J. Walter Freiberg, III

Email: jwf@westonpatrick.com

Practice Areas:
Estate Planning and Administration, Corporate Law, Probate, Wills, Trusts, Business Law, Civil Litigation, Personal Injury, Domestic Relations, Employment Discrimination, Commercial Litigation, Employment Law, Family Law, Guardianship and Conservatorship, Non-Profit Organizations, Trial Practice, Probate Litigation

Phone: 617-742-9310 Ext. 364
Fax: 617-742-5734

Position: Member

Description of Practice:
Dr. Freiberg has concentrated his practice in general business and litigation matters, family counseling and estate planning, and complex legal matters regarding children. A detailed description of his service to clients and achievements in these areas is set forth on the continuation pages immediately below.

Professional History:

Dr. Freiberg joined Weston Patrick as a Member in 1993. Before then he was a member of the firm of Hale, Sanderson, Byrnes & Morton, P.A., from 1986 to1993, and an associate attorney at Hale and Dorr, LLP, from 1982 to 1986.

Consulting and Teaching
Dr. Freiberg consults to a wide variety of corporate entities and individuals on strategic decision making. Drawing on his doctoral training in social psychology of children at risk, he has appeared before many courts and governing bodies as an expert witness and consultant, and lectures widely on the interplay of law and social-psychology as they concern children involved with the law. He also lectures frequently on topics concerning law and society in the United States and countries abroad, in both English and French. For further details as to these multiple endeavors see the continuation pages immediately following.

Publications:
Dr. Freiberg has published over thirty books, articles, chapters and reviews in five different languages on a wide variety of legal and social-psychology matters.

Education:
University of California Berkeley, B.A.
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, U. Paris, France, C. Phil
University of California, Los Angles, M.A. and Ph.D.
Harvard Law School, J.D. (President of Legal Aid Bureau)

Admitted:
Massachusetts, 1983
U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts, 1983
U. S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit, 1983