Background
Durant, Maria R. was born on October 27, 1966 in Malden, Massachusetts, United States.
Durant, Maria R. was born on October 27, 1966 in Malden, Massachusetts, United States.
Suffolk University (Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, 1988. Juris Doctor, cum laude, 1991).
Worked at Dwyer & Collora (Boston, Master of Arts) specializing in Criminal and Civil Litigation in Federal and State Courts. Administrative, Communications, Public Contracts. Admitted to the bar, 1991, Massachusetts.
1992, United States.
District Court, District of Massachusetts and United States. Court of Appeals, First Circuit. Note Author, 1989-1990.
Managing Editor, 1990-1991, Suffolk University Law Review.
Author, "Cryopreservation of Human Embryos: A Scientific Advance. A Judicial Dilemma," 24 Suffolk U.L. Review
707 (1990). Member: Boston, Massachusetts and American Bar Associations.
Dwyer & Collora represents individual and corporate clients in a broad range of civil and criminal litigation matters before all state and federal courts and administrative agencies. Specialty areas of practice include failed thrift bank litigation, wrongful termination and other employment disputes, securities class action and customer-broker litigation, complex federal criminal trial matters, federal and state grand jury matters, professional conduct, ethics investigations and laws concerning political campaign and finance matters.
Many lawyers in the firm gained substantial trial experience while serving in state and/or federal prosecutorial roles before joining the practice.
Member: Boston, Massachusetts and American Bar Associations.