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Overview

Joe Bussiere is a seasoned litigation and trial attorney with a proven track record of success in complex, high-stakes cases involving professional liability, construction defect, catastrophic injury matters, and complex torts. With over a decade of experience, he brings strategic insight, technical acumen, and unwavering advocacy to each case from pre-suit claims through trial.

Joe is recognized for his work in professional liability defense, particularly in representing architects, engineers, project managers, third-party inspection agencies, and other licensed professionals. He has also defended clients and represented insurers in catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases involving design defects, industrial accidents, construction accidents, and more. Joe is adept at identifying multifaceted resolution strategies while vigorously preparing cases toward trial. He is known for his proactive, results-driven mindset and collaborative approach with clients and opposing counsel, and serves as a trusted advisor to insurers, design professionals, contractors, and corporate clients facing significant legal exposure.

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, 2023–2025

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