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Lawyers USA provides up-to-the-minute coverage of court decisions, legislation, litigation trends and practice management information for lawyers who represent individuals and businesses.

Each issue of Lawyers USA is read by tens of thousands of lawyers who are looking for insight from the country's leading experts on how to win more cases, avoid malpractice traps and practice more efficiently. The editors of Lawyers USA are frequently relied upon for legal analysis by news sources across the country, and Lawyers USA's annual reporting of the largest jury verdicts of the previous year has been one of the most-cited such report in the country for many years.

In addition to receiving information in the newspaper that is concise, easy-to-read and practical, subscribers to Lawyers USA have free access to a number of website benefits, including an Internet Archives (a searchable database of everything ever published in the newspaper), Full-Text Opinions of all cases reported, a Daily E-Mail Alert, a Practice-Area Alert and the full text of Important Documents.



Publisher & Editor
Susan A. Bocamazo, Esq.

A summa cum laude graduate of Providence College and a graduate of Harvard Law School, Susan practiced for 2 1/2 years in the litigation department of Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault in Boston before joining Lawyers USA as a news writer in 1994. She has been the newspaper's editor since 2001. Susan became Associate Publisher in January 2006 and was promoted to Publisher in September 2007.


Legal Editor
Patrick M. Murphy, Esq.

Pat is a graduate of Cleveland State University and the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law. He joined the Lawyers Weekly family of publications in 1997 as an Ohio opinion editor. Before joining Lawyers USA in 2002, Pat also held the positions of news editor, legal editor and managing editor for Ohio Lawyers Weekly. His first experience in legal publishing was as an editor of reference books and newsletters for Business Laws, Inc. Pat's prior legal experience includes four years as a law clerk in the Ohio Court of Appeals, 8th Appellate District.


News Editor
Reni Gertner, M.P.H.

Reni joined Lawyers USA when she graduated from Brown University in 1997. She obtained a Master's Degree in public health from Boston University in January 2005, and was appointed Editor of the Massachusetts Medical Law Report in September 2005.


Associate Editor
Correy Stephenson, Esq.

Correy joined Lawyers USA in August 2003 after graduating from Northeastern University School of Law and passing the Massachusetts bar. She had previously worked as an intern at Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly while in law school. In July 2005, she moved to New York, where she opened and now runs Lawyers USA's New York office.


Associate Editor
Nora Tooher

Nora Lockwood Tooher worked at The Providence Journal, in Providence, R.I., as a business reporter and assistant city editor. She was also a reporter at several other newspapers in New England. Most recently, Nora was a writer for a public relations agency in the Boston area. She is a graduate of Pace University in New York.


Staff Writer
Kimberly Atkins, Esq.

Kimberly practiced as a litigation and appellate attorney in Boston for two years after graduating from Boston University School of Law in 1998. After receiving a Masters Degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 2001, she worked as a news reporter at the Boston Globe, The Journal News in Westchester County, N.Y. and the Boston Herald before joining Lawyers USA as its Washington, D.C. reporter in 2007.


Staff Writer
Sylvia Hsieh

Sylvia rejoined Lawyers USA in 2008 to open the California office after a previous tenure in the Boston office. She is a graduate of Boston College Law School, and has clerked for the Massachusetts Superior Court and practiced immigration law.


Reporter
Justin D. Rebello

Justin joined Lawyers USA as a reporter in 2006, six months after graduating from Northeastern University with a B.A. in journalism. He previously worked as a co-op with the Boston Globe for three years in the city, sports and archives departments.





 

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