Brewster, Barnstable County, Massachusetts

Law Office of Lindsey M. Straus

For the past twenty-one years I have been a solo practitioner in the Barnstable County town of Brewster on Cape Cod. I have obtained hundreds of trademark registrations from the United States Patent & Trademark Office, successfully represented clients in state and federal trial courts, probated estates and in divorces in the Probate and Family Court, helped clients set up businesses, and buy and sell businesses through asset purchase agreements.

For twelve years prior to opening my own law practice, I was Of Counsel to Mirick, O'Connell, DeMallie & Lougee (MODL), a large full-service firm in Worcester, Massachusetts. As a member of the Appellate Practice Group and Litigation Department, I handled a wide variety of civil cases in both state and federal trial and appellate courts, developing a well-deserved reputation for researching and drafting high quality memoranda of law (pre-trial, trial, post-trial and appellate) in legally and/or factually complex antitrust, breach of contract, business tort (Chapter 93A, trademark infringement), insurance coverage, ERISA, medical malpractice, plaintiffs class action, employment discrimination and civil rights litigations.

Prior to MODL, I was a litigation attorney with Mobil Oil Corporation specializing in antitrust, product liability and dealer franchise litigations, and began my legal career as a litigation associate with Piper & Marbury (now DLA Piper) in Baltimore, Maryland specializing in product liability and antitrust litigation. 

I received my J.D. with honors from the University of Maryland School of Law, where I was Assistant Editor of the Maryland Law Review and received numerous academic awards, including The Order of the Coif, and was a student clerk for a federal district court judge. I received my bachelor's degree cum laude from Harvard College in 1973, where I was an editor of The Harvard Crimson.

I am admitted to practice in Massachusetts, before the First and Third Circuit Courts of Appeals, and in the District of Massachusetts and Maryland. From 2004 to 2008 I was Clerk to and Member of the Board of Trustees of First Parish (Unitarian Universalist) Brewster. For many years, I served as the moderator elected by the congregation of the church's Annual Meeting, and currently serve as a lay worship leader, a member of the Policy Committee, and sing in the choir and perform as a member of our church band

Areas of Practice:

• Trademark & Copyright
• Estates & Trusts
• Civil Litigation
• Divorce
• Contracts
• Asset Purchase Agreements
• Non-Profit & Tax-Exempt Organizations
• Litigation and Appeals
• Complex Litigation
• Probate & Estate Administration
• Trusts
• Living Wills
• Powers of Attorney and Appointment
• Wills

Bar Admissions:

• Maryland, 1977
• New York, 1980
• Massachusetts, 1989
• U.S. District Court District of Maryland, 1978
• U.S. District Court District of Massachusetts, 1989
• U.S. Court of Appeals 1st Circuit, 1989
• U.S. Court of Appeals 3rd Circuit, 1998

Education

• University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, Baltimore, Maryland, J.D. with Honors
  • Honors: Numerous Academic Awards
  • The Order of the Coif
  • Maryland Law Review, Assistant Editor
• Harvard University, Cum Laude
  •  Editor, Harvard Crimson
• The Lawrenceville School, Lawrenceville, New Jersey

Past Employment Positions:

• Mirick, O'Connell, DeMallie & Lougee, Of Counsel, 1990-2002
• Fordham & Starrett, Of Counsel, 1988 - 1990
• Mobil Oil Corporation, Litigation Attorney, 1979 – 1988
• DLA Piper, Litigation Associate, 1977-1979