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Lawyers from Sugarman Rogers have been included in this year's edition of the Massachusetts "Super Lawyers" and "Rising Stars" lists. Many attorneys have been named to the 2016 "Super Lawyers" list, an honor based on peer review and professional achievements. Every year, only five percent of the lawyers in Massachusetts are selected to receive this recognition. In addition, three Sugarman Rogers attorneys have been named to the 2016 "Rising Stars" list, which honors attorneys "40 and under, or who have been practicing law for 10 years or less." Every year, only two-and-a-half percent of the lawyers in Massachusetts are selected to receive this recognition. 2016 Massachusetts "Super Lawyers" Anthony V. Agudelo - General Litigation Michael S. Appel - Personal Injury Plaintiff: Medical David A. Barry - Personal Injury Defense: Products William L. Boesch - Professional Liability Defense Anthony M. Doniger - Business Litigation Alan S. Geismer - Family Law Lisa C. Goodheart - Environmental Law Alisa L.…
BBA News Release, April 2, 2025 The COVID-19 pandemic is presenting emergency legal issues (some foreseeable, others less so) that go to the heart of the BBA’s mission. For as long as this crisis persists, the Association will need a high-level Crisis Response Working Group to identify, consider and monitor emerging issues, and make recommendations as to appropriate BBA policy decisions, statements and actions. Last week, BBA President Chris Netski appointed members of the group, including President-Elect Marty Murphy as Chair. These members bring forth a diversity of expertise, which will allow them to have comprehensive discussions on the breadth of issues that have come up as a result of the pandemic. The group has met twice so far and has broken itself down into the following subcommittees, which are considering the following issues: Civil Access to Justice The Working Group is concerned about preserving litigants' access to justice at…
Sugarman Rogers has once again been named to the "Best Law Firms" list by U.S. News and Best Lawyers for 2020. The firm is highly ranked in several practice areas, nationally and regionally, specifically being named a “Tier 1” Boston firm in ten categories. National Tier 2 Appellate Practice Environmental Law Insurance Law Litigation - Environmental Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Plaintiffs National Tier 3 Commercial Litigation Litigation - Labor & Employment Metropolitan Tier 1 - Boston Commercial Litigation Employment Law - Management Environmental Law Family Law Insurance Law Legal Malpractice Law - Defendants Litigation - Environmental Litigation - Labor & Employment Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs Product Liability Litigation - Defendants Metropolitan Tier 2 - Boston Appellate Practice Bet-the-Company Litigation Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Plaintiffs Medical Malpractice Law - Plaintiffs According to U.S. News and Best Lawyers, the "Best Law Firms" ranking process includes client…
Sugarman Rogers has once again been named to the "Best Law Firms" list by U.S. News and Best Lawyers for 2021. The firm is highly ranked in several practice areas, nationally and regionally, specifically being named a “Tier 1” Boston firm in nine categories. National Tier 2 Environmental Law Insurance Law Litigation - Environmental Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Plaintiffs National Tier 3 Commercial Litigation Litigation - Labor & Employment Metropolitan Tier 1 - Boston Commercial Litigation Environmental Law Family Law Insurance Law Legal Malpractice Law - Defendants Litigation - Environmental Medical Malpractice Law - Plaintiffs Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs Product Liability Litigation - Defendants Metropolitan Tier 2 - Boston Bet-the-Company Litigation Employment Law - Management Litigation - Labor & Employment Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Plaintiffs According to U.S. News and Best Lawyers, the "Best Law Firms" ranking process includes client and lawyer evaluations, peer…
