Massachusetts Lawyers

Personal Injury Law

349 Old Plymouth Rd, First Floor, Sagamore Beach, MA 02562

Attorney Greenwood offers her clients experienced, top notch, personalized, boutique legal services. She approaches each individual case with understanding, integrity and aggressive advocacy. Attorney Greenwood ?is a private Attorney, as well as a member of the Barnstable County Bar Advocates Adult Criminal panel, and Barnstable's Recovery Court, providing zealous advocacy to all her clients in the Barnstable and Plymouth County communities. Attorney Greenwood is licensed to practice in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, U.S. Federal Court 1st District, and the Supreme Court of the United States in Washington, D.C.

Labor Law

One Boston Place, Suite 3500, Boston, MA 02108

Lisa Stephanian Burton is the managing shareholder of the Boston and Portland, Maine, offices of Ogletree Deakins. She defends employers in litigation and counsels on labor and employment issues that include wage and hour, discrimination, leaves of absence, and other US state and federal laws and regulations. Lisa also advises employers on business immigration matters. She works frequently with employers in the life sciences, healthcare, technology, retail, manufacturing, employee staffing and financial services industries. Lisa’s employment litigation practice includes representing clients before state and federal agencies as well as before state and federal courts. She defends wage and hour class and collective actions involving claims under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and state law. Lisa also defends clients in employment discrimination challenges, including claims of race, gender, age, and disability discrimination, retaliation, and wrongful termination cases. In her labor and employment counseling practice, Lisa advises clients on employment practices and policies. She counsels employers on structuring the workforce, labor and employment implications of mergers and acquisitions, hiring, firing, management and reductions in force (RIF). Clients routinely have Lisa conduct internal investigations and audits. Lisa also has handled several OSHA related matters involving workplace injuries and complaints. Lisa’s immigration practice includes helping employees of both large and small companies’ secure employment-based visas and permanent residency. She helps employers achieve immigration solutions for information technology professionals, executive and managerial employees, investors, medical professionals, and scientists and researchers in academia and in the biomedical and pharmaceutical industries. Lisa also represents clients facing government investigations related to immigration compliance and alleged abuses in immigration-related employment practices.

Labor Law

One Boston Place, Boston, MA 02201, USA

Lisa Stephanian Burton is the managing shareholder of the Boston and Portland, Maine, offices of Ogletree Deakins. She defends employers in litigation and counsels on labor and employment issues that include wage and hour, discrimination, leaves of absence, and other US state and federal laws and regulations. Lisa also advises employers on business immigration matters. She works frequently with employers in the life sciences, healthcare, technology, retail, manufacturing, employee staffing and financial services industries. Lisa’s employment litigation practice includes representing clients before state and federal agencies as well as before state and federal courts. She defends wage and hour class and collective actions involving claims under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and state law. Lisa also defends clients in employment discrimination challenges, including claims of race, gender, age, and disability discrimination, retaliation, and wrongful termination cases. In her labor and employment counseling practice, Lisa advises clients on employment practices and policies. She counsels employers on structuring the workforce, labor and employment implications of mergers and acquisitions, hiring, firing, management and reductions in force (RIF). Clients routinely have Lisa conduct internal investigations and audits. Lisa also has handled several OSHA related matters involving workplace injuries and complaints. Lisa’s immigration practice includes helping employees of both large and small companies’ secure employment-based visas and permanent residency. She helps employers achieve immigration solutions for information technology professionals, executive and managerial employees, investors, medical professionals, and scientists and researchers in academia and in the biomedical and pharmaceutical industries. Lisa also represents clients facing government investigations related to immigration compliance and alleged abuses in immigration-related employment practices.

