Michael Morisi

When attorney Michael V. Morisi died of pancreatic cancer six years ago, his family and friends wanted to commemorate the life and accomplishments of this 1979 Boston College graduate who touched so many lives. Founder of the Quincy law firm Morisi & Oatway PC, Morisi “was a champion,” said Massachusetts Attorney General Thomas Reilly ’70 in a letter to Lawyer’s Weekly at the time of Morisi’s death. Among other distinguished legal accomplishments, in 1998 Morisi represented the plaintiffs in Valenti v. Lubin & Meyer PC, and won the multimillion dollar legal malpractice case in the US District Court in Boston. The verdict, which was among the top five of the year in Massachusetts, is reported to be the highest legal malpractice verdict in state history. He was an attorney with the Federal Trade Commission before becoming an associate with the firm of Riemer & Braunstein in Boston in 1982. He began his own practice in Braintree in 1984 and moved the firm to Quincy in 1996.