Kelly M. Bonnevie, Partner

Email: Bonnevie@wmblawfirm.com

Named one of Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly's "Lawyers of the Year" in 2006 and a New England Super Lawyer in 2008 and 2009, Ms. Bonnevie handles real estate and employment matters. Ms. Bonnevie represents buyers, sellers, and lenders in residential real estate transactions in the Greater Boston area. She counsels clients regarding real estate ownership agreements, dissolution agreements, condominium conversions and related issues. Ms. Bonnevie also represents individuals and small businesses in contract and employment matters, providing advice regarding discrimination, termination and other employment law matters. Ms. Bonnevie was recognized by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly for her role in a landmark race and sex discrimination case. www.masslawyersweekly.com/loty_bonnevie.cfm

Admitted to the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts in 1993, Ms. Bonnevie also is admitted to practice before the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Prior to founding the law firm of Wilson, Marino & Bonnevie, P.C. in 1996, Ms. Bonnevie worked as a litigator for a small law firm in Cambridge from 1993 to 1996 where she handled employment discrimination and sexual abuse and harassment matters. Prior to that, she served as a Law Clerk to the Justices of the Massachusetts Superior Court from 1992 to 1993.

Ms. Bonnevie is the author of "Restrictive Employment Covenants and the Practice of Medicine" published in the Massachusetts Bar Institute's "Section Review" Journal of March, 1999. She wrote the forward to Harold L. Lustig's book "Four Steps to Financial Security for Lesbian and Gay Couples"(Fawcett Books, 1999). With law partner Lisa M. Wilson, she co-authored "Working with First-Time Home Buyers," published in Real Estate Executive magazine in March, 1997. Ms. Bonnevie has also chaired numerous panel discussions on residential real estate transactions and employment matters.

Ms. Bonnevie is a 1987 cum laude graduate of Dartmouth College, and a 1992 graduate of Northeastern University School of Law.

A member of the American Bar Association, Massachusetts Bar Association, Women's Bar Association, and the Massachusetts Gay and Lesbian Bar Association, Ms. Bonnevie is also a member of the Massachusetts Real Estate Bar Association, the Dartmouth Lawyers Association and the Greater Boston Business Council.

She lives with her spouse, Karen, and their two children, Matt and Abby, in Boston.

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