Sugarman Rogers has once again been named to the "Best Law Firms" list by U.S. News and Best Lawyers for 2019. The firm is highly ranked in several practice areas, nationally and regionally, specifically being named a “Tier 1” Boston firm in ten categories. National Tier 2 Environmental Law Insurance Law Litigation - Environmental Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Plaintiffs National Tier 3 Appellate Practice Commercial Litigation Litigation - Labor & Employment Metropolitan Tier 1 - Boston Commercial Litigation Employment Law - Management Environmental Law Family Law Insurance Law Legal Malpractice Law - Defendants Litigation - Environmental Litigation - Labor & Employment Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs Product Liability Litigation - Defendants Metropolitan Tier 2 - Boston Appellate Practice Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Plaintiffs Medical Malpractice Law - Plaintiffs According to U.S. News and Best Lawyers, the "Best Law Firms" ranking process includes client and lawyer evaluations,…
Sugarman Rogers is pleased to announce that many of its attorneys - over 70 percent of the firm's partners - have been selected for inclusion in the 2017 edition of The Best Lawyers in America. Published since 1983, Best Lawyers is regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence, and lawyers are included based entirely on peer-review and merit. In addition, to making The Best Lawyers in America list, three Sugarman Rogers attorneys were named "Lawyer of the Year" in their respective practice areas: managing partner Regina E. Roman for her work in Insurance Law, Michael S. Appel for his work in Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions – Plaintiffs, and Lisa C. Goodheart for her work in Environmental Law. Only a single lawyer in each practice area is honored as the Lawyer of the Year, making this accolade particularly significant. The twelve Sugarman Rogers attorneys who were selected include: Michael S.…
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Partners from the Boston based litigation firm Sugarman, Rogers, Barshak & Cohen, P.C. received top rankings in the 2016 edition of The Best Lawyers in America® for their skills and expertise in their respective practice areas. The Sugarman Rogers partners recognized by Best Lawyers 2016 are: Michael S. Appel (Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Plaintiffs and Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs) David A. Barry (Medical Malpractice Law - Plaintiffs and Product Liability Litigation - Defendants) Edward J. Barshak (Commercial Litigation, Family Law and Personal Injury Litigation -Defendants) William L. Boesch (Legal Malpractice Law - Defendants) Anthony M. Doniger (Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation and Family Law) Alan S. Geismer (Family Law) Lisa C. Goodheart (Environmental Law and Environmental Litigation) Susan A. Hartnett (Appellate Practice & Insurance Law) Christine M. Netski (Commercial Litigation & Litigation - Labor & Employment) Regina E. Roman (Insurance Law & Legal Malpractice Law - Defendants)…
(This article originally appeared on the Boston Bar Association website. Reprinted here with permission.) The Boston Bar Association will honor Edward Barshak with its Lifetime Achievement Award on September 12 at the 2014 Annual Meeting Luncheon. A leader isn’t always the first one to speak up. A true leader exhibits command of speech so that when they do speak, their words carry weight. As we interviewed Boston’s most respected advocates and citizens for this profile, one phrase resonated among countless sound bites. “When Barshak speaks, everybody listens.” From Fitchburg’s Finest to One of Boston’s Best When he joined Mapplebeck, Alberts & Sugarman in 1957, Fitchburg native Edward J. Barshak had already carved out a reputation as one of Boston’s most promising trial attorneys. As the fifth attorney at what would later become Sugarman, Rogers, Barshak & Cohen, Ed set to work building what would soon become Boston’s top tier civil…
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Sugarman Rogers has been named to the 2016 list of "Best Law Firms" by U.S. News and Best Lawyers. The firm is highly ranked in several practice areas, both nationally and regionally. Boston - Tier 1: Commercial Litigation Environmental Law Family Law Insurance Law Legal Malpractice Law - Defendants Litigation - Environmental Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs Product Liability Litigation - Defendants National - Tier 2: Environmental Law Insurance Law Litigation – Environmental More information is available online. According to U.S. News and Best Lawyers, the "Best Law Firms" ranking process includes "client and lawyer evaluations, peer review from leading attorneys in their field, and review of additional information provided by law firms." Achieving a top-tier ranking signals a law firm’s distinctive combination of excellence and breadth-of-expertise.
