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Dispute Resolution Experience
Stephen Linsky entered the field of dispute resolution in 1985 as a staff intern to the Governor’s Blue Ribbon Panel on Alternative Dispute Resolution and was subsequently appointed to serve on the first conciliation panel to the Massachusetts Department of Industrial Accidents (DIA) in 1986.
In 1989, he was appointed the agency’s General Counsel, Special Assistant Attorney General and designated hearing officer, presiding over various administrative hearings. In 1991, he was named Acting Commissioner.
Mr. Linsky opened a private law and mediation practice in 1997. In 2001, he became a founding member of The New Law Center, the first collaborative law firm to form in the Boston area. In 2005, he co-founded Family Co-Mediation, a practice providing co-mediation services to families and businesses. I have served as a trainer and instructor in dispute resolution at various institutions including Lasell College in Newton, Massachusetts and Israel College in Tel Aviv, as an ombudsman to the housing ADR program at the Community Dispute Settlement Center, and as coordinator of the ADR program at Suffolk Superior Court. In addition to my appointment to various private ADR panels, including the Boston Law Collaborative and MWI, he has been appointed, and has received specialized training, to provide mediation and arbitration services to a number of federal and state courts and agencies, including the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the United States Postal Service, the U.S. District Court (Massachusetts), Massachusetts Superior, Probate, Land, and District Courts, the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, the Executive Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation, and the Better Business Bureau. In 2009, he was appointed as a member of the Board of Review to the Massachusetts Department of Workforce Development.
With over twenty years of experience in dispute resolution, Mr. Linsky has conducted many hundreds of mediations, conciliations, and arbitrations involving personal and industrial injuries, malpractice, business and commercial, employment, construction, real property, family and domestic relations disputes.
Representative Matters
- Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development, Board of Review Member
- Three member statutory panel appointed by the governor providing appellate review of appeals brought under the Massachusetts Unemployment Insurance law, 2009 to present
- Private collaborative law and mediation practice concentrating in the areas of employment, workers’ compensation, unemployment benefits, personal injury, family and domestic relations, landlord/tenant, public, and commercial disputes,
- Family Co-Mediation, Newton, Massachusetts; Co-Principal
- Founding co-principal of a mediation practice devoted to the provision of dispute resolution services to families and family businesses, 2005 to present.
- The New Law Center, LLC, Newton, Massachusetts Member
- Founding member of first Boston-area collaborative law firm, 2001 to 2005.
- Massachusetts Office of Dispute Resolution, Boston, Massachusetts
- Suffolk Superior Court Alternative Dispute Resolution Program Coordinator
- Coordinated alternative dispute resolution proceedings of cases filed in Suffolk Superior Court, 1999 to 2000.
- Massachusetts Department of Industrial Accidents, Boston, Massachusetts
- Served in senior positions involving nearly every facet of agency’s statewide operation, 1986 to 1997:
- Represented the Workers’ Compensation Trust Fund in administrative proceedings before the Industrial Accident Board and Industrial Accident Reviewing Board, 1988 to 1989
- Conciliator: Conciliated hundreds of workers’ compensation claims filed before the Industrial Accident Board, 1986 to 1988
- Director (Acting) Chief administrator of unit overseeing provider certification and delivery of educational and vocational rehabilitation benefits to injured employees, 1995 to 1997
- Commissioner (Acting) Chief executive officer and appointing authority overseeing all agency operations, 1991
Honors, Memberships, and Professional Activities
- Boston Bar Association (former co-chair, ADR Committee; BMC ADR Steering Committee)
- Massachusetts Council on Family Mediation
- Massachusetts Chapter, National Lawyers Guild
- Massachusetts Municipal Association (former member, Councilor’s Nomination Panel)
- Member of the Bar, U.S. District Court for Massachusetts, First Circuit Court of Appeals, U.S. Supreme Court, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Appointments to numerous state and federal administrative and court ADR panels, including:
- United States District Court
- United States Postal Service
- United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
- Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination
- Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs
- Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs And Business Regulation
- Massachusetts Bar Association Fee Arbitration Board and ADR Panel
- Massachusetts Superior, District, and Probate and Family Court
- Logan 2000 Project Labor Agreement
Background and Education
- Member, Commonwealth of Massachusetts Board of Review, Boston, MA, 2009-present
- Founding Co-Principal, Family Co-Mediation, Newton, MA 2005 – present
- Alderman, City Of Newton, MA 2002 - present
- Founding Co-Member, The New Law Center, LLC, Newton, MA 2001-2005
- Court Coordinator, Massachusetts Office of Dispute Resolution, Boston, MA 1999-2000
- Principal, Offices of Stephen M. Linsky, Esq. Newton, MA, 1997-present
- General Counsel-Acting Commissioner-Deputy Director-Conciliator, Massachusetts Department of Industrial Accidents, Boston, MA 1986-1997
- J.D., Northeastern University School of Law, Boston, MA 1986
- M.S., Labor Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 1980
- B.A., Political Economics, cum laude, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 1977
- Graduate, Roxbury Latin School, West Roxbury, MA 1973
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