Bowditch is a highly regarded law firm handling sophisticated transactions, challenging litigation and complex regulatory issues for businesses, families and institutions throughout Massachusetts, the region and beyond.
With more than 70 lawyers seamlessly connected in five strategic Massachusetts offices – Boston, Framingham, Plymouth, Southborough and Worcester – Bowditch is deep in the areas of business and finance, real estate and environmental, litigation, employment, family law, and estate and tax planning, delivering outstanding client satisfaction and quality legal services.
Bowditch is listed in the BTI Client Service A-Team Rankings for 2023 – 2025, which asks over 17,000 buyers of professional services to evaluate 17 activities essential to delivering superior client service. In BTI Brand Elite: Client Perceptions of the Best-Branded Law Firms, Bowditch earned a place on BTI’s Honor Roll of Most Recommended Firms. Law firms are listed based on top-of-mind recognition by corporate counsel and other legal-hiring decision makers.
Quick Facts
- Established in 1914
- 2025 Best Legacy Law Firms award from Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly for excelling in navigating economic cycles, technological change, and a shifting legal landscape while remaining steadfast in our commitment to exceptional client service
- 2023 – 2025 Empowering Women award from Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly for a strong commitment to supporting and elevating women attorneys
- 13 practices earned a place in Best Lawyers’ “Best Law Firms” in Boston, Worcester and nationally
- 24 attorneys listed in Best Lawyers in America and 10 attorneys recognized in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America
- John Shoro, Lawyer of the Year in Trusts and Estates
- Chambers USA ranked our Public Finance Practice as one of the most notable in Massachusetts.
- Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly honors
- Top Women of Law: Samantha McDonald, Lynette Paczkowski, Katherine Garrahan, Tracy Boland, Elizabeth Crowley, Francine Gardikas
- Excellence in the Law Honoree, Up and Coming Lawyers: Emily Weber
- Top 20 lawyers in their respective areas of practice: Bob Young (Employment); Paul Bauer, Joshua Lee Smith, Katherine Garrahan (Commercial Real Estate); Leah Rochwarg (Construction); John Shoro (Tax); Elizabeth Crowley (Family Law)
- Lawyer of the Year: Christopher Kenney
- Legal Luminaries: Lynette Paczkowski, Peter Martin
Service to our Communities and Profession
As a firm, we encourage everyone to give back. Our lawyers and professionals serve on boards or hold other leadership positions for organizations located where we live and work as well as statewide and nationally. Many of our lawyers have served in government agencies and on government boards. These include zoning and planning boards and environmental, transportation, construction, labor, consumer affairs and anti-discrimination agencies.
