About James Stevens
Attorney James Stevens joined Keches Law Group, P.C. in early 2022 as a law clerk and was brought on as an attorney in the Personal Injury Department in December of 2023, upon his admittance to the Massachusetts Bar. Attorney Stevens earned his J.D. from Suffolk University Law School. During law school, in addition to his role as a law clerk at the firm, Mr. Stevens also worked as an intern for Judge Kevin R. Connelly in the Plymouth Probate and Family Court and served as a property law mentor to first-year law students. Attorney Stevens completed his undergraduate degree at Saint Joseph’s College of Maine where he was a member of the Men’s Varsity Soccer team, being a two-time academic all-conference selection for the Monks.
Attorney Stevens also took part in various volunteer activities while at Saint Joseph’s, which included a service trip to Guatemala along with participating in a local food bank and coaching youth soccer. Attorney Stevens is originally from Marshfield, MA. He currently resides in Boston and continues to play soccer in the Bay State and Cape Cod amateur leagues. Attorney Stevens also enjoys golf, skiing, traveling, and spending time with family and friends.
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.
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.
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.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.