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32 Worcester Business Journal | Book of Lists 2021 | wbjournal.com F O C U S P R O F E S S I O N A L S E R V I C E S Top law firms Ranked by number of attorneys in Central Mass. as of April 2021 Firm Local attorneys/ CMass offices/ total offices Practice areas Managing partner(s) Year founded 1 Bowditch & Dewey LLP 311 Main St., P.O. Box 15156, Worcester 01605 508-791-3511 • www.bowditch.com 63 1 3 Business and finance; litigation; labor and employment; real estate and environmental; estate, financial and tax planning; higher education Robert D. Cox Jr. 1914 2 Mirick, O'Connell, DeMallie & Lougee LLP 100 Front St., Worcester 01608-1477 508-791-8500 • www.mirickoconnell.com 61 3 3 Business, trusts and estates, litigation, construction, creditors' rights, bankruptcy and reorganization, elder and family, divorce, health, intellectual property, labor, employment and employee benefits, land use and environmental, public and municipal, personal injury David E. Surprenant 1916 3 Fletcher Tilton PC 370 Main St., 12th Floor, Worcester 01608 508-459-8000 • fletchertilton.com 47 3 8 Business & corporate, commercial finance, family law, labor & employment, immigration, civil litigation, estate planning & administration, trusts & foundations, elder law & Medicaid planning, special needs planning, real estate, taxation Dennis F. Gorman 1822 4 Hassett & Donnelly PC 446 Main St., 12th Floor, Worcester 01608 508-791-6287 • www.hassettanddonnelly.com 19 1 7 Civil litigation, business and commercial litigation, municipal law, product liability, civil rights litigation, employment law, professional liability, toxic tort, environmental law, class actions, workers' compensation David F. Hassett 1974 5 Kenney & Sams PC (a) 144 Turnpike Road, Southborough 01772 508-490-8500 • www.KSlegal.com 14 1 2 Business litigation, construction and real estate development, employment law, government practice, healthcare litigation, insurance law, personal injury litigation, mediation and arbitration Christopher A. Kenney Michael P. Sams 2006 6 Mountain, Dearborn & Whiting LLP 370 Main St., Suite 800, Worcester 01608 508-756-2423 • www.mountaindearborn.com 13 1 1 General practice, banking, probate, corporate, tax, real estate, employment, estate planning and trust law, trials in all courts Paul C. Foley 1888 6 Seder & Chandler LLP 339 Main St. Suite 300, Worcester 01608 (b) 508-757-7721 • www.sederlaw.com 13 2 2 Banking, finance, bankruptcy, creditor's rights, business, corporate, family, probate, education, estates, trusts, intellectual property, labor, employment, litigation, alternative dispute resolution, private equity, real estate Paul J. O'Riordan Robert S. Adler Jeffrey P. Greenberg Pam Stevens 1918 8 Fuller, Rosenberg, Palmer & Beliveau LLP 339 Main St., Worcester 01608 508-755-5225 • www.frpb.com 10 (c) 1 1 Insurance defense and personal injury litigation, insurance coverage and bad faith litigation, trials and appeals in all courts Peter A. Palmer 1965 9 Gelinas & Ward LLP 106 Merriam Ave., Leominster 01453 978-537-2200 • www.gelinasandward.com 9 1 1 Commercial real estate and finance, corporate law and business acquisitions and sales, foreclosure, workout and collection, residential real estate conveyancing, estate planning and probate law Justin P. Gelinas 1923 10 Christopher, Hays, Wojcik & Mavricos LLP 370 Main Street, Suite 970, Worcester 01608 (b) 508-792-2800 • www.chwmlaw.com 7 2 2 General practice, civil and business litigation, business formation and succession planning, wills and trusts, trust administration, tax law, commercial law, employment law, professional malpractice, shareholder disputes, personal injury, product liability, real estate, workers' compensation, trials and appeals in all courts Donald C. Keavany 1989 10 Kneeland, Gribouski & Mooradian 28 Park Avenue, Worcester 01605 508-756-6206 • KGMLawyer.com 7 1 1 General civil and criminal practice, immigration law (deportation defense, naturalization, family-based and humanitarian immigration benefits), insurance plaintiffs, negligence, real estate, banking, estate planning, probate and family law, trials and appeals in all Massachusetts courts David J. Kneeland Alex Mooradian 1960 10 Mayer, Antonellis, Jachowicz & Haranas LLP 439 Worcester Road, Framingham 01701 508-620-0140 • www.hkwg.com 7 (a) 2 2 Business law, civil litigation, divorce law, real estate law William H. Mayer 1945 13 Morrison Mahoney LLP 446 Main St., Suite 1010, Worcester 01608 508-757-7777 • www.morrisonmahoney.com 6 1 10 Full service, litigation and business law Joanne Hoban 1948 Source: Each firm via survey. Note: Attorney counts may represent combined totals where firms have multiple locations in Central Massachusetts. Other firm's surveyed but have not responded in recent years. If you would like to be surveyed for this or other lists, please contact Lead Researcher Timothy Doyle. Full list available to subscribers at wbjournal.com. (a) Data from 2020 survey. (b) An additional office in Westborough (c) Has not responded to recent surveys. Data from firm's website. - Compiled by: Timothy Doyle, tdoyle@nebusinessmedia.com The board that manages the state's $86.9-billion pension fund voted Feb. 25 to in- crease its standards for board diversity and equal employment opportunity at the thousands of companies it invests in, and to promote shareholder proposals related to health coverage and pandemic hazard pay. The Pension Reserves Invest- ment Management (PRIM) Board signed off on the policy changes developed by Treasurer Deborah Goldberg and recommended by a PRIM subcommittee that would direct PRIM to use its proxy vote as a shareholder to vote against board nominees if the gender and racial makeup of the company's board do not meet PRIM's standards, and to support requirements that companies be diverse in terms of race, gender, use of minority-owned businesses as contractors, and use of women-owned businesses as contractors. "This is the right direction for us to be going," PRIM Board member Dennis Naughton, an elected member of the State Teachers' Retirement Board, said. "I'm pleased to be voting yes on this ... this is the right thing to do and I think it will promote better financial returns in the long run." The updated proxy voting policy states that PRIM is to vote against or withhold a vote from all board nominees if less than 35% of the board is diverse in terms of race and that PRIM is to vote against or withhold a vote from all board nominees if less than 35% of the board is diverse in terms of gender. Previously, PRIM's policy was to vote against or withhold a vote if less than 35% of the board was diverse in terms of race and gender combined. State pushing for corporate board diversity Massachusetts State House