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RONALD A.
WITMER, Partner
rwitmer@wkwrlaw.com
Ronald A. Witmer concentrates his
legal practice in the areas of divorce and other family law matters. He
also serves as a trustee of various trusts established by and for clients
and represents social service agencies and professionals in litigation
matters. Following his admission to the Massachusetts Bar in 1975, he
represented individuals in matrimonial law cases and conducted other civil
litigation for fifteen years at the Boston
firm now known as Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP. As a senior
partner in the Litigation Department, he served as chairperson of that
firm's Domestic Relations Practice Group. In January 1991, he established
the predecessor firm to Witmer, Karp, Warner & Ryan LLP.
Born in Jackson,
Michigan, Mr. Witmer earned a B.A. at Albion College
and an M.Div. degree at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. He received a J.D. from
Northeastern University School of Law and is admitted to practice in the
state and federal courts of Massachusetts.
He is a member of the Massachusetts,
American and Boston Bar Associations.
Mr. Witmer has engaged in a wide
range of legal and community activities during his legal career. He
regularly has taught in the fields of matrimonial law and legal ethics for
Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, Inc. (MCLE), including a biannual
course on legal ethics sponsored jointly by MCLE and the Board of Bar
Overseers. As a Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial
Lawyers, he has held every office of the
Massachusetts Chapter, including that of President. He is a founding member and President of
the Massachusetts Family and Probate American Inn of Court. Mr. Witmer was named as one of the top
one hundred Massachusetts Super Lawyers in the November 2005 and 2008
issues of Boston Magazine and has been listed in The Best Lawyers In
America since 1989.
Mr. Witmer joins other lawyers in
teaching trial and appellate advocacy skills to young attorneys. He serves
as a member of the faculty in seminars and workshops sponsored by Harvard Law
School, Northeastern University
School of Law, Suffolk
Law School,
MCLE and various bar associations. He also has served as a judge in the
Ames Moot Court Competition at Harvard
Law School
and the ABA National Appellate Advocacy Competition.
Mr. Witmer has been appointed as a Guardian Ad Litem by the
Massachusetts Probate and Family Court to examine probate trust accounts.
In addition to his work in the trial courts, Mr. Witmer has won a number of
significant cases on appeal, including Bahceli v. Bahceli, 10
Mass.App.Ct. 446 (1980) (with James D. St. Clair, Esquire), Hunnewell v. Hunnewell, 15
Mass.App.Ct. 358 (1983), Association for Reduction of Violence v. Hall,
734 F.2d 63 (1st Cir. 1984) and P.W. v. M.S., 67 Mass.
App. Ct. 779 (2006).
Mr. Witmer, who has five children
of his own, believes that working with people who are involved in divorces,
custody disputes and other family law matters offers attorneys a unique
opportunity to help people address their personal and legal crises with
dignity and assist them in remaining financially viable as they enter a new
phase of life.
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