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Overview

Joe Bussiere focuses his practice on complex tort, employment law, professional liability and construction litigation. Joe’s practice entails defending clients through all stages of litigation ranging from pre-suit claims through trial. His litigation experience also includes representing clients in state and federal court as well as before administrative agencies on a variety of complex tort, discrimination, wrongful termination, ADA, FLSA, and collective/class action wage and hour disputes. 

Prior to joining MG+M, Joe worked for a national litigation defense firm where he defended clients in all phases of litigation. He counseled and defended clients in general liability tort, Chapter 93A, wage and hour, discrimination, wrongful termination, professional liability and wrongful death matters. In law school, Joe served as a law clerk for a major commercial general liability and professional liability insurance carrier. He also served as a judicial intern for the Hon. Kenneth Fishman, Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court.

Experience

  • Successfully secured the dismissal of all claims with prejudice for a third-party inspection agency following a 15-day jury trial in Massachusetts Superior Court. The dismissal was granted after exposing the plaintiffs’ lack of evidence, misrepresentations by their structural engineering expert and bad faith discovery practices, including withholding key structural investigation evidence.

Recognition

  • Best Lawyers in America: Ones to Watch, Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions—Defendants, 2022–2025; Professional Malpractice Law, 2022–2025; Litigation—Labor and Employment, 2024-2025; Product Liability Litigation—Defendants, 2024-2025
  • Boston Magazine Top Lawyers™, Construction, 2023–2024, Civil Law Litigation, 2021–2022
  • Thomson Reuters, Super Lawyers Rising Star, 2023–2024

Involvement

Education

  • Suffolk University Law School, JD, cum laude, 2014
  • University of New England, BA, cum laude, 2011

Bar Admissions

  • Massachusetts
  • Maine

Court Admissions

  • US District Court, District of Massachusetts
  • US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit