Maria Furlong joined Altman Riley Esher in 2006 with over twelve years of experience in both consumer and business bankruptcy matters.

Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Furlong served as counsel to Doreen Solomon, Chapter 13 Trustee for the District of Massachusetts, where she represented the trustee in bankruptcy court proceedings and appellate matters. Prior to that, Ms. Furlong was a bankruptcy associate at Sullivan & Worcester, where she represented debtors, creditors, chapter 7 and 11 trustees, and interested parties in chapter 11 proceedings, including purchasers of estate assets.

Immediately prior to joining the firm, Ms. Furlong worked as special counsel to the Chapter 13 Trustee, focusing on plan confirmation issues and procedures. Over the past several years, Ms. Furlong has been a contributing author for the treatise Chapter 13 Practice and Procedure (West Thomson). She also participates as a volunteer with the Financial Literacy Project of the Boston Bar Association.

Ms. Furlong is a graduate of Boston College (1990), and Boston College Law School (cum laude, 1994). During law school she was supervising editor of the Uniform Commercial Code Reporter-Digest and bankruptcy research assistant for Professor Ingrid Hillinger.

Following law school, Ms. Furlong served for two years as law clerk to the Honorable James F. Queenan, a bankruptcy judge for the District of Massachusetts, where she further honed her exceptional legal research and writing skills. At Altman Riley Esher, Ms. Furlong’s practice focuses on appellate and other sophisticated bankruptcy matters requiring thorough, articulate, and persuasive legal analysis and argument.