Boston Office
132 Boylston St
Boston, MA 02116
(617)
262-1060
Carlisle
Office
483 River Rd
Carlisle, MA 01741
(978)
369-8301
A Boston native, Frederic
N. Halström is one of
the
finest personal
injury attorneys in America. He is listed as one of the
"Best Lawyers
in America" and Personal Injury Litigation, an independent study
by
Harvard University law professors, and as a
"Super
Lawyer" of Massachusetts and New England. Mr. Halström's law
firm represents personal injury clients throughout the USA who have
been
victims of automobile accidents, medical malpractice, products
liability,
sexual abuse, medical birth trauma, cystic fibrosis,
products liability, automobiles, industrial machinery, consumer
products, drugs, medical devices and other forms of negligence.
Additionally, Mr. Halström
represents clients in insurance law,
aviation, and admiralty law. Halström Law works for the
people - not for corporations. Our clients are families - working men
and women who have been wronged by others. With an excellent record of
large settlements and judgments, Mr. Halström is ready to
litigate your case aggressively and successfully.
Mr. Halström has personally argued
cases before the United States Court of Appeals in the
First Circuit (Boston, Massachusetts), Eleventh Circuit (Atlanta,
Georgia). Mr. Halström has
argued before the United States District Courts in Massachusetts,
Michigan, New Hampshire,
and Rhode Island. Furthermore, he has personally argued cases in the
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, the Appeals Court of
Massachusetts and the Supreme Court of Georgia. He has
tried cases in the Massachusetts Superior Court, the New Hampshire
Superior Court, the United States
District Courts in Massachusetts, Georgia and Rhode Island. He
represents clients from intake,
discovery, trial preparation, the actual trials, and personally
argues the appeals if needed.
Mr.
Halström was
educated at some of the most
prestigious higher educational institutions in America. Raised in South
Boston and West Roxbury, he attended Boston College High
School
and
graduated from Mt. St. Charles academy of Woonsocket, R. I. He did his
undergraduate
work at Northeastern University, the United States Air
Force Academy, and Georgetown
University, where he earned his A.B.
degree. Attorney Halström then attended Boston
College's
prestigious law school and he earned his Juris Doctorate (J.D.). He is 25+ years AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell and
is admitted to
practice in Massachusetts, the Federal District
Courts of Massachusetts and Rhode Island,
the US Court of Appeals 1st and 11th Circuits, and the US
tax Court.
Because he is committed to higher education, Mr. Halstrom
provides financial and professional support to students at The United
States Air Force
Academy, Georgetown
University, and Boston College Law. He has
established the Halstrom Family Scholarship at Georgetown, at
graduation the law school awards a grad a distinction of the Frederic
N. Halström
oral advocacy excellence for the top oral advocat. The award includes
financial stanton from the scholars at the law school funded by Mr.
Halström. He yearly sponsors the Frederic N. Halström
National Moot Court
Team at Boston College Law School. An award in his name is awarded
annually at
Law School Graduation to a graduating law student for outstanding oral
advocacy.
He also has endowed a scholarship at Georgetown, D.C.
He
is a member of the Sabre Society for
the
Association of Graduates of the US Air Force Academy. He has written
many articles in
national legal publications and has presented
many papers and lectures both nationally and internationally. He has appeared Pro Hac Vice in
Federal
District courts in Georgia and New Hampshire, the Georgia Supreme
Court, and New Hampshire Superior Court. He also appeared
by deposition
internationally in the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, and Greece.
He is frequently interviewed by press and electronic media.
Mr.
Halström is also a
member of
many professional organizations. He is currently a member
of the
American Association for Justice (Leaders Forum), a diplomat to
Pan-European
Organization
of Personal Injury Lawyers (PEOPIL), Massachusetts Bar Association,
United
Kingdom Association
of Personal Injury Lawyers, the Consumer Attorneys
of California, the Iowa Trial Lawyers
Association, the New Hampshire
Trial Lawyers Association, the Texas Trial Lawyers
Association, the
Washington State Trial Lawyers Association, the Arizona Trial Lawyers
Association, Massachusetts Trial Lawyers Association, and is an
associate member of both the American College of
Legal Medicine and of the Association of Graduates of the USAF
Academy.
Mr. Halström is the past president of the Massachusetts
Academy of Trial Attorneys (1996-1997), and he
serves on
the National
board of the American Association for Justice
where the firm is a Leader
Forum
member. He is
also listed
in Who’s Who in
America, Who's
Who in American and International Law, and Best
Lawyers
in America, Massachusetts and
Boston. He
has authored numerous articles, served as a radio talk show host-
"The Legal Scale"-
and presented papers and spoken at legal meetings in
Louisiana, Texas, North Dakota, Canada,
St. Kitts, Aruba, St. Lucia,
Bermuda, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Massachusetts, the United Kingdom,
etc. He receives the award for outstanding work in Oral Advocacy every
year from the Boston College Law School. He was Captain of the Carlisle
Minutemen (1997) and is a frequent
donor of fine wines, cash and sports tickets to schools and charities.
Residing in
Carlisle, Ma., he
is married to Dr. Elena Strelnikova, DPT and has
three
children, Ingrid, Reggie and Mikhail.
Matthew J. Andrade
After
finishing at
the top of his class at Methuen High
School, he
joined
the "IRISH" in South Bend
receiving, in
2003, from
University of Notre
Dame, a
B.B.A. in
Finance and Political
Science. He is a Magna Cum
Laude, 2006
graduate of Suffolk University
Law School where he was the
chief Manager Editor of The
Suffolk
Law
School Transnational Law
Review. Admitted to the Massachusetts Bar, in
December 2006, he has memberships in
Massachusetts Bar
Association,
American Association for Justice, and the Massachusetts
Academy
of
Trial Attorneys. He has been repeatedly selected by Super Lawyers since
2008 as a"Rising Star"
(Boston Magazine). In his first construction site
personal injury trial,
his
client was awarded by the court a judgment of
over
two
million
dollars.
Geoffrey G. Nathan
Geoffrey
G. Nathan, a leading nationally
recognized major crimes criminal defense lawyer for 20 years
representing people accused of crimes in Massachusetts covering all
courts, all crimes. He is available to respond to
your situation. Attorney Nathan is a respected counselor because of
his
zealous advocacy, level headed approach to defense, and his being
a
virtual fixture in the Trial Court. Mr. Nathan and how he implemented
his
criminal defense strategy is featured in a new book on war crimes
defense
"The Good Soldier on Trial". Attorney Nathan defended against the
most
difficult prosecutors in the United States: military prosecutors. He is
a
licensed attorney in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts since 1988,
admitted to practice in both Federal US District and All State courts.