Boston, MA Lawyers

International Law

201 Washington St, Boston, MA 02108, USA

Carson Burnham Chairs the International Practice Group of Ogletree Deakins. She is a shareholder based in the Boston office. Carson and her global team manage worldwide labor and employment matters for clients and offer practical solutions to employment law issues in over 100 countries. Carson’s expertise includes multijurisdictional investigations into employment law and compliance matters including sexual harassment, bullying, assault, breach of finance and sales protocols, kickbacks and compensation fraud and other employment-law matters of particular importance to US headquartered multinationals. Carson also specializes in a practical and efficient approach to sensitive, executive-level negotiations, assisting her clients with hiring, management, and terminations worldwide. Carson has unique experience with labor and employment issues in cross-border M&A from a multidisciplinary perspective, and is often called upon to partner with corporate firms to assist from the kickoff of a transaction through post-close integration. Carson designs and implements global ethics protocols for US-headquartered multinationals and enables her clients to implement compensation plans and harmonized benefits practices with a solutions-oriented approach that maintains efficiency at the global level and compliance at the local level. Carson also manages employment litigation for clients abroad, most recently in the Netherlands, Spain and France. She is frequently asked to speak about addressing the challenges of effectively managing a global workforce. In addition to her own practice, Carson established and manages the International Practice Group of Ogletree Deakins, a team of international attorneys based in five countries with experience handling employment-law matters worldwide. Some recent representative projects handled by Carson and the team include global restructurings ; overtime and wage/hour compliance in multiple jurisdictions; investigating allegations of sexual harassment and criminal assault (France, UK, Brazil, Thailand); investigating allegations of abuse of financial protocols, including benefits fraud, unauthorized discounting and alleged kickbacks (Japan, France, Brazil); drafting and coordinating the rollout of global sales compensation plans, retention bonus plans, codes of conduct and electronic communications policies; advising concerning choice of law, the enforceability of US judgments overseas and the extraterritorial application of US laws applicable employees employment laws to foreign decision makers; managing disability issues; preparing and delivering comparative anti-harassment trainings; measures to mitigate the multidisciplinary risks associated with Global Mobility assignments; negotiating executive terminations as well as handling performance and conduct-based terminations. The International Practice Group consists of lawyers with in-house experience working for multinationals, lawyers experienced in cross-disciplinary matters such as white collar crime, M&A, immigration and tax; lawyers with educational and language experience in a multitude of foreign countries including China, Cuba, Brazil, New Zealand, Poland, Romania, Austria, and Ireland; and German, Japanese, Chinese and Korean lawyers with experience working in the United States. Prior to joining Ogletree, Carson was the Vice President of Global Employment Law for Novell, Inc. In that capacity, Carson managed a global team of attorneys, oversaw worldwide employment litigation and separation negotiations, served as counsel to the company’s Compliance and Ethics Committee, held responsibility for the employment-law aspects of the company’s transactional activity (including post-close integration) , chaired its Global Policy Committee, served as counsel to its Global Sales Incentive Compensation Committee, and regularly advised Internal Audit concerning international labor and employment matters, signature authority protocols, pricing review procedures, separation costs and incentive compensation issues. In this role, Carson frequently participated in the company’s Board and Audit Committee meetings and worked on a daily basis with the company’s executive team. Carson is best known for finding creative, simple and efficient solutions for her clients’ complex employment law problems around the world.

Civil Litigation

800 Boylston St #2500, Boston, MA 02199, USA

Christopher Sullivan has more than 40 years of experience practicing law. He focuses on the civil jury trials of complex litigation matters, such as financial and securities cases and intellectual property matters. Through trials, motions practice, or settlements, Mr. Sullivan, who oversees the commercial litigation practice in the firm’s Boston office, has resolved more than 300 lawsuits in a wide range of substantive areas of litigation. He is actively involved in numerous professional organizations, including various leadership roles, such as serving as the President of the Massachusetts Bar Association. Before entering private practice, Mr. Sullivan served the State of New York as a Special Assistant Attorney General, where he was as a trial attorney with the Office of the Special Prosecutor during its investigation and prosecution of official corruption within the criminal justice system of New York City.

Corporate and Transactional Law

303 Congress St suite 200, Boston, MA 02210, USA

David J. Chavolla is a partner in the Business Law Practice Group. He concentrates in the representation and counseling of privately held business organizations in all aspects of their legal affairs. David has served as outside general counsel to a wide range of clients, including manufacturers and distributors of commercial and consumer products and services, software developers and providers, energy management firms, communications companies, consulting firms, and professional organizations. He is responsible for all aspects of clients’ corporate legal affairs including organizational, capital structure and stockholder issues, employment matters, protection of intellectual property, borrowing relationships, real estate, and contract issues. David regularly represents corporate and other business clients in complex business transactions including mergers, acquisitions, reorganizations, and joint ventures involving U.S. domestic and international business entities. He is also frequently involved in representation of public and private companies in overseas transactions and representation of foreign entities in U.S. activities, both as U.S. general counsel and special counsel in connection with specific transactions. David has extensive experience with financial transactions, including private placements and other capital formation activities, secured and unsecured banks, and other institutional financing and credit facilities. He has represented firms in initial public offerings and ongoing SEC compliance work. His experience includes counseling on issues involving the Investment Company Act and the Investment Advisors Act.

Personal Injury Law

10 Tremont St, Boston, MA 02108, USA

Bio - Douglas Sheff is the only attorney in Massachusetts’ history to have held the positions of President of the Massachusetts Bar Association, President of Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys, Governor of the American Association for Justice and Trustee of the National College of Advocacy, highlighting his local and national accomplishments and commitment to the betterment of the practice of law and public service. He has extensive experience in all aspects of personal injury law and has earned a reputation for obtaining consistent, superior recoveries for his clients. He focuses his practice on representing victims of traumatic brain injury, wrongful death, construction site, trucking accidents, workplace accidents, and defective products. He has received numerous honors and awards for his work as a lawyer, a consumer advocate and an educator. He is a nationally renowned brain injury litigation expert. An accomplished writer and speaker, Mr. Sheff regularly educates other attorneys,

Personal Injury Law

10 Tremont St, STE 700, Boston, MA 02108

Bio - Frank J. Federico, Jr. has been practicing in the area of personal injury litigation since 1987. Attorney Federico has represented both plaintiffs and defendants in serious personal injury matters in many areas including, but not limited to, motor vehicle collisions, construction site accidents, premises liability claims, medical malpractice matters and insurance coverage disputes. Attorney Federico is admitted to practice in all Courts of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the Federal District Court for the District of Massachusetts, the Federal 1st Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court. Attorney Federico is a long term member of both the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys (MATA) and the American Association for Justice (AAJ). In addition to his law practice and public service commitments, Attorney Federico has volunteered his services coaching for several youth sports organizations in his community.