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| ● Scott R. Stevenson, Esq.,
Principal |
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| ● James M. Lynch, Esq.,
Principal |
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| ● Justin L. Kelsey, Esq.,
of counsel |
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| ● Ronald F. Driscoll, Esq.,
of counsel |
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Scott R.
Stevenson, Esq., Principal
and President of Stevenson &
Lynch, P.C.
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Scott R. Stevenson, has been a practicing attorney
since 1976 and is a Principal and the President
of Stevenson & Lynch, P.C.
A resident of Hingham since 1983, Scott’s
experience as both an in-house attorney to
the largest printing company in New England
as well as a litigator in all Courts in both
Illinois and Massachusetts since 1976 has
given him the ability to well serve the
Clients of the firm in a number of areas of
the law.
Today,
Scott is engaged primarily in four
inter-related legal practice areas of the
law:
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Family and domestic relations
law (divorce, paternity, spousal and child
abuse, including 209A Abuse Prevention
Order litigation in the Probate &
Family Courts and in the District Courts,
divorce litigation, mediation and
collaborative law), fair hearings before
the Massachusetts Department of Social
Services, Will Contests and other Probate
Court litigation and juvenile law practice
in the Juvenile Courts.
This practice involves the
discovery, identification, classification
and resulting treatment and equitable
division of assets and liabilities of
families, including business, investment
and retirement assets, as well as the
formation of Parenting Plans drawn in the
best interest of any minor children.
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Both residential and
commercial/industrial real estate
purchases, sales, leases including zoning
and environmental law and practice before
the Conservation Commissions, Planning
Boards and Zoning Boards of Appeals of
various Towns and Cities in Plymouth,
Norfolk, Barnstable, Bristol and other
Massachusetts Counties and including
litigation in the Trial Courts of
Massachusetts relating to the resolution
of real estate disputes of all kinds and
types both for the registered (Land Court)
and unregistered (Registry of Deeds) land
in Massachusetts.
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General business
organizational and operational legal work
such as formation of both Massachusetts
and Delaware Business Corporations,
Limited Liability Companies, Limited
Liability Partnerships, traditional
Massachusetts partnerships, Massachusetts
Business Trusts, Professional Corporations
and Limited Partnerships as well as
on-going business law advice to our
business clients, including contract
negotiations and resolution of other
business disputes and litigation of those
disputes in the Federal and State Trial
Courts.
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Representation of both Debtors
and Creditors in the United States
Bankruptcy Court, negotiation of loan and
other workouts with Lenders and
quick-action responses to foreclosure
actions. Also representation of creditors in
the collection of debts including
litigation using the pre-judgment remedies
of real estate attachments, bank and other
Trustee Process and actions to Reach and
Apply and the representation of Debtors in
defending such actions in the Federal
Courts and in the Massachusetts Superior
and District Courts.
By
way of personal history, Scott and his Wife
have lived in Hingham since 1983 and Scott is
an active participant in the Boston Sports
scene, especially with the Boston Red Sox and
the New England Patriots, as well as involved
with his family members in the Cincinnati, Ohio area.
Scott
lived in various parts of the United States
as he was growing up – Ohio, then
Massachusetts, then Virginia and then back to
Ohio. He attended High School in Madeira, Ohio – a Cincinnati
suburb - and graduated in 1966. He then attended and graduated from
Wittenberg University in Springfield Ohio
(B.A. with a major in American History,
1970), where he was a starting defensive end
on Wittenberg’s 1969 Division III National
Championship football team and, more
importantly, where he first met his
one-and-only Wife on a blind date on a Friday
the 13 in 1967.
After
serving as an enlisted man in the United
States Navy during the Vietnam War era, Scott
attended law school and graduated from Loyola
University of Chicago Law School (J.D. 1976).
Scott was initially admitted to the Illinois Bar
and the Federal District Court for the
Northern District of Illinois in 1976 and he was
employed as a litigation attorney at Hinshaw,
Culbertson, Moelmann, Hoban & Fuller's
Chicago office from 1976 to 1983, where
Scott defended Clients in hundreds of
personal injury cases in both the Illinois
State and Federal Courts. His clients included the Chrysler
Corporation and other major business clients
and their insurance companies as Scott
specialized in the defense of complex product
liability cases, usually settled but
sometimes tried before State and Federal
juries.
