Hyannis, MA

Rebecca L. Thomas

Attorney Thomas has been a civil litigation attorney for over 20 years. Beginning her career as a judicial law clerk in the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas, she honed her skills in legal research and writing, and worked closely with the judges in overseeing jury selection, ruling on motions, and drafting judicial opinions. After finishing her clerkship, Attorney Thomas shifted to litigation as an insurance defense attorney for eight years giving her invaluable experience in wrongful death, premises liability, products liability, dog bite liability, professional liability, and motor vehicle liability cases. She also built an expertise in valuing cases for settlement and/or verdict potential. By working closely with the insurance adjusters, Attorney Thomas gained insight into how insurance companies value claims, set reserves, and enter settlement negotiations. During this time, Attorney Thomas also worked directly with corporate clients, specifically mental health/mental retardation facilities and day care centers, to investigate serious incidents and accidents. She also devised or revised corporate internal policies and procedures to implement proper employee training and reporting of serious incidents to minimize liability exposure. Attorney Thomas later decided to represent individuals in personal injury, employment, and medical malpractice cases. During this time, she became an expert negotiator and litigator, eventually focusing her practice on representing injured individuals in medical malpractice. Given her background handling cases for both sides of complex legal issues, Attorney Thomas has a unique perspective understanding the inner-workings of the court system and insurance companies. She has negotiated numerous successful settlements for her clients including multiple million dollar plus settlements.

Kathryn J. Wickenheiser

Attorney Wickenheiser is a seasoned trial attorney representing catastrophically injured victims and their families in cases involving medical malpractice, nursing home negligence, wrongful death, pharmaceutical liability, and product liability for over 15 years. Attorney Wickenheiser spent her early years representing claimants applying for Social Security Disability and Workers’ Compensation, as well as those injured from a product failure, motor vehicle accident, dog bite, and slip and fall. Attorney Wickenheiser was also a managing attorney and junior partner at her first law firm where she oversaw two associate attorneys and seven supporting staff/paralegals. While at that firm, Attorney Wickenheiser was responsible for the day-to-day business needs, firm management, administrative issues, client and court scheduling, and was also involved in the overall firm business and financial decisions. It was not too long before Attorney Wickenheiser realized she wanted to focus her time on litigating cases more frequently and decided to concentrate her practice on representing catastrophically injured victims and their families in cases involving personal injury and wrongful death arising out of medical malpractice and nursing home negligence. Her vast experience has provided Attorney Wickenheiser with the training and skills to negotiate numerous settlements for her clients, including multiple million dollar plus settlements.

Kevin P. Landry

Kevin P. Landry is a personal injury attorney and the director of The Kevin P Landry Law Offices. Since 1991, he has been helping individuals and families in Massachusetts and Rhode Island recover from accidents, injuries, and traumatic events, including unexpected deaths. He graduated from New England School of Law in Boston and holds a Master's Degree in Law. He is admitted to the bar associations of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and New York. He emphasizes compassionate service, working closely with clients from the beginning of their cases and making himself available 24/7/365 to discuss their situations, even offering to meet them at their home or hospital.

Peter Goldberg

Attorney Peter M. Goldberg is the founder of Goldberg Law Group, in private practice since 1986. He focuses on personal injury, motor vehicle accidents, workers' compensation, premises liability, and medical malpractice. He is admitted to practice in Massachusetts and federal courts and is a member of several bar associations.

