Mark I. Zarrow has practiced law with the firm since he was admitted to the bar in 1978, becoming a partner in 1982. His practice emphasizes protection of elders through protective services orders, guardianships and conservatorships, appellate practice and mediation. Mark has tried cases in all departments of the Massachusetts Trial Court and the United States District Court, both to a jury as well as to a judge. He has briefed and argued dozens of appeals before the Massachusetts Appeals Court, Supreme Judicial Court and the U. S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
Mark first became a mediator in June, 1996 after taking the 40-hour mediation training program with J.A.M.S./Endispute. He is on the panel of the Worcester Multi-Door Courthouse and a volunteer mediator with the Worcester Community Action Counsel’s Community Mediation Center. In March and April, 1999 he took the 40 hour family and divorce mediation training from Divorce Mediation Training Associates. Mark has been named to the Arbitrator’s Panel of the Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation Home Improvement Contractor’s Arbitration Program as well as the Council of Better Business Bureau’s BBB AUTO LINE arbitration program. He has professionally mediated and arbitrated dozens of matters concerning personal injury, contract and business litigation, building disputes, discrimination in employment, divorce and separation and consumer complaints. Mark has been appointed by the Superior Court and the Probate Court to serve as trial master and discovery master. He is on the Superior Court panel of arbitrators.
Mark is a member of the New England Chapter of the Association for Conflict Resolution and the Massachusetts Council of Family Mediators, for which he serves as a director and treasurer. Mark joined the Administrative Office of the Trial Court’s Standing Committee on Alternative Dispute Resolution in 2005. The Committee is currently working on ways to implements the Supreme Judicial Court’s Rules on ADR.
Mark earned his BA from Northwestern University in 1972, a Master’s Degree in Library Science from the State University of New York at Buffalo, School of Information and Library Science in 1973 and his JD from Suffolk University Law School, in 1978.
Mark wrote the chapter Protecting Elders From Abuse and Neglect (Chapter 21) for Estate Planning for the Aging or Incapacitated Client in Massachusetts: Protecting Legal Rights, Preserving Resources and Providing Health Care Options published by M.C.L.E. in 1998, which has been republished several times since. He also authored the chapter Protection from Abuse for the Elder Law Handbook published by the Massachusetts Bar Association in 1992.
Mark has served on the ADR Section of the Worcester County Bar Association for many years and has served as its chair. He has conciliated cases for the Worcester District Court Conciliation Project. He is a Volunteer Lawyer for the Worcester County Bar Association, provides shelter visits for the Harry Zarrow Homeless Advocacy Project and periodically serves as Lawyer for the Day at Worcester County Probate Court, for which he won the “Outstanding Commitment and Service Award” for the Legal Assistance Corporation of Central Massachusetts. in 2005. Since 1982 he has been a Trustee of the Worcester County Law Library Trust, and serves as that organization’s treasurer. Mark was a Trustee, Massachusetts Law Reform Institute from 1983 to 1996 and its President from 1992 to 1994.
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