When
Scott’s Wife was transferred by her
employer to Massachusetts in 1982, Scott
followed – returning to a place where he
had spent 5 great years of his youth while
growing up - and was admitted to the
Massachusetts Bar in 1983. Scott was
also admitted to the Bar of the United States
District Court for the District of
Massachusetts in 1982 and to the Bar of the
United States First Circuit Court of Appeals
in 1983.
After an initial short stint at the Boston
law firm of Morrison, Mahoney & Miller in
1982, Scott was employed
as the General Counsel for Spencer Press,
Inc. from 1983 to 1990, then the largest printing company in
New England. At Spencer Press, as General
Counsel for the Corporation, Scott
participated in solving the numerous legal
issues facing a large business with multiple
printing plants and sales offices in the
United States.
When Spencer Press elected to leave the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts in 1989, Scott
and his Wife elected not to leave Hingham and
Scott formed his own law firm on January 1,
1990 in Hingham and continued to represent
Spencer Press as their “outside” general
counsel, while also expanding his own law
practice to include family law, real estate
law, wills, trusts, probate law, etc.
In the early 1990’s, Scott met Attorney James
M. Lynch, another Hingham resident, as fellow
members of the Hingham Rotary Club. Jim’s legal practice specialties and
experience in personal injury law, criminal
law and business litigation complemented
Scott’s own practice areas but, more
importantly, Scott came to learn that Jim’s
other skills of office management and his
general philosophy of life and social skills
matched up well for Scott. Besides, Jim and his Wife are both
huge Patriot’s fans!
Well, the rest, as they say, is now history. In early 1995, Scott and Jim formed
the Law Offices of Stevenson & Lynch,
P.C. and located their first office in the
Spencer Building and their practice took off. Shortly thereafter, in
1996, Stevenson
& Lynch, P.C. relocated their practice to
their present quarters in Suites 4-5 at 62
Derby Street in Hingham where Scott and Jim
continue their commitment to serve the
Firm’s long list of Clients with their
professionalism, aggressiveness and
attentiveness to the needs of their Clients.
Scott's memberships and affiliations have or
do now include:
- American Bar Association, Member since 1976
- Massachusetts Bar Association, Member since 1983
- Plymouth County Bar Association, Member since 1990
- American Arbitration Association, Member since 1983
- The Divorce Center, Member since 2005
(Director from 2005-2006)
- Pilgrim Advocates, Inc. Lawyer of the Day Program,
Participant since 1998
- Massachusetts Collaborative Law Council, Inc., Certified
since 2005
- Derby Street Office Condominium Trust, Managing
Trustee since 1997
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James M. Lynch, Esq., Principal
and Treasurer/Secretary of Stevenson &
Lynch, P.C.
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James M. Lynch, has been a practicing attorney
since 1977 and is a Principal and the
Treasurer and Secretary of Stevenson & Lynch, P.C.
A resident of Hingham since 1983,
Jim’s
experience as both an Assistant District
Attorney in Suffolk County and as a litigator in all Courts in
Massachusetts since 1977 has proven
invaluable in his aggressive and
professional representation of the
Clients of Stevenson & Lynch, P.C.
Today, Jim specializes in
personal injury cases as well as business
litigation and criminal law.
Jim graduated
from Boston College (B.S. 1973) and Suffolk
University Law School (J.D. 1976). Jim was admitted to the Massachusetts
Bar in January 1977 and is also a member of
the Bar of the Federal District Court for
Massachusetts and the First Circuit Court of
Appeals.
From 1977 through 1984, Jim served as an
Assistant District Attorney in Suffolk
County. During that time, Jim wrote and
argued appeals before the Massachusetts
Appeals Court and the Supreme Judicial Court
and also successfully prosecuted hundreds of
felony cases, many of which were tried
before juries of twelve.
From 1984 through
1987, Jim was employed as Senior Trial
Counsel for Commercial Union Insurance
Company’s Boston office and defended
hundreds of personal injury cases in state
and federal courts. The cases ranged from automobile
accident cases to complex product liability
cases tried before state and federal juries.
From
1987 through 1990, Jim became associated
with P.J. Piscitelli, a noted Brockton
criminal trial attorney for whom he handled
a thriving personal injury practice. During those years,
Jim successfully
prosecuted a wide variety of personal injury
cases, including products liability, lead
paint, closed head injury, death and other
cases involving serious injury, including a
bus accident case resulting in a verdict
from a Suffolk County jury for $3.1 Million.
Jim began his own practice of law in 1991 in Brockton
and continued to represent injured clients,
obtaining multi-million dollar results in
more than one instance. During this period, Jim expanded his
practice into Hingham, where he opened an
office in the Spencer Building on Industrial
Park Road. There he met Attorney Scott R.
