Massachusetts Lawyers

Family and Divorce Law

10 Laurel Ave 2nd floor, Wellesley, MA 02481, USA

Alisha is an experienced trial attorney who represents clients with professionalism, knowledge and compassion. She has successfully litigated complex family law cases, including high net-worth divorces, self-employed individuals, closely-held family businesses, pre-nuptial agreements, post-nuptial agreements, gifted and inherited assets, modification, high-conflict custody and parenting disputes, military divorces, guardianships, removal, paternity and contempt matters.

Family and Divorce Law

660 N Falmouth Hwy, North Falmouth, MA 02556

Using state-of-the-art technology, Attorney Richardson's firm focuses on family law in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts regarding issues of divorce, custody, parenting time, child support, alimony, division of assets, division of liabilities, determination of an equitable share of the marital estate when business valuations are required, contempt actions, modifications, and restraining orders. Attorney Camala A. Richardson combines zealous advocacy and compassionate counsel. She guides clients through the divorce process and resolves related matters involving child custody, parenting time, child support and alimony. In all her work, Ms. Richardson is committed to achieving her client’s goals and protecting their rights. Camela has experience in all aspects of domestic relations practice including child custody and parenting time, child support, paternity, divorce, alimony, modifications and guardianships. Ms. Richardson pays particular attention to accurate analysis and valuation of the myriad of assets and financial interests often at stake in a divorce, whether they are business interests, various investments, stock options, or pension and profit sharing plans, and considers the tax consequences both of dividing assets and establishing support obligations. Camela has developed a network of professionals with whom she works closely and who provide specialized assistance in these areas.

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.

Immigration Law

126 A Pleasant Valley St, Methuen, MA 01844

Celine Atallah is the founder of Atallah Law Group, LLC. Prior to starting her own firm, Celine spent over six years gaining legal experience in the areas of Immigration Law, Personal Injury Law, and Divorce and Family Law. Celine gained her considerable legal experience at Shaheen and Gordon, PA, one of the largest and most highly regarded law firms in New Hampshire. Seeking to provide the best professional legal services to clients all over New England, Celine has associated Atallah Law Group, LLC with Shaheen and Gordon, P.A. The ultimate purpose of this association is to ensure every client gets the best result possible in his or her case by having access to a wide range of professional legal resources. When the best legal minds are working on your case, you should know that you are in safe hands. Celine offers a unique combination of professionalism, compassion, strategic development of each case to achieve the best result possible. Her dedication to client service, combined with professional legal experience and resources to properly handle each case, enables Celine to present your case in the best manner possible. Celine will take the time to talk to you about your concerns and goals in order to best represent you, while protecting your legal rights to the fullest

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.