Our attorneys:
Eduardo A. Masferrer | Stuart M. Hurowitz | Karen L. Swenson

Eduardo A. Masferrer

Born in New York City, of Cuban and Irish-American heritage, Eduardo Masferrer is a graduate from Boston College Law School and the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts.

A fluent Spanish speaker, Eduardo Masferrer lived in Panama City,
Panama and Miami, Florida before settling in Massachusetts. Attorney
Masferrer was a Staff Attorney with the Committee for Public Counsel for 3
1/2 years where he represented hundreds of clients charged with Superior Court felonies. Throughout his legal career he has defended clients accused of crimes ranging from operating under the influence, to robbery, to drug trafficking, to sexual assault. He has successfully tried cases in the Superior Court as well as in various district courts. He has argued appellate cases before the Single Justice, Massachusettes Court of Appeals and the Supreme Judicial Court.

His immigration practice has focused on obtaining visas for those wishing to enter the United States on an immigrant or temporary basis, assisting individuals within the United States with changing or adjusting their status, and defending those facing deportation.

Prior to joining the Committee for Public Counsel, Attorney Masferrer interned at the Middlesex District Attorney's Office, the Rhode Island Public Defender's Office and the Federal Public Defender's Office in Washington, D.C. His civil work has included working on class action housing discrimination claims at the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights under Law in Washington, D.C., and preparing visa applications for Honduran and Guatemalan clients seeking asylum at Centro Presente in Cambridge, MA

Throughout his legal career, Attorney Masferrer has dedicated himself to defending clients who face insurmountable odds, advocating on behalf of those who are not heard by the judicial system, and providing representation to immigrants who wish to visit and live in the United States.

He is a member of the Massachusetts Bar Association, the American Immigration Lawyers Association, the Massachusetts Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and Suffolk Lawyers for Justice. He is admitted to practice in the Massachusetts state courts as well as the United States Federal District Court. As an active member of the criminal defense bar, Attorney Masferrer has been a panel member on Committee for Public Counsel Annual Meetings and a speaker at the Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education programs speaking on topics dealing with Expert Witnesses in Sexual Assault Cases, Bail Revocations, and the Immigration Consequences of Criminal Convictions. He has also assisted in the coaching of the Boston College Law School National Mock Trial Team.
masferrer@mhattorneys.com

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Stuart M. Hurowitz

With an aggressive and creative litigation style, Attorney Hurowitz
steadfastly defends his clients who might otherwise be taken advantage of by the criminal justice system. In a system that is increasingly designed to
make it easier to prosecute those accused of crimes, Attorney Hurowitz
believes that he, and all defense lawyers, should provide the highest level
of quality advocacy to obtain the best possible outcome for his clients.
When a client's liberty or interests are at stake, it is critical that the
client trust the attorney fighting on his or her behalf. To that end, Attorney
Hurowitz meets with his clients regularly, informs them promptly of any
developments and thoroughly discusses their options with them.

Attorney Stuart Hurowitz was born in New York City and grew up on Long
Island. He graduated SUNY Binghamton in 1989 and Boston University School
of Law in 1992. Attorney Hurowitz began his legal career at the New
Hampshire Public Defender's Office spending the next seven and a half
years as a New Hampshire Public Defender, the last three and a half of
which were as the Managing Attorney of the Nashua Branch Office. During his
tenure as a New Hampshire Public Defender, he handled approximately 220
adult and juvenile cases per year ranging from shoplifting and driving while
intoxicated to rape and manslaughter. His creative motion practice put him
on the forefront of several novel legal issues including whether a witness
can testified to a so-called "recovered memory" at trial and whether or not
it is permissible to arraign defendants via video.

