Massachusetts Legal Research Services for Attorneys
The National Legal Research Group was founded in 1969 to provide quality research and writing services to law firms of all shapes and sizes. More than 50 years, 50,000 clients and 185,000 research projects later, we still have the same goal.
We have served over 1500 attorneys in Massachusetts on over 2200 cases. We list some of these attorneys below, along with what they have said about our services.
NLRG offers a broad range of work products, both objective and advocacy. Our objective products can help you evaluate a case or give you sources to cite in a work product of your own. Our most common advocacy product is a motion brief or trial brief. Earlier in the case, we can draft complaints, answers, and motions, including discovery motions. We also draft signature-ready appellate briefs to both the Massachusetts Appeals Court and the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC). Here is a broader discussion of the types of products we prepare.
Many of our clients are solo practitioners and small firms. We take great pride in allowing these clients access to the same legal research firepower enjoyed by larger firms, at an affordable price. We cannot work for non-attorneys.
We have over 25 research attorneys. Some work at our headquarters building just west of Charlottesville, Virginia; others work remotely. We list below our attorneys who most regularly work on Massachuetts cases. You can also view full biographies of our entire attorney staff. We specialize by area of law, and many of our attorneys have years of experience working in their areas. All of our research projects are done by human attorneys; we use AI only as one among many research tools.
Our normal turnaround time is 2-3 weeks, but we can sometimes do quick email or telephone reports in as little as 1-2 days, though at a higher billing rate. Here is a full list of our billing rates.
Massachusetts Research Attorney Spotlight
Senior Attorney Lee Dunham
B.A., Washington & Lee University. J.D, University of Virginia School of Law. Member, Virginia Bar. Lee served as a clerk in Virginia Beach, then spent a number of years in private practice at firms in Charlottesville, Virginia and Denver, Colorado, before joining NLRG. Full bio here
Senior Attorney Anne Hemenway
B.A., Harvard University, 1979, Cum Laude. J.D., Case Western Reserve University School of Law, 1985. Member, New Mexico Bar. Anne worked as a legislative assistant for former Senator Birch Bayh and former Senator Joe Tydings in Washington, D.C. Upon graduating from law school, she practiced commercial law for five years before joining NLRG. Read Full Bio.
Research Attorney Heidi Waugh
B.A. Cum Laude, Smith College. J.D. Summa Cum Laude, Western New England University School of Law. After graduation, Heidi served as an Appellate Court Attorney at the New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Third Judicial Department. She then provided freelance research and writing services to civil litigation attorneys and represented children and indigent parents in care and protection proceedings as a private attorney on the Massachusetts Children and Family Law Trial Panel. Heidi continues to serve as a court investigator for the Massachusetts Juvenile Court. She is a member of the Massachusetts and New York bars. Read full bio.
Testimonials
"A recent job regarding an opposition to a motion... went beyond and above all expectations of the usual superlative product I am used to obtaining from your firm. Your attorney did a marvelous job of exhaustively researching the issues and putting together a very coherent brief... The opposing attorney [requested] additional time to further brief the issues that were 'artfully raised.'... I wished that I could take credit for the brief... Win, lose, or draw, it was money well spent.
—Kevin J. Reddington, Brockton, MA
"We are very satisfied with the quality of work produced and the timeliness of the projects."
—Stanley M. Cohen, Boston, MA
"Lee [Dunham] did an excellent job of pulling together a memorandum which had a lot of moving parts, I really like working with her."
—Laurel Bretta, Medford, MA
"Anne Hemenway was very good to work with. She has a careful, friendly manner and she 'got it' right away. Her product was on the money and on time."
—Jonathan P. Shattuck, Belmont, MA
"Paul [Ferrer] did a very good job, was very responsive and was able to get a substantial amount of work done in a short amount of time. I greatly appreciated his efforts during a time crunch when I was consumed with other tasks in preparation for trial."
—Marwan Zubi, Springfield, MA
I had a very short deadline. The response was thorough, timely and on point. Thank you."
—Mark Petersen, Worcester, MA
