Isaac H. Peres is a Senior Civil Litigator. He graduated from the Maimonides School in Brookline, Massachusetts in 1977. He received his Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1981, and his Juris Doctorate from Boston College Law School in 1984. He is a member of the state and federal bars in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Starting in 1984, Attorney Peres worked as an associate for a high-profile criminal defense firm on the North Shore handling state and federal cases of major import.

From 1987 to 1994, Attorney Peres worked as an associate for a major Boston law firm. At that firm, he was responsible for the preparation of many dispostive motions and appeals in civil cases. It was during that time that Attorney Peres honed his outstanding oral and written advocary skills, and was repsonsible for the reversal on appeal of two multi-million dollar jury verdicts against the firm's banking clients. Attorney Peres also argued a case before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court during a session in Salem, Massachusetts which commemorated the Court's 300th anniversary.

Since 1994, Attorney Peres has been a partner in two small law firms and has also been a solo practitioner. During these years, Attorney Peres has represented many individuals and small businesses at trials and appeals, including real estate, medical and legal malpractice, partnership dissolution, bankruptcy, and debt collection cases. Recent reported cases include Zagorianakos v. Golden, 23 Mass.L.Rptr. 247, 2007 WL 3317513 (Mass.Super. 2007); Miller v. Finnin, 67 Mass.App.Ct. 1108 (2006), affirmed, 448 Mass. 1105 (2007), cert. den., 127 S.Ct. 3017, 168 L.Ed.2d 729 (2007) (No. 06-1452); In re Rowlands, 346 B.R. 279 (1st Cir. BAP 2006); and Zoppo v. Zoppo, 453 F.Supp.2d 232 (D.Mass. 2006); Koltin v. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 62 Mass.App.Ct. 920 (2004).

Over the years, Attorney Peres has been involved in several other publicized cases including:

Hammond v. MDC, Suffolk Superior Court, C.A. No. 00-5514:

Attorney Peres represented the family of a missing 21-year old mother of two, Karen Hammond, whose dead body may have been left in the Granite Rail Quarry in Quincy, Massachusetts. The authorities had given up looking for the body even though divers had discovered what appeared to be the body of a young woman believed to be Karen Hammond in 1997. The quarry was scheduled to be filled with dirt from the "Big Dig" project in November, 2000. Attorney Peres filed the case seeking a preliminary injunction to stop the filling of the quarry for a short period of time to allow the Hammond family to conduct a privately funded search for Karen's body. The case was reported on extensively by The Boston Globe, The Boston Herald, and all the local television stations.

Pave v. Mills, Suffolk Superior Court, C.A. No. 97-5210:

Attorney Peres represented a landowner whose neighbor's building encroached several inches onto his property. A Superior Court Judge ordered the neighboring landowner to remove the encroachment. The Court's decision was the subject of a front page story in the Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly and is reported at 10 Mass.L.Rptr. 412, 1999 WL 791952 (Mass.Super. 1999).

Araujo, et al. v. LR4A-JV Limited Partnership, d/b/a Realty Financial Partners, Suffolk Superior Court, C.A. No. 01-2857-BLS:

Attorney Peres was lead counsel for 17 plaintiffs, the majority of whom were Brazilians, who alleged that they were harassed late at night by agents of the defendant lender who represented themselves to be "federal agents" or "FBI". There were several stories in The Boston Globe about this case, as well as a feature on WFXT/Channel 25.

Dorn v. Astra USA, Inc., United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, C.A. No. 96-11124-MEL:

Attorney Peres was co-counsel for the Plaintiffs in this sexual harassment suit, which originated, in part, out of a May 2, 1996 cover story in Business Week entitled "Abuse of Power, The Astonishing Tale of Sexual Harassment at Astra's U.S. Pharmaceutical Subsidiary". This case, and several other related lawsuits, were covered extensively in many newspapers and on national and local television stations.

Lasota v. Town of Topsfield, United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, C.A. No. 96-10517-NG:

Attorney Peres was co-counsel for the Plaintiff at the trial in this civil rights case which concerned a teacher who alleged that the Town of Topsfield failed to renew her contract in violation of her right to intimate association. The trial was covered extensively in The Boston Globe and The Boston Herald.

Yvonne George and Beverly v. The Samaritans of Fall River/New Bedford, Inc., et al., Norfolk Superior Court, C.A. No. 94-2369:

This was a defamation case which arose out of a peculiar attempt by a group of individuals, including the Plaintiffs, to make unwarranted donations to the Samaritans. The money was allegedly raised by or on behalf of a "General John Ross" and his wife, "Elaine Ross", to praise the Samaritans' suicide prevention work with their son "Michael Ross". What made the story especially interesting was that no one was ever able to substantiate the existence of the "Rosses". The story was covered extensively in the Providence Journal-Bulletin, the Winchester Town Crier, and the Herald News. Channel 5's Chronicle also did a feature story on this case. Attorney Peres was of counsel to the firm that represented the defendants, and prepared the Motion for Summary Judgment which was allowed in favor of the defendants and ended the case.

Robert J. Granara v. O'Brien, et al., Suffolk Superior Court, C.A. No. 95-5687:

Attorney Peres was co-counsel for the Plaintiff (with Attorney Salvatore F. DiMasi) in this civil rights case. The Plaintiff was a member of the UMass Dartmouth ice hockey team, who was falsely accused of raping a female student and suspended from the team. The Plaintiff filed a lawsuit seeking to enjoin the University from preventing him from playing ice hockey after he had been cleared of the rape charge by the police. The case received coverage on local television news stations, and the hearing conducted by the Court on the Plaintiff's Motion for a Preliminary Injunction was covered by COURT TV.

Attorney Peres is the co-author of "Debt Collection From Start to Finish in Massachusetts"; authors, Dana E. Casher and Isaac H. Peres, Eau Clair, WI: National Business Institute, Inc., 2004; and was a featured speaker at NBI Program held on 8/25/04.

He was a featured speaker at the Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, "Collecting Debt, Legally, Ethically, and Successfully," December 5, 2007.