Lawyers of the Year: David R. Yannetti
BOSTON, MA - Part of a series of profiles on our 2025 Lawyers of the Year. In January 2022, during what Boston criminal defense lawyer David R. Yannetti recalls as one of ...More

Lawyers of the Year: Kerry L. Timbers
BOSTON, MA - Last year brought a major victory for intellectual property litigator Kerry L. Timbers in a case that began back in 2018. That’s when IOENGINE sued PayPal for ...More

Lawyers of the Year: Max D. Stern and William Gildea
BOSTON, MA - Max D. Stern and William Gildea made an indelible mark on 2025 when they prevailed in a bitter, headline-grabbing feud between two high-ranking state officials. The ...More

Lawyers of the Year: Matthew C. Moschella
BOSTON, MA - When he joined Sherin & Lodgen in 2004 as an associate, one of the first cases Matthew C. Moschella worked on was the death row appeal of Anthony Boyd, an Alabama ...More

Lawyers of the Year: David Milton and Kayla H. Ghantous
BOSTON, MA - It may go down as the most expensive case of misdirected anger in the history of the Massachusetts prison system. On Jan. 10, 2020, inmates attacked correction ...More

Lawyers of the Year: Dawn M. Mertineit
BOSTON, MA - When the Massachusetts Noncompetition Agreement Act, which limits the use of noncompetes in the commonwealth, took effect in 2018, many in the employment bar believed ...More

Lawyers of the Year: Shira M. Diner
BOSTON, MA - The tension had been simmering in the criminal justice system for years. Then, around Memorial Day last year, bar advocates — private attorneys who accept appointments ...More