Ken DeMoura
Phone: (781) 914-3770
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Ken DeMoura is an accomplished trial attorney and counselor to individuals
and businesses. Since 1986, he has appeared before all state and federal
courts in Massachusetts and handles a wide range of matters including
commercial disputes, product liability, employment, intellectual property,
partnership, banking, construction, professional liability, criminal and
bankruptcy cases. He has tried dozens of cases to verdict and handled
over fifty arbitration matters. Ken is a certified mediator and commercial
arbitrator. He is admitted to practice in all state and federal courts
in Massachusetts and the District of Columbia.
Ken has been recognized by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers
In America® since 2012 and as a fellow in the Litigation Counsel of
America, a trial lawyers' honorary society composed of only one half
of one percent of all American lawyers. Since 2005 Ken has been recognized
as a Massachusetts Super Lawyer® and included in the Super Lawyers®
Corporate Counsel New England Editions in the area of business litigation
since 2010. He is AV® Rated by Martindale-Hubbell®. In 2014, Ken
was selected as "Lawyer of the Year" by Best Lawyers of America®
in the Mass Tort Litigation and Class Action Defense category for Boston.
He serves as a director and the treasurer of the national Complex Commercial
Litigation Institute.
Ken received his JD (magna cum laude) in 1986 from New England School of
Law and BA in Political Science (summa cum laude) from the University
of Massachusetts-Lowell in 1983. At New England School of Law, Ken was
the first-place finisher in the National Honors Moot Court competition
and received the Dean's Scholarship for highest class G.P.A. and Amos
L. Taylor Award for Excellence in Achievement at graduation. While a law
student Ken interned at the Massachusetts Attorney General's office in 1982.
After graduating from law school, Ken joined Bingham Dana & Gould (later
known as Bingham McCutchen) as a litigation associate where he practiced
until 1994. In 1994, he formed a litigation boutique law firm continuing
to represent individuals, businesses and institutions in civil litigation
matters. In 2000, Ken joined Adler Pollock & Sheehan as a litigation
partner and served as managing partner of the Firm’s Boston office
from 2001 to 2007. In 2008, he joined the national law firm of LeClairRyan
where he practiced law as a litigation partner until forming DeMoura|Smith
LLP in 2012.
From 1987 until 2013, Ken was an adjunct professor of law at New England
School of Law. Ken served as a Special Prosecutor for the Plymouth County
District Attorney’s office in 1987 trying criminal matters. He has
also served as an advisor to the Trial Advocacy Workshop at Harvard Law
School since 1991. He is a past member of the Board of Directors of the
South Boston Neighborhood House, past chairperson of the Saint Brigid
School Board and coach in the South Boston Little League and Youth Soccer programs.