The following biographical information provides an overview of the background
and qualifications of our attorneys. Please feel free to contact us by telephone
or e-mail if you would like further information about our practice.

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

Philip E. Murray, Jr. - born Floral Park, New York, March 4, 1950. Admitted to bar: 1975, Massachusetts; 1976, U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts; 1992, Supreme Court of the United States. Preparatory Education: Boston College (B.S., cum laude, 1972); Legal Education: Boston College Law School (J.D., 1975). Staff Member (1973-1974) and Editor (1974-1975), Boston College Law Review; Editor, U.C.C. Reporter Digest, 1974. Law Clerk to the Justices of the Massachusetts Superior Court, 1975-1976. Board of Bar Overseers Of The Supreme Judicial Court, Hearing Committee Member, 1990-1996. Co-Author, Medical Malpractice In Massachusetts (NATIONAL BUSINESS INSTITUTE, INC., 1993 and 1996). Co-Author, Changes To Deposition Rules Are Ill-Advised, 25 MASSACHUSETTS LAWYERS WEEKLY 2716 (1997). Co-Author, The Physician’s Legal Duty To Non-Patients, CRICO/RMF INSIGHT (Summer 2008). Member: Massachusetts Bar Association (Civil Litigation Section); Massachusetts Trial Lawyers Association. Fellow, Massachusetts Bar Foundation. AV Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory. Selected by Boston Magazine as a Massachusetts/New England Super Lawyer, 2005 - 2008. Listed in The Best Lawyer’s in America. Biographee, Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in American Law.
E-mail: pmurray@mkblegal.com

Carol A. Kelly - born Arlington, Massachusetts, September 6, 1959. Admitted to bar: 1984, Massachusetts; 1985, U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts; 1993, Supreme Court of the United States. Preparatory Education: College of the Holy Cross (A.B., 1981); Legal Education: Suffolk University Law School (J.D., cum laude, 1984). Staff Member (1982-1983) and Note Editor (1983-1984), Suffolk University Law Review. Note, Domestic Relations: Consideration of Enhanced Earning Capacity of Recently Educated Spouse in Divorce Settlements, 17 SUFFOLK U.L. REV. 901 (1983). Law Clerk, Honorable Joseph R. Nolan, Associate Justice, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1984-1985. Author: Massachusetts Motor Vehicle Torts (Kantrovitz, ed.) Chapter 9, “Utilizing Experts in Motor Vehicle Litigation” (MCLE, 1994); Massachusetts Tort Law Manual (Melick, ed.) Chapter 11, “Misrepresentation” (MCLE, 1999); Massachusetts Liability Insurance Manual (Lepore, et al, eds.) Chapter 7, “Excess Insurance” (MCLE, 2000); Massachusetts Expert Witnesses (Lauriat and McHugh, eds.) Chapter 3, “Expert Discovery” (MCLE, 2002). Co-Author, Insurance Law: Third Party Coverage In Massachusetts (NATIONAL BUSINESS INSTITUTE, INC., 2002). Assistant Editor, Traps for the Unwary (Massachusetts Bar Association, 4th ed., 1999). Adjunct Professor, Suffolk University Law School. Member: Massachusetts Bar Association (Co-Chair, Civil Litigation Section, 1995-1997; Member, Fee Arbitration Board, 1997-1999; Budget and Finance Committee, 1998—). Fellow, Massachusetts Bar Foundation.. AV Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory. Selected by Boston Magazine as a Massachusetts/New England Super Lawyer, 2006 - 2008.
E-mail: ckelly@mkblegal.com

Joseph B. Bertrand - born Highland Park, Illinois, August 6, 1949. Admitted to bar: 1979, Massachusetts; 1980, U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts. Preparatory Education: Villanova University (B.A., 1971; M.A., 1973); Legal Education: Suffolk University Law School (J.D., cum laude, 1979). Author, The Applicability of the U.C.C. to Automobile Test Drives, PRODUCTS LIABILITY COMMENTARY & CASES, October, 1986. Lecturer on Law, Boston University, 1983—. Massachusetts State Liaison to the Defense Research Institute’s Worker's Compensation Committee, 1998—; Co-Author: Worker’s Compensation in Massachusetts (NATIONAL BUSINESS INSTITUTE, INC., 1996); Co-Author: Worker’s Compensation and the Self-Insurer (STERLING EDUCATION SERVICES, 1997). Finance Committee, Town of Wakefield, 1992—. Chairman, Wakefield Public Safety Building Committee, 1995—. Chairman, Town Hall Office Committee, 1991-1993. Chairman, CATV Advisory Committee, 1982-1990. AV Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory. Member: Massachusetts Bar Association, Defense Research Institute.
E-mail: jbertrand@mkblegal.com

Kimberly D. Goodman Cooperstein - born Boston, Massachusetts, May 21, 1969. Admitted to bar: 1994, Massachusetts and U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts; 1998, U.S. Supreme Court 1992. Preparatory Education: University of Massachusetts (B.S., 1991); Legal Education: Suffolk University Law
School (J.D., 1994).
E-mail: KCooperstein@mkblegal.com

Kelly Kalandyk Smith - born Wallingford, Connecticut, May 29, 1963. Admitted to bar: 1988, Massachusetts. Preparatory Education: University of Connecticut (B.A., 1985); Legal Education: Suffolk University Law School (J.D., 1988).
E-mail: KSmith@mkblegal.com