Practice:

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

Bar Admissions:

Florida
Massachusetts
New York
U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts
U.S. Supreme Court
U.S. Tax Court

Experience:

Jeff Soilson's areas of focus include will contests, contested accountings, reformation of trusts, premarital agreements, divorce, adoption, guardianship, conservatorship and paternity proceedings.

Prior to joining Burns & Levinson in December of 2006, Mr. Soilson was an associate at the law firm Lee & Levine LLP. He previously was a partner in his own firm, Soilson Press LLP, a civil litigation law firm, in which he focused his practice on Divorce and Family Law.

Memberships:

• Boston Bar Association, Pro Bono Subcommittee of the Family Law Section, Co-Chair
• Massachusetts Bar Association, Family Law Section
• Boys and Girls Club of Plymouth, previously served on Board of Directors
• Board of Trustees of the Bay Farm Montessori Academy, past member
• Finance and Advisory Committee for the Town of Plymouth, past member

Additional Information:

• Mr. Soilson has been a frequent contributor of pro bono services to the community through the Lawyer of the Day Program in the Plymouth County Probate and Family Court, and the Women's Bar Foundation's Family Law Project for Battered Women.
• Mr. Soilson is Burns & Levinson's Captain for the 2010 Walk to the Hill.
• During law school, Mr. Soilson clerked for the Israeli Supreme Court.
• Mr. Soilson served in the United States Navy and received a Russian Certificate from the Defense Language Institute in 1989.
• Mr. Soilson is conversational in Russian and Hebrew.

Education:

• J.D., Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, 1997
• B.A., Columbia University, 1994

Awards:

• Massachusetts Super Lawyers “Rising Star” in 2008 and 2007. Massachusetts Rising Stars consist of the top 2.5 percent of the up-and-coming attorneys in Massachusetts, and are age 40 or younger or have been practicing for ten or fewer years. The listing appeared in the May issue of Boston Magazine and Massachusetts Super Lawyers Magazine – Rising Stars Edition.

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