Burnette, Lauren M.

Joseph M. Burke is of counsel to Parker Scheer LLP, and brings nearly twenty-five years of experience in the representation of injured workers and their families concentrating his practice in Workers' Compensation and personal injury law, including construction site and work place accidents; medical malpractice; motor vehicle negligence; product liability; and, defective premises.

Mr. Burke has represented injured employees and their survivors in workers' compensation cases before the Department of Industrials Accidents, and is counsel of record on numerous appeals before the Reviewing Board of the DIA and the Appeals Courts of the Commonwealth. He has tried dozens of jury trials to verdict in the Superior Court, all on behalf of those who have been needlessly injured. In addition, he has presented clients in Social Security Disability claims before the Office of Hearings and Appeals of the Social Security Administration in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Rhode Island.

Before joining Parker Scheer, Mr. Burke founded BURKE and BURKE, a Wellesley law firm that focused its practice in the representation exclusively on behalf of injured workers and their families in work place negligence and products liability claims. This practice also included the litigation of construction site negligence and products liability claims and motor vehicle negligence in the Superior Courts of Massachusetts and Connecticut as well as representation of clients before Hearings and Appeals of the Social Security Administration.

Mr. Burke makes his home in Wellesley, Massachusetts, with his wife and two daughters.