Shayne Kinsella

Career Overview

Shayne Kinsella joined Arrowood LLP after graduating from Boston College Law School, where he earned his Juris Doctor. His association with our firm actually began before his last year of law school, when he worked as a summer associate, focusing on employment, legal malpractice, medical malpractice and tort cases.

As a law student, Shayne participated in the Good Governance Project and several writing and advocacy competitions, including the Wendell F. Grimes Moot Court. He also worked at Boston College’s Civil Litigation Clinic, helping to represent low-income clients in landlord-tenant disputes, divorce cases, alimony and child support cases, and custody cases.

Throughout his final year of law school, Shayne interned for the Constitutional and Administrative Law Division of the Massachusetts’s Attorney General’s Office. There, he collaborated with Assistant Attorney Generals primarily on G.L. c. 30A cases.

Before law school, Shayne worked for nearly five years at the International Institute of New England (IINE), a refugee resettlement and immigration services nonprofit serving communities in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. As Director of Human Resources and Operations at IINE, he was responsible for implementing organizational strategy and for managing human resources operations. He has extensive experience managing interpersonal and organizational challenges, and brings his first-hand experience navigating employment issues in a multi-office workplace.

Shayne earned his Bachelor’s degree at Connecticut College, graduating summa cum laude with a major in Government and Religious Studies and a minor in History.