Joanne D'Alcomo

Background

D'Alcomo, Joanne was born in 1952 in Weymouth, Massachusetts, United States.

Education

Boston University (Bachelor of Science, cum laude, 1974. Juris Doctor, cum laude, 1984).

Career

Worked at Schneider, Reilly, Zabin & Costello, P.C. (Boston, MA) specializing in Trial practice and appellate practice in all courts. Practice areas include business and commercial litigation, insurance coverage disputes, products liability, personal injury, professional liability, employment law and constitutional law. Admitted to the bar, 1985, Massachusetts and United States.

Court of Appeals, First Circuit. Recipient, Distinguished Citizen Award for legal work, 1991, Association for Retarded Citizens of Massachusetts. Editor, Boston University Law Review, 1983-1984.

Author: Note, "Resolving the Conflict Between Arbitration Clauses and Unfair and Deceptive Practices Acts," 64 Boston University Law Review 377, 1984. Co-Author: Chapter, "Role of the Amicus Brief," Appellate Practice in Massachusetts, MCLE, 1995. Author: "The Press Perspective on the First Amendment," Journal of the Mass.

Academy of Trial Attorneys, January 1994. "Recovery of Settlement Costs After Polaroid," Mass. Lawyers Weekly, May 10, 1993.

Contributing Author: State Freedom of Information Act, MCLE, 1993. Chair, Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education Seminar on Public Records Law and Open Meeting Law, 1993. Panelist: Massachusetts Bar Association seminar on Open Meeting Law and Freedom of Information Act, 1993.

Massachusetts Bar Association mid-winter meeting program on Open Meeting Law, 1989. Town Meeting Member, Town of Weymouth, Massachusetts, 1972-1976. Member: Boston (Member, Administration of Justice Section), Massachusetts (Member, Civil Litigation Section.

Advertising Committee, 1994—) and American (Member, Sections on: Civil Litigation. Torts and Insurance Practice). The Association of Trial Lawyers of America.

Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys (Member, Public Education Committee, 1994—). Women's Bar Association. Reporter, The Associated Press, 1976-1981.

Executive Editor, WEEI-AM, Columbia Broadcasting System, 1974-1976. Examples of cases handled by current members of the firm: Hanna vs. Plumer, 380 United States.

460 (1965)(Supremacy Clause and Federal Rules of Civil Procedure). Carleton vs. Town of Framingham, 418 Mass. 623 (1994)(State Tort Claims Act).

Globe Newspaper Company vs. Mass. Bay Trans. Authority Retirement Board, 416 Mass. 1007 (1993)(Media access to records).

Disabled American Veterans vs. United States. Department of Veterans Affairs, 783 F. Supp. 187 (S.D.N.Y. 1992) and 962 F.2d 136 (2d Cir.

1992) (Constitutionality of federal statute). Globe Newspaper Company vs. FBI, 21 Media L. Rep.

1013 (D. Mass. 1992)(Media access to records). Globe Newspaper Company vs. Mass. Bay Trans. Authority Retirement Board, 412 Mass.

770 (1992)(Medias access to records). Willis vs. Lipton, 947 F.2d 998 (1st Cir. 1991)(RICO); Welch vs.

Keene Corporation, 31 Mass. App. Ct. 157 (1991)(Asbestos). Caccavale vs. Raymark Industries, Inc., 404 Mass.

93 (1989)(Asbestos); Globe Newspaper Company vs. Chief Medical Examiner, 404 Mass. 132 (1989)(Media access to records).

O'Connor vs. Raymark Industries, Inc., 401 Mass. 586 (1988)(Asbestos). Yates vs. Norton Company, 403 Mass.

70 (1988)(Product Liability). Haseotes vs. Abacab Intl. Computers, Inc., 120 F.R.D. 12 (D. Mass.

1988)(Discovery in breach of contract). Cornell vs. E.I. Dupont de Nemours & Company, Inc., 841 F.2d 23 (1st Cir. 1988)(Product liability.

Toxic injury); Pitts vs. Aerolite SPC Corporation, 673 F. Supp. 1123 (D. Mass. 1987)(Product liability).

Patazza vs. Commonwealth, 398 Mass. 464 (1986)(State Tort Claims Act). Craig vs. A.H. Robins Company, Inc., 790 F.2d 1 (1st Cir.

1986)(Product liability). Payton vs. Abbott Labs, 780 F.2d 147 (1st Cir., 1985)(DES). Manego vs. Orleans Board of Trade, 773 F.2d 1 (1st Cir.

1985)(DES); Errichiello vs. Eli Lilly and Company, 618 F.Supp. 484 (D.Mass. 1985)(DES).