The Boston legal community has lost one of its finest. Edward J. Barshak passed away peacefully on August 12, 2020, at age 96. For more than five decades as one of our founding partners, Ed was an icon of the trial bar and a fearless defender of civil rights. As a young lawyer, he courageously represented lawyers charged with engaging in communist activities during the McCarthy investigations and achieved the groundbreaking SJC ruling in Brown v. Commonwealth, 335 Mass. 476 (1957), recognizing a right to counsel for criminal defendants under the Massachusetts constitution – six years before the US Supreme Court’s decision in Gideon v. Wainwright. He later represented Mitchell Goodman in the now-famous federal prosecution against Dr. Benjamin Spock, Goodman, and three other co-defendants for advocating resistance to the Vietnam-War draft, culminating in the 1969 First Circuit decision vacating their convictions. In her book about the Spock trial,…
On Tuesday, May 19, John O'Neill will be participating as a panelist at a Boston Bar Association lunch program for the Professional Liability Section. Panelists will discuss the common insurance coverage issues practitioners may face when hit with a claim for malpractice, including: Your rights and obligations when you receive a reservation of rights; Covered and non covered claims; What to do when there are conflicts with co defendants etc.; What if there are coverage issues - how can you ensure you will still be defended? Panelists: John G. O'Neill, Sugarman, Rogers, Barshak & Cohen, P.C. Tamara Smith Holtslag, Peabody & Arnold LLP Todd Greeley, Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance. Tuesday, May 19, 2024 - 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM - Boston Bar Association - 16 Beacon Street, Boston, MA Register online: https://www.bostonbar.org/membership/events/event-details?ID=18323&utm_source=upcoming%20events&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=upcoming%20events51215
Sugarman Rogers Partner and MBA Civil Litigation Section Co-Chair Tony Agudelo will moderate a panel discussion at the Massachusetts Bar Association entitled "Making the Winning Argument" on Wednesday, November 12. Five master trial lawyers will deliver verdict-winning opening statements and closing arguments they gave in real-life headline-making cases, and will explain their goals and challenges in preparing the arguments. Cases and topics include: Price v. Ambrus M.D. ($7 million verdict; medical negligence case) Zeolla v. Ford Motor Company (rollover of Ford Expedition; wrongful death case) A multi-plantiff racial discrimination and harassment case (Employment law; defense verdict) Aleo v. Toys R Us ($20.6 million verdict; product liability/wrongful death case) The program is free for all MBA members. Full event details are listed below. Making the Winning Argument Wednesday, November 12 4:00–7:00 P.M. MBA | 20 West St., Boston Register online MODERATOR Anthony V. Agudelo - Sugarman, Rogers, Barshak & Cohen, PC FACULTY Rober M. Higgins - Lubin & Meyer…
Community residents, municipal leaders, and state agencies are working to increase access to healthy and affordable food in Massachusetts urban centers. Speakers at this brown bag panel will discuss the recently approved Boston Zoning Code Article 89 permitting urban agriculture, the role of lawyers in supporting residents engaging in urban / small scale - community based farming, and associated pro bono and public service opportunities available for attorneys interested in supporting urban agriculture efforts. Boston Bar Association - February 27, 2025 - Brown Bag Luncheon - 12:30-1:30 pm Speakers: Maria Mercurio - Boston Redevelopment Authority Jennifer K Rushlow - Conservation Law Foundation C. Dylan Sanders --Sugarman, Rogers, Barshak & Cohen, P.C. Sponsoring Section/Committee(s): Environmental Law Public Service Committee Health Law Social Action Committee Register Here: https://www.bostonbar.org/membership/events/event-details?ID=15235
Sugarman Rogers has been named to the 2015 list of "Best Law Firms" by U.S. News and Best Lawyers. The firm received top "Tier 1" rankings in Boston across eleven practice areas: Arbitration Commercial Litigation Employment Law - Management Environmental Law Family Law Insurance Law Legal Malpractice Law - Defendants Litigation - Environmental Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs Product Liability Litigation - Defendants More information is available online. According to U.S. News and Best Lawyers, the "Best Law Firms" ranking process includes "collection of client and lawyer evaluations, peer review from leading attorneys in their field, and review of additional information provided by law firms." Achieving a top-tier ranking signals a law firm’s distinctive combination of excellence and breadth-of-expertise.
Published by the Boston Bar Association on October 25, 2024 (here). The importance of public service and academic excellence was instilled in Chris Netski at a young age while she was growing up in upstate New York. Both her parents were public educators and the first in their families to go to college. Her late father, a first-generation Polish-American who went to college under the G.I. Bill following service in World War II, understood the importance of equal opportunity and promoted diversity and inclusion throughout his career, including helping to lead the effort to integrate the public schools in their town in the late 1960s. Her parents’ commitment to their community and their positive influence on the lives of so many young people continue to inspire Netski today. “They inspired me to always be alert to how I might contribute to the betterment of our society, and they taught me…
When does the three-year statute of limitations begin to run, under the Massachusetts hazardous waste cleanup statute, for a property owner’s claim for property damage that is not resolved by a cleanup? A January 19 decision of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court announced an important clarification of the answer. Under General Laws Chapter 21E, the clock on such claims does not begin to run when the owner first learns that her property has been contaminated, but only when the owner learns that the damage is permanent and cannot be reasonably remediated, and also knows (or should have discovered) the identity of the party responsible for the contamination. The decision, in Grand Manor Condominium Association v. City of Lowell, revived a condominium’s property-damage claim against the city of Lowell for contamination from a city-operated landfill, for damage caused decades before the condominium’s construction. Chapter 21E Chapter 21E identifies five categories of…
