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, Attorney Pumphrey has handled criminal and civil appellate cases across the state for a quarter century.  She has more than 250 appearances in the state and federal appellate courts.

The appellate cases which Attorney Pumphrey has handled span such diverse areas of law as murder, white collar crime, narcotics trafficking, municipal law, business litigation, personal injury, property disputes, alimony and child support.  Attorney Pumphrey has handled a number of high profile cases, which have been the subject of extensive television and print media attention, including Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, The Boston Globe and Herald, ABC News, The True Hollywood Story, America’s Most Wanted, and many others.

Attorney Pumphrey has been selected every year for five years, from 2016 to 2020, to Super Lawyers of New England (one of 38 appellate Super Lawyer in New England); in 2018 to The National Trial Lawyers Top 100 Trial Lawyers in Massachusetts (one of approximately 40 top criminal defense lawyers in Massachusetts); and in 2018 as Fellow, Litigation Counsel of America.

​Attorney Pumphrey teaches continuing legal education seminars often, both for  Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education and for the Massachusetts Bar Association, as well as several years as an adjunct professor at Western New England College School of Law.  She serves as a mentor to new Committee for Public Counsel appellate attorneys.


Tenacious and thorough, Attorney Pumphrey is a committed and dedicated advocate for her clients.      


Curriculum Vitae

Education

Western New England College School of Law
Springfield, Massachusetts
J.D., magna cum laude, 1990

Law School Awards:
Editor-in-Chief, Western New England Law Review
Henry Downey Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Western New England Law Review
National Association of Women Lawyers' Award to Outstanding Graduate
Goodrich Merit Prize
Western New England Merit Scholarship
Class Rank: Number 4

Newcomb College of Tulane University
New Orleans, Louisiana
B.A., History

University of Warwick
Coventry, England
Exchange Student
History Department

University of Vermont 
Burlington, Vermont 
6 (non-credit) courses in Philosophy



Professional

Law Offices of Janet Hetherwick Pumphrey
1992-present

Kopelman and Paige 
Of Counsel 

Boston, Massachusetts
2005-present

Assistant City Solicitor
City of Pittsfield, Massachusetts
1992-1997

Cain, Hibbard, Myers & Cook
Litigation Associate
Pittsfield, MA
1990-1992

Adjunct Professor
Western New England College School of Law
Springfield, Massachusetts
1992-1997

Honors and Awards


Selected as Super Lawyer in New England six years in a row: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021

Selected as Fellow, Litigation Counsel of America - less than one half of one percent of American lawyers and one of only four lawyers in Massachusetts west of Worcester

2018 Selected as one of Top 100 Lawyers in Massachusetts by the National Trial Lawyers


Bar Memberships
United States Supreme Court
United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Professional Activities and Associations
Massachusetts Law Review, published by the Massachusetts Bar Association
       Editor-in-Chief, 2000-2003
       Articles Editor, 2014-2016, 1997-2000
      Special Issue Editor, Access to Justice Issue, June 2010
      
Comments Editor, 1993-1997
      Associate Editor, 1991-1993, 2003-2014, 2016-present
Selected by the Supreme Judicial Court to the Standing Advisory Committee on the Rules of Appellate Procedure, 2019
Office of the Governor, Judicial Nominating Commission, 2003-2005
Lifetime Fellow, Massachusetts Bar Foundation
American Bar Association
     Council of Appellate Lawyers, 2004-2011
Massachusetts Bar Association, Sustaining Member

      Appellate Bench Bar Committee, 2008-2011, 2017-2019
      Criminal Justice Section Council, 2009-2012
Berkshire Bar Association

Massachusetts Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
Massachusetts Municipal Association
National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
Committee for Public Counsel Services, Boston, Massachusetts 
      Appellate Panel, Murder List
      Mentor Panel
Criminal Justice Act Panels
      First Circuit Court of Appeals Panel
      Federal District Court Habeas Corpus Panel 


Community Service
Selectman, Town of Lenox, Massachusetts, 
1993-2008 
http://townoflenox.com

Shakespeare And Company, Lenox, Massachusetts
2002 - 2011,  Board Of Overseers  
http://www.shakespeare.org/

Lenox Library Board Of Trustees 
2007–2008 
http://www.lenoxlib.org

Pittsfield Economic Revitalization Corporation
1997- Present

“Unsung Heroine Award," 2006, by The Massachusetts Commission On The Status Of Women“Woman In Leadership” Award, 2005, 

“Woman in Leadership” award, 2005, by Berkshire South Regional Community Center