Stevenson, who also owned a practice in the
Spencer Building, where he specialized in
divorce, real estate and business
litigation.
In early 1995, Jim and Scott opened
the Law Offices of Stevenson & Lynch,
P.C. in the Spencer Building and their
practice took off. The following year, 1996, Stevenson
& Lynch, P.C. relocated their practice
to their present home at 62 Derby Street where Scott and Jim
continue their commitment to serve the
Firm’s long list of Clients with their
professionalism, aggressiveness and
attentiveness to the needs of their Clients.
Jim's Memberships and Affiliations
include:
- Massachusetts
Bar Association, Member since 1977
- Plymouth County Bar Association, Member since
1988
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| Justin L. Kelsey, Esq.,
of counsel |
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Justin L. Kelsey has been a practicing attorney
since 2004 and is currently of counsel to Stevenson
& Lynch, P.C.
A resident of Canton since 2005, Justin’s
experience at Stevenson & Lynch, P.C. has
provided him with all of the tools necessary
to well serve the
Clients of Stevenson & Lynch, P.C. in a number of areas of
the law. Today, Justin specializes in
divorce, paternity,
collection of debt, real estate and business
litigation cases.
Justin graduated
from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (B.S.
2001) and Boston University Law School (J.D.
2004). Justin was admitted to the Massachusetts
Bar in December 2004 and is also a member of
the Bar of the Federal District Court for
Massachusetts and the First Circuit Court of
Appeals.
Since his admission to the Bar in 2004,
Justin was employed as an Junior Associate
with Stevenson & Lynch, P.C., and in
only three years was promoted to the
position of Senior Associate. In July
2008, Justin opened his own firm, Kelsey
& Trask, P.C. with an office in Natick,
Massachusetts. Justin continues his relationship
with Stevenson & Lynch, P.C. as of
counsel.
Justin has successfully resolved numerous
divorce, paternity and other family law
cases, both by settlement and through
litigation.
Justin's Memberships and Affiliations
include:
- Massachusetts Bar Association, Member since
2005
- Plymouth County Bar Association, Member since
2005
- Pilgrim Advocates, Inc. Lawyer of the Day Program, Participant since
2006
- The Divorce Center, Member since 2005
- American Red Cross, Donor since 1999
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| Ronald F. Driscoll, Esq.,
of counsel |
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Ronald F. Driscoll was admitted to the Massachusetts
Bar in June of 1992. Since his admission to the Bar in
1992 Ron has maintained his own law practice
and also became "of counsel" to Stevenson
& Associates that later evolved into
Stevenson & Lynch, P.C. in 1995. Ron’s practice started with the
formation and representation of new business
entities and representation of clients
before environmental boards and commissions.
After Stevenson & Lynch, P.C. moved to their new
location in 1996, Ron’s concentration
changed to Estate Planning. He advised individual clients
concerning their estates. He prepared simple estate plans as
well as complex plans involving the use of
credit shelter trusts, irrevocable life
insurance trusts and other asset planning
and protection techniques. He also advised individual clients
with existing estate plans when they were
changing from individual managed investments
to corporate wealth management or changing
wealth management partners. He incorporated the necessary
language by amending existing documents or
created new ones to serve both the client
and the new corporate management partner.
In addition to preparing the basic wills and trusts
for clients of Stevenson & Lynch, P.C.,
Ron also ushers estates through the complex
probate process before the Plymouth, Norfolk
and Suffolk County Probate and Family
Courts.
By way of personal history, Ron grew up locally
in South Boston and attended Boston College
High School, where he graduated in 1967.
He continued his education at
Stonehill College and graduated in 1971 with
a Bachelor of Science with a major of
Chemistry. He participated in varsity baseball
as a left-handed pitcher and outfielder and
was the co-founder of the Stonehill College
hockey team in 1970. Ron pursued his scientific career by
attending Florida State University, working
at consumer testing laboratories and finally
moving back to the Boston area to design and
oversee a certified environmental testing
laboratory.
Ron attended and graduated from
Suffolk University Law School (J.D. 1992)
with an emphasis on Estate Planning,
Environmental Law and Investments. Ron met his wife on marathon day in
1986 and they have raised 3 teenage sons and
one yellow Labrador retriever in Hingham.
He has been very involved in youth sports
and has been a long time member of the Hingham Youth Hockey
Board of Directors and has coached extensively
in hockey and baseball.
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