Kevin Donovan
His firm's page sends readers to the wrong regulator. Advising how to vet a lawyer, it says you can view disciplinary records on the Massachusetts Bar Association's website. The MBA is a voluntary membership association. Discipline is the Board of Bar Overseers — the register this listing is built on.
The bar record
We read Kevin Donovan 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 page advises readers to confirm a lawyer is licensed and to check discipline on Massachusetts Bar Association’s website. The Massachusetts Bar Association is a voluntary membership organisation and does not discipline lawyers. Public discipline in this state is the Board of Bar Overseers, at massbbo.org — the source every listing on this page is built from.Verified
This is the error we care most about in the batch, because it is advice about how to check a lawyer, and following it would send a reader to a body that has nothing to show them. Every other defect here is cosmetic. This one costs the reader the check.Verified
The same page states that an at-fault Uber driver’s personal policy would likely cover the first $20,000 in damages. Two other pages in this batch put the first-dollar figure at $8,000 and identify it as the PIP cap. We report the disagreement and do not resolve it — we have no source that settles it, and printing whichever we preferred would be exactly the thing this site exists not to do.Verified
One thing his page gets exactly right, quietly: his biography states Years of Experience: 12, and the register says 21 November 2013. They match. Very few biographies in any batch survive that check.Verified
What the firm says
He says he took a B.S. at Boston University in 2007 and a J.D. at Thomas Jefferson School of Law in 2013, where he was vice-president of the student body and editor-in-chief of the school newspaper.Reported
He says he is licensed in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and North Carolina. The BBO lookup has no field for admissions elsewhere and we have not checked the other two.Reported
He says he is a member of the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys and spoke at its PIP seminar in 2014.Reported
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What we haven’t checked
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