Attorney Isaac Peres

Isaac H. Peres, the firm’s Senior Civil Litigator, graduated from the Maimonides School in Brookline, Massachusetts in 1977. He received his Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1981, and his Juris Doctorate from Boston College Law School in 1984. He is a member of the state and federal bars in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Starting in 1984, Attorney Peres worked as an associate for a high-profile criminal defense firm on the North Shore handling state and federal cases of major import.

From 1987 to 1994, Attorney Peres worked as an associate for a major Boston law firm. At that firm, he was responsible for the preparation of many dispostive motions and appeals in civil cases. It was during that time that Attorney Peres honed his outstanding oral and written advocacy skills, and was responsible for the reversal on appeal of two multi-million dollar jury verdicts against the firm’s banking clients. Attorney Peres also argued a case before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court during a session in Salem, Massachusetts which commemorated the Court’s 300th anniversary.

Since 1994, Attorney Peres has been a partner in two small law firms and has also been a solo practitioner. During these years, Attorney Peres has represented many individuals and small businesses at trials and appeals, including real estate, medical and legal malpractice, partnership dissolution, bankruptcy, and debt collection cases. Recent reported cases include Zagorianakos v. Golden, 23 Mass.L.Rptr. 247, 2007 WL 3317513 (Mass.Super. 2007); Miller v. Finnin, 67 Mass.App.Ct. 1108 (2006), affirmed, 448 Mass. 1105 (2007), cert. den., 127 S.Ct. 3017, 168 L.Ed.2d 729 (2007) (No. 06-1452); In re Rowlands, 346 B.R. 279 (1st Cir. BAP 2006); Koltin v. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 62 Mass.App.Ct. 920 (2004).

Education

• JD, Boston College
• BA, University of Massachusetts, Cum Laude

Professional & Bar Association Memberships

• Commonwealth of Massachusetts