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October 17, 2025 | Press Release

Super Lawyers and Rising Stars have recognized 35 Nutter attorneys in its 2025 Massachusetts lists. Super Lawyers is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. Each year, only 5 percent of attorneys in the state are selected to the Super Lawyers list and only 2.5 percent of attorneys in the state are named to the Rising Stars list.

2025 Massachusetts Super Lawyers

• Nelson Apjohn*
• Paul Ayoub
• Kenneth Berman
• Stephen Brake
• Julia Satti Cosentino
• Kenneth Ehrlich
• David Ferrera
• Thomas Jalkut
• Sarah Kelly
• William Kirchick
• Jonathan Kotlier
• Michael Krebs
• Michael Leon
• Eric Magnuson
• Deborah Manus
• Melissa Sampson McMorrow
• Beth Mitchell
• Timothy Murphy
• Liam O’Connell*
• Ian Roffman
• David Rubin
• Steven Saunders
• Timothy Smith
• Benjamin Stern
• Kathleen Williams

*Also named to the Top 100: 2025 Massachusetts Super Lawyers list

2025 Massachusetts Rising Stars

• Natalie Cappellazzo
• Kate Henry
• Jennifer Hoar
• Portia Keady
• Gurunathan Laxmikanthan
• Michael Leard
• Robert Lynch
• Justin Masterman
• Maya Ritchie
• Nikki Marie Sherwood

About Nutter
Nutter is a Boston-based law firm that provides legal counsel to industry-leading companies, entrepreneurs, institutions, foundations, and families, across the country and around the world. The firm’s corporate, intellectual property, litigation, real estate and land use, labor and employment, tax, and trusts and estates practices are national in scope. The firm was co-founded in 1879 by former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis, before his appointment to the Court. For more information, please visit www.nutter.com and follow the firm on LinkedIn.