Pulgini & Norton, LLP

Focus and practice areas

The firm works across four areas of law: workers' compensation, real estate, personal injury, and Social Security Disability. Its clients include both individuals and businesses, and the site places that work in the Greater Boston area and Eastern Massachusetts. Real estate and workers' compensation are the two main areas, and personal injury and Social Security Disability round out the list.

Each area draws on a different set of rules and forums. Real estate runs through contracts and municipal offices, while the benefit and injury work runs through state agencies and, when a decision goes the wrong way, appeals. In my opinion, that split is worth noticing, because it tells a client which kind of problem the firm handles most often.

The client base runs in two directions at once. Individuals bring injury, disability, and home-purchase matters, while businesses bring commercial real estate and, at times, their own workers' compensation questions. One firm handling both spreads a small team across related areas of law.

Real estate and property work

In real estate, the firm advises buyers, sellers, lenders, landlords, and tenants. The named services include residential and commercial transactions, purchase and sale agreements, financing, property tax questions, and zoning matters. That mix covers the paperwork of a sale and the disputes that can grow out of one. Financing and property tax questions come with the transaction itself, so a single file can involve more than the sale.

How a Massachusetts deal moves

A residential purchase runs through a lender's conditions, a title examination, and a purchase and sale agreement that sets each side's duties before the closing date. The offer settles the price, and the closing transfers title once the lender's requirements are met. A lawyer on either side reviews those documents and raises problems while there is still time to fix them.

Commercial transactions add questions of zoning and property tax, both of which the firm names among its services. Zoning decides what an owner may build or run on a parcel, and property tax questions can change what a deal is worth. The firm advising on both sides of these transactions can hold the contract, the financing, and those local questions in one place.

Injury and benefit claims

Workers' compensation

Workers' compensation covers injured employees who are seeking benefits. When an insurer denies or reduces a claim, the firm takes the appeal to the Department of Industrial Accidents. A disputed claim in Massachusetts moves through conciliation, then a conference before an administrative judge, and it can reach a full hearing if the sides still disagree. Cases at that stage turn on medical evidence and the reported facts of the injury.

Disability and injury claims

The Social Security Disability practice handles SSDI matters at the application, the hearing, and the appeal. Most SSDI claims are denied at the first stage, and the hearing before an administrative law judge is where a claimant presents medical records and testimony. An appeal after a denied hearing goes to the Appeals Council, which reviews how the judge applied the rules. The practice areas page states the firm's work at each of these steps.

Personal injury is the fourth area, and the site ties it to workplace cases. A job injury can create a third-party claim against someone other than the employer, and that claim can run alongside the workers' compensation case. Keeping both with one firm means a single set of lawyers tracks the medical facts that each claim relies on.

How the team is built

Two attorneys carry the firm's work: John A. Norton Jr. and John A. Pulgini. The site states they hold more than 40 years of combined experience. It does not list a founding year, and it describes the firm's background through that combined figure. The site groups their work under one firm name and one set of practice pages.

A two-attorney firm keeps the legal work close to the people whose names are on the door. As a reviewer, I read the combined-experience figure as the firm's main public statement about its record, since the site gives that number in place of individual case results. Clients meet the same small group of lawyers on every file, and the four practice areas all belong to that same two-person team.

Reach across Massachusetts

The firm keeps five offices in the state: downtown Boston, Braintree, Hyde Park, Andover, and New Bedford. Those locations place it in the city, the South Shore, the Merrimack Valley, and the South Coast. Several offices give clients in different regions a nearby place to meet with a lawyer.

For agency and court work, the site lists service across seven counties: Bristol, Essex, Middlesex, Norfolk, Plymouth, Suffolk, and Worcester. That coverage matters in real estate and workers' compensation, where filings and hearings happen in the county or state office tied to the property or the injury. The firm's five offices are inside that same territory. A client near any of the five offices can reach the firm without traveling across the state.

The firm's presentation stays consistent across its pages: two named attorneys, four practice areas, five offices, and coverage in seven counties. It backs the experience claim with a stated figure of more than 40 years between the two lawyers. The offices, the counties, and the practice areas all appear in the site's own footer and headings. Those numbers are what the site gives a prospective client to weigh.