Charles S. Pappas
His rideshare article is the only one of the twelve built on cases the firm says it actually ran — a passenger rear-ended on Route 9 in Westborough, a taxi driver struck broadside in South Boston — and it uses them to explain why two crashes in the same app produce two different insurers.
The bar record
We read Charles S. Pappas in the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers attorney lookup. Every row below is the Board’s — this register carries no self-reported block at all, which is why nothing here is shaded.
Massachusetts says “None”, and means it as an answer. Unlike Washington, which shows a blank and warns its search may miss things, the BBO lookup states the absence directly. And we know the field is live rather than decorative, because one listing on this page reads “Yes” — with a date and a link to the decision. A register that will show you the bad record is a register worth believing on the clean one. What we have not done is search the Board’s separate decisions and admonitions archives, and the lookup states no time window either way.
Nine fields, and then it stops. The BBO publishes name, status, malpractice insurance, location, public discipline, firm, address, admission date and BBO number. No practice areas, no law school, no admissions in other states, no languages, no office size, no fee terms. Where Washington prints a sprawling block it warns might be wrong, and Texas labels its equivalent self-reported, Massachusetts simply does not ask. Everything below the record on this page is therefore the lawyer’s own account, tagged as such.
What the record shows
The article opens with two matters the firm says it handled and names the road, the town and the mechanism of each. It then uses them to make a point most of these pages skip entirely: that being in an Uber does not mean Uber’s policy pays. In the first, another driver was at fault, so that driver’s insurer responds. In the second, the Uber driver was at fault, so his does.Verified
That is the single most common misunderstanding about rideshare claims, and it is the only page in this batch that leads with it rather than jumping straight to the coverage tiers.Verified
His biography says he was immediately admitted to the Massachusetts Bar in 2005. The register says 1 December 2005. They agree — which is worth saying, because in this batch not everything does.Verified
His address of record is in Framingham, about twenty miles west and inside the Boston metro. Every card of ours outside the named city says so on its face.Verified
What the firm says
He says he graduated from Clemson University in accounting in 2001 and took his J.D. at New England School of Law in 2005, and that his practice is half personal injury and half workers’ compensation, entirely litigation.Reported
He says he has been selected to Massachusetts Super Lawyers five years running and previously to Rising Stars, and named among the Top 100 Civil Plaintiff Trial Lawyers in Massachusetts by the National Trial Lawyers.Reported
The firm says it has recovered millions for its clients. We print no recovery figures.Reported
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What we haven’t checked
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