Andrew Fischer

Mr. Fischer has tried dozens of cases to verdict in federal and state courts. He is a passionate proponent of the rights of consumers, bicyclists and small businesses, primarily representing injured plaintiffs in bicycle crashes, civil rights claims, consumer claims, and personal injury claims. He also represents individuals and small businesses in contract disputes and other civil litigation. He formed the law firm of Jason & Fischer with his wife, Linda Jason, in 1981. Atty. Fischer's typical cases include the rights of bicyclists, injured cyclists and other personal injuries, as well as civil rights cases. Mr. Fischer is an avid bicyclist and bicycle advocate. His cycling-related activities include bike commuting and recreational cycling, as well as writing legislation that effects cyclists, and writing amicus briefs for cyclist advocacy groups. Some of Atty. Fischer's notable cycling-related cases include the following. A cyclist's right to ride on Route 9 in Hadley MA was upheld by the federal court and the police harassment suit settled in Damon v. Hukowicz et al. MA State Police agreed to adopt and implement a course for state police officers on bicyclists' rights as part of a settlement in the civil rights case Kopacz v. Wosny. After a cyclist was illegally arrested for riding his bike on Boston's Memorial Drive, Andrew Fischer brought suit against the MA State Police. As part of his jury instructions, the judge stated that the cyclist had the right to bicycle on Memorial Drive, contrary to what the state police claimed. See Rowinsky v. Massachusetts State Police. A cyclist accused by police in Wilmington MA of "erratic behavior" and disorderly conduct faced up to six months in jail. After retaining Attorney Fischer, the cyclist was acquitted of all charges. See Commonwealth v. Jenney. A case that would require public road departments to insert water drainage grates with the slots perpendicular rather than parallel to the roadway direction, helping to prevent bicycle wheels from getting caught. A product liability claim against the manufacturer of carbon steel mountain bike forks that have snapped, injuring the rider. Atty. Fischer served on the Board of Directors of the Boston Area Bicycle Coalition (the BABC) from 1988 to 1996, when it grew from a local Boston organization into the statewide BCOM, the Bicycle Coalition of Massachusetts, the predecessor of today's MassBike. Mr. Fischer served as president of BCOM from 1993-1995. During this time, Atty. Fischer worked as part of the coalition that obtained passage of the Bicycle accommodation statute, requiring that new or renovated transportation facilities make reasonable accommodations for bicyclists. His love for the Constitution and the Bill of Rights attracted Mr. Fischer to civil rights law. He tried his first civil rights case before a jury in the Federal District Court for Massachusetts in 1983, representing two teenage boys who were attacked by police dogs. In another of his first civil rights cases, he represented a Harvard graduate student of Fine Arts who was arrested for posting notices of a political rally. The student was then assaulted and had his arm broken by the arresting officer, who expressed his displeasure and disagreement with the student/artist's political views. Attorney Fischer continues to try civil rights cases, including Chao v. Ballista et al., in which a young woman was sexually assaulted by a prison guard. Atty. Fischer won verdicts against the prison guard, the superintendent of prisons, and the state Department of Corrections. Mr. Fischer has also been involved in promoting other legislation, including a proposed medical privacy law that he authored and which is one of several bills that have been submitted to the General Court during the last two legislative sessions. Mr. Fischer's proposed bill would afford much more protection than other proposed bills and would impose much more severe penalties for the improper release of an individual's medical records. Reported cases Atty. Fischer has litigated include: Smith v. Adams,416 Mass. 558, 624 N.E.2d 102 (1993), which held that all police officers present where excessive force is used in an unlawful arrest, can be held liable as joint venturers. Wyler v. Bonnell Ford,35 Mass.App.Ct. 563, 624 N.E.2d 116 (1994), which held that use of criminal process to further a civil claim is not just an abuse of process but also a violation of the consumer protection act. Lima v. Jeffrey,29 Mass.App.Ct. 1106, 559 N.E.2d 1267 (1990), awarding punitive damages in a consumer claim against a home improvement contractor who took advantage of an elderly homeowner and upholding that a bait and switch tactic is an unfair business practice. Cohen v. Lindsey,38 Mass.App.Ct. 1, 644 N.E.2d 250 (1995), the lead case for the assertion and protection of attorney's liens for legal fees. Kimmy Brown et al. v. Bayview Crematorium,79 Mass. App. Ct. 337 (2011), a verdict which held up to two appeals and established the right to claim damages in negligence for the mutilation of a corpse even when there is no physical manifestation of the pain and suffering. Damon v. Hukowicz et al,United States District Court for Western Massachusetts, Docket 3:11-cv-30203, in which a cyclist's right to ride on Route 9 in Hadley MA was upheld by the federal court and a police harassment suit settled. The brief Atty. Fischer is most proud of is an international law brief he wrote in the early eighties, on behalf of a Russian Jewish refusenik, or prisoner of conscience. Atty. Fischer is an active member of the American Association of Justice (formerly American Trial Lawyers Association), where he served as Chair of the Civil Rights section from 2004-2005 and continues to serve on the Civil Rights Section Executive Board. He is certified as an Advocate by the American Trial Lawyers Association, for representing completion of continuing legal education programs of the National College of Advocacy. He has served on the Massachusetts Association of Trial Lawyers, Board of Governors since 2008 (2008-present) and the American Constitution Society, Boston Area Steering Committee (2009-2012). Atty. Fischer has also been honored by the Mass. Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild for his role in the Occupy defense team and has been active in the Massachusetts Bar Association; Boston Bar Association, the Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts and local bar Associations. Atty. Fischer completed Suffolk University in 1980, and is a 1971 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania

