About Freya Allen
Freya Allen Shoffner earned her Juris Doctor from Suffolk University Law School in 1988. She returned to that campus decades later to teach, serving as an adjunct professor of Commercial Law in 2018. Her academic ties to Suffolk bookend a long career that has remained centered in Massachusetts.
Shoffner has practiced law in Massachusetts for more than three decades. Her practice has included matters that touch both consumer and commercial areas. She has kept ties to legal education while working in private practice, bringing classroom material into the practical setting of client representation and courtroom work.
In 2018 she joined the American Bankruptcy Institute, adding a national bankruptcy research and policy organization to her professional affiliations. The following year she became a member of the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Lawyers, an organization that brings together practitioners who handle consumer bankruptcy matters. She has been a member of The International Legal Honor Society of Phi Delta Phi since 1992, an affiliation that traces back to her law school years.
Her profile reflects overlapping interests: bankruptcy law, commercial law, and consumer matters. She has combined casework with occasional teaching. The adjunct role at Suffolk in 2018 saw her returning to explain commercial principles to law students while continuing her caseload.
Shoffner operates under the name Shoffner & Associates. Her professional offices are listed under that firm name. Over the years she has maintained a practice that serves individual and business clients in Massachusetts, handling matters that arise from financial distress as well as routine commercial disputes.
Colleagues and students have encountered a lawyer who balances practice and instruction. Her work in bankruptcy organizations keeps her connected to developments in bankruptcy law and procedure. Her Phi Delta Phi membership is a longstanding academic affiliation.
She currently practices at Shoffner & Associates, concentrating on consumer bankruptcy and commercial law matters.
