ROSENFELD & RAFIK, P.C. - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Partner at Rosenfeld & Rafik
• Partners at Rosenfeld & Rafik

Mala Rafik serves on the boards of the Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts (http://www.aclu.com) and Massachusetts Advocates for Children (http://www.massadvocates.org), the leading organization in Massachusetts advocating for the education rights of special needs and other vulnerable children. She is a board member of Massachusetts Correctional Legal Services (http://www.mcls.org), the highly-respected provider of legal representation to Massachusetts inmates. Mala is a partner at Rosenfeld & Rafik, P.C., a law firm in New England representing clients denied access to health care as well as individuals seeking short- and long-term disability, life and long-term care benefits from private insurance carriers. Mala's clients are typically individuals with debilitating chronic illnesses and disabilities for whom she has achieved several pivotal litigation victories in state and federal court. She also has represented several nonprofit organizations whose mission is to foster or provide excellent health care for people in Massachusetts. 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 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 Juvenile and Child Welfare Section Council of the Massachusetts Bar Association, a former member of the Boston Bar Association Council, a former Chair 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 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 and 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.

Socorra DeCelle, also known as Corrie, joined Rosenfeld Rafik & Sullivan in September 2010 as a legal assistant. She was quickly promoted to Paralegal while attending law school in the evening. She graduated from New England Law Boston with a Juris Doctorate in 2013, and was admitted into the Massachusetts Bar in November 2013. She graduated from James Madison University with Bachelors in Social Work in 2009.

Job Titles:

• Board Member of Health Care for All
• Chairman of the Urban Medical Group
• Lawyer Profile
• Member of the Board of Directors of the National Alliance

Steve Rosenfeld is a board member of Health Care for All (http://www.hcfama.org), Health Law Advocates (http://www.healthlawadvocates.org), Community Catalyst (http://www.communitycatalyst.org), Commonwealth Care Alliance (http://www.commonwealthcare.org), and the Boston Center for Independent Living (http://www.bostoncil.org). Steve Rosenfeld is chairman of the Urban Medical Group (http://www.umg.org) a nonprofit medical practice that concentrates on the needs of frail elders and the chronically ill. For 10 years (1997-2007) he was a board member of Health Care For All (http://www.hcfama.org), the leading health policy and advocacy organization in Massachusetts. In 1996 he founded Health Law Advocates (http://www.hla-inc.org), a nonprofit public interest law firm dedicated to seeking health care access for individuals and groups unable to afford legal representation. He is both a member of its board and its volunteer legal director. He is also board member and senior legal adviser to Community Catalyst (http://www.communitycatalyst.org), a national organization whose mission is to assist state and local organizations throughout the country who are advocating for health care access. He is also a member of the board of Commonwealth Care Alliance (http://www.commonwealthcare.org), a nonprofit organization that provides a total system of health care to people throughout Massachusetts who because of their poor health receive both Medicare and Medicaid assistance. Stephen Rosenfeld, a retired partner at Rosenfeld Rafik & Sullivan, is a specialist in health access and health benefits law, including ERISA, health care consumer protection, long-term disability law and several related areas. He has litigated in all federal and state courts with jurisdiction in Massachusetts, including the United States Supreme Court, the First Circuit Court of Appeals, the Federal District Court for the District of Massachusetts, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, the Massachusetts Appeals Court and the Massachusetts Superior Court. Mr. Rosenfeld has been active in several nonprofit organizations. He was founder of Health Law Advocates Inc., a nonprofit public interest law firm dedicated to gaining access to health care for vulnerable populations in Massachusetts. He was for many years a board member of Health Care for All, a leading grass roots health policy organization. He was a senior legal adviser and board member at Community Catalyst, a national organization dedicated to providing health care-related technical assistance to grass roots organizations and community coalitions throughout the country. For ten years, 1994-2004, he was board chairman of the Massachusetts Advocates for Children (formerly known as the Massachusetts Advocacy Center), a statewide child advocacy organization. He was also a board member of Commonwealth Care Alliance, Inc., a nonprofit total care system for the most chronically ill persons needing medical care. Since 2011, Mr. Rosenfeld has been a member of the board of directors of the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Massachusetts (NAMI Mass.). He is just now (in 2016) finishing three years as chair of the board. During his tenure, he helped create the NAMI Mass. Criminal Justice Diversion Project (CJDP), to partner with police and others to train police in Massachusetts in crisis response to mental illness. He also helped create NAMI Mass. Compass, a statewide resource helpline for families with mental illness.