Attorney List

Klements, Joseph M.

E-mail: jklements@rtlegal.com

Joseph M. Klements helps businesses and individuals navigate crisis and transition so they can pursue their true goals in life. He provides effective counseling and advocacy for a broad base of clients, including:

As the firm's managing partner, he draws on over twenty-five years of legal experience and business judgment, contacts with other knowledgeable Massachusetts attorneys and all the resources of the firm to provide the level of service most appropriate for his clients.

The services valued by these clients include:

• Negotiation and documentation of complex transactions, such as financing, mergers, acquisitions and sales

• Civil litigation, ranging from commercial disputes to wrongful death to guardianship proceedings

• Dispute mediation

• Business and estate planning

Joe joined Richardson and Tyler, LLP in 1978. In addition to his clients, he enjoys serving his community and his profession. He has served as the chairman of his local planning board, member of his town's school committee, member of his town's board of assessors, member of his parish church's finance committee, and president of the oldest musical society in the country, the Old Stoughton Music Society.

Education:

Joe graduated from Boston College (A.B., Phi Beta Kappa) in 1974, and Boston University Law School in 1978. He is admitted to practice before all Massachusetts courts (state and federal), the United States Tax Court, and the Department of Transportation. He is a member of the American Bar Association (business law section) and the Massachusetts Bar Association (business and property law sections). He is a certified mediator in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Current Employment Position(s):

Partner

Bar Admissions:

Massachusetts, 1978

Killman, Lauren Rivers

E-mail: lkillman@rtlegal.com

Lauren Rivers Killman works with individuals, families and businesses in transition to help them achieve their goals and protect their assets. She advises clients in many areas including:

Lauren believes strongly in Richardson and Tyler’s commitment to serving its community, as well as its clients. She serves on the Planning and Allocation Board of the Central Massachusetts Agency on Aging (CMAA), the largest of the twenty-three area agencies on aging in the Commonwealth, which oversees, administers and allocates grants for community-based elder support services.

Lauren joined Richardson and Tyler while still in law school as an intern through the Northeastern University Co-Op Program. She began her employment as an associate in 2002.

Education & Professional Background:

Lauren graduated from Wellesley College, cum laude, in 1998 and Northeastern University School of Law in 2002. Prior to joining Richardson and Tyler, through the co-op program at Northeastern University School of Law, Lauren interned as a clerk to Hon. Isaac Borenstein, Justice of the Superior Court, with Edwards & Angell, LLP in their corporate group and with Greater Boston Legal Services in their elder law unit.

Bar Admissions:

Massachusetts, 2002

Bagdoian, Irene H.

E-mail: ibagdoian@rtlegal.com

Irene H. Bagdoian helps individuals and businesses to obtain results that they need, to obtain stability, improve their bottom line, and advance their personal and business goals.
She does this by drawing on over 18 years of experience as a trial lawyer. During her career, she has been associated with the Boston firm of Choate, Hall & Stewart, the Danvers firm of Ardiff & Morse, the Massachusetts Attorney General’s office, and South Coastal Counties Legal Services in Brockton. She also ran her own successful private practice in Middleton for many years.

In that time, she has assisted:

The services valued by these clients include the successful and practical resolution of:

Irene joined Richardson and Tyler, LLP in 2007. In addition to her clients, she has enjoyed serving her community and family as a member of both the Steering Committee for the Brockton Tenancy Preservation Project and the Greater Attleboro-Taunton Homelessness Coalition, a board member of both the Orpheum Regional Performing Arts Center in Foxboro and the Walpole Footlighters, a “host mother” for a Venezuelan exchange student, director of a 15 member gospel choir, and a nimble partner in “power walks” with her daughter.

Education:

Irene graduated from Wheaton College (B.A., Phi Beta Kappa), and Boston University School of Law in 1989. She has practiced actively in Massachusetts's courts and agencies (state and federal), including the Massachusetts Superior and District Courts, Massachusetts Land Court, U.S. District Court, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, Southeastern Housing Court, and Northeastern Housing Court.

Bar Admissions:

Massachusetts, 1989
U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts, 1990
U.S. Court of Appeals, 1990

Marino, Peter G.

Richardson and Tyler, LLP
35 India Street, 3rd Floor
Boston, MA 02110

Phone: (617) 723-8888
E-mail: pmarino@rtlegal.com
Fax: (617) 523-7379