Laura R. Studen

Her broad experience has helped her clients achieve outcomes that they may not otherwise have reached. She has fostered relationships throughout the bar – with clerks, lawyers, and judges – to develop a reputation that enables her to approach even former adversaries in certain circumstances to establish early and productive communications. “This is often my key to achieving a quick and efficient outcome,” she says. Additionally, Laura prides herself on staying sensitive to clients’ problems and complexities, handling their legal needs with empathy and honesty. She takes opportunities to educate them on their situation and their options, providing exemplary client service throughout their legal matter.

Laura occasionally receives appointments from the court to serve in various quasi-judicial capacities. For example, she has been appointed a “discovery master” to guide litigants through discovery disputes associated with complex litigation and make orders to resolve those disputes without resort to having to directly involve the court. She has also been appointed to assist minors needing independent representation.

Before joining Burns & Levinson, she merged her private practice with that of Lane, Altman & Owens LLP, becoming a partner and Chair of the Employment Practice Group. Outside of work, Laura has served on the boards of various nonprofits and is now president of Bullough’s Pond Association in Newton, an entity dedicated to the maintenance and preservation of that body of water and its surroundings.