Eric J. Parker

Eric J. Parker is a co-founder of Parker Scheer LLP and serves as the firm's Managing Partner. With over 23 years of experience in complex personal injury trial work, Mr. Parker represents adults and children injured or killed as a result of defectively designed and manufactured products, as well as victims of medical and dental malpractice, defective premises, motor vehicle negligence, and aviation related injury or death.

Mr. Parker is an elected member of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA; Elected President, Massachusetts Chapter, 2009- ), and is a member of the American Association for Justice (formerly the Association of Trial Lawyers of America), the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys, the Massachusetts Bar Association, the Lawyer-Pilots Bar Association, and the National Transportation Safety Board Bar Association. Mr. Parker has been named a "Massachusetts Super Lawyer" by the publishers of Boston Magazine every year since the designation was first created in 2004 (given to the top 5% of all Massachusetts attorneys), and is a certified member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum.

Mr. Parker has received the highest peer-review rating established by Martindale-Hubbell's Law Directory. This rating is only given to lawyers and law firms which are considered to have Very High to Preeminent Legal Ability and who are thought to embrace Very High Professional Standards.

In addition to serving as director of the firm's Complex Personal Injury Practice Group, Mr. Parker is also an FAA licensed Private Pilot, and was a founding member of the Board of Trustees of the Media and Technology Charter High School of Boston (Elected Chairman of the Board, 2001-2005), whose mission is to prepare at risk, inner-city Boston high school students to succeed in college and beyond. In 2001 Mr. Parker was appointed to the Editorial Advisory Board of the Boston Law Tribune, and in January 2007 was appointed to the Editorial Board of Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, the leading weekly newspaper serving the Massachusetts legal community.

Before co-founding Parker Scheer, Mr. Parker was a partner in the Boston trial firm of Sarrouf, Tarricone & Flemming. Mr. Parker is a frequent guest lecturer at Boston College Law School and has served as a trial practice adviser to student participants in the Harvard Law School Trial Practice program. Mr. Parker has authored articles on a wide range of legal topics with an emphasis on the representation of children in tort actions. Mr. Parker's cases have received regional and national press coverage, and have been cited as among the "most important decisions" by the Massachusetts legal press.

Mr. Parker has received the highest peer-review rating established by Martindale-Hubbell's Law Directory.

Susan M. Bourque

Susan M. Bourque is a partner in the firm and a member of Parker Scheer's Complex Personal Injury Group. Ms. Bourque has experience in a wide area of complex personal injury claims including medical and dental malpractice; motor vehicle negligence; product liability; defective premises; and workplace sexual assault and nursing home abuse.

In 2007, Ms. Bourque was named a Massachusetts "Rising Star", by the Editors of Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, an honor bestowed on just 15 lawyers each each year, who have demonstrated an unusually high level of accomplishment.

Ms. Bourque also serves as Editor of the firm's quarterly publication, The Letter, which features a selection of cases resolved by the firm each quarter, as well as information on a wide variety of client-oriented legal topics. Ms. Bourque makes her home in Wakefield, Massachusetts with her husband.

Education: B.A. Rivier College; J.D.(cum laude) Suffolk University School of Law.

Bar Admissions: Massachusetts; United States District Court, Massachusetts;

Legal Affiliations: Massachusetts Bar Association; Association of Trial Lawyers of America.

Legal Papers and Publications: Great-West Life & Annuity Company v. Knudson: Contrary to the Belief of Some, Reports of the Death of ERISA-based Health-care Liens Have Been Greatly Exaggerated. Massachusetts Bar Association Section Review, Vol. 4 No. 3, Summer 2002.

E-Mail: smb@parkerscheer.com

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Debora A. Concepcion

Debora A. Concepcion is a litigation associate and a member of Parker Scheer's Complex Personal Injury Group. Ms. Concepcion has experience in a wide area of complex personal injury claims including medical and dental malpractice; motor vehicle negligence; product liability; defective premises; and workplace sexual assault.

In 2008, Ms. Concepcion was selected by Super Lawyers Magazine as a New England Rising Star, an honor bestowed on only 2.5% of the attorneys practicing in the six New England states.

