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Scott C. Gladstone, Esq.
Chestnut Hill, MA
 Scott Gladstone is a business litigation attorney with wide and varied experience in conflicts between businesses and among principals in the same business. He regularly appears before the Courts of the Commonwealth and has represented parties in arbitrations and mediations. Scott has been a senior associate at two large downtown Boston firms, Ruberto, Israel & Weiner and Rubin & Rudman and he started his career as an Assistant Public Defender in Dekalb County Georgia. He has been running his own litigation practice since 2003.
His current practice concentrates in the following areas:
- Representing owners, contractors and sureties in construction disputes in residential, commercial and public building projects.
- Representing non-construction clients in general business matters, such as: contract disputes, property line disputes, commercial tenant-landlord disputes, disputes between partners in closely held businesses and other fiduciary duty issues.
- Representing property owners before local boards in zoning and special permitting matters.
- Representing restaurants seeking liquor licensing from local licensing authority.
Scott has been trained as a mediator by Metropolitan Mediation Services of Brookline, Massachusetts and, over the past year, he regularly mediates at the Brighton District Court where he has successfully mediated conflicts concerning: condo association dues, wage claims, insurance coverage, consumer protection, unpaid loans, and contractor-homeowner disputes.
Using his experience as a litigator, Scott has garnered a reputation as a mediator who very quickly assimilates facts and quickly identifies what matters most to the parties as well as potential areas of common interests. The parties that come before Scott invariably feel like they have been heard and validated; however, they also appreciate Scott’s firm no-nonsense approach to problem solving.
Scott received his undergraduate degree from Brandeis University in 1990 and a law degree from Northeastern University School of Law in 1993. He is a member of both the Georgia and Massachusetts Bars. Scott has been an elected member of Brookline Town Meeting since 2001 and he is an officer of Temple Emeth of Chestnut Hill.
D. Robin Gouveia, Esq.
d’Oliveira & Associates, PC, Fall River
 Robin Gouveia's background in the personal injury field has given her a balanced perspective in both the Insurance and Plaintiff's side. Ms. Gouveia worked for Trust Insurance in Taunton, MA. from 1990 to 1999, handling many types of 1st and 3rd party claims, including both premises and auto claims and specializing in subrogation cases. She served as a claims supervisor and eventually an assistant claims manager. While at Trust, she participated in development and implementation of claims handling procedures and acted as a negotiation skills trainer for the claims department. In 1998, she became a member of the Massachusetts Bar, and in 1999, Ms. Gouveia moved to the plaintiff side and began working at D'Oliveira & Morgan, later to become Morgan & Murphy, as a litigator handling plaintiff personal injury cases. After more than a decade, first at Morgan & Murphy in New Bedford and more recently at d’Oliveira & Associates in Fall River, Attorney Gouveia has accumulated a great deal of expertise in personal injury matters.
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Christopher Kauders, Esq.
Pre-Trial Solutions, Boston
 Christopher Kauders is one of the region's most experienced and effective mediators and arbitrators. Since 1987, he has settled thousands of disputes involving practice areas including banking, business, Chapter 93A, construction, disability, discrimination, eminent domain, employment, family financial disputes and will contests, family owned businesses, health care, insurance coverage, landlord/tenant, legal and other professional malpractice, personal injury, real property, securities, sexual harassment, subrogation, and tort.
For over twenty years, Mr. Kauders' mediation settlement rate has been in excess of 90%. Matters range from two-party simple disputes to complex multiparty disputes. Mr. Kauders has reputation for tenaciously assisting parties reach settlements even after mediation session. He always attempts to make the process as enjoyable as possible for parties and counsel.
In 1995, Christopher P. Kauders, Esq. founded Pre-Trial Solutions, Inc. Before starting his own firm, Mr. Kauders spent eight years mediating cases as Executive Vice President of U.S. Arbitration & Mediation of New England, Inc. He was court-appointed as a founding member of the Superior Court Mediation Panels for Suffolk, Norfolk, Middlesex and Worcester counties. He has also served on mediation panels for the NASD, FDICIRTC and AAA. Before entering the ADR field as a full-time practitioner, Mr. Kauders practiced law at Bank of Boston and at the Boston law firm of Needham & Warren.
Mr. Kauders has mediated and arbitrated disputes throughout New England. He has a substantial practice in New Hampshire and Maine as well as in Massachusetts. He is a frequent lecturer for continuing legal education programs and professional conferences throughout the region.
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Edward W. McIntyre, Esq.
Law Office of Edward W. McIntyre, Clinton
Edward W. McIntyre has been a trial lawyer practicing in the field of negligence law since 1981. His trial practice has concentrated in the area of serious and life-altering injuries and has involved trials in the Superior Court and the United States District Court for Massachusetts. He has also represented parties in land disputes, premises liability cases, defective products, construction site accidents, business partnership breakups, trademark infringement, non-compete agreements, condominium owners association conflicts and municipal grievances. Ed is the immediate past president of the Massachusetts Bar Association and a past president of the Worcester County Bar Association.
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Honorable William E. Melahn (Ret.)
Former Lowell District Court Justice
 Judge
Melahn was first appointed to the Newburyport
District Court in 1992, but was subsequently assigned
to all the courts in Region III of the District
Court. Judge Melahn spent the major portion of
his judicial career at the Lowell District Court.
