Elena Tsizer

Principal Attorney

“Knowing how important, personal and, at times, difficult is the decision to seek legal advice, I approach every inquiry with utmost compassion and professionalism”

Attorney Elena Tsizer graduated from New England School of Law cum laude, in the top 15% of her class. After graduation, she had the honor of serving as a Judicial Law Clerk for the Justices of the Massachusetts Probate and Family Court in Suffolk, Middlesex, Bristol and Worcester Counties, where she conducted research on complex legal issues, wrote legal memoranda, drafted decisions, findings of fact, and conclusions of law while working under close supervision of the Justices. Currently, she is regularly serving as a pro bono attorney for the clients of the MetroWest Legal Services, Women’s Bar Foundation, and Volunteer Lawyers Project. In her continuous effort to provide her present and prospective clients with the best and most updated legal advice, Attorney Tsizer has also earned Master of Law degree in Taxation with concentration in Estate Planning from Boston University.

In recent years, Elena has been chairing the faculty of the seminar for Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, Inc., entitled “Top 25 Cases Every Family Lawyer Must Know”; additionally, she has been certified as a Guardian Ad Litem by the Administrative Office of the Probate and Family Court and, in that capacity, has been appointed to conduct investigation and render recommendation to the Court regarding custodial disputes.

Elena worked full-time while completing her law degree at night. While in law school, after a school-wide writing competition, she was awarded membership onto the New England Journal on Civil and Criminal Confinement, where she served as a Case Comment & Note Editor. Also, during that time, she was an intern at the New England Innocence Project, reviewing files of inmates in search of various physical evidence which would make inmates’ acquittals through DNA testing possible.

Before earning her Juris Doctor Degree, Elena has been in a legal profession for nearly a decade. Native of Ukraine, she immigrated to the United States in 1993, first settling in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She began her legal career in 1996 as a secretary in a solo practice that served Russian and Ukrainian immigrants. Always working full-time and studying, Elena earned her Associate Degree in Paralegal Studies from Community College of Philadelphia and Bachelor of Arts Degree in Journalism from Temple University.

Elena is admitted to practice before the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts and the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts.

Prior to her immigration to the United States, Elena pursued a career as a ballet dancer, performing for National Opera House of Ukraine, Kiev Classical Ballet Theater, Kiev Theater for Children and Youth and other dance companies in her native Kiev, Ukraine.