About Beth M.
Beth M. Nussbaum began a professional life that crossed two very different worlds: performance and the law. She earned a Bachelor of Music from The Juilliard School in 1988 and later returned to school for a law degree, receiving her J.D. from Boston College Law School in 1996. Those two degrees shape the way she approaches work: precise, disciplined and attentive to detail.
Her legal career unfolded steadily over two decades. Early practice included an associate role at Lurie & Krupp LLP in 2001. In 2002 she opened the Law Office of Beth M. Nussbaum, establishing an independent practice. She later served as a senior associate at Smith Lee Nebenzahl LLP in 2011. In 2016 she became owner and lawyer at Nussbaum Family Law, the vehicle she uses today to provide client services.
Nussbaum is admitted to practice in Massachusetts and before the United States District Court of Massachusetts. Her training includes several mediation and collaborative law credentials. She completed MWI Divorce Mediation Training and a 40-hour mediation program through MWI, Inc., and she holds credentials in collaborative law from the Massachusetts Collaborative Law Council. Those trainings are reflected in a practice that often prioritizes negotiated resolution and structured settlement processes.
Her memberships track those interests. She is on the rolls of the Massachusetts Council of Family Mediators, the Massachusetts Collaborative Law Council and The Divorce Center. She also belongs to the American Academy of Certified Financial Litigators, which signals attention to financial issues that arise in family law cases. Other memberships include the Women’s Bar Association and Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education. Earlier affiliations included the Norfolk Bar Association and the Social Law Library.
Colleagues and clients describe a lawyer who balances courtroom readiness with alternative dispute resolution options. She has handled matters that require both legal advocacy and a working knowledge of valuation, tax and financial issues tied to divorce and family law. Her Juilliard training is an unusual biographical detail that surfaces in conversations about discipline and performance under pressure.
Nussbaum runs a small practice that offers mediation, collaborative law services and litigation when necessary. She represents clients in family law matters and related financial disputes, and she continues to maintain professional memberships and continuing legal education in those areas of practice.
She currently practices law through Nussbaum Family Law, concentrating on family law, divorce mediation, collaborative practice and financial aspects of marital dissolution.
