Practice Areas
Trust, Estates & Probate

Education

University of Virginia, B.A., 1940

Yale University, LL.B., 1947, Phi Beta Kappa

Raven Society; Corby Court.

Bar Admissions
Massachusetts;
U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts;
U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Other

PUBLISHINGS

Special Reports of Mass. Department of Mental Health on “The Advisability of Making Psychiatric Services Available to the District Courts,” House Documents Nos. 2719/1951, 2270/1953, 2502/1965, 2659/1955 and 2225/1957;
Special Report of Mass. Dept. of Mental Health on “The Progress of Psychiatric and Adjunctive Services Provided to the Courts and Correction Facilities,” House Document No. 2988/1957;
 “If You are Arrested,” distributed by the Office of the Mass. Attorney General, 1959-1963, 3 edits.’;
“Everything You Wanted to Know about Setting Matrimonial Case Fees but Have Been Afraid to Ask (Yourself),” 20 Boston Bar Journal, Vol. 4, Page 9, 1976.
Co-Author: “Political and Religious Laws and Federal Aid,” in Education and Public Policy, Harris, McCutcheon, Berkeley, 1965;
“Counsel Fees,” Massachusetts Family Law Manual, 1987.

BOOK REVIEWS

Legacy of Suppression, Levy, 72 Yale Law Journal, 631, 1963;
Civil Liberties and the Constitution, Kauper, 42 Boston University Law Review 573, 1962;
American Rights, Gellhorn, 34 Connecticut Bar Jouranl 52, 1960;
The Public Schools and Religion: The Legal Context, Duker, and The Bible and the Public Schools, Douglas, 37 Harvard Educational Review 174, 1967;
Political and Civil Rights in the United States, Emerson, Haber, and Dorson, 3 Trial (4) 1967
The Rule of Law and the Role of Psychiatry, Polier, Congress bi-Weekly,  Nov. 10, 1968, p. 18.
Lecturer, Northeastern University Law School, 1950-1952.
Legislative Counsel, Fair Real Estate Practices
Committee of Massachusetts, 1956-1957. Chairman, Legislative Committee, Massachusetts Association for Mental Health, 1958-1960.
Assistant Attorney General, Massachusetts, 1958-1962.

MEMBERSHIPS

Member of Board, Legal Services for the Poor, Action for Boston Community Development, 1965-1968.
Member, Attorney Generals’ committee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, 1967- .
Member: Boston (Member: Criminal Law Committee, 1954-1955;
Legal Medicine Committee, 1950-;
Bill of Rights Committee, 1952-1967;
Committee on Administrative Law, 1961-;
Governing Council, 1968-1971), Massachusetts and American (Member, Section on Family Law) Bar Associations.