Case Evaluation
BLC attorney David Hoffman is a trained, experienced case evaluator. He has served on the case evaluation panels of the Massachusetts Office of Dispute Resolution (MODR) and the Middlesex Multi-Door Courthouse, and has served as a trainer for the MODR case evaluation program.
In case evaluation, the parties have an opportunity to present their case to the case evaluator in writing and also in an in-person presentation. The form of evaluation that David generally provides is a brief written opinion with a risk analysis chart illustrating the reasoning of the opinion. (For a sample of the risk analysis software that BLC uses for such illustrations, click on www.treeage.com.) In some disputes, case evaluation is provided less formally – e.g., in connection with a mediation case if the parties have reached an impasse.
David has handled the following types of case evaluation issues:
- Business and business torts
- Commercial
- Computer and high technology
- Construction
- Contracts
- Consumer Protection (93A)
- Defamation
- Discrimination (disabilities, race, gender, age)
- Divorce and post-divorce
- Employment
- Family
- Family Business
- Insurance
- Intellectual Property
- Land Use, Zoning
- Legal malpractice
- Medical malpractice
- Parenting and co-parenting issues
- Partnership Issues
- Personal injury
- Probate
- Product liability
- Professional liability
- Real estate
- Securities
- Sexual harassment
- Tort
- Trusts & Estates