Experience

Attorney At Law with the Law Offices of Susan Correia-Champa, LLC

Jun 2017 – Present

• Established, developed and currently manages independent law office
• Extensive trial and litigation experience, mainly in domestic relations, criminal and civil matters
• Experience in complicated matters in domestic relations, such as custody disputes, abuse allegations (e.g. domestic abuse, sexual abuse, 209A restraining orders), and removal of minor children out of state
• Guardian Ad Litem service experience in custody investigation, abuse and removal of minor children
• Financially analyzing and extensively investigating sole proprietorships, small businesses, and individuals to locate and determine hidden, dissipated and diverted income and assets
• Responsibility for all phases of client service in addition to litigation management
  

Attorney / Partner with Correia-Champa & Mailhot

Jan 1997 – Jun 2017

• Established, developed and managed independent law office
• Extensive trial and litigation experience, mainly in domestic relations, criminal and civil matters
• Experience in complicated matters in domestic relations, such as custody disputes, abuse allegations (e.g. domestic abuse, sexual abuse, 209A restraining orders), and removal of minor children out of state
• Guardian Ad Litem service experience in custody investigation, abuse and removal of minor children
• Financially analyzing and extensively investigating sole proprietorships, small businesses, and individuals to locate and determine hidden, dissipated and diverted income and assets
• Responsibility for all phases of client service in addition to litigation management
  

Partner / Owner with Gindes & Correia

Jan 1994 – 1997

• Established, developed and managed independent law office in Cambridge, which was relocated to Boston later
• Extensive trial and litigation experience, mainly in domestic relations, criminal and civil matters
• Financially analyzing and extensively investigating sole proprietorships, small businesses, and individuals to locate and determine hidden, dissipated and diverted income and assets
• Responsibility for all phases of client service in addition to litigation management
  

Associate with Cullen & Butters

Jan 1989 – 1996

• Handled the entire caseload of criminal and civil matters
• Experience in all litigation stages such as pretrial conferences, motion practice, appeals and trials etc.
• Experience in client representation during state and federal state grand jury investigations in criminal matters

Project Manager / Community Outreach with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts/Division of Capital Planning and Operations

Jan 1986 – Jan 1989

• Managed and coordinated various state projects such as the New Chardon and Boston State Hospital Project
• Was responsible for Regulation Manuals drafting for General Counsel for the Division of Capital Planning and Operations
• Handled community outreach program planning including, presentations, organizing meetings, community mailings and more
  

Assistant with the Division of Capital Planning and Operations

1986 – 1989

• Administrative Assistant to the Project Manager for the New Chardon Street Project and the Boston State Hospital Project
  

Education

Suffolk University Law School

• Degree: J.D.
• Field of Study: Law
• 1986 – 1989
  

Suffolk University

• Degree: B.S. and J.D.
• Field of Study: Law
• 1982 – 1989