- Divorce
- Criminal DefenseAttorney Cecere has extensive experience in insurance coverage matters for auto, homeowner’s and causality, having litigated hundreds of cases involving unfair insurance claim practices (chap. 93A). He also does criminal defense as a Bar Advocate in Essex County.
- Wrongful DeathAttorney Jerome has served exclusively as a mediator and arbitrator for more than 28 years and has personally handled over 12,000 cases involving a tremendous array of subject matter including civil litigation, personal injury, wrongful death, automobile and UM cases, medical and legal malpractice, construction, property, first party property and casualty reference hearings, product liability, premises, real estate, government, business, commercial, employment, sexual abuse, probate and complex multi-party litigation.
- FraudADA Disability, Business Dissolution, Civil Rights, Commercial / Business, Commercial Disputes, Community Associations, Construction, Consumer Fraud, Contract Disputes
- Corporate Law
- Mergers and AcquisitionsBusiness Dissolution, Commercial / Business, Commercial Disputes, Consumer Fraud, Contract Disputes, Franchise, Mergers & Acquisitions, Partnerships, Real Estate, Real Estate / Land Use, Shareholder Disputes, Unfair Competition
- Business DisputesAttorney Roth concentrates her practice of law on counseling companies at all phases of development. Her in-house business and employment law experience serving as In-House Corporate Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer for a national behavioral health care corporation is now utilized in her private practice by representing high-tech telecommunication companies, manufacturing companies, metallurgic technology companies and start-up companies that span all focus areas from technology to home health care to on-line businesses. Since 1997 Attorney Roth has represented both plaintiffs and defendants in civil litigation and has found that mediation as an alternative dispute resolution brings an economy of cost and time to a successful resolution of business disputes.
- Business TransactionsFrom 1992 through March of 2013, Attorney Langella was a member/trial attorney at Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. While at Mintz, Mr. Langella focused on complex commercial cases, such a partnership/shareholder disputes, fraud and misrepresentation actions, breach of contract/breach of fiduciary duty claims, and failed business transactions.
- Trade Secrets
- Intellectual PropertyHe has taught dispute resolution techniques to bar associations and other professional groups. In 1995, the International Center for the Resolution of Intellectual Property Disputes (a United Nations agency located in Geneva, Switerland) added Tony to its list of qualified arbitrators and mediators.
- Unfair CompetitionBanking & Finance, Business Dissolution, Civil Litigation, Civil Rights, Commercial / Business, Contract Disputes, Debt Collections, Employment, Insurance, Malpractice / Negligence, Mergers & Acquisitions, Mortgage Foreclosures, Partnerships, Personal Injury, Probate, Professional Fees, Professional Malpractice, Professional Negligence, Real Estate, Real Estate / Land Use, Shareholder Disputes, Title Disputes, Torts, Trusts/Estates, Unfair Competition
- Workers CompensationIn 2004 and 2005 he served as President of MATA. Alan currently serves as chair elect of the American Bar Association workers compensation section and will be the national chairperson in 2010. Alan is the former chairperson of the Massachusetts Bar Association’s Section on Workers’ Compensation Law.
- Employment DiscriminationMr. Kelley is a full time mediator and arbitrator hearing claims for personal injury, employment discrimination, professional malpractice, and product liability.
- Employment ContractAttorney Zeytoonian is the founding member and Director of Dispute Resolution Counsel, LLC (DRC), in Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts, and is a lawyer, mediator and ombudsman. Founded in 2008 as the then Zeytoonian Center for Dispute Resolution, LLC, DRC focuses on resolving employment, business, family, education, consumer protection, probate and other disputes without litigation. Attorney Zeytoonian was also a partner at Hutchings, Barsamian, Mandelcorn & Zeytoonian, LLP, in Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts, from 2001 through 2013 and is presently Of Counsel. There, he practices employment, business, negligence, special education, contract, homeowner/contractor disputes and consumer protection law. He also provides preventive legal counsel and training for employers and small businesses on discrimination, sexual harassment, wage & hour, employment and business agreements, restrictive covenants and other employment contracts.
- Employment LitigationAnthony Metaxas has concentrated his private law practice thereafter in Massachusetts on a full range of business matters, including litigation of corporate and partnership issues, fiduciary, trade secret and unfair competition matters, contract disputes, trust and estate litigation and employment issues.
- Sexual Harassment
- Real Estate LitigationRobert H. Flynn has experience at the following firms: Flynn Law Firm, P.C., 2002 – present, Principal; Daly Cavanaugh & Flynn LLP, 2002, Partner; Fay, Flynn & Fay, P.C., 1982 – 2002, Partner; Hale, Sanderson, Byrnes & Morton, 1973 – 1982, Associate and Partner. Mr. Flynn has experience in commercial, employment, contract, environmental, lease and real estate disputes; insurance and insurance coverage disputes; tort, negligence, product liability and construction accidents; legal, accounting, engineering, nursing home and assisted living negligence and neglect; medical and dental malpractice; D & O disputes concerning architects, engineers, insurance and real estate brokers, transportation, aviation and maritime disputes.
- Premises LiabilityAttorney Ralph N. Cecere has over 24 years of trial experience in the trial court and administrative agencies and has handled over 200 cases taken to trial in the Superior and District Court. He has been a practicing attorney at Ralph N. Cecere, P.C. (2007 – present), where he has represented insurance companies, small businesses and plaintiffs in first and third party insurance matters, personal injury cases (auto, premises liability, negligence) and business issues, acting as lead counsel in jury trials, binding arbitrations and settlement conferences; McNaught, Cecere & McNaught (2002-2007), where he did substantial litigation and trial work for large insurance defense practice in a variety of contract and tort cases with substantial active caseload, involving premises liability, auto, products liability and insurance coverage; and McNaught & Moriarty (1989-2001), where he handled a large file inventory of civil cases, mostly in defense of insurance companies involving first-third party property and personal injury claims, subrogation, declaratory judgments, bad faith, workmen’s compensation and appeals.
