2024–25 Officers 

Victoria M. Santoro

President

Firm: Co-Founder at Santoro & Gray Law in Boston

Education: B.A, Wesleyan University, 2007; J.D., Boston College Law School, 2010

Legal Career: Victoria Santoro is the co-founder of Santoro & Gray Law. She co-founded the firm with her longtime trial partner Jessica Gray after 14 years in the field of personal injury law. A skilled trial attorney, she handles a variety of cases including UBER/rideshare collisions, pharmaceutical litigation, wrongful death, product liability and sexual assault. Notable results include a multi-million-dollar verdict against an international hotel chain for the wrongful death drowning of a father of four. Santoro has also had several seven-figure plaintiff's verdicts. During the height of the COVID crisis, she prevailed in the state’s first entirely remote civil jury trial. In her first year of eligibility, Santoro was voted a Super Lawyers Rising Star and has received this recognition every year since. In 2014, she received an Excellence in the Law “Up & Coming Lawyer” award from Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly. In 2022, she was announced in Best Lawyers in America: Ones to Watch in three practice areas: Products Liability, Personal Injury and Medical Malpractice. She was also named to the 2022 Top Women of Law by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly. On Oct. 15, 2024, the Women’s Bar Association of Massachusetts will present Santoro with the WBA’s Emerging Women Leaders in the Law Award. 

MBA Service: Extremely active in the Massachusetts Bar Association, Santoro currently serves as the MBA president. She is past chair of the Young Lawyers Division, is a member of the Civil Litigation Section Council and serves on the Oliver Wendell Holmes Scholarship Committee. Santoro co-chaired the Boston Bar Association’s Recently Elected Partners Forum from 2017-2019. 

Additional Service: Santoro speaks regularly at national legal conferences, local continuing legal education seminars, and has been a guest speaker and lecturer in law schools. She has been asked to speak at the swearing in of new Massachusetts lawyers every year since 2015, which is one of the highlights of her year. 

Additional Information: Santoro lives in Concord, Massachusetts with her son and rescue dog. She is a 2007 graduate of Wesleyan University and attended Boston College Law School.

Michael H. Hayden

President-elect

Firm: Partner at Morrison Mahoney LLP in Boston

Education: B.A., Brandeis University, magna cum laude, 1999; J.D., Boston College Law School, 2004

Legal Career: Michael H. Hayden is a partner at Morrison Mahoney LLP in Boston and focuses his practice on professional liability, specifically defense of nonmedical professionals, such as lawyers, architects, engineers and real estate brokers. In addition, Hayden practices retail litigation, product liability, liquor liability, transportation law and environmental law. Hayden has tried cases in state and federal court in Massachusetts and in Maine state court, obtaining defense verdicts in each jurisdiction. He has also successfully argued before the Massachusetts Appeals Court, the Appellate Division of the Massachusetts District Court and the First Circuit Court of Appeals.

MBA Service: In addition to serving as MBA president-elect, Hayden has served on the MBA’s Executive Management Board and as chair of the MBA’s Judicial Administration Section Council from 2018 to 2021. In 2017 and 2018, he was a member of the section’s Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Diversity, which successfully introduced a resolution at the MBA’s House of Delegates supporting efforts to increase diversity in the court system. Hayden has frequently chaired sessions of the MBA’s “View from the Bench” continuing legal education series, which includes Massachusetts Superior Court and District Court judges as panelists. During the pandemic, Hayden has chaired six View From the Bench programs via Zoom, including a monthly series focused on how to advance civil cases during the pandemic. In addition, he has participated as a lecturer at various other MBA education courses, including its Practicing with Professionalism program.

Additional Service: Outside of the MBA, Hayden collaborated in the 2008 publication of a historical chronicle on esteemed commonwealth colonial lawyer Josiah Quincy Jr. Currently, Hayden is chair of Morrison Mahoney LLP’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee, a position he has held for the last two years. 

Additional Information: Hayden lives in Quincy and has two daughters in middle school.