Family and Divorce Law

Longfellow Pl, Boston, MA 02114, USA

Martin F. Kane, II (“Marty”) has been a member of McGrath and Kane, since September 1997. Marty’s areas of practice are complex domestic relations law and criminal defense. A graduate of Boston College School of Management in 1988 and Boston College Law School graduating in 1992 with a Juris Doctorate degree. Upon graduation from law school, Marty was employed by the Middlesex County District Attorney’s Office 1992-1997. While in the District Attorney’s Office, Marty prosecuted numerous criminal cases, including approximately 300 jury trials and more than one thousand bench trials in the District and Superior Courts of the Middlesex County. Marty served as the supervising attorney for the Newton, Malden and the Cambridge Jury of Six, in the District Courts. He successfully drafted and argued seven appellate cases in the Massachusetts Appeals Court, resulting in six affirmations of convictions and one reversal of a motion to suppress that had been allowed. Since joining McGrath and Kane, Marty has successfully litigated various complex child custody and business valuation related divorce cases. He has successfully defended various criminal cases in the District and Superior Courts of the Commonwealth. Marty presently serves as an Adjunct Professor of Law, at Boston College. He is a member of the American Bar Association, Massachusetts Bar Association Middlesex County Bar Association, and the Massachusetts Family and Probate Inns of Court. Marty served as Secretary, First Vice President and is the past President of the Middlesex County Bar Association. During his two year term as President, he forged unions with the local bar associations within Middlesex County, and established a bench bar forum for all of the District and Probate Courts in Middlesex County where attorneys and Judges discuss the needs and the requirements of recent civil and/or criminal procedure changes as well as internal administration of the various courts. Marty organized and continues to chair the Middlesex County Bar Association’s Probate and Family Court Conciliation Program. This program has resolved over 2,000 cases since inception. Marty currently serves as a council member of the Middlesex Bar Foundation; and a member of the Massachusetts Bar Association House of Delegates. Providing continuing legal education in a variety of forums, Marty has participated in seminars at the Massachusetts Bar Association on domestic relations and he has also participated in the District Court Survival Guide for the criminal law section during the past five years. He has also taught new police recruits for the Massachusetts Criminal Justice Training Council. In addition Marty has participated in a number of MCLE seminars on domestic relations matters March, 2009 – Post Divorce Modifications and Contempts; January, 2009 – Obtaining and Defending Restraining Orders under MGL 209A. He was a panel member in the Middlesex County Bar Association “Post Pierce Alimony” Seminar in April, 2010. He presently serves as a Committee member of the MCLE Family Law Curriculum Advisory Committee. Recognizing the importance of pro bono service to the courts of the Commonwealth, Marty participates regularly in the Lawyer for the Day programs in Middlesex, Suffolk and Norfolk County Probate and Family Courts Marty is a recipient of the Massachusetts Bar Association Community Service Award November 2008. At the request of the President of the Massachusetts Bar Association, Marty served as the Chair of the Committee investigating and reporting upon the “Crisis in the Courts”. Marty has served as a committee member for the Judicial Bench Bar Committee since 2006. This committee conducts due diligence on candidates for Judicial appointments who have been nominated by the Judicial Nominating Committee and are awaiting consideration by the Executive Branch. In 2010, Marty was nominated as a Massachusetts “Super Lawyer”.

Family and Divorce Law

199 Wells Avenue, Suite 211, Newton, MA 02459

Mary Beth L. Sweeney is a partner with the law firm of Atwood & Cherny . Her practice includes all aspects of domestic relations and probate litigation in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. A significant portion of her practice involves custody matters and children’s issues, including the impact of a child with special needs in a divorce case. Mary Beth has expertise in custody, removal, visitation, and Hague Convention matters (where a parent abducts a child to/from another country). She was one of the trial attorneys responsible for the first highlighted “virtual visitation” case in Massachusetts, as it pertained to a creative method of contact for a non-custodial parent in a removal matter. A component of her practice also includes representing family members in Estate Litigation matters in both the Probate and Superior Courts of the Commonwealth. Mary Beth is an elected Trustee with the American Inn of Court, currently serving a four year term.