Prior to joining Parker Scheer, Attorney Concepcion was a litigation associate with the firm Zizik, LaSalle & Powers, P.C., where she concentrated in the defense of motor vehicle related claims. As a member of Parker Scheer's Complex Personal Injury Group, Ms. Concepcion brings an invaluable perspective to her work as a plaintiff's advocate, providing her clients with an inside view on insurance claims practices and defense strategies.

Attorney Concepcion makes her home in Dracut, Massachusetts with her husband and daughter.

Education: B.A. (summa cum laude) Merrimack College; J.D.(cum laude) Suffolk University School of Law.

Bar Admissions: Massachusetts; United States District Court, Massachusetts.

Legal Publications: Author, “The Inadequacy of the Voir Dire,” 5 Suffolk Journal of Trial and Appellate Advocacy 81 (2000), which was re-printed by the Boston Bar Association and cited in its Sixth Annual Superior Court Bench Meets Bar Conference on February 27, 2002.

Legal Affiliations: American Bar Association; Massachusetts Bar Association; Association of Trial Lawyers of America.

E-Mail: dac@parkerscheer.com

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Ryan P. B. Kelly

Ryan P.B. Kelly is an associate and a member of Parker Scheer's Corporate and Real Estate Practice Groups. Mr. Kelly's corporate practice involves the formation and organization process, governance, business finance, strategic planning, the structure, terms and negotiation of various contracts, management and ownership succession, and a wide variety of other legal issues that arise in the course of conducting a business and planning for its future. Mr. Kelly's real estate practice focuses on matters including representing developers, investors, purchasers, lenders, owner/occupants, and tenants of real estate, in all aspects of real estate law.

In 2008, Mr. Kelly was selected by Super Lawyers Magazine as a New England Rising Star in the area of Real Estate Law, a distinction bestowed on only 2.5% of the attorneys practicing in the six New England states.

Mr. Kelly makes his home in Charlestown, Massachusetts.

Education: B.A. Colby College (cum laude); J.D.(cum laude) Suffolk University School of Law.

Bar Admissions: Massachusetts; New Hampshire.

Legal Affiliations: American Bar Association; Massachusetts Bar Association; New Hampshire Bar Association; United States District Court (Massachusetts); United States District Court (New Hampshire)

E-Mail: rpk@parkerscheer.com

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Jodie A. Caruolo

Jodie A. Caruolo is a senior associate and directs Parker Scheer’s Domestic Relations Practice Group. Ms. Caruolo has over 13 years of active experience before the Probate and Family Courts in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Ms. Caruolo has extensive experience in all aspects of Domestic Relations law, including divorce proceedings, child custody issues, alimony and child support, and asset valuation and post divorce modifications.

Before joining Parker Scheer, Ms Caruolo was an associate with the firm Gilmore, Rees, Carlson and Cataldo, P.C., where she represented clients in domestic relations matters throughout Southern Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

Education: B.A (cum laude) Colby College; J.D. University of Maine School of Law.

Bar Admissions: Massachusetts Bar Association; Rhode Island Bar Association

Legal Affiliations: Family Court Bench Bar

E-Mail: jac@parkerscheer.com

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Brian W. Putnam

Brian W. Putnam is an associate and a member of Parker Scheer's Complex Personal Injury and Domestic Relations Practice Groups. Mr. Putnam has experience in a wide area of complex personal injury claims including medical and dental malpractice; motor vehicle negligence; product liability; and defective premises. Mr. Putnam is also a member of Parker Scheer's Domestic Relations Practice Group, concentrating in divorce proceedings, child custody issues, alimony and child support, and asset valuation and post divorce modifications.

Prior to joining Parker Scheer, Mr. Putnam was the Director of U.S. Amateur Scouting for the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League. Mr. Putnam directed daily scouting efforts throughout the United States resulting in numerous drafts picks and free agent signings that have played professionally. Mr. Putnam has also been an Assistant Men’s Ice Hockey Coach at the University of Connecticut, Colby College and State University of New York, Cortland.

Mr. Putnam makes his home in Charlestown, Massachusetts with his wife and daughter.

Education: B.B.A. University of New Hampshire; M.A. University of Connecticut (Sports Management); J.D. Suffolk University School of Law.