Samuel A. Segal

Vice President

Firm: Founder at Law Offices of Samuel A. Segal in Boston

Education: B.S., Arcadia University, 2007; J.D., Northeastern University School of Law, 2010

Legal Career: Sam A. Segal is a personal injury attorney with over 10 years of litigation experience representing injured parties. He worked for five years at Breakstone, White & Gluck PC before opening his own practice, the Law Offices of Samuel A. Segal, in 2015.

MBA Service: In addition to serving as MBA vice president, Segal is the former chair of both the MBA Young Lawyers Division and Lawyer Referral Service Committee. He regularly volunteers for both the MBA's Dial-A-Lawyer and Mock Trial programs, and he received the MBA's Volunteer Recognition Award in 2016.  

Additional Service: Outside of the MBA, Segal is the current chair of the Committee on Outreach to Young Lawyers and the Technology & New Media Standing Committee for the American Bar Association Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section. He also previously served as national affiliates director of the ABA Young Lawyers Division.

Additional Information: Segal worked for two years with exotic animals at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia Live Animal Center (he is trained in falconry and reptile/snake handling). He is beloved of his rats, will one day inherit a Hermann's Tortoise and has a special place in his heart for all exotic pets.

Shayla Mombeleur

Treasurer

Firm: Associate at Todd & Weld LLP in Boston

Education: B.S. Bridgewater State University, 2012; J.D. University of Massachusetts School of Law, 2017

Legal Career: Shayla Mombeleur is an associate at Todd & Weld LLP and concentrates her practice on government investigations and criminal defense, with a focus on federal and health care cases. She defends clients during every stage of the criminal justice process, including trials, pre-trial motions and plea bargaining.

MBA Service: In addition to serving as MBA treasurer, Mombeleur is a recent recipient of the MBA’s Access to Justice Race, Equity & Inclusion Award; a past recipient of the MBA’s Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Scholarship; and a past participant in the MBA Leadership Academy. She currently serves as chair of the MBA’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Committee and is a member of the association’s Executive Management Board. To help advance DEI initiatives, she has created a variety of training sessions with members of the Massachusetts Trial Court and recently led a three-part webinar that focused on developing and maintaining a diverse network and workplace through supportive and inclusive environments.

Additional Service: Mombeleur previously served as a criminal defense public defender in the Boston office of the Committee for Public Counsel Services (CPCS), where she helped organize the public defender march in honor of George Floyd and later received the Emerging Defender Award.  

Additional Information: Mombeleur was a former missionary in Haiti during her college career.

Marc A. Moccia

Secretary

Firm: Kazarosian Costello LLP

Education: B.A., University of Massachusetts, Amherst 2007; J.D., cum laude, Suffolk University law School, 2011

Legal Career: Attorney Marc A. Moccia is a dedicated third-generation attorney who handles cases in state and federal courts involving a wide array of civil litigation matters, ranging from high asset/high conflict divorce matters, to catastrophic personal injury and medical malpractice cases, to civil rights cases involving police misconduct. 

In 2021, Moccia and Kazarosian Costello partner Walter A. Costello Jr., negotiated a $4.5 million settlement for the family of a bicyclist who was killed by a tractor-trailer in Cambridge. In 2022, he and Costello successfully negotiated a $7 million settlement for a mason who fell from scaffolding on a Boston construction site and sustained devastating permanent injuries, including a traumatic brain injury. In November 2022, Moccia obtained a judgment in the Essex County Superior Court in excess of $7.7 million (with interest) on behalf of a woman who was the victim of a hit-and-run. At the time of the judgment, it was one of the top five verdicts and awards in the commonwealth between November 2022 and October 2023, as reported by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly. 

Moccia and Kazarosian Costello partner Marsha Kazarosian have successfully litigated multiple claims against local police departments in state and federal courts, including one in which an on-duty officer sexually assaulted a young woman while she was intoxicated.

Since 2020, Moccia has been selected by his peers for inclusion as one of The Best Lawyers in America© in the areas of Family Law and Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs. He is featured as a 2023 Massachusetts Super Lawyer, was named an Up and Coming Lawyer by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly in 2020, and has a 10.0 “Superb” rating from AVVO.com.

