Harry J. Haytayan

Harry is an associate in the firm’s Professional Liability Litigation Department. Harry’s civil litigation practice concentrates on defending professional liability claims. He represents lawyers, accountants, engineers, and design professionals in a variety of matters, including defense of malpractice claims and disciplinary proceedings.

Prior joining Peabody & Arnold, Harry served as an assistant district attorney with the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office. There, he prosecuted hundreds of cases ranging from felonies, misdemeanors, to juvenile and delinquency matters in courts all over Middlesex County. Harry gained extensive litigation and trial experience as an assistant district attorney taking over thirty trials to verdict as a first-chair prosecutor securing numerous convictions. He argued countless substantive motions covering a wide range of complex legal and factual matters. As a prosecutor, he worked closely with seasoned investigators and law enforcement officials on complex investigations that often lead to a wide range of charges for offenses such as narcotics, firearms, homicides, and domestic violence to mention some.

Harry also spent time as an associate at a large regional insurance defense firm, where he defended claims in a wide range of fields including general liability defense, construction, transportation, and personal injury matters.

Harry earned his Juris Doctor from Northeastern University School of Law, where he served as a judicial law clerk at the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts and interned at the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office, Homicide Division, in Boston, Massachusetts. He also practiced as a student attorney at the Northeastern University Public Health Advocacy Clinic and served as an Article Editor on the Northeastern University Law Review.

Harry graduated magna cum laude from the University of New Hampshire with a Bachelor of Arts in Early U.S. History. He currently lives in Boston and is an avid sports fan for all the local professional teams.