Brian Cloherty

Partner at Keches Law Group
Bridgewater, MA

About Brian Cloherty

Brian Cloherty, is a partner at Keches Law Group, P.C. which he joined in 1988. He is admitted to practice in Massachusetts and the U.S. District Court. He is a member of the Massachusetts Bar Association and the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys, where he is a frequent guest lecturer. Mr. Cloherty is an aggressive advocate for his clients, representing injured union members and other workers at the Department of Industrial Accidents, Social Security Administration and local Retirement Boards.

“I get a tremendous amount of satisfaction helping clients through a difficult time and ensuring they receive the benefits they deserve,” says Mr. Cloherty. Mr. Cloherty has been a guest lecturer at numerous trade unions for many years on the topic of Workers’ Compensation. Mr. Cloherty is a graduate of the New England School of Law and received his undergraduate degree in criminal justice from Northeastern University. New England School of Law, Boston, Massachusetts Northeastern University Major: Criminal Justice

Proven verdicts and settlements at Keches Law Group

These results are credited to Keches Law Group. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

After winning a $26.6 million jury verdict for a union mason who fell through defective scaffolding on the Longfellow Bridge, Andrew Abraham of Keches Law Group returned to court and proved that Liberty Mutual's insurers willfully refused to investigate or settle a clear liability case, prompting a judge to double the compensatory judgment to over $91 million under Chapter 93A and 176D.

Suffolk Superior Court, Boston MA · 2025Workplace InjuryRead the full story →

A Middlesex County jury awarded $26.6 million to union mason John Rooney, Jr. after he fell through a two-foot scaffold gap during the Longfellow Bridge rehabilitation and suffered seven spinal operations and permanent disability, with pre-judgment interest bringing the total compensatory judgment to roughly $45.5 million.

Middlesex Superior Court, Woburn MA · 2021Workplace InjuryRead the full story →
$9.5 millionVerdict

A Hampden County jury awarded $9.5 million to the adult daughters of Zoe Rosenthal, a 52-year-old Holyoke teacher fatally struck in a crosswalk by a visually impaired driver in 2017, in what attorneys described as a record non-economic wrongful-death verdict with adult heirs in Western Massachusetts.

Hampden Superior Court, Springfield MA · 2021Wrongful DeathRead the full story →

Keches Law Group filed a class action on behalf of hundreds of donor families after a Harvard Medical School morgue manager stole and sold human remains, and in October 2025 the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court unanimously ruled that claims against Harvard could proceed.

Suffolk Superior Court / SJC, Boston MA · 2025Premises LiabilityRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

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