MBA Service: Since joining Kazarosian Costello LLP (then Kazarosian Law Offices) in 2011, Moccia has been deeply involved in county and state-wide bar leadership, particularly in the field of family law., Moccia has served multiple terms on the Massachusetts Bar Association’s Family Law Section Council and recently finished a two-year term as chair. 

Moccia serves as a member of the MBA’s Executive Management Board and as an at-large delegate to the MBA’s House of Delegates. In 2021, he was appointed as the chair of the MBA’s Governance Committee, tasked with examining and revising the MBA’s bylaws. Moccia was a fellow of the MBA’s inaugural Leadership Academy in 2016.

Additional Service: Moccia is a former president of the Haverhill Bar Association. He has also been a member of the Essex County Bar Association’s board of directors since 2020. Moccia recently served two consecutive two-year terms as a member of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court’s Standing Committee on Lawyer Well-Being, where he participated in the Standing Committee’s charge to plan and oversee efforts to enhance the well-being of lawyers, judges and law students in the commonwealth. Moccia also recently finished a one-year term as the vice president of the Massachusetts Family and Probate American Inn of Courts, and he remains involved in the Inn as a board member. Most recently, Moccia was appointed by Trial Court Chief Justice Heidi E. Brieger as a member of the 2024-2025 Massachusetts Trial Court Child Support Guidelines Task Force. The task force is charged with reviewing the current Massachusetts Child Support Guidelines and offering recommendations of potential changes.

Martin W. Healy

Chief Legal Counsel and Chief Operating Officer

Company: Massachusetts Bar Association

Education: B.S., Suffolk University, 1985; J.D., Suffolk University Law School, cum laude, 1988

Legal Career: Appointed as a National Uniform Law Commissioner for Massachusetts in 2011 by Gov. Deval L. Patrick, Martin W. Healy is also a long-term member of the Massachusetts Committee for Public Counsel Services (CPCS) Board. Healy was honored with Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly's prestigious Hall of Fame award in 2024, which recognizes preeminent attorneys who have distinguished themselves from peers. Additionally, Healy received recognition in 2014 by being honored with Massachusetts Lawyer’s Weekly’s Lawyer of the Year award for his work in making attorney-conducted voir dire a reality in Massachusetts. He previously served as a hearing committee member with the Board of Bar Overseers and as an adjunct professor at Suffolk University in its Master’s in Criminal Justice program. The Massachusetts Juvenile Bar Association (MJBA) presented Healy with its 2015 Chief Justice Francis G. Poitrast Award for his advocacy on behalf of the juvenile justice system, including his efforts to increase compensation for attorneys who handle juvenile cases through CPCS. Healy formerly served as a commonwealth of Massachusetts bar examiner for the Supreme Judicial Court. In 2019, Healy received the Beacon of Justice Award from the state's Equal Justice Coalition. He has been appointed to the Firearm Licensing Review Board by Gov. Charlie D. Baker. In 2020, Healy was sworn in by Baker as a commissioner to the governor’s special Supreme Judicial Court Nominating Commission. Prior to joining the MBA staff, Healy worked in the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office Appellate Division and as a legislative aide in the Massachusetts Senate.

MBA Service: Healy serves as the Massachusetts Bar Association's chief legal advisor, as well as the MBA's liaison to the legislative, executive and judicial branches. Healy is responsible for providing legal advice in corporate matters and legal support in issues of public policy concerning the practice of law and the administration of justice. In addition, he serves as counsel to the MBA leadership team and the MBA House of Delegates and Executive Management Board. Since 2011, Healy also serves as the Chief Operating Officer to the MBA, responsible for managing the association’s professional staff. In his capacity as a registered legislative and executive agent, Healy works with the MBA's sections and committees to analyze legislation, draft bills and amicus curiae briefs, and testify before legislative committees. Healy also serves as executive secretary to the Joint Bar Committee on Judicial Appointments, which confidentially reviews judicial candidates for the governor of the commonwealth.

Additional Service: A long-term member of Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly's Board of Editors.