Practice Areas

Murphy, Hesse, Toomey & Lehane, LLP has extensive and diverse experience in applying its legal knowledge and resources to “real world” business issues and situations for our business clients, which include entrepreneurs, start-ups, small and medium sized companies, non-profits, and large corporations including Fortune 500 companies. The firm’s approach is to understand the particular needs and problems of the clients, and develop creative strategies to meet our clients’ goals and objectives within the permissible bounds of the increasingly complex regulatory environment faced by business today. We strive to address the needs of our business clients in a prompt and professional manner and provide education and counseling to avoid potential legal problems before they occur.

Murphy, Hesse, Toomey & Lehane, LLP advises major corporations, small businesses, start ups, and governmental and non-profit entities throughout the Northeast and Atlantic states and beyond in connection with their workplace issues.

The firm's trusts and estates group provides a comprehensive range of legal services to assist our clients in the management of their assets and estates, including estate planning, tax consultation and business succession planning. We work closely with our clients to understand their specific needs and objectives and draft individualized documents, including wills trusts, healthcare proxies and power of attorneys, designed to meet their objectives and minimize or avoid taxes and expenses. We counsel our high net worth clients in sophisticated estate planning practices utilizing established and approved methods of minimizing estate taxes including, irrevocable life insurance trusts, charitable lead and remainder trusts, qualified personal residence trusts, grantor retained income and annuity trusts, dynasty trusts, family limited partnerships, family foundations and planned gifting programs. We also draft specialized trust documents to address the needs of individuals with disabilities or to preserve the estate assets in the event of prolonged illness or incapacity.

Murphy, Hesse, Toomey & Lehane, LLP, has decades of experience representing non-profits throughout New England.  We represent some of the largest non-profits in the region as well as many smaller organizations – our firm has the flexibility to provide for the needs of all non-profit entities.