Smith vs. United States., 608 F. Supp. 1270 (D.Mass. 1985) (Federal Tort Claims Act);****Manego vs. Orleans Board of Trade.

598 F.Supp. 231 (D.Mass. 1984 )(Antitrust); Croes vs. United States., 726 F.2d 31 (1st.

Cir. 1984) (Federal Tort Claims Act). Hayes vs. Ariens Company, 391 Mass. 407 (1984)(Product liability).

Mullins vs. Pine Manor College, 389 Mass. 47 (1983)(Negligent security for dormitory). Correia vs. Firestone Tire & Rubber Company, 388 Mass.

342 (1983)(Product liability). Manego vs. Cape Cod Five Cents Sav. Bank, 692 F.2d 174 (1st Cir.

1982)(Civil rights); Willis vs. American Permac, Inc., 541 F. Supp. 118 (D.Mass. 1982) (Breach of contract to exploit a patent).

Bass vs. Boston Five Cent Sav. Bank, 478 F. Supp. 741 (D.Mass. 1979)(Antitrust); Miller vs.

Boston & Maine Corporation, 8 Mass. App. Ct. 770 (1979) (Railroad-crossing accident). Jet Spray Cooler, Inc. vs.

Crampton, 377 Mass. 159 (1979)(Trade secret). Back vs. Wickes Corporation, 375 Mass. 633 (1978)(Product liability).

Ward vs. Hercules, Inc., 75 F.R.D. 455 (D. Mass. 1977)(Supremacy of state Rule 15(c) over Federal Rule 15(c) as "substantive" rather than "procedural"). McLaughlin vs. Drackett Products Company, 20 F.R.Serv.2d 1081 (D.Mass.

1975)(Product liability. Pretrial discovery); Wallace vs. Shade Tobacco Growers Agricultural Association, Inc., 21 F.R.Serv.2d 1130 (D.Mass.

1975) (Premises liability). International Business Machines Corporation vs. Catamore Enterprises, Inc., 548 F.2d 1065 (1st Cir.

1976)(Breach of contract. Fraud); Clark vs. General Motors Corporation, 20 F.R. Serv. 2d 679 (D.Mass 1975)(Product liability.

Pretrial discovery); Kukuruza vs. General Elec. Company, 510 F.2d 1208 (1st Cir. 1975)(Electric shock injury).

Fegan vs. Lynn Ladder Company, Inc., 3 Mass. App. Ct. 60 (1975)(Product liability). A. Shapiro Realty Corporation vs.

Burgess Bros., Inc., 491 F.2d 327 (1st Cir. 1974)(Fire loss); Robinson vs. Pocahontas, Inc., 477 F.2d 1048 (1st Cir.

1973)(Jones Act); Subecz vs. Curtis, 483 F.2d 263 (1st Cir. 1973)(Medical malpractice).

Axion Corporation vs. G.D.C. Leasing Corporation, 359 Mass. 474 (1971)(UCC Article 2).

Essex Company vs. Goldman, 357 Mass. 427 (1970)(Real Estate). Dimond vs. Sacilotto, 353 Mass.

501 (1968) (Dram shop). Alexandridis vs. Jewett, 388 F.2d 829 (1st Cir. 1968)(Medical malpractice).

Posner vs. Paul's Trucking Service, Inc., 380 F.2d 257 (1st Cir. 1967)(Truck accident-liability for negligent instructions to independent contractor). Hayden vs. Ford Motor Company, 278 F.Supp.

267 (D. Mass. 1967) (Product liability). Kowel vs. Sportswear by Revere, Inc., 351 Mass. 541 (1967)(Suit for commissions after death of salesman).

Turner vs. Guiliano, 350 Mass. 675 (1966) (Medical malpractice). Magnat Corporation vs.

B & B Electroplating Company, 358 F.2d 794 (1st Cir. 1966)(Fraud); Lowd vs. California Fund Management Company, 235 F. Supp.

486 (D. Mass. 1964) (Securities).

Achievements

• Joanne Doctorate"Alcomo has been listed as a reputable lawyer by Martindale-Hubbell.

Membership

Member, Town of Weymouth, Massachusetts, 1972-1976. Member: Boston (Member, Administration of Justice Section), Massachusetts (Member, Civil Litigation Section. Advertising Committee, 1994—) and American (Member, Sections on: Civil Litigation.

Torts and Insurance Practice). The Association of Trial Lawyers of America. Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys (Member, Public Education Committee, 1994—).

Women's Bar Association. Reporter, The Associated Press, 1976-1981. Executive Editor, WEEI-AM, Columbia Broadcasting System, 1974-1976.