Joseph M. Klements helps businesses and individuals navigate crisis and transition so they can pursue their true goals in life.  He provides effective counseling and advocacy for a broad base of clients, including:

As the firm's managing partner, he draws on over twenty-five years of legal experience and business judgment, contacts with other knowledgable Massachusetts attorneys and all the resources of the firm to provide the level of service most appropriate for his clients.

The services valued by these clients include:

• Negotiation and documentation of complex transactions, such as financing, mergers, acquisitions and sales
• Civil litigation, ranging from commercial disputes to wrongful death to guardianship proceedings
• Dispute mediation
• Business and estate planning

Joe joined Richardson and Tyler, LLP in 1978.  In addition to his clients, he enjoys serving his community and his profession.  He has served as the chairman of his local planning board, member of his town's school committee, member of his town's board of assessors, member of his parish church's finance committee, and president of the oldest musical society in the country, the Old Stoughton Music Society.

Joe graduated from Boston College (A.B., Phi Beta Kappa) in 1974, and Boston University Law School in 1978.  He is admitted to practice before all Massachusetts courts (state and federal) the United States Tax Court, and the Department of Transportation.  He is a member of the American Bar Association (business law section) and the Massachusetts Bar Association (business and property law sections).  He is a certified mediator in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.