito, she is formerly of the Colorado Public Defender’s Office. Peter A. Mullin is an Assistant Attorney Gener- Paul Mark Sandler is a partner in the law firm Karen Frink Wolf of Verrill Dana is known as al in the White Collar & Public Integrity Division of Shapiro Sher Guinot & Sandler, P.A., and go-to litigation counsel for physicians, hospi- of the Criminal Bureau of the Massachusetts is an active trial lawyer representing many tals and health care professionals, for whom Attorney General’s Office. Prior to joining the notable clients in a wide variety of cases in she regularly achieves tremendous results at Attorney General’s office in 2007, he practiced state and federal courts.