Judicial Administration

Section Leadership

Hon. Gordon L. Doerfer (ret.)

Doerfer, a Needham resident, is a mediator and arbitrator on the panel of neutrals at JAMS -- The Resolution Experts in Boston -- where he specializes in the arbitration and mediation of business disputes. He is also on the adjunct faculty of Suffolk University Law School, where he teaches trial practice and previously served as adjunct faculty at Boston College Law School. Doerfer retired from the bench following 25 years of service, including four years on the Boston Municipal Court, fifteen years on the Superior Court and six years as an associate justice of the Massachusetts Appeals Court. He is a recipient of a Judicial Excellence Award from the Massachusetts Judges Conference. He recently completed his term as president of the American Judicature Society, a national organization of lawyers, judges and citizens advocating for the integrity of the judicial system.

John J. Morrissey

Morrissey, a Hingham resident, is a founding partner of the law firm of Morrissey, Wilson & Zafiropoulos LLP in Braintree, a boutique law firm practicing in the areas of litigation, bankruptcy & creditors' rights and real estate. He practices in the area of litigation with a principle focus on personal injury and workers' compensation claims. Morrissey also serves as an arbitrator on the MBA Fee Arbitration Board. He is a member of the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys' Board of Governors and chairman of the Workers' Compensation Committee. Morrissey currently serves as a member of the Board of Bar Overseers' Hearing Committee for Plymouth and Norfolk counties. HeMorrissey is a life fellow and a member of the Grant Advisory Committee of the Massachusetts Bar Foundation. Since 2003, Morrissey has served as a director of Central Bancorp, a publically traded company, and as a director and chairman of the Real Estate Committee of Central Co-Operative Bank since 2004.