Bar Admissions: Massachusetts Bar Association.

Legal Affiliations: American Bar Association; Massachusetts Bar Association.

E-Mail: bwp@parkerscheer.com .

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Martin L. Aronson, Senior Counsel & Mediator

As Senior Counsel to Parker Scheer LLP and as one of the Commonwealth’s most distinguished trial lawyers, Marty brings more than forty years of experience in the areas of tort litigation and domestic relations law.  In addition to his legal practice, Marty has served as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Boston College Law School since 1974, teaching classes in both Dispute Negotiations and Trial Practice. He has served as a Guest Instructor in Harvard Law School's Trial Advocacy Program, as well as a Teaching Participant in the Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) program, and as a Guest Lecturer at Northeastern University.  Prior to joining Parker Scheer, Marty was a principal with White, Inker, Aronson, P.C. for more than thirty-five years, twenty-five of which he served as one of the managing partners.  White, Inker, Aronson, P.C. was widely regarded as one of Massachusetts' most respected domestic relations and civil practice law firms.

Marty holds an A.V. rating from the Martindale Hubbell Law Directory, a distinction awarded only to those attorneys deemed by their peers to embrace the highest standards of professional skill and ethics in the practice of law, and was named a Massachusetts Super Lawyer (awarded to the top 5% of all practicing attorneys) by the Editors of Boston Magazine.

Marty is an elected member  of the American Board of Trial Advocates (A.B.O.T.A) (President, Massachusetts Chapter, 1994-1996), a member of the Massachusetts Council on Family Mediation,  the Association for Conflict Resolution,  the Senior Partners for Justice Advisory Board, a past President of the Boston College Law School Alumni Association, and is a past and/or current member of the American, Massachusetts, and Boston Bar Associations, the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys, and the American Association for Justice (formerly the American Trial Lawyers Association).

Marty is a graduate of Boston College Law School and Dartmouth College.


E-Mail: mla@parkerscheer.com

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David Romanow

David Romanow is an associate and a member of Parker Scheer Lagomarsino’s Complex Personal Injury and Business Litigation Groups. Mr. Romanow has experience dealing with wide-ranging and complicated facets of the law and has worked on cases involving complex anti-trust litigation, heath care legislation, sexual harassment, governmental affairs, regulatory matters, medical malpractice, deprivation of constitutional rights, and business and commercial litigation. While in law school, Mr. Romanow produced a quarterly publication for this Nation’s oldest liberal lobbying group, Americans for Democratic Action.

Education: B.A. Syracuse University (Political Science); J.D. Duquesne University

Distinctions: Cali-Award Recipient: Legal Medicine and Forensic Science (Dr. Cyril Wecht)
Admiralty Law

Bar Admissions: Nevada; United States District Court, Nevada.

Legal Affiliations: American Bar Association, Nevada Justice Association, Clark County Bar Association.

E-Mail: dmr@parkerscheer.com

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Dennis P. Crimmins, of counsel

Dennis P. Crimmins is of counsel to the firm, applying his 20 years experience to the Business Law and Real Estate practice group. Formerly a partner at Goodwin, Procter & Hoar in Boston, Mr. Crimmins¹ practice is focused on commercial real estate, with particular emphasis on representing developers, lenders, and investors in strategic land use planning before state and local permitting agencies; in negotiating architectural, construction, and design/build contracts; and on restructuring and resolving problem loans on commercial real estate developments.

His expertise also extends to representing hotel owners and their lenders in negotiating joint ventures and management and franchise agreements, as well as advising pension funds and other tax-exempt investors in making large-scale commercial real estate investments and loans. In addition, Mr. Crimmins has considerable experience representing buyers and sellers in significant residential transactions.

After graduating from Princeton University cum laude in economics in 1972, Mr. Crimmins served as a commissioned officer in the United States Navy and worked in the marine construction industry as a diving supervisor. While attending the Marshall-Wythe School of Law at the College of William and Mary, he was a member of the William and Mary Law Review.

Education: J.D. College of William & Mary, 1980: A.B.(cum laude) Princeton University, 1972.

