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Business Counseling

Every business needs an attorney
Our corporate attorneys act as outside general counsel for many of our business clients, including clients with in-house legal capability.  We advise our clients on the diverse issues that arise as a result of doing business in today’s competitive, litigious and highly regulated business environment.  Most of our corporate clients treat their Posternak attorney as a trusted member of the senior management team, seeking advice on the broad range of contract, conflict resolution, employment, intellectual property and other matters that arise on a daily basis.  In order to provide the best service to our clients, we learn as much as we can about the people and operations that make their business unique –then apply this knowledge to our ongoing representation.  We view our clients’ questions as business questions, and apply our judgment and business acumen, as well as our years of legal expertise, to each matter.

When you need your attorney– now!
Senior managers constantly juggle customers, staff, opportunities, setbacks, proposals and the myriad other matters that make up their business, and when they want the input of their attorney – they want it now.  Executives expect and deserve the attention of a senior attorney who not only knows them and their business, but also has the legal knowledge and experience to provide timely and meaningful advice.  Our clients rely on having access to a senior corporate attorney who works on their schedule.  Our corporate attorneys field the questions, and draw upon the resources of the firm’s employment, litigation, tax, real estate, environmental and other practices as needed to serve a client’s needs.

We have spent decades counseling companies – each with its unique issues
Our corporate attorneys represent decades of experience advising businesses in a broad range of industries and in various stages of growth.  Our clients include manufacturing, service, technology, medical device, advertising, health care, retailing and other industry players.  While middle market companies comprise a substantial portion of the firm’s business clients, we represent a broad range of private and publicly held business entities, from venture capital funded start-up companies seeking rapid growth, to family-held businesses, to large public companies, to venture capitalists, banks and other lenders.  Large or small, each client is important to us.

Our scope is local, national and international
Our businesses clients operate in local, national and international markets, and so do we.  We regularly represent our clients in matters involving customers, business partners and opportunities crossing state and national borders and regularly work across the table from some of the biggest firms in the country. Further, through our membership in Mackrell International, a national and international association of law firms, we are able to quickly obtain legal advice and representation for our clients in most major cities and countries around the world.

Business Counseling: Professionals

Michael L. Andresino

Partner 617.973.6113 ext.   fax 617.722.4901 mandresino@pbl.com

Frank D. Aronson

Partner 617.973.6132 ext.   fax 617.722.4953 faronson@pbl.com

David M. Barbash

Partner 617.973.6298 ext.   fax 617.722.4968 dbarbash@pbl.com

Richard D. Bickelman

Partner 617.973.6178 ext.   fax 617.722.4988 rbickelman@pbl.com

Gerald J. Billow

Partner 617.973.6112 ext.   fax 617.367.2315 gbillow@pbl.com

Richard K. Blankstein

Senior Counsel 617.973.6114 ext.   fax 617.722.4906 rblankstein@pbl.com

Donald M. Bloch

Of Counsel 617.973.6169 ext.   fax 617.722.4940 dbloch@pbl.com

Thomas S. Brennan

Of Counsel 617.973.6197 ext.   fax 617.722.4970 tbrennan@pbl.com

Deborah DiVerdi Carlson

Partner 617.973.6201 ext.   fax 617.722.4910 dcarlson@pbl.com

Ira J. Deitsch

Partner 617.973.6224 ext.   fax 617.722.4917 ideitsch@pbl.com

Kristen L. Foley

Associate 617.973.6149 ext.   fax 617.722.4911 kfoley@pbl.com

Kathryn G. Graber

Partner 617.973.6196 ext.   fax 617.722.4916 kgraber@pbl.com

Lauren Jennings

Of Counsel 617.973.6139 ext.   fax 617.722.4931 ljennings@pbl.com

Daniel Kibler-Stearns

Associate 617.973.6102 ext.   fax 617.722.4986 dstearns@pbl.com

Steven A. Meyer

Partner 617.973.6203 ext.   fax 617.367.2315 smeyer@pbl.com

Barry L. Mintzer

Partner 617.973.6199 ext.   fax 617.722.4987 bmintzer@pbl.com

Kevin J. O'Connell

Partner 617.973.6121 ext.   fax 617.722.4922 koconnell@pbl.com

Noel G. Posternak

Senior Counsel 617.973.6100 ext.   fax 617.722.4942 nposternak@pbl.com

David J. Reier

Partner 617.973.6145 ext.   fax 617.722.4937 dreier@pbl.com

Ruselle W. Robinson

Of Counsel 617.973.6286 ext.   fax 617.367.2315 rrobinson@pbl.com

David M. Saltiel

Partner 617.973.6246 ext.   fax 617.722.4948 dsaltiel@pbl.com

Donald H. Siegel, PC

Partner 617.973.6147 ext.   fax 617.367.2315 dsiegel@pbl.com

Gary W. Smith

Partner 617.973.6277 ext.   fax 617.367.2315 gsmith@pbl.com

Christopher C. Tsouros

Partner 617.973.6141 ext.   fax 617.722.4929 ctsouros@pbl.com

David L. Woronov

Partner 617.973.6115 ext.   fax 617.722.4993 dworonov@pbl.com

Business Counseling: Publications

New Massachusetts Identity Theft Rules Go Into Effect

Ruselle W. Robinson, February 19, 2010

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Of 2009

Kevin J. O'Connell, March 19, 2009

Section 409A Compliance is December 31, 2008

Deborah DiVerdi Carlson, November 5, 2008

Roundtable: Inbound US M&A

Financier Worldwide, September 2008

Giving her a hand

Boston Business Journal, July 2007

Inventive incentives: Moving beyond wages and bonuses

Deborah DiVerdi Carlson, May 2007

Opinion Letter Can Be Risky Exercise

Kevin J. O'Connell, January 2007