Practice:

• Divorce & Family
• Private Client
• Probate & Trust Litigation
• Trusts & Estates

Bar Admissions:

Massachusetts
Rhode Island

Experience:

Ms. Dunbar concentrates her practice in all aspects of probate and family court litigation in both Massachusetts and Rhode Island, including will contests, representation of trustees, executors and beneficiaries, guardianships, conservatorships, divorce, paternity, child custody, alimony, and modification matters. Prior to joining Burns & Levinson in October of 2010, Ms. Dunbar served as a judicial law clerk at the Massachusetts Probate and Family Court. Ms. Dunbar clerked for the justices in Plymouth, Bristol and Barnstable Counties.

Memberships:

• Boston Bar Association
• Rhode Island Bar Association
• Women’s Bar Association
• Plymouth District Bar Association
• Bristol County Bar Association

Additional Information:

• While serving as a judicial law clerk, Ms. Dunbar helped research and author a Probate and Family Court decision that received significant media attention from the local and national press.
• While attending law school, Ms. Dunbar was a law clerk at The Law Office of Karen Auclair Oliveira in Lincoln, Rhode Island from 2006 – 2008, where she helped author the winning appellate brief for a seminal Rhode Island Supreme Court decision regarding child support and military benefits. In addition, during law school, Ms. Dunbar served as a legal research assistant and President of the Justinian Law Society.
• Ms. Dunbar served as an attorney in the Community Justice Clinic in Providence, Rhode Island where she represented incarcerated inmates in all aspects of family law, including divorce, paternity, child support, and child custody.

Education:

• J.D., cum laude; Roger Williams University School of Law, 2008
• B.A., summa cum laude; Salve Regina University, 2005

Awards:

• Ms. Dunbar was awarded the CALI Award in Employment Law and Family Law.
• Ms. Dunbar was recipient of the Regina Scholarship.

Recent Articles and Publications: