Thomas J. Cleary, Esq.
Offices: Phone: 508-732-9155 Fax: 508-732-9151 E-mail: tcleary@schonlandlaw.com Areas of practice:
Trust, Estate and Long-Term Care Planning, Health Care and Insurance,
Probate and Family Law, and General Practice Litigation Thomas
J. Cleary joined the
firm in 2010. Before joining Schonland & Associates, P.C., he served as
counsel to a health care management company where he represented skilled
nursing facilities, hospitals and individual clients. Today, Mr. Cleary
concentrates on trust, estate, and long-term care planning, and devotes
himself to representing clients in matters including risk management,
regulatory compliance, debt collection, guardianships, conservatorships,
Medicaid, Medicare, and MassHealth appeals, as well as general litigation,
mediation, and dispute resolution services.
Mr. Cleary is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of Hiram
College, where he was a recipient of the Outstanding Undergraduate Research
Award. He is a Magna Cum Laude
graduate and Valedictorian from the Southern New England School of
Law (now known as University of Massachusetts School of Law). While in law school, Mr. Cleary was a
founder and the Editor-in-Chief of the Roundtable
Symposium Law Journal. He was awarded the Faculty Academic Achievement
Award, the Sarah Clarman Bernstein Prize for Academic Excellence, and the
Pro Bono Program Honorary Designation, and was a participant in the
Domenick L. Gabrielli Family Law National Moot Court Competition. Mr. Cleary has also published
numerous articles and other materials, including: In Impartiality We
Trust: A Commentary on Government Aid and Involvement with Religion, 2
S. NEW ENG. ROUNDTABLE SYMP. L. J. 113 (2007); A Wolf in Sheep’s
Clothing: The Unilateral Executive and the Separation of Powers, 6
PIERCE LAW REV. 265 (2007); and Guardianships and Substituted Judgment
Proceedings: An Argument for Enhanced Judicial Scrutiny of Advanced
Directives and End of Life Care, Forthcoming (2010) Mr. Cleary is also an Adjunct Professor of Law for the University of Massachusetts School of Law at Dartmouth, where he is a faculty advisor to the law review program and teaches legal editing, research, and writing. He has lectured at numerous programs on the Massachusetts Uniform Probate Code, and has been a keynote speaker on trends and issues in trust, estate, and long-term care planning. Mr. Cleary serves on the Board of
Directors for the Southern New England School of Law Alumni Association (now
known as the Massachusetts School of Law Alumni Association) and serves as
Chair of the Association’s Publications Committee. He is also an Associate
Member of the Massachusetts Senior Care Association, and a member of the
Massachusetts Bar Association, the Plymouth District Bar Association, and
the Bristol County Bar Association. Mr. Cleary is admitted to
practice before all Massachusetts courts, as well as the U.S. District
Court for the District of Massachusetts.
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