Mala M. Rafik

About Mala M. Rafik

Mala is a partner at Rosenfeld & Rafik, P.C, a New England firm representing clients…

Experience

1. Managing Partner

   Health Equity Compact

   Aug 1998 — Present · Boston, MA, US

   Mala represents individuals with debilitating chronic illnesses for whom she has achieved several pivotal litigation victories in state and federal court. Mala is a past Chair of the Insurance Law Section of the American Association for Justice, a Vice-Chair of the Health and Disability Law Committee and a Vice-Chair of the Life Insurance General Committee within the Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section of the American Bar Association, a Sub-Committee Co-Chair of the Employee Benefits Committee of the American Bar Association Labor and Employment Section, a co-chair of the Federal Bar Association’s Massachusetts Chapter of the Employment Law, Social Security & Disability Law Committee, a member of the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Lawyers Board of Governors, a Fellow of the American Bar Association, a member of the Health Law Section Council of the Massachusetts Bar Association, a former member of the Boston Bar Association Council, a former Chair and current member of the Legal Referral Services section of the Boston Bar Association, and a former Chair of the Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Section of the Boston Bar Association. She is also the Chair of the Board of Directors of Health Law Advocates, a member of the Board of Directors of Prisoner’s Legal Services and a member of the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corporation. Mala has been both a Massachusetts Rising Star and Super Lawyer in Boston Magazine since 2007, and was named a 2006 Up & Coming Lawyer, a 2012 Top Women of Law honoree and a 2015 Circle of Excellence honoree by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly. From 2013 to 2017, Mala has been named one of the top 50 women lawyers in Massachusetts by Super Lawyers. From 2014 to 2017, Mala was named one of the top 50 women lawyers in New England and one of the top 100 lawyers in Massachusetts by Super Lawyers. In 2015, Mala was honored as one of the top 100 lawyers in New England by Super Lawyers.

Education

• The Madeira School

  H.S.

  1986 — 1990

• Northeastern University School of Law

  J.D.

  1994 — 1997

• Colby College

  B.A., Government and Anthropology

  1990 — 1994

Skills

• Long Term Care
• Health Insurance
• Social Security Disability
• Mediation
• Long-Term Care
• Disability Insurance
• Legal Assistance
• Employee Benefits
• Long-Term Disability
• Appeals
• Employment Law
• Courts
• Insurance
• Hearings
• Public Speaking
• Insurance Law
• Erisa
• Arbitration
• Legal Writing
• Litigation
• Legal Research
• Healthcare
• Civil Litigation