Specializing In:

Nursing Home Collection Cases
Debt Collection
Personal Injury
Landlord and Tenant
All Civil Litigation Cases
Estates and Estate Planning

Mr. Carpenter is a Boston College alumnus who was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar in 1999 following graduation from Northeastern University School of Law. He is a resident of Mashpee and has served on the Board of Directors of the Yarmouth Area Chamber of Commerce.

He focuses a substantial portion of his practice on successfully representing nursing homes in debt collection cases throughout the Commonwealth. 
A tireless advocate for his clients, Mr. Carpenter’s novel arguments helped change the law in Massachusetts to make debt collection cases easier for nursing homes. 

Mr. Carpenter also engages in a general practice with a focus on all civil litigation cases; including debt collection, personal injury, property rights, and landlord/tenant evictions, as well as guardianships, estates and estate planning.

Mr. Carpenter is one of the youngest attorneys in Massachusetts history to settle a million-dollar personal injury case.  He also argued a landmark property-rights decision before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, the highest court in Massachusetts, and was named one of the state’s “Top 15 Up & Coming Lawyers for 2007” by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly.

Click here for a webcast of Mr. Carpenter's oral argument in his historic Supreme Judicial Court case.  His portion of the argument begins at 11:05 of the webcast.

Mr. Carpenter can be reached via email at tom@tcarpenterlaw.com