Richard L. Burpee

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Practice Areas:

Accountants, Commercial and Business, Coverage, Design Professionals, Legal Malpractice, Products Liability, Professional Liability

Richard L. Burpee is a Partner in the Boston office of Morrison Mahoney LLP. His practice focuses on the representation of non-medical professionals (such as design professionals, lawyers, and accountants) and on insurance coverage, bad faith, products liability, and general commercial litigation.

Before joining Morrison Mahoney LLP, Mr. Burpee was a trial attorney with Bingham, Dana & Gould in Boston from 1985 to 1993 and later maintained his own general practice firm from 1994 to 2005.  His other professional employment includes associations with Sugarman and Sugarman in Boston and with Smith & Brink, P.C. in Braintree. 

Mr. Burpee is a graduate of Wesleyan University and Suffolk University Law School, where he was the Managing Editor of the Law Review.  He also served as a Law Clerk to the Honorable J. Calvitt Clarke, Jr., in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia upon his graduation from law school.  He is admitted to practice law in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, but has tried cases in other states, including Kansas, New Hampshire and Vermont.

Mr. Burpee has published articles in For the Defense (a publication of the Defense Research Institute).  He has lectured for Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education on Civil Trial Preparation and for the National Business Institute on Trial Advocacy in Massachusetts.

Mr. Burpee resides in Sudbury where he served as an associate member of the Zoning Board of Appeals and coached youth baseball for eight seasons.

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