Attorney Steven B. Boris

Email: SBoris@KrasnowKellerBoris.com
Phone: 508-872-2710 ext. 2
Fax: 508-875-8273

Attorney Steve Boris is a founding member of the Firm. He concentrates in many areas of civil law including personal injury, maritime, business, employment law and alternative dispute resolution, practicing both in and out of courtrooms.

Steve is AV® Preeminent Rated, the highest peer review rating for legal ability and ethics by the legal publisher Martindale-Hubbell. Steve has been named a “Super Lawyer” by Boston Magazine for the years 2006 – 2020.

Steve has represented parties in hundreds of personal injury cases, trying many before state and Federal courts, but resolving most without having to go to court. He sits as an arbitrator or mediator for the Massachusetts state courts, Federal courts, Massachusetts Bar Association and the American Arbitration Association helping other lawyers and their clients resolve their cases, including disputes over legal fees.

Steve was an Adjunct Professor in the Legal Studies and Management/Marketing Departments at Lasell University from 2009-2018 in Newton, MA teaching Tort and Personal Injury Law, Business Law and Comparative Legal Systems. He also taught in the Russian Federation where he served as a Visiting Professor of Law at Petrozavodsk State University teaching U.S. Constitutional Law and Western style dispute resolution to Russian law students. More recently, Steve taught American Arbitration at Odessa National Academy of Law, Odessa, Ukraine. He is published in academic peer reviewed journals in the fields of Maritime law and Criminology. Steve served as Hearing Officer for the Board of Bar Overseers from 2013 until 2017.

Steve and his wife live in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston.

Practice Areas

• Personal Injury
• Business Law
• Employment Law
• Admiralty and Maritime Law
• Alternative Dispute Resolution

Education

• 1982 – JD – Suffolk University Law School, Boston, MA
• 1978 – MA – Boston University (Sociology/Criminology), Boston, MA
• 1974 – BA – Wayne State University (Sociology), Detroit, MI

Honors and Awards

• Selected Massachusetts Super Lawyer designation awarded
• Martindale-Hubbell AV® Preeminent Rated, the highest peer review rating

Memberships

• Massachusetts Bar Association
• MBA Legal Fee Arbitration Board Arbitrator
• Boston Municipal Court Mediator
• Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts of Massachusetts, Inc, member
• Maritime Law Association of the United States
• American Arbitration Association.
• AAA Commercial Claims Arbitrator

To see Steve’s detailed Curriculum vitae ( C.V ) click here (opens in PDF)