Mr. Cheng is a partner in our Litigation Department and co-chair of the firm’s Professional Liability Practice Group. He specializes in complex commercial disputes, professional malpractice cases, insurance coverage disputes, and real estate litigation. His clients include attorneys and their law firms, corporations, title insurance companies, and professional liability insurance companies. Ed has also litigated employment, trade secret, and non-competition agreement disputes, and has represented attorneys in disciplinary proceedings before the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers.

Representative Experience

Tried a disciplinary matter before the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers

Won Motion to Dismiss on claims brought against Florida law firm brought in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Author of winning brief in Hopedale Development, Inc. v. David W. Normandin, et al. before the Massachusetts Appeals Court.

Achieved summary judgment on malpractice claims against the Boston office of a multi-state law firm.

Participated in representation of a multi-state firm in a 63-day jury trial, winning over $1 million in damages and defeating malpractice counterclaims

Author of winning brief in Queler et al. v. Skowron, et al., before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and the successful underlying application for Direct Appellate Review. This matter concerned cutting-edge issues of condominium law.

Author of winning brief in Harrison F. Flynn v. Paul Martin Flynn, et al., before the Appeals Court.

Judicial Clerkship

Law clerk to the Honorable Margaret H. Marshall, Supreme Judicial Court for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1996-1997

Education and Academia

Boston College Law School, Boston, Massachusetts, J.D., magna cum laude, 1996

Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, B.A., Architecture, 1989

Advisor to the Harvard Law School Trial Advocacy Workshop since 2001

Awards and Honors

Martindale Hubbell AV Rated

Boston College Law Review,, Notes Editor

White, Inker and Aronson Graduation Award from the Boston College Law School faculty

Professional Activities

Co-chair of the Boston Bar Association’s Administration of Justice Section

Member of the Boston Bar Association’s standing Ethics Committee.

Treasurer for the Asian-American Lawyers Association of Massachusetts

Former co-chair of the Boston Bar Association’s Massachusetts Practice and Procedure Committee

Former co-chair of the Boston Bar Association’s Professional Liability Committee

Former member of the Governing Board and Secretary of the SJC Lawclerks Society.