Kimberly M. Saillant
ksaillant@dwboston.com
Principal

Areas of practice: Kimberly M. Saillant is a principal specializing in litigation. Ms. Saillant is a seasoned trial attorney with over twenty years of experience successfully representing both plaintiffs and defendants on a wide variety of matters in both state and federal courts, from pre-Complaint through litigation and conducting trial as lead counsel, including post trial proceedings. Some of the areas of specialization in which Ms. Saillant has represented clients include: governmental defense, environmental issues, negligence defense, eminent domain proceedings, municipal board and department defense and administrative advice, civil rights claims and real property disputes.

Work for clients: Ms. Saillant is admitted in the United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit, the United States District Court, District of Massachusetts, and the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. She is a member of the American Bar Association, the Massachusetts Bar Association, the Massachusetts Defense Lawyers Association, the Defense Research Institute, City Solicitors and the Town Counsel Association as well as the Frank J. Murray Inn of Court. Prior to becoming a principal, Ms. Saillant was an associate at the firm from 1997 through 2002. From 1993 through 1997 she was Assistant Corporation Counsel to the City of Boston concentrating in high profile, complex multi-party civil rights and associated tort litigation. From 1986 to 1993, Ms. Saillant was an associate at the large defense firm of Morrison, Mahoney & Miller in Boston where she specialized in litigation representing governmental entities and their employees for alleged violations of state and federal constitutional rights and the Massachusetts Tort Claims Act in both federal and state courts. During that time, in addition to successfully conducting several Federal and State Superior Court trials as lead counsel, she effectively researched, drafted, and argued over 60 dispositive motions and supporting memoranda on complicated state and federal issues and related tort claims as well as briefed and argued appellate court cases in the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.

Publications/Presentations: “From Euclid to Lucas – A Retrospective,” published in December, 1992, by Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, Inc., “Defending the Civil Rights Case after Canton and Connor,” co-authored with Richard E. Brody, in February 1990, and published by The Defense Research Institute. “Potential Municipal Liability for the Actions of Off-duty Police Officers,” published in Civil Liability Alert as the lead article by the Civil Liability Institute of Massachusetts, Inc. in its Winter, 1987 edition. “Implementation Exemption Under the Massachusetts Tort Claims Act,” published in The Standard in January, 1987. Ms. Saillant has also served as a faculty member for Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, Inc. in December, 1992, October, 1999, and Autumn, 2000.

Education: Ms. Saillant holds an A.B. in Government with a minor in Political Theory from Cornell University as well as a J.D. from Northeastern University School of Law.