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Our Firm
Pro Bono and Community Partnerships
Overview
We strive to be leaders in everything we do, both as lawyers and as citizens. Our attorneys and staff take the lead in civic, charitable, educational, social, and political projects and activities in Greater Boston and their individual communities. We sit on boards of directors, volunteer our time and enthusiasm to committees and fundraisers, and lend our expertise to both local and national nonprofit organizations.
- We review plans for economic growth and development, protection of open spaces and historical sites, and influence public education through participation in local government
- Our attorneys and staff serve on local boards of selectmen, planning boards, finance committees, zoning boards, conservation commissions, school committees, and youth organizations
- We are involved in community projects and organizations throughout Greater Boston, including Arlington, Brookline, Carlisle, Hingham, Milton, Needham, Newton, Upton and Winchester, Massachusetts
While our attorneys choose pro bono projects of personal significance, we focus our efforts on six primary areas of pro bono representation:
- Children’s services
- Civil liberties
- Green initiatives
- Immigration
- Community Development
- Arts
Recent pro bono matters:
- Massachusetts Bar Association, for whom we drafted briefs amicus on its behalf in connection with the Real Estate Bar Association v. National Real Estate Information Services, et al (Robert J. Muldoon, Jr. and Jessica G. Kelly received Massachusetts Bar Association Volunteer Recognition Award)
- Wellness Community Massachusetts South Shore, which provides psycho-social services to cancer patients and their families, with general corporate matters, including obtaining non-profit 501(c)(3) status and filing its articles of incorporation, ongoing employment and contract advice
- Successful zoning variance and condominium conversion of industrial use building into the Gorse Mill Studios, 33 work-only studio condominiums and gallery in Needham, Massachusetts
- Inmate on Alabama's death row in federal and state court appeals over the last eight years
- Some of the 350 employees detained or affected by the March 2007 immigration enforcement raid on the Bianco factory in New Bedford, Massachusetts (Margaret H. Paget was recognized by the Supreme Judicial Court Standing Committee on Pro Bono Legal Services for outstanding pro bono efforts)
- Prisoner alleging excessive force against a prison guard culminating in Federal District Court jury trial
- Berklee College of Music singer/songwriter in drafting studio/musician releases for album launch through Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts
- National Association of Industrial and Office Properties, for whom we filed an amicus brief analyzing the risks of biohazard release at the proposed Level 4 biolab at Boston Medical Center's South End Campus
- Board of Bar Examiners in character and fitness investigations for admissions, and challenges to bar admissions in Supreme Judicial Court
- Attorneys in disciplinary matters before the Board of Bar Overseers and the Supreme Judicial Court
- New England Conservatory regarding business and tax issues for artists
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