Kathleen Nelson, Esq.

Attorney Kathleen E. Nelson joined our firm in 2018. For the twenty-seven years prior to joining our firm, Attorney Nelson practiced as an insurance defense attorney at the Law Offices of Patricia E. Fraizer in Boston, the Hartford Insurance Group’s New England Staff Counsel.  She held the position of Senior Trial Counsel and gained extensive trial experience in both state and federal courts in Massachusetts and Rhode Island.  She has tried numerous cases to verdict and has experience defending general liability, products liability, toxic tort, lead paint, head injury cases, municipal liability, and medical malpractice matters. She has appeared before all of Massachusetts and Rhode Island’s state and federal courts, and is engaged in motion, discovery, and trial practice in all of her areas of expertise.

Attorney Nelson has the added background of also being a registered nurse with over a decade of experience in critical care and intensive care units at Massachusetts General Hospital. She is a wealth of medical knowledge which she is able to incorporate in her handling of complex injury cases.  Attorney Nelson also holds a BSN in nursing.

Attorney Nelson graduated from New England School of Law and Northeastern University with honors.  She is admitted to both the Massachusetts and Rhode Island bars and their Federal Courts.  She is a member of the Rhode Island Bar Association and the Justinian Law Society.