Kristin M. Knuuttila Partner

Kristin M. Knuuttila is a skilled litigator with more than 15 years of experience. Kristin has the unique ability to see the big picture while also paying strict attention to the details that can make or break a case. She develops creative solutions to even the most challenging problems, allowing her to help businesses and individuals resolve their disputes efficiently and effectively.

Kristin represents clients in state and federal courts and administrative agencies in Massachusetts. In addition, she has tried cases at the Superior Court and Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, and has authored briefs for the Supreme Judicial Court and the Massachusetts Court of Appeals.

Kristin specializes in complex business disputes involving claims ranging from breach of contract to violations of G.L. c. 93A and contractual indemnification. Kristin also focuses a significant amount of her practice on catastrophic injury, death and other personal injury, and tort cases. Her clients include a public authority as well as large and small companies in a wide variety of industries including telecommunications, insurance, biopharmaceutical, legal, retail, manufacturing, advertising, and media.  From the smallest start-up company to the largest corporation, Kristin works closely with her clients setting goals – beginning with a litigation budget – and achieving them. 

Always a proponent of learning how the “other side” thinks, Kristin has honed her litigation skills representing plaintiffs. In a race discrimination case involving first impressions of law, Kristin secured a judgment on behalf of her client who faced public humiliation at the hands of his supervisor. In a personal injury case, she settled for more than two million dollars on behalf of her client who was seriously injured in a motorcycle accident. Kristin recently secured a substantial settlement on behalf of the single mother of a young boy whose father was killed in a car accident while the boy was in utero. 

Kristin is also an advocate for women and children. Since 2005, she has served on the Board of Directors of the Commonwealth Childrens’ Center, a nonprofit childcare center. For three years, she was the president of CCC’s Board. She has also served on the Board of Visitors for the Women’s Educational and Industrial Union and Suited for Success, two nonprofit groups dedicated to women’s issues. 

Kristin has taught deposition practice skills and legal writing to participants of the Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education and Massachusetts Bar Association workshops. She authored articles for the Massachusetts Bar Association’s Section Review.

From 2005 through 2007, Boston magazine recognized Kristin as a “Rising Star.”

Kristin and her husband live in the western suburbs of Boston with their three young children. 

Bar Admissions

• United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts
• Massachusetts
• Maryland

Education

• Catholic University of America, J.D., cum laude, 1996
• Syracuse University, B.A., 1991

Noteworthy

• 2005 – 2007: Recognized as a Massachusetts “Rising Star” in Boston magazine