In 1996, when the District Court Division of the
Trial Court started civil jury sessions on an experimental
basis in Norfolk and Middlesex Counties, due to
his significant civil background, Judge Melahn was
assigned the task of setting up and presiding over
the civil jury sessions in the Lowell District Court.
He maintained that position until his retirement
in 2008. It is estimated that he has presided over
close to 1,500 trials, civil and criminal.
Prior to his appointment to the District Court,
he was a trial attorney for law firms in New York
City and Massachusetts. Starting out in a Brooklyn
firm specializing in personal injury litigation,
he then moved to a Manhattan law firm concentrating
in Customs and International Trade. From the mid
1970's he maintained this specialty along with
a general practice in Massachusetts.
During his years on the bench, Judge Melahn handled
all types of civil matters including automobile
cases, premises liability and many business and
contract cases including homeowner-contractor
disputes. He had a reputation of always running
an efficient courtroom and being fair and even-handed
to members of the Bar.
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Honorable Mel L. Greenberg
Seder & Chandler, Worcester & Westborough
Former Massachusetts Appeals Court Justice
Judge Greenberg, recently retired from the Massachusetts
Appeals Court, has had an illustrious career,
presiding over trials at many different levels
of the court system. Appointed to the District
Court in 1977, he handled cases for both the District
Court and the Appellate Division of the District
Court.
In 1982, a Lawyer's Weekly survey recognized Judge
Greenberg as one of the "10 Best Trial Judges
in Commonwealth." He was appointed to the Superior
Court in 1983, serving there until 1990, when
he joined the Appeals Court, where he served until
2007. Upon retiring from the Appeals Court, Judge
Greenberg accepted the position "of counsel" to
the Worcester firm of Seder & Chandler (offices
also in Westborough).
He currently serves as the chair of the firm's
Appellate Advocacy and Consulting Group and co-chair
of the Arbitration and Mediation Services Group,
which specializes in dispute resolution of complex
commercial, insolvency, corporate and intellectual
property matters.
Before his appointment to the bench, Judge Greenberg
had a very successful career as a Worcester area
trial attorney in the 1960s and 70s, litigating
cases involving employment issues, civil rights,
personal injury, criminal, subrogation and general
civil matters. He also served as a Judge Advocate
General for the United States Army Reserve from
1961-67. Alternate Dispute Resolution was a logical
next direction for a jurist with Judge Greenberg's
stature and extensive trial experience. In addition
to being a Case Closed panelist, he currently
serves both on the American Arbitration Association's
panel and the Real Estate Bar Association's panel.
Judge Greenberg has completed the Program on Negotiation
and Mediation at Harvard Law School.
Judge Greenberg has always maintained strong ties
to the Worcester area and serves as a director
for the Worcester Center for Performing Arts and
the Foothills Theatre.
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Western MA
L. Jeffrey Meehan, Esq.
Doherty, Wallace, Pillsbury & Murphy, Springfield
 An experienced trial attorney and shareholder at the Springfield law firm of Doherty, Wallace, Pillsbury & Murphy for more than 30 years, Jeffrey Meehan, has tried over 140 cases to verdict. His litigation practice encompasses many areas of general liability including personal injury, automotive torts, premises liability, product liability, liquor liability, professional negligence, insurance coverage interpretation and commercial disputes. His practice is primarily on the defense side but also handles a number of plaintiff cases and commercial disputes at any given time. He is a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. Jeff also is an accomplished author and has spoken at seminars for both the MCLE and the Hampden County Bar Association.
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Western MA
Richard Morrissey, Esq.
Former Clerk, Springfield District Court
Attorney Richard Morrissey was a magistrate for
thirty-seven years with a recognized specialty in
civil law and procedure. During his years of service
he was a teacher and lecturer for the trial court
in all areas of the law. He conducted seminars on
small claims, civil law and procedure, summary process,
mental health, civil motor vehicle hearing, and
search warrants, not only for the trial court, but
also local and state agencies and the Hampden County
Bar Association. As a magistrate he worked in all
four western Massachusetts counties, at the request
of the Regional Administrative Justice, to hear
cases in which the local court had a conflict. For
M.C.L.E. he wrote "How to Handle a Civil Motor Vehicle
Hearing" and for the Hampden County Bar Association,
along with Justice Kenneth Cote, authored a pamphlet,
"Civil One Trial System." His years of working in
the busiest court in the state have given him a
unique perspective on how to resolve a case.
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Western MA
Dennis Powers, Esq.
Law Office of Dennis Powers, Springfield
Since 1987, Dennis Powers has been an active trial lawyer in the Springfield area.
For the majority of that time, he was a founding partner at the litigation firm of Katz, Argenio & Powers, PC. During that time, his primary specialty areas were personal injury, employment and business litigation. As the partner in charge of the residential and commercial real estate branch of the firm, he also gained a great deal of experience in real estate litigation. In 2010, he opened the Law Offices of Dennis P. Powers with locations in Springfield and West Springfield, handling civil litigation matters with an emphasis on real estate. Dennis is a graduate of Western New England College, School of Law and currently sits on their Board of Trustees. He is also a past-President of the Hampden County Bar Association. He has served as an arbitrator to the Superior Court for Hampden County and has mediated and arbitrated cases privately and through the Hampden County Bar for over ten years.
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