- Construction LitigationJoseph F. Strumski, Jr is a partner in the Law Firm of Strumski & Woods, LLC, where he specializes in Civil Litigation, Personal Injury, Malpractice, Insurance Defense Litigation and Construction Law.
- Eminent DomainAdmiralty, Appellate, Automotive, Aviation, Civil Litigation, Civil Rights, Class Actions, Commercial / Business, Commercial Disputes, Construction, Consumer Fraud, Contract Disputes, Debt Collections, Discrimination, Divorce (High Asset), Education, Elder Abuse, Eminent Domain, Environmental, Family Businesses, Health Care, Industrial, Insurance, Intellectual Property
- Land Use and ZoningBoston Bar Association; Essex County Bar Association; Massachusetts Bar Association; Massachusetts Bar Association ADR Committee; Massachusetts LGBTQ Bar Association; Former Hearing Examiner, Board of Bar Overseers; Massachusetts Judges Conference; International Association of Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual and Transgender Judges; Massachusetts Land Court Partition Commissioner; Massachusetts Trial Court Standing Committee on Alternative Dispute Resolution; Presenter for MCLE, continuously for 25 years, on subjects including criminal, constitutional, and land-use law; Presenter, both individually and in panel, on appellate practice and diversity issues at the Boston Bar Association, the Massachusetts Bar Association, Boston College, Boston College Law School, Boston University, and the New England School of Law.
- Landlord-Tenant DisputesAlexander, Femino & Lauranzano, (1968 to present), Partner of general practice of law specializing in real estate development, municipal law, zoning, landlord/tenant, U.S. and Massachusetts tax law, corporate, banking law. City Solicitor, City of Beverly (1988 to 1992). Assistant City Solicitor, City of Beverly (1985 to 1988). Ronan, Segal & Harrington, Salem, Massachusetts (1981 to 1986), attorney in general practice including real estate development, zoning matters and municipal law, estate planning, corporate law, and landlord and tenant. Massachusetts Executive Office of Communities and Development, Assistant Development Planner (1979 to 1981)...
- Property DamageKaren Thome Guthrie has been a civil litigator in Massachusetts since 1995 and has extensive experience in ADR. Karen employs a very wide range of experience and is an excellent choice for a great majority of mediation and arbitration cases; her primary practice areas include all types of personal injury cases, tort, business and commercial litigation, contract disputes, and real estate cases including condominium disputes, landlord/tenant, boundary disputes and property damage. Karen’s significant experience with domestic relations, divorce, and custodial cases make her a positive choice for all types of family disputes. As a trial attorney for over twenty years, representing plaintiffs, defendants, and insurers, Karen has represented clients in the Superior, District, and Probate courts. She has had extensive mediation and arbitration training, and has had excellent results using ADR throughout her law career.
- Personal InjuryWRITTEN SUMMARY. Before a mediation convenes most mediators request a brief written summary of the case from each party. In personal injury cases, the summary should discuss the issues of liability, focusing on the key evidence in support of the parties’ position, and on damages, discussing for example, such issues as the extent of disability, causal relationship, and the extent of special damages or economic loss. If the issues of liability or damages can be best highlighted by attaching pertinent portions of medical records, statements, or other documents, you may wish to do so in advance of the mediation to assist the mediator.
- Medical MalpracticeOTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AND ASSOCIATIONS: Attorney Elizabeth (Beth) Roth began her professional life as a nurse. Later she earned her Master’s Degree in Counseling and became a leader in the psychotherapy profession and owner of a successful psychology practice. She served as the President of the New Hampshire Chapter of the American Counseling Association and was a member of the National ACA Board of Directors. Attorney Roth’s healthcare career focus expanded as she pursued her Juris Doctorate from Massachusetts School of Law and began her legal career in the healthcare niche, representing doctors and nurses in medical malpractice cases. After serving as In-House Corporate Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer for a national behavioral health care corporation she established Roth & Associates, PLLC in the Merrimack Valley with focus on business and employment law and litigation. Today, Roth & Associates, PLLC has recently merged with the Lowell firm, Eno Martin Donahue, LLP where Attorney Roth serves as a partner. She is admitted to the Massachusetts Bar and the Federal District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Attorney Roth received her Mediation training in accordance with M.G.L. ch.233 sec.23C and has a mediation certificate from MWI in Boston, MA.
- Auto Accidents
- Estate PlanningAttorney Loeb is a shareholder of the firm Rich May, and focuses on business and real estate litigation, with significant experience in the areas of general civil litigation and business and commercial law. Attorney Loeb is admitted to the courts of Massachusetts, the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, the First Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States Tax Court.
- Probate
- Bankruptcy
- ForeclosureThe goal of foreclosure mediation is to enable homeowners and lenders to communicate and negotiate in a non-judgemental and monitored setting. Foreclosure program managers, along with loan counselors, help the parties with education, paperwork exchange, and preparation for the mediation session. When these cases have been prepared for mediation, specially trained mediators work with the parties to closely evaluate the solutions that may be possible as alternatives to foreclosure in each specific situation. Foreclosure mediation must take into account National mortgage and loan programs and laws, State law and regulations, as well as any municipal ordinances that may apply, while working both within the financial means of the homeowner and resolving financial conflict with the lender. The parties must be responsive to the requirements of the mediation program in order to achieve a successful outcome.
- Tax Law