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Joseph J Durant

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  • Partner

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Practice Areas

  • Workers’ Compensation

Biography

Joseph J. Durant joined TKCK as Counsel in 2007 becoming a partner in 2016. Joe received a B.A. degree in History & Political Science cum laude from Boston College in 1977 and earned his Juris Doctor from Suffolk University Law School in 1980. He is a graduate of the National Institute of Trial Advocacy Teacher Training Program at Harvard University and repeatedly served on the faculty of Liberty Mutual Insurance Company’s Advanced Advocacy, Workers’ Compensation, SIU, and Subrogation training seminars. He has lectured in evidence and criminal law at Boston State College and the University of Massachusetts Boston. He has served on the faculty of the Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education Workers Compensation “Day with the Experts” seminar for the last 17 years. He was selected to the National College of Workers Compensation Lawyers in 2020.

Atty. Durant has tried both jury and jury waived cases in the District and Superior Court Departments but has concentrated on Workers Compensation since joining TKCK. He has been Designated Counsel for several Large National Insureds, Insurance Carriers and Self Insurers and has tried hundreds of Workers’ Compensation cases.

Education

  • Suffolk University Law School, Boston, Massachusetts
    • Juris Doctor - 1980
  • Boston College
    • B.A. - 1977
    • Honors: cum laude
    • Major: History & Political Science

Bar Admissions

  • Massachusetts, 1980

Classes & Seminars

  • Evidence and criminal law at Boston State College and the University of Massachusetts Boston, Lecturer