Courtney A. Simmons

• Represented the City of Boston and the Boston Police Department in a contract dispute with the City’s drug testing contractor. Obtained a Supreme Judicial Court decision reversing and remanding the Superior Court’s decision granting summary judgement.
• Represented client in defending challenge to a zoning bylaw amendment allowing the cultivation of marijuana by special permit.
• Assisted client in a title dispute regarding a private passageway established in the 19^th century.
• Representing a client in breach of contract and breach of fiduciary duty claim.
• Representing the City of Boston in complex breach of contract action.

• Psychemedics Corporation v. City of Boston (2021) – Obtained decision from the Supreme Judicial Court reversing and remanding the Superior Court’s decision granting summary judgment to the drug testing contractor for the City of Boston police department. The City sought to enforce contractual obligations to defend and hold the City harmless from certain claims arising from the contractor’s alleged negligence in its drug testing. The SJC found that the lower court judge erred in determining that the drug testing contractor was entitled to summary judgment where, among other things, the judge applied the incorrect standard in determining whether the City provided the contractor with notice and the opportunity to assume the defense.

Distinctions:

• Named a 2023 Excellence in the Law “Up & Coming Lawyer” by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly
• Best Lawyers in America© “Ones to Watch”, 2023-2024
• Massachusetts Super Lawyers Rising Stars, 2019-2023

Admitted:

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

Member:

• Boston Bar Association, Co-Chair of the Pro Bono/Public Service Subcommittee of the Environmental and Energy Law Committee
• International Lawyers Network

In her spare time, Courtney likes to stay active. She enjoys hiking, playing tennis and running half marathons.