Six Verrill Attorneys named to Boston Magazine’s Top Lawyers of 2025 List

BOSTON, Mass. (December 1, 2025) – Verrill attorneys Rachel A. Deering, Kristin S. Doeberl, Andrew Ferrer, Regina M. Hurley, Kyle T. MacDonald, and Mary H. Schmidt were recently recognized as a Top Lawyer by Boston Magazine in the publication’s Top Lawyers of 2025 list.

Boston Magazine invited local attorneys to nominate up to three peers in designated practice areas. After the voting period ended, an advisory board selected the final honorees based not only on the number of nominations received but also on each nominee’s professional 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 Schmidt is a member of the firm’s Private Clients Group.

Learn more and access the full list 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.

Ferrer’s 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. Ferrer is also a member of the Firm’s Artificial Intelligence & Emerging Technologies Group.

Hurley has 38 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.

Schmidt’s practice focuses on guiding clients through complex gift, estate and income tax planning, trust and estate planning, prenuptial and post nuptial agreement preparation, negotiation and litigation, and estate administration. Schmidt serves as an expert witness in the Massachusetts probate and superior courts. She has also been frequently appointed by the Probate & Family Court to serve as a fiduciary and guardian ad litem in various probate and family law matters.