Cara Ann Ceraso

Cara Ann Ceraso is a Nantucket business lawyer and the attorney behind Anchored Law, LLC. She represents individual and corporate clients in business and contract matters, litigation consulting, and construction law. Cara drafts and negotiates complex commercial agreements, vendor technology and operations contracts, construction contracts, employment agreements, confidentiality agreements, leases, and other business documents. She also advises clients on risk management and helps resolve disputes through negotiation, mediation, and litigation strategy.

Cara earned her law degree from Brooklyn Law School in 2004 and a bachelor’s degree from Boston College in 2001, completing double majors in English and Political Science in three years. Her education supports a practice that depends on precise drafting, careful research, persuasive writing, and close analysis of commercial risk. She has also completed mediation training meeting Massachusetts standards for confidential dispute resolution and court-connected mediation practice.

Cara has more than twenty years of experience representing clients through contract negotiations, litigation, mediation, arbitration, and dispute resolution. Her work includes SaaS and PaaS agreements, licensing, consulting and services agreements, NDAs, construction agreements, vendor contracts, general business disputes, construction disputes, and litigation management. Her litigation background informs contract drafting by helping her identify provisions and risks that can become significant if a business relationship later turns contentious.

Cara Ann Ceraso has been recognized with a Fairfield County Business Council 40 Under 40 Award and was named a Super Lawyers Rising Star from 2013 through 2019. She has also received an AV Preeminent peer review rating and was named a Charter Fellow of the Construction Lawyers Society of America. Cara combines contract experience, dispute resolution skills, and practical risk management for businesses and individuals handling significant commercial and construction matters.

Law Office Affiliations

• Attorney, Anchored Law, LLC
• Member, Massachusetts Bar Association
• Board Member, Fairfield County Bar Association
• Charter Fellow, Construction Lawyers Society of America
• Corporate Leadership Council Member, American Heart Association, Fairfield County
• Board Member, Habitat for Humanity Nantucket (2016-2021)

Licensed State

• Massachusetts

Education

• Brooklyn Law School
  Juris Doctor (JD)
• Boston College
  Bachelor’s degree in Double Major in English and Political Science

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