Attorney Profile
Michael L. Rich
Practicing Law since 1979
Phone: (781) 373-1582
Emergency: (339) 707-0050
Fax: (339) 368-7662
Email: mike@michaelrichlaw.com
Blog: www.michaelrichlaw.blogspot.com
Areas of Practice
- Accusations of Child Abuse or Neglect
- Care and Protection cases
- Department of Children and Families (DCF, formerly Department of Social Services, DSS) investigations (51As), Fair Hearings and Judicial Review
- Ensuring that the needs of special education students are met
- Termination of Parental rights
- Guardianships of minors
- School Discipline including Child Requiring Assistance (CRA, formerly CHINS) cases
- Adoption defense and stepparent adoptions
- Home Schooling
- Student rights violations
- Training and consultations for mandated reporters
Bar Admissions
- Massachusetts, 1979
Education
- Northeastern University School of Law, Boston, Massachusetts, 1979 J.D.
- City College of the City University of New York, New York, NY, 1976 B.A. Honors: Magna Cum Laude
Professional Positions and Memberships
- Law Office of Michael L. Rich, Waltham, MA, since 2012
- Mentor for the Children and Family Law Program of the Massachusetts Committee for Public Counsel Services since 1995
- Law Office of Michael L. Rich, Arlington, MA, 1984 – 2012
- Law Office of Michael L. Rich, Somerville, MA, 1982 – 1984
- Staff Attorney, Northeast Kentucky Legal Services, Morehead, KY, 1981 – 1982
- Reginald Heber Smith Community Law Fellow, Howard University/Northeast Kentucky Legal Services, 1979 – 1981
Pro Bono Activities
- Restorative Justice Task Team of Massachusetts Conference United Church of Christ
Publications
- Contributor to “Attorney Perspectives of Child Protective Services ‘Legal Kidnapping'”, Pollack D, ed., Policy & Practice, Feb. 2019, pp. 36-37; American Public Human Services Association publisher