In December 1999, Attorney Hurowitz left NHPD, and traveled to Montenegro
(then, still a part of Yugoslavia), to work on a wide range of legal reform
projects as an American Bar Association's Central and East European Law
Initiative's (ABA-CEELI) Criminal Law Liaison. During his 13 month stay, he
lectured on American Criminal Procedure issues; assisted in the creation of
a Judicial Training Center; aided in the creation of a Clinical Education
Curriculum at the local Law School; worked with three local Non Governmental
Organizations attempting to provide legal aid in the local courts; was a
member of a working group writing a new law on the responsibilities of
prosecutors and an administrative violations code; initiated the creation of
community service programs as an alternative to incarceration; and worked
closely with the Ministry of Justice in its young lawyers program and other
projects involving legal reform.

In January 2001, Attorney Hurowitz returned to the United States as a
Visiting Professor to Boston University Law School's Criminal Defense
Clinical Program, supervising third-year law students as they took cases out
of the Boston Municipal Court. Also in 2001, the Committee for Public
Counsel Services retained Attorney Hurowitz as a full time staff attorney in
their Boston Trial Unit, where he handled serious felony cases in the
Suffolk County Superior Court, Boston Municipal Court and Dorchester
District Court.

From October 2002 through August 2003, Attorney Hurowitz was the Director of the Criminal Practice Clinic at Franklin Pierce Law Center in Concord, New
Hampshire. He closely supervised students representing indigent criminal
defendants from arraignment to trial in state courts. In addition to working
closely with the students on their cases in an individual setting, he also
taught them advanced advocacy skills in the classroom setting.

For the Fall Semester 2003, Boston College Law School brought Attorney
Hurowitz on as a visiting professor for their Criminal Practice Clinic. He
supervised the BC Defenders in Dorchester District Court as well as taught
them in the classroom.

Attorney Hurowitz remains as an adjunct professor at Boston College Law
School and a visiting professor with the Suffolk University Law School's
Juvenile Justice Program. He is licensed to practice in both Massachusetts
and New Hampshire. He is an active member of the Massachusetts and New
Hampshire Bar Associations, the New Hampshire Association of Criminal
Defense Attorneys, the National Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys,
the Nashua Bar Association, and the Suffolk Lawyers For Justice.
hurowitz@mhattorneys.com

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Karen L. Swenson

Karen Swenson is a graduate of Northeastern University School of Law and the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Attorney Swenson was a staff attorney for the Committee for Public Counsel
Services for over five years where she represented hundreds of clients
charged with Superior Court felonies. Throughout her legal career she has
defended clients accused of crimes ranging from assault and battery, to
robbery, to drug trafficking to sexual assault. She has successfully tried
cases in the Plymouth and Suffolk County Superior Courts as well as various
District Courts in Plymouth, Suffolk and Middlesex County.

Before attending law school Attorney Swenson volunteered at the Boulder
County Legal Services assisting in meeting the civil legal needs of the poor
living in the Boulder, Colorado area. She continued in her commitment to
work for social justice as a Jesuit Volunteer in Hillsboro Oregon, where she
worked as a trial assistant at the Multinomah County Public Defender Office
and maintained a misdemeanor, juvenile, civil commitment and felony
caseload.

She attended Northeastern University School of Law because of its commitment to public interest law practice. While at Northeastern School of Law, Attorney Swenson represented inmates at prison disciplinary hearings and parole hearings. She went on to be a teaching assistant in the prisoner's
rights clinic. During law school Attorney Swenson interned at the Center for
Legal Education and Defense Assistance, a post-conviction death penalty
appellate unit in Philadelphia. She was also a legal intern for the Honorable Margot Botsford of the Massachusetts Superior Court, Massachusetts Correctional Legal Services, Stern-Shapiro, Weissberg and Garin and the Committee for Public Counsel Services. As an intern with Stern, Shapiro, Weissberg and Garin and at the Committee for Public Counsel Services, Attorney Swenson sat as second chair in a variety of Superior Court Felony trials including two First Degree Murder trials.

Attorney Swenson is a member of Massachusetts Bar Association. She has
participated as a faculty member at the Massachusetts Continuing Legal
Education programs. In November, 2000 she was featured in the Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly.
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