Susan Craig

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.

• Of Counsel

• Mediator and Legal Consultant, Solo Practitioner, 2004 - 2007
• Tri-CAP, Inc., Staff Attorney, 2002 - 2004

• 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

• U.S. Court of Appeals 1st Circuit, 2004
• New Hampshire, 1996
• Massachusetts, 1985
• New York, 1978
• Specialties and Certifications
• Permanency Mediation/Family Consultant Team, Children’s Services of Roxbury, MA, 2007
• Permanency Mediation/Cooperative Adoption Planning, Children’s Services of Roxbury, MA, 2006
• Mediation, Metropolitan Mediation Services, Brookline, MA, 2004

• New Hampshire Bar Association
• National Legal Aid & Defender Association
• Children & Family Law Panel, Committee for Public Counsel Services