Our Team
The Law Offices of Edward F. Wallace is comprised of two highly experienced and skilled personal injury attorneys. As committed trial lawyers, we work vigorously to protect the rights and best interest of all our clients, and help them recover the largest settlements possible. Our main priority is providing our clients with a level of commitment, dedication, and service that is unmatched throughout Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
Meet the Attorneys
Attorney Edward F. Wallace
Ed has been practicing law over 30 years. He received his law degree from Suffolk University Law School in 1978. Ed is admitted to practice before all the courts of the states of Massachusetts and New Hampshire, the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire, and the Supreme Court of the United States. Ed is also certified as an Advocate by the National College of Advocacy*. Ed has completed the Brain Injury Association Trial Lawyers Conference. One of Ed’s cases was reported in Trial Magazine, a magazine published by the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, reporting on the fact that Ed was able to introduce into evidence, for the first time in United States legal history, objective test confirming the diagnosis of PTSD. Ed has argued a case in front of the Supreme Court for the state of New Hampshire.
Ed is also a qualified mediator having completed the mandatory course in Mediation through Mediation Works Inc. In addition, he has, for almost a decade, sat as a conciliator in the Superior Courts of Massachusetts. Please visit Ed’s mediation website TheMediationLawyers.com.
Ed has participated in the AITLAmerica Advanced Combat Training: How to Win Big in the Tough Trucking Case in Atlanta, Georgia. He is now a member of the Association of Plaintiff Interstate Trucking Lawyers of America (APITLA) and the American Association for Justice (AAJ).
Ed has been married for 36 years and has two children. Ed tries to be socially responsible and drives a hybrid vehicle. Ed was a member of the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary for almost 10 years where he taught public safe boating classes and went on safety patrols.
Laura Sheppard
 Attorney Laura Sheppard received her law degree from the Massachusetts School of Law in 1996. She is admitted to practice before all of the courts of the States of Massachusetts and New Hampshire, the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts and the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire. She has been handling personal injury cases for over 12 years. Attorney Sheppard litigates matters in both New Hampshire and Massachusetts State and Federal courts and routinely appears before the NH Department of Labor and MA Department of Industrial Accidents and Social Security Administration. In addition, Laura has helped clients to resolve their claims through mediation, arbitration and other alternative dispute resolution processes.
Prior to joining our firm, Laura worked in New Hampshire for a large Nashua law firm and later for a small Manchester law firm where she focused her practice on personal injury and workers’ compensation and social security disability matters. Prior to relocating her practice to New Hampshire, Laura worked for a busy downtown Boston personal injury firm. Prior to becoming an attorney, Laura worked for over ten years as a paralegal assisting clients with personal injury matters, including families of young children who suffered lead poisoning.
Laura is also a qualified mediator having completed the mandatory forty hour training from Mediation Works, Inc. She also sits as a volunteer conciliator for the Lowell Superior Court. Most recently, Laura has become certified by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Committee for Public Counsel Services, to accept appointments to represent mental health clients in connection with mental health commitment hearings.
Laura is also an active member of the New Hampshire Board of Chiropractic Examiners.
She was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar in 1996 and to the New Hampshire bar in 1998. Laura received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Legal Studies from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1987 and her Juris Doctor degree from the Massachusetts School of Law at Andover in 1996.
Outside of her busy law practice, Laura is an avid gardener and enjoys spending her free time outside in her gardens with her husband and German Shepherd. She also spends her summers camping. You can reach Laura at laura@attywallace.com.
Contact the Law Offices of Edward F. Wallace today at (888) 339-2889!
|