Practice Focus

Donna A. Mizrahi concentrates her practice in the areas of real estate, probate, and business litigation. Donna regularly litigates boundary, easement, partition, and zoning disputes; will, trust, and estate disputes; guardianships and conservatorships; and breach of contract and tort matters. She regularly appears in Massachusetts Land Court, Probate Court, and Superior Court.

Before joining Hemenway & Barnes, Donna spent four years working at a large, international law firm in Boston, MA, handling complex business litigation disputes in state and federal courts across the country. Donna also has substantial experience handling pre-litigation, mediation, and arbitration matters.

In addition, Donna previously worked as a staff attorney at Volunteer Lawyers Project in Boston, MA, representing low-income clients in a range of family law and guardianship matters.

Representative Matters

• Represented a client in Probate Court regarding allegations of undue influence and lack of capacity in connection with changes made to a family member’s estate plan.
• Obtained summary judgment for residential property owners in Land Court on the ground that a protective covenant agreement affecting all owners in a subdivision did not create an affirmative view easement burdening the clients’ property.
• Mediated intra-family dispute to successfully settle partition claim of a single-family home.
• Successfully sought adult child’s appointment as mother’s conservator in Probate Court.
• Obtained favorable result for publicly-traded company in breach-of-contract arbitration dispute with national bank.