Barbra I. Black

Barbra I. Black has been practicing law for over 33 years and is a founding member and the managing partner of Black, LaFrance & Bollinger, LLC. Attorney Black was a former partner at the Boston, MA law firm of Burns & Levinson, LLP, where she practiced for over eight years in the firm's Divorce and Family Law group. Prior to that, she was a solo practitioner for several years, focusing her practice in the area of domestic relations litigation. Attorney Black concentrates her practice in the area of divorce & family law in both Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Attorney Black has extensive litigation and trial experience and handles a variety of family law cases involving complex and diverse issues. Attorney Black's divorce & family law practice includes, but is not limited to, prenuptial & postnuptial agreements, joint petitions for divorce, contested divorce actions, same sex divorce actions, custody and or child support cases and modification and contempt cases. Ms. Black is a member of the Massachusetts and New Hampshire Bar Associations and the Massachusetts Family and Probate Inns of Court. She is a graduate of Suffolk University Law School and Brandeis University. Attorney Black has been selected as a "Super Lawyer" for the past several years, as published in Boston Magazine. Awards and Honors Super Lawyers® Selectees Barbra I. Black included in a Super Lawyers® list Honors Massachusetts Super Lawyers “Rising Star” in 2005 Super Lawyers, 2014 - 2021 One of our nation's most premier family law attorneys by The National Academy of Family Law Attorneys Other Sources of Feedback About Barbra I. Black Included on the 2026Massachusetts Super Lawyers list Past Lists 2025 Massachusetts Super Lawyers list 2024 Massachusetts Super Lawyers list 2023 Massachusetts Super Lawyers list 2022 Massachusetts Super Lawyers list 2021 Massachusetts Super Lawyers list 2020 Massachusetts Super Lawyers list 2019 Massachusetts Super Lawyers list 2018 Massachusetts Super Lawyers list 2017 Massachusetts Super Lawyers list 2016 Massachusetts Super Lawyers list 2015 Massachusetts Super Lawyers list 2014 Massachusetts Super Lawyers list 2005 Massachusetts Super Lawyers list

• Managing Partner

• Burns & Levinson LLP,, Senior Associate, 2001 - 2005
• Burns & Levinson LLP, Partner, Partner, 2006 - 2009

• Adjunct faculty member - Family Law, New England School of Law, 2007 - 2009
• Mock Trial Judge, Massachusetts Bar
• A Roadmap Through Divorce Proceedings, National Business Institute Seminar, 2008
• Faculty panel member on divorce & family law related seminars, Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, 2009
• Pre trial conferences in divorce - Judge Edward Ginsburg-family law class, 2011 to 2016
• Trying Divorce Cases in MA, MCLE

• Big Sister Association of Greater Boston
• Mock trial Judge - Massachusetts Bar Association - annual statewide high school mock trial competition

• Massachusetts, 1992
• U.S. District Court District of Massachusetts, 1995
• New Hampshire, 2010

• Massachusetts Bar Association (Member)
• Massachusetts Family and Probate Inn of Court
• Big Sister Association of Greater Boston
• Big Sister Association's Speaker's Bureau (Former Member)
• New Hampshire Bar Association