Bar Admissions: Massachusetts Bar United States District Court of Massachusetts Bar

Legal Affiliations: American Bar Association Massachusetts Bar Association Boston Bar Association

E-Mail: dpcrimmins@parkerscheer.com

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Francis T. O’Brien, Jr., of counsel

Francis T. O’Brien, Jr. is of counsel to Parker / Scheer, LLP and serves as director of the firm’s criminal practice group. Formerly a founding partner of the Boston trial firm, Wheeler & O’Brien, P.C., Mr. O’Brien brings twenty years of experience in the field of criminal defense.

A member of the Massachusetts and Florida state bars and the federal bar in Massachusetts, Mr. O’Brien has also represented clients on criminal state and federal matters in more than twenty states.

Mr. O’Brien’s practice concentrates on all areas of criminal defense, including white collar, crimes of violence, fraud, narcotics, motor vehicle offenses and operating under the influence. He has extensive experience in issues relating to search and seizure as well as issues arising in the defense of operating under the influence.

Having successfully handled hundreds of cases of individuals charged with operating under the influence and other motor vehicle offenses, Mr. O’Brien also has considerable experience with related issues involving license suspensions and requests for license reinstatement. He frequently represents clients before the Registry of Motor Vehicles and Board of Appeal for the Registry.

Mr. O’Brien also has extensive state appellate experience, having argued before the Supreme Judicial Court and Appeals Court of Massachusetts as well as the Supreme Court of New Hampshire. One the federal level he is admitted to practice before the First, Second, Fourth and Seventh Circuit Courts of Appeal.

Mr. O’Brien resides in Hingham with his wife and three children.

Education: B.A. Providence College, Providence, RI (cum laude) (1983), J.D. Suffolk University Law School (1986)

Bar Admissions: Massachusetts; Florida United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. United States Courts of Appeal for First, Second, Fourth and Seventh Circuits.

Legal Affiliations: Massachusetts Bar Association

Personal Affiliations: Board of Directors: Providence College Alumni Association Boston Chapter, Parish Council Member: Resurrection Parish, Hingham, MA, Treasurer: Hingham-Hull Babe Ruth Baseball League.


E-Mail: fob@parkerscheer.com

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Parker Scheer LLP lawyers handle personal injury cases in Massachusetts towns including Acton, Amesbury, Amherst, Andover, Arlington, Ashburnham, Ashfield, Ashland, Athol, Attleborough, Barnstable, Barre, Bedford, Belmont, Berkley, Berlin, Bolton, Boston, Boxborough, Boxford, Boylston, Bradford, Braintree, Burlington, Buzzards Bay, Cambridge, Carlisle, Charlemont, Charlestown, Charlton, Chelmsford, Chelsea, Clinton, Concord, Danvers, Dedham, Deerfield, Dudley, Duxbury, East Longmeadow, Essex, Fall River, Fitchburg, Foxboro, Framingham, Franklin, Freetown, Gardner, Gill, Gloucester, Granby, Groveland, Hadley, Hamilton, Hanover, Haverhill, Holbrook, Holliston, Holyoke, Hopkinton, Hubbardston, Hudson, Ipswich, Kingston, Lakeville, Lancaster, Lawrence, Leominster, Lexington Lincoln, Lowell, Ludlow, Lynn, Lynnfield, Malden, Marblehead, Marlborough, Marshfield, Maynard, Melrose, Methuen, Methuen, Middleborough, Middlefield, Milford, Milton, Monterey, Nantucket, Natick, Needham, New Bedford, Newbury, Newburyport, Newton, North Attleborough, North Brookfield, Northampton, Northborough, Paxton, Peabody, Pepperell, Pittsfield, Plymouth Provincetown, Quincy, Reading, Richmond, Rockport, Rowe, Rowley, Salem, Saugus, Sherborn, Southbridge, Spencer, Sterling, Stoughton, Stow, Sturbridge, Sudbury, Templeton, Topsfield, Townsend, Truro, Upton, Wakefield, Waltham, Watertown, Wayland, Wellesley, West Boylston, West Newbury Westborough, Westford, Weston, Westport, Williamstown, Wilmington, Winchendon, Winchester, Woburn, Worcester, Yarmouth. Parker Scheer also provides referral services for personal injury lawyers in states other than Massachusetts.

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