SUSAN CRAIG
Of Counsel
Experience:
Susan Craig is an experienced residential landlord-tenant attorney and has provided solutions for both landlords and tenants in many dozens of cases. She is also a highly experienced district court housing session mediator and has conducted hundreds of landlord-tenant mediations in the Chelsea, Malden, Brookline, and Woburn District Courts and is credited with saving the court system tremendous effort through bringing recalcitrant parties together.
She has twice presented at Harvard Law School on the subject of landlord-tenant legal process and mediation. Susan also brings her mediation skills to the areas of divorce and separation issues and is also a deeply experienced child custody and juvenile welfare attorney with many years of experience.
Positions Held:
Partner, Craig and Gerson, Attorneys-at-Law, 2007-Present
Solo Practitioner, Mediator and Legal Consultant, 2004-2007
Staff Attorney, Tri-CAP, Inc., 2002-2004
Solo Practitioner, 1997-2002
Computer Systems Analyst and Programmer, 1986-1997
Business/Legal Writer and Editor, 1978-1986
Other Activites:
Presenter, Harvard Law School Mediation Program, 2011-2013
Member, Melrose Conservation Commission, 2002-2008
Member, Melrose Charter Committee (rewrote city charter, approved by voters 2005), 2002-2005
Classroom and Library Volunteer, Melrose Public Schools, 1999-2003

EDUCATION:
- Certificate in Permanency Mediation/Family Consultant Team, Children’s Services of Roxbury, MA, 2007
- Certificate in Permanency Mediation/Cooperative Adoption Planning, Children’s Services of Roxbury, MA, 2006
- Certificate in Mediation, Metropolitan Mediation Services, Brookline, MA, 2004
- J.D., Loyola University, College of Law, New Orleans, LA, 1977
- B.A., Pomona College, Claremont, CA, 1974
BAR ADMISSIONS:
- First Circuit Ct. of Appeals, 2004
- New Hampshire, 1996
- Massachusetts, 1985
- New York, 1978
MEMBERSHIPS:
- New Hampshire Bar Association
- National Legal Aid & Defender Association
- Children & Family Law Panel, Committee for Public Counsel Services