Bruce A. Bierhans

For more than 43 years, Attorney Bruce A. Bierhans has been winning cases and client confidence. Today, Bierhans and his staff, at the Law Offices of Bruce A. Bierhans, LLC, provide clients with the highest quality of personalized, caring, and responsive legal services. Bruce graduated from Suffolk Law School in 1982. While attending Law School at night, he worked as a senior aide in the Massachusetts Senate. Upon graduation, he began a trial practice in Canton, Massachusetts, and moved his practice to Boston in 1985. He remained in Boston until 1997, at which time he decided to return to the suburbs due to his desire to create a suburban firm that would give his business and litigation clients the same quality of legal service that they could obtain in the city, at a more reasonable cost. The firm has grown steadily since that time. In the past 43 years, Bruce has successfully tried cases in the areas of business law, criminal law, probate and family law, and all aspects of personal injury law including motor vehicle accidents, wrongful death, products liability, and general negligence. Many of his business and non-profit clients have been with him for most of his forty plus years in practice. He prides himself on taking on challenges that other lawyers have turned down. He has fought, and continues to fight, for “the little guy,” whether it be an individual, business, or non-profit organization. He has lectured nationally, to lawyers and physicians, on matters related to trial practice and has maintained a Preeminent AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell for over 29 years; the highest rating available for both skill and legal ethics. He is listed in the Martindale-Hubbell Bar Register for Preeminent Lawyers and is a rated Super-Lawyer. Bruce and his wife Nancy have been working together for over thirty years. Nancy and Bruce satisfy their love of the ocean by residing in Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Bruce has been involved extensively in local charitable and non-profit organizations. He is the past President of the Cape Wellness Collaborative, past President of WOMR, past President of the Payomet Performing Arts Center, past President and Chairman of Outer Cape Health Services, and is past President of the Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater (WHAT). He proudly served as Town Moderator in Wellfleet for two years. The firm also represents many non-profit corporations. Bruce is also currently the Regional Governor for Cape Cod & the Islands for the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys (MATA).

Jason R. Markle

Jason R. Markle is an aggressive trial attorney at Jeffrey Glassman Injury Lawyers, where he concentrates his practice on construction site injuries, motor vehicle crashes, wrongful death, premise liability, product liability, nursing home injuries, workers' compensation and civil rights violations. Mr. Markle handles all aspects of plaintiffs' personal injury litigation, having tried numerous cases to verdict in federal and state courts across Massachusetts. Throughout his career, Mr. Markle has been passionate about helping people who have suffered severe and life-changing injuries. Prior to joining Jeffrey Glassman Injury Lawyers, Mr. Markle spent 15 years litigating plaintiffs' personal injury cases at another large Boston law firm. Prior to that, Mr. Markle worked for the Essex County Superior Court for five years, most notably as a Courtroom Session Clerk. Following his employment with the Essex County Superior Court, Mr. Markle served as a Judicial Law Clerk for the Justices of the Superior Court. Mr. Markle was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts. Mr. Markle graduated cum laude from New England Law | Boston, where he served as the Technical Coordinating Editor for the New England Journal on Criminal and Civil Confinement. During this time, he also received the CALI Excellence for the Future Award in Massachusetts Practice and Procedure, and was chosen for New England Law | Boston's Honors Judicial Internship program. He was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar in 2006 and the U.S. District Court in 2007. He is a member of the Massachusetts Bar Association and the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys. Mr. Markle has been recognized by his peers as a Super Lawyer in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023. Focus on: Personal injury; wrongful death; workers' compensation; medical malpractice; social security disability; employment law.