Mission

We have represented clients for 35 years. We do not represent banks or insurance companies. We represent people and people with small businesses. We pledge our uncompromised loyalty to our clients and give our undivided attention to each of our client’s unique needs.

We represent our clients with skill, commitment and courage. Although we believe our clients are often better served through negotiation, rather than by litigation, we are not afraid to try cases.

We represent our clients proactively, not reactively. We understand that our clients entrust us with matters important to them. We keep our clients fully informed of events in their cases and respond promptly to phone messages, emails, and correspondence.

We remain on the cutting edge of technology with computer assisted research and case management tools, which give us a decided advantage over yesterday’s practitioners.

We charge rates for our services which are competitive with any other firm and issue detailed accountings of our fees.

Our firm is a business for profit. However, we do not limit profit to mean money alone. We run our firm in such a fashion that all our members profit physically, emotionally, spiritually, and intellectually, as well as financially.

About Joseph Caulfield

Attorney Joseph Caulfield

After graduating from Boston Latin School in 1967, Attorney Caulfield attended Boston College. There he majored in English and Comparative Religion, graduating in 1971. He then attended Suffolk Law School where he received the Degree of Juris Doctor Cum Laude in 1974.

Attorney Caulfield began his legal career practicing law in downtown Boston. He also accepted a teaching position at Suffolk Law School in 1975, where he became an Executive Director of Legal Assistance, lecturing in Family Law Practice and Trial Tactics.

Law Practice

In his civil cases, he has obtained many large verdicts and settlements for his clients in everything from exploding propane tanks and wrongful death actions to multi-vehicle collisions and slip and falls. In his divorce practice, Mr. Caulfield has fought for his clients’ rights all the way to the State Supreme Court. His criminal success record ranges from obtaining acquittals for his clients in murder and rape trials through winning dismissals of drug trafficking and DWI charges. He has obtained for his clients the New Hampshire record award for psychic injury.Attorney Caulfield has lectured in the areas of law, stress, comparative religion and the martial arts and currently teaches courses in business law and corporate ethics for the University of Phoenix Online.

Although his fees are competitive with those of other law firms, Attorney Caulfield pledges to devote all his skill and abilities to each client’s case, whether it be a simple will or a multi-million dollar lawsuit. Attorney Caulfield combines the skill and discipline gained through decades of legal experience and martial arts to guarantee each client fervent and dedicated representation. Attorney Caulfield will always attempt to resolve a controversy on his client’s terms without the necessity of a trial, but if this proves impossible, Attorney Caulfield combines his decades of martial art training with his skill as an attorney, becoming an aggressive and implacable advocate for his client.

Personal Interest: Martial Arts

When not engaged in the practice of law, Mr. Caulfield teaches in his school in Lyndeborough. He is the Founder and Chief Instructor of Black Sword Aikido, a martial art which combines Japanese and Chinese fighting arts with meditation, breathing exercises and the study of philosophy and oriental medicine. He is also a close-up magician and a member of the International Brotherhood of Magicians, Order of Merlin with Shield.

Services

Mediation Practice

Being a trial attorney for 35 years gives me a unique perspective of how a court or jury is likely to view a particular controversy and the financial costs and time that would be necessary to successfully litigate.
I prefer mediating in my Nashua office where I have several rooms available, including a conference room. However, I am also willing to travel to other locations.

My approach and philosophy are heavily influenced by my aikido training. I have been practicing aikido for 36 years, and I hold a Godan, 5^th Degree, black belt from Aikikai Hombu. In other words, I tend to use its techniques of entering, blending and moving off the line to diffuse resistance, resentment, and anger, and to allow for the possibility of reconciliation.

Family Law

Divorce & Domestic Partnership Dissolution
Parental & Grandparent Rights
Alimony, Child Support & Property Division
Prenuptial & Commitment Agreements
Domestic Violence & Restraining Orders
Post Divorce Modifications

Juvenile Law

DSS & DCYF Defense
Removal of Children
Termination of Parental Rights
Delinquency & CHINS

Personal Injury Law

Death & Serious Injury
Auto Accident
Job Related Injury

Probate Law

Wills & Trusts
Health Care Proxies
Guardianships
Estates

Criminal Defense

Felony & Misdemeanor
State & Federal

Business law

Corporation & LLC
Partnership

Contact Us

Attorney Joseph Caulfield

Black Sword Estate
126 Perham Corner Rd.
Lyndeborough, NH 03082

603-654-6022
Fax 603-386-6668

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