Lori Yarvis

Practice areas: corporate/business law and commercial transactions; acquisitions and sales of closely held and family businesses; commercial financing; advising start-ups; business agreements; general counsel to businesses; commercial leasing; licensing and permitting; nonprofit organizations law.

Representative transactions and clients: Business acquisitions and sales in industries such as manufacturing and retail, health and elder care, physical fitness, restaurants, catering and food services, commercial contracting and consulting and professional services. Clients include retailers Caskata Inc. and Newtonville Books, wholesaler Boston Wholesale Flowers Inc., health care practice Audiology and Hearing Solutions, Inc., restaurants The Cast Iron Kitchen and Jose's Mexican Restaurant, caterer The Basil Tree Gourmet and Natural Catering, Inc., specialty food purveyor The Butcherie, commercial construction and design firm BlackWalnut, LLC, health and wellness company Prana Power Yoga, Inc., art gallery Carroll and Sons, consulting firm Cause Consulting Group, LLC, green business Sustainable Waste Management Collaborative Inc., and architectural firm Duckham Architects, Inc.

Education: Dartmouth College (A.B. English magna cum laude) 1982; Fordham University School of Law, New York City (J.D.) 1985, Business Editor, International Law Journal.

Admitted: 2003 Massachusetts; 1986 New York; 1986 United States District Court, Eastern and Southern Districts; 1986 New Jersey

Community and professional associations: Lori currently serves as co-chair of the Solo and Small Firm Section of the Boston Bar Association. Lori has worked pro bono with small businesses in disadvantaged communities through the Economic Justice Project of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights. Lori has taught as an adjunct professor at Northeastern University Law School and in the clinical program at Harvard Law School. She has conducted seminars for the legal community and the general public and has authored and co-edited several publications on legal issues. She has served as a board member of several educational and cultural institutions. Lori is also a member of the Massachusetts Bar Association, the Massachusetts Women's Bar Association and the New York City Bar Association.

Little known facts about Lori: Lori received her training as a corporate and commercial transactions lawyer at Winston and Strawn, LLP in New York City. She and her family relocated to the Boston area in 2002 when her husband, Ty Burr, became one of the Boston Globe movie critics. Lori has been practicing yoga for many years and is an avid runner.

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