Civil Litigation
Section Leadership
Paul E. White
White, a Wellesley resident, is a partner at Sugarman, Rogers,
Barshak & Cohen PC in Boston, where he is a trial attorney
handling complex civil litigation matters including commercial
contract disputes, commercial lease disputes, and product
liability, professional liability and insurance coverage
claims. He is the Suffolk County delegate on the MBA's House
of Delegates and sat on the MBA's Task Force on Law, the Economy
& Underemployment. White is a frequent writer and speaker on
deposition and trial techniques, in addition to other
litigation-related topics. He is rated AV® Preeminent™, the
highest lawyer peer rating, by Martindale-Hubbell and has been
named a Massachusetts Super Lawyer in the area of business
litigation since 2005. A founding member who served as both
treasurer and director of the Massachusetts Reinsurance Bar
Association, White is also a member of the Real Estate Bar
Association of Massachusetts' Commercial Lease Committee, and has
been active in several capacities with the Defense Research
Institute, Inc. White, who was trained as a barrister in the U.K.
before moving to the United States in 1984, earned his law degree
from Suffolk University School of Law in 1986.
Hector E. Pineiro
Pineiro operates the Law Office of Hector E. Pineiro in
Worcester, a general practice concentrating in civil litigation in
the areas of medical malpractice, catastrophic injury, product
liability and civil rights. He is admitted and practices in the
United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico. He is
a former member of the MBA's Joint Bar Committee and is a member of
the Reglan Litigation Group of the American Association for Public
Justice. Pineiro previously served as a member of the real estate
faculty at Northeastern University. He sits on the advisory boards
of the National Police Accountability Project as well as serves on
the legal panel and as a cooperating attorney of the American Civil
Liberties Union. Pineiro served on a nominating committee at the
request of U.S. Magistrate Charles B. Swartwood III to screen
candidates for the U.S. Federal Magistrate position for the central
district. He is a member of the American Association for Public
Justice and the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys.