OFFICES

The Boston office of Eckert Seamans offers a broad range of legal services to meet the needs of its clients in Boston, in other areas of Massachusetts and New England, as well as nationwide.  The firm's Boston attorneys are proficient in a number of practice areas, including complex litigation, employment, general corporate, securities, telecommunications, high technology, finance, real estate, health care, human services and education.

The firm's Boston attorneys have a substantial practice in commercial litigation and white collar criminal defense, including actions involving directors and officers, investigations into financial institution activities and other major complex cases.  In addition to extensive experience in both civil and criminal proceedings in state and federal courts, this practice also encompasses government agency proceedings, regulatory enforcement actions and appeals.  Attorneys handle matters involving, among other areas, employment, insurance, financial institution fraud, general commercial and contract matters, environmental issues, securities fraud and insider trading, RICO violations, landlord tenant law, construction, products liability and complex personal injury cases.  Boston attorneys counsel clients on labor matters and handle a wide variety of employment matters, representing management in both administrative and court proceedings.

In general corporate, finance, technology and securities matters, the firm represents a wide range of private and public companies, as well as investors and entrepreneurs.  Our attorneys take clients from initial stage financings, including private placements, and ultimately through institutional financings and public offerings.  They have represented corporate clients in merger, acquisition and disposition transactions totaling several billion dollars.  Boston attorneys represent mutual fund clients with their special needs.  For technology-based corporate clients, our attorneys assist in the areas of licensing and intellectual property as well as in general corporate matters.

In real estate, the Boston office represents developers, owners, tenants and financial institutions in every type of real estate legal matter, including acquisitions, title issues, zoning and environmental permitting, leasing and mortgage financing.

Attorneys in the health care, human services and education practice handle a wide variety of issues affecting educational institutions, health care providers, trade associations, family groups, individuals confined to state mental hospitals and other facilities, and residential treatment programs for the handicapped and developmentally disabled.  The firm’s Boston attorneys have been successful in advocating the rights of mentally and physically disabled children in the area of education and health care options, generally by litigating with government agencies on regulatory, civil rights and public policy issues.  Boston attorneys represent human service, special education and residential care providers in abuse and neglect investigations, negotiations with state agencies on licensing and funding, and statutory and regulatory compliance issues.

Led by the former Chief of the Criminal Division of the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office, the office provides representation in all areas of white collar criminal defense.  The Boston office has successfully represented institutions and individuals in state and federal investigations in matters involving securities fraud, environmental cases, health care fraud, defense procurement fraud, political corruption, bankruptcy fraud, computer crimes, criminal tax cases, regulatory cases, campaign finance cases, medical ethics and commercial bribery.  In addition, the office has provided advice to institutions regarding compliance programs.

Since its formation in 1958, Eckert Seamans has been recognized as a results-oriented firm that offers innovative and creative solutions to clients' problems.  Our attorneys reflect the firm's resourcefulness and commitment to meet the challenges presented by clients in a timely and efficient manner, and utilize the talents of more than 275 Eckert Seamans attorneys resident in offices throughout the eastern United States.