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26 Beech Street
Greenfield, Massachusetts 01301-2308 (Franklin Co.)
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(Main Office) Wendy Sibbison has specialized in civil and criminal appeals since 1982. The hallmark of her practice is intense, personal concentration on each client's struggle for justice. She has won over 50% of her appeals, an extraordinary success rate in this area of practice. She is passionate about her work, and she loves a tough case. Statement of PracticePractice Limited to Civil and Criminal Appeals. Firm Size: 1
Wendy Sibbison (Member) admitted to bar, 1977, Massachusetts; U.S. District Courts, Massachusetts and Connecticut; U.S. Courts of Appeals, First and Second Circuits; U.S. Supreme Court. Education: Barnard College (B.A., 1968); Columbia University (Woodrow Wilson Fellow, M.A., high honors, 1969); Rutgers University at Newark (J.D., best legal skills, 1977). Wendy Sibbison was born in Shaker Heights, Ohio, and grew up in Arlington, Virginia. A Fellow of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers, she has specialized in civil and criminal appeals since 1982, before which she had a general practice in the firm of Lesser, Newman, Sibbison & Souweine in Northampton, Massachusetts. She is admitted to practice before the Massachusetts appellate courts, the United States Supreme Court and the United States Courts of Appeals for the First and Second Circuits. A frequent writer and lecturer on appellate practice, she is a member of the Appellate Bench Bar Committee of the Massachusetts Bar Association. In 1999 she was appointed by former Chief Justice Herbert P. Wilkins to serve on the Supreme Judicial Court Ad Hoc Committee on Appeals in Cases of Murder in the First Degree, which drafted the amendments to Mass. R. App. P. 19(d) adopted by the Court. Attorney Sibbison is noted for having represented the winning appellants in such precedent-setting civil appeals as Rowley v. Mass. Electric Co., 438 Mass. 798 (2003); Messing, Rudavsky & Weliky, PC, v. Harvard, 436 Mass. 347 (2002); Woods v. O'Neil et al., 54 Mass. App. Ct. 768 (2002), Douillard v. LMR, Inc., 433 Mass. 162 (2001), Rotkiewicz v. Sadowsky, 431 Mass. 748 (2000), Roberts v. Southwestern Bell Mobile Sys., Inc., 429 Mass. 478 (1999), Heins v. Ledis, 422 Mass. 477 (1996), Tatro v. Manor Care, Inc., 416 Mass. 763 (1994), and Deerfield Plastics Co. v. The Hartford , 404 Mass. 484 (1989). In her criminal practice, Attorney Sibbison has won reversals in eight first-degree murder cases and in numerous other felony appeals, and she was counsel of record for amicus curiae, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, in support of the successful appellant in Richardson v. United States, 526 U.S. 813 (1999). Member: Massachusetts Bar Association; Massachusetts Women's Bar Association; Massachusetts Association of Criminal Lawyers. Fellow: American Academy of Appellate Lawyers; Massachusetts Bar Foundation (Trustee, 2003). Practice Areas: Civil Appeals(60%); Criminal Appeals(40%).
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