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= Rackemann, Sawyer & Brewster =

Rackemann, Sawyer and Brewster is a mid-size law firm located in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm traces its founding to 1886, when notable Boston attorneys Charles S. Rackemann, Felix Rackemann, and James Dunbar joined to form the firm of Dunbar & Rackemann. This accounting would place it among the oldest Boston law firms in continuous operation.

Rackemann Sawyer and Brewster was originally founded as a real estate focused law firm, but since its founding it has expanded the scope of its legal work and become what is known as a full-service law firm. The firm organizes its attorneys into legal practice groups based on legal specializations and expertise, examples of which include Real Estate, Land Use and Zoning, Environmental Law, Insurance Law, Corporate Law, Employment Law, Litigation, and Trusts and Estates. The firm is currently comprised of forty-seven lawyers. .

Rankings
U.S. News / Best Lawyers ranked Rackemann, Sawyer and Brewster as a nationally prominent firm in 4 practice areas in 2015: Insurance Law, Real Estate Law, Tax Law, and Trusts and Estates Law. Additionally, the firm was highly ranked in the Boston metro-area for Appellate Law, Environmental Law, Commercial Litigation, and Trusts and Estates Litigation.

Twelve Rackemann, Sawyer & Brewster attorneys were selected for inclusion in the 2015 edition of Best Lawyers in America, one of the preeminent lists of the country’s top legal talent.

Seventeen of the firm’s attorneys were selected for inclusion in the prestigious Massachusetts Super Lawyers and Massachusetts Rising Stars lists in 2014.

The Firm was ranked as the 39th largest law firm in Massachusetts in 2014 by the Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly newspaper.

Notable Current and Former Attorneys
David A. Mills (Counsel) - Former Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Appeals Court and member of the Massachusetts State Ethics Commission.

Daniel Ossoff (Director) - Former President of the Real Estate Bar Association for Massachusetts.

Henry H. Thayer (Director, 1964-2015) - Former President of the Real Estate Bar Association for Massachusetts.

Hanson S. Reynolds, (Director, 1996-2014) - Former President of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel.

Robert B. Foster (Director, 1993-2011) - Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Land Court.

Peter Kilborn (Director, 1972-1996) - Former Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Land Court (1933-2014)