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AN INTRODUCTION TO OUR FIRM
Robinson Donovan, P.C. is recognized for superior legal work in a variety of business and litigation practice areas.

Our corporate attorneys represent large and small companies, entrepreneurs, developers and business owners as well as borrowers and lenders in financial transactions. We assist business clients with acquisitions, sales, recapitalizations, real estate development and a variety of business ventures. Our expertise in estate and business planning, taxation and finance enables us to effectively represent owners of closely held businesses to plan for succession and control, compensation and retirement and equity and debt venture financing.

Business litigation matters include employment and contract cases, professional malpractice, shareholder suits, ERISA actions and land damage claims. The firm’s insurance defense group is the largest and most experienced in western Massachusetts and actively represents numerous insurers and self-insured groups. Robinson Donovan, P.C. is also a leading expert in the field of defibrillator-related personal injury cases and referrals come to the firm from all across the nation.

AN INTRODUCTION TO OUR PEOPLE
Our attorneys have distinguished themselves not only at various law schools and universities, but through additional career experience that includes service with government agencies such as the United States Department of Justice, District Attorneys' offices, the Internal Revenue Service, clerkships with state and federal judges, and prior associations with prominent law firms outside the region. Involvement with community organizations and Bar Associations gives us a broader perspective on our legal training that further enhances relationships with our clients.

Each attorney concentrates on several practice areas of the law in order to develop the detailed knowledge, skills and relationships required to meet today's complex legal challenges. We work together as a true partnership of attorneys who utilize their individual talents together with those of their colleagues to best solve a client's problems. We also have an experienced and highly educated core of paralegals and support staff and we constantly invest in new technologies that help us provide prompt, effective service to our clients.

Our attorneys are professionally active in their specialties and regularly teach, lecture and publish articles for the legal and business community. Firm partners have been recognized by various specialty colleges such as the American College of Trial Lawyers and American College of Trust and Estate Counsel. Robinson Donovan, P.C. continues to place an exceptionally large number of lawyers in the annual Best Lawyers in America publication. Three generations of attorneys have served as President of the Hampden County Bar Association and as officers in the Massachusetts Bar Association. Recognition by our legal colleagues continues to be one of our proudest accomplishments.

OUR COMMITMENT TO THE COMMUNITY
We hold a strong commitment to maintaining and improving the quality of life in the Western Massachusetts region. Firm members are active on numerous boards of charitable and civic organizations in the City of Springfield as well as its neighboring cities and towns such as West Springfield, Longmeadow and Northampton. The Basketball Hall of Fame Tip-Off Classic, Metropolitan Springfield YMCA, Springfield Home for the Elderly, Springfield Library and Museums Association, and Baystate Health Systems are just a few of the organizations with which our attorneys are affiliated. Several of our attorneys also participate in regional economic development organizations including the Springfield Chamber of Commerce, the Economic Development Council of Western Massachusetts and The Massachusetts Ventures Corporation.