Six Verrill Attorneys named to Boston Magazine’s Top Lawyers of 2024 List

BOSTON, Mass. – Verrill attorneys Rachel A. Deering, Kristin S. Doeberl, Regina M. Hurley, Andrew Ferrer, Kyle T. MacDonald, and Laurence M. Yorra were recently recognized as a Top Lawyer by Boston Magazine in the publication’s Top Lawyers of 2024 list.

Boston Magazine invited local lawyers to nominate up to three of their peers in specific areas. Once voting had concluded, an advisory board chose the winners not only by the number of votes they received, but also by their credentials.

Deering, Doeberl, Hurley, and MacDonald are members of Verrill’s Family Law Group, Ferrer is a member of the firm’s Health Care Group, and Yorra is a member of the firm’s Real Estate Group.

The full list can be found online here.

Deering focuses her practice on divorce, child custody, removal, paternity, alimony, modification proceedings, and contempt proceedings. Deering also works with clients to negotiate and structure prenuptial and postnuptial agreements. An experienced litigator, Rachel has appeared, argued, and tried cases throughout Massachusetts, including high conflict custody and parenting disputes, removal disputes, contested Guardian Ad Litem investigations, and complex asset division involving the valuation of financial assets and closely held businesses.

Doeberl negotiates and drafts prenuptial, separation, and modification agreements, and represents clients in divorce, custody, removal, international child abduction, guardianship, modification, and contempt proceedings. Doeberl advises clients on issues impacting the LGBTQ community, and handles second-parent adoptions. She also serves as a court-certified conciliator and is the Chair of Verrill’s Hiring Committee.

Ferrer blends academic rigor with practical experience. His legal experience encompasses a wide spectrum, including day-to-day business operations and services, regulatory compliance, contractual matters, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, healthcare privacy (HIPAA), patient rights, academic affiliations, and proficiency in healthcare licensing matters for new ventures, construction/renovations, renewals and service line changes, such as plan review, survey and licensure, ownership transfers, essential service closures, drug control registration, laboratory registration, payor enrollment, and the Determination of Need process.

Hurley has 37 years of experience and focuses her practice on complex family matters including custody, identifying, valuing, and dividing unique assets and sources of income; and disputes involving international jurisdiction, foreign divorces; and Hague Convention matters.

MacDonald handles all areas of family law litigation and negotiation, including complex divorce, post-divorce enforcement, modification, paternity, custody, and international and domestic removal cases, as well as abuse prevention orders and pre-and postnuptial agreements. MacDonald also mediates and conciliates all types of domestic relations matters, assisting couples and families in privately resolving their disputes, as well as is privately retained to serve as a private parent coordinator and court-certified conciliator.

Yorra is a real estate lawyer representing corporations, developers, institutional lenders, non-profits and individuals in all aspects of commercial and residential conveyancing, leasing and financing. He represents developers of residential complexes in the acquisition, financing and disposition of single and multifamily residential properties; non-profit entities in the acquisition, financing, development and disposition of their real estate assets; developers and institutional lenders in financings, loan restructurings, asset recoveries, and workouts; and individuals and estates in the acquisition and disposition of high-end residential properties.