In a decision published on February 29, 2016, Bulwer v. Mount Auburn Hospital (473 Mass 672), the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court clarified the evidentiary burden a plaintiff must meet to overcome a motion for summary judgment in an employment discrimination claim under Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 151B, § 4. The Court held that where a reasonable jury could infer from evidence presented by a plaintiff that an employer's justification for terminating the plaintiff was false, the question of whether the given justification was a pretext for discrimination must be presented to a jury. The plaintiff in Bulwer, a black male from Belize who held a medical degree from a foreign medical school, practiced medicine outside the United States for thirteen years. Plaintiff came to Mr. Auburn Hospital to complete a residency program so that he could practice in the United States. The residency agreement was for a one-year term, renewable…
On February 6, 2013, commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Family and Medical Leave Act ("FMLA"), the U.S. Department of Labor issued its Final Rule (the "2013 Regulations") on the FMLA. The 2013 Regulations become effective March 8, 2013. The 2013 Regulations incorporate -- and in some cases, expand -- the military leave amendments of 2008. Families of eligible veterans now have the same protections as families of active military service members. The definition of "serious injury or illness" now covers pre-existing conditions aggravated by military service. A new leave category, parental leave, has been added to the qualifying exigency leave. The period of leave to be granted for a service member's rest and recuperation has been extended from five to 15 days. In addition, private health care providers, not affiliated with the military healthcare system, are now authorized to issue FMLA certifications for military-related leave. Listed below is a…
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court this week significantly expanded state constitutional protection for parks and other open public spaces. In doing so, the court came down on the side of conservationists in a common dispute with public officials over potential use of municipal land for public improvements, including roads and schools, but also including other newer uses of municipal open space, such as for wind turbines and solar arrays. The SJC ruled, in Smith v. City of Westfield, that the defendant city could not, without a super-majority vote of the state legislature, build an elementary school on city land that had long been used as a public park, even though no written restriction was ever recorded designating the land for protection under Article 97 of the Massachusetts constitution, the state’s “Environmental Bill of Rights.” Reversing a decision of the Appeals Court, the SJC held that no such recording in the…
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has once again emphasized the high stakes, under the state’s consumer-protection statute, for an insurer who delays in settling a clear-liability case and allows the matter to go to trial. In its February 10, 2025 decision in Rhodes v. AIG Domestic Claims, Inc., the Court awarded $22.6 million in punitive damages—plus attorneys’ fees, on top of the $11.8 million already recovered by the plaintiffs—against an insurance claims service, AIGDC,1 for unfairly and willfully delaying settlement of a clear-liability automobile-accident case. The Court applied language of the Massachusetts consumer-protection statute, Chapter 93A, and made the $22.6 million award despite acknowledging that the figure bore no relationship to any identifiable harm caused by AIGDC’s settlement delay. The case arose from a 2002 accident in which a tractor-trailer rear-ended a car driven by 46-year-old Marcia Rhodes, who had been stopped by a police officer directing traffic around a…
Christine Netski will join co-panelists Mark Phillips and Dana Pierce for the WBA program "Connecting with Your Jury" on April 23 at 12:30 pm. Learn how to use all of the tools at your disposal to connect with your audience. Not only the words you choose, but the story you tell, your body language, and your visual presentation affect how the jury (or any audience) perceives your message. Join the WBA's Women in the Courtroom Committee for a lunch meeting with a trial consultant and two seasoned trial attorneys and learn how to avoid common mistakes. Featuring panelists: Christine Netski -- Sugarman, Rogers, Barshak & Cohen, P.C. Mark Phillips - Phillips Partners, Inc. Dana Pierce - Suffolk County DA's Office Wednesday, April 23 -- 12:30 to 1:30 pm Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks 600 Atlantic Avenue (the Federal Reserve Building) 23rd Floor ~ North Conference Room Free to WBA Members and…
Sugarman, Rogers, Barshak & Cohen is proud to announce that all of their female partners have been named "Top Women Attorneys in Massachusetts" by Super Lawyers and were featured in the April issue of Boston magazine. Lisa C. Goodheart and Christine M. Netski both made the "Top 50 Women Attorneys in Massachusetts" list; Goodheart for her work in Environmental Litigation, and Netski for her work in Business Litigation. In addition, managing partner Regina E. Roman was recognized for her work in Insurance Coverage, along with Susan A. Hartnett. Alisa L. Hacker was featured for her work in Family Law, and Andrea Studley Knowles made the list for her work in Product Liability Defense. "We are so proud of this accomplished group. Their recognition further validates our long tradition at Sugarman Rogers of recruiting, hiring, promoting and supporting first-rate women lawyers," said William L. Boesch a partner and member of Sugarman…
