Gallivan, Erin

Stephen E. Dawley graduated with honors from The College of the Holy Cross  in 1974. He attended Suffolk University Law School on a full academic scholarship, the David I. Walsh Scholarship, and graduated with honors in 1977. After graduating, Attorney Dawley  was hired as an associate at Burwick & Burwick, a general practice law firm in Worcester, Massachusetts. In 1978 he was admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts.

Attorney Dawley subsequently started his own practice in Framingham, Massachusetts, and has practiced continuously in Framingham for over twenty-five years. During that time he has been in several professional associations and was a partner in the firm of Campion, Flynn, Woodworth & Dawley.  Attorney Dawley has had his own practice for almost ten years. He served on the Hopedale Finance Committee for three years and as Hopedale Town Counsel for almost five years. He has also served as a Board member and President of the South Middlesex Bar Association. Attorney Dawley is a member of the Massachusetts Bar Association and the Real Estate Bar Association.

Stephen Dawley has always felt that community involvement is an essential complement to his professional practice as both a reflection of his own values and a way for him use his education and experience in practical ways for the betterment of others. At Holy Cross he tutored struggling students at South High School. While in law school Attorney Dawley participated in a volunteer program representing indigent women in Essex County who could not afford an attorney to get divorced, often from abusive husbands. He was also active in the Big Brother program.

After graduating from law school Attorney Dawley volunteered at a non-profit organization in Cambridge that provided free legal services to indigent men and women in domestic relations cases.  For fourteen years he served as a member and chair of the Human Rights Committee at the New England Center for Children, a preeminent organization in the care and education of children who have autism or one of the related spectrum of disorders.  For a number of years Attorney Dawley was on the pro bono panel that staffed a legal clinic at St. Francis House, a homeless shelter in Boston.  For a decade Dawley served as the advisor for the Framingham High School Mock Trial Team.

Attorney Dawley coached youth basketball for eleven years and served on the Board of Directors of Southborough Youth Basketball. He also coached Little League baseball and soccer. Since 1992 Dawley has been on the Board of Directors of The 200 Foundation, a Framingham based charity that raises funds to support counseling centers, food pantries, and other worthy organizations serving the area's neediest people. Attorney Dawley serves on the pro bono panel for South Middlesex Legal Services in Framingham. He is also a hospice volunteer.