Biography criminal defence, divorce, DUI,,Massachusetts, mediation
Adam A. Kretowicz
brings a unique combination of four years in school administration, nine years as a high school teacher, and fifteen years as a managing partner in a general practice firm with a focus on criminal defense and family law. He has recently joined the firm of Hutchings, Barsamian, Mandelcorn & Zeytoonian, LLP. in Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts.
Mr Kretowicz was addmitted to the:
- Bar of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in 1988;
- United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, 1989;
- United Stated Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, 1989; and the
- United States Supreme Court, 1993.
A graduate of Northeastern University School of Law, Boston Massachusetts in 1987, he also has a Masters Degree in Education in 1981 and is a graduate of Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1971.
He has been:
- noted for a dedicated history of community service, nationally and locally.
- Guest attorney on the CNN Nancy Grace Show and guest analyst on the Paula Zhan Show.
- Featured speaker at Boston College undergraduate school in criminology
- Guest speaker at Boston College Law School
- Panelist at the 1996 Wayland Middle Forum on schools and the law.
- Recognized in The Boston Magazine as one of the leading criminal attorneys in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Areas of relevant legal and educational expertise include:
- Criminal Litigation All Levels of MA Judicial System
- Law Enforcement Practices and Procedures
- School Law
- Employment Law
- Family Law
- Divorse Mediation
- Teacher Training
- School Administration
- Group Problem Solving
Remembering Children's Rescue
By Liz Mineo/ Staff Writer Thursday, November 17, 2005
On a Sunday afternoon in 1995, then-Marlborough resident Adam A. Kretowicz was on his way home from his law office in Boston when he saw a child's face pressed against the window of a burning home on Route 9. Without hesitation, Kretowicz pulled off the road and ran to the house and knocked down the door with another driver who stopped to help, Donald Phillipe of Hudson. They saved seven children, ranging in age from 5 to 12, who were home alone. Kretowicz and Phillipe were hailed as heroes by The Middlesex News, and even President Bill Clinton sent a letter commending Kretowicz for his "act of heroism and selflessness and his sense of duty." Ten years later, the memories of that incident are still fresh in Kretowicz's mind. He still recalls the child's face in the window of the burning house, his own surprise at finding six other children inside it, his shivering driving back home as he realized what he had done, and his sense of bafflement at not having ever received a call from the children's parents. Much has happened since then. Kretowicz, 57, a father of five, has gone from being a solo practitioner to being a partner in a law firm on Beacon Street, specializing in criminal defense and family law and representing defendants in well-publicized cases. Now a Wayland resident, he was named one of the top attorneys in Massachusetts in the area of criminal defense in this month's issue of Boston Magazine. Among some of the defendants he has worked with are a Boston lawyer who was prosecuted for having stabbed his client, a Worcester professor charged with drug trafficking, and a Chinese woman charged with vehicular homicide after her daughter died in a car accident while she was driving. A former educator and school principal, Kretowicz has spent nearly 20 years working as a criminal lawyer. ...
Liz Mineo can be reached at 508-626-3825 or lmineo@cnc.com
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