Barbra I. Black, Esquire
Founding Member/ Managing Attorney
(781) 569-5840
bblack@blackvitelli.com
Practice Areas:
- Family Law
- Criminal Defense
- Residential Real Estate
Bar Admissions:
- Massachusetts
- New Hampshire
- United States District Court,
District of Massachusetts
Experience:
Barbra I. Black has been practicing law for over seventeen years and is a founding member of Black & Vitelli, LLC. Attorney Black is a former partner of Burns & Levinson, LLP, where she worked for over eight years in the firm’s Divorce and Family Law group. Prior to that, she was a solo practitioner for several years, concentrating her practice in domestic relations, criminal defense and residential real estate. As a solo practitioner, Attorney Black represented the defendant in Commonwealth vs. Sands, 424 Mass. 184, which resulted in new Massachusetts case law regarding the admissibility of a specific field sobriety test.
Attorney Black concentrates her practice in the areas of family law and criminal law, in addition to the representation of individual buyers and sellers in the purchase and sale of residential real estate. Attorney Black has extensive litigation, bench and jury trial experience and handles a variety of cases involving complex and diverse issues in all areas of her practice.
Memberships:
- Boston Bar Association
Massachusetts Bar Association
Massachusetts Family and Probate Court Inn of Court
Education:
- J.D., cum laude, Suffolk University Law School, 1992
B.A., Brandeis University, 1988
Awards:
- Massachusetts Super Lawyers “Rising Star” in 2005. The listing appeared in the May issue of Boston Magazine and Massachusetts Super Lawyers Magazine – Rising Stars Edition.
Recent Articles and Publications:
The Massachusetts Divorce Law Practice Manual
Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, Inc. (MCLE), 2008
Co-editors: Phyllis E. Federico, Peter F. Zupcofska, et al. Other Burns & Levinson contributing authors: Brian Bixby, Barbra Black, Lisa Cukier, Dianne Frade, Marshal Grant, Robert O'Regan, Jeffrey Soilson, Susan Stenger & Nancy Van Tine
Division of Inherited and Gifted Assets in the Context of Divorce
Focus, Winter 2002 (A Burns & Levinson LLP newsletter)
Speaking Engagements:
National Business Institute Seminar-A Roadmap Through Divorce Proceedings, 10/08 Role: Faculty Member
Additional Information:
- Attorney Black was an adjunct faculty member teaching family law at New England School of Law for the spring semester-academic year 2007-2008 and the fall semester- academic year 2008-2009.
- Attorney Black has frequently participated as a Judge in the Massachusetts Bar Association annual statewide high school Mock Trial Program.
- Attorney Black is the director and a participant in annual mock trial presentations at Suffolk and Boston College Law Schools through lectures taught by the Honorable Judge Edward Ginsburg (retired).