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Joseph V. Maruca

Attorney Joseph V. Maruca joined Sykes and Cole in 1991 after graduating from the New England School of Law in Boston. Attorney Maruca has spent his entire legal career at Sykes and Cole concentrating his practice in estate planning, estate administration, probate, real estate, and elder law.

In addition to his legal work at Sykes and Cole, Attorney Maruca serves as General Counsel to the Massachusetts Call/Volunteer Firefighters Association (MCVFA) and as a volunteer attorney for Cape Cod and Islands Legal Services Law Firm Counseling Project from 1992 to 2005.

Attorney Maruca is a member of the Board of Directors of the Estate Planning Council of Cape Cod.

Joe serves his community as an elected member of the Board of Library Trustees for the Sandwich Public Library. He was first elected in 1991 and continues to serve on the Board.

Attorney Maruca grew up in Springfield and Longmeadow, Massachusetts. He is a graduate of the Boston University School of Management (SMG 1981) with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. After BU, he worked as a Legislative Assistant for the Massachusetts House of Representatives and attended the New England School of Law at night.

Attorney Maruca has also served as volunteer firefighter/emergency medical technician (EMT) for more than 30 years. He first joined the Longmeadow (Massachusetts) Fire Department as a High School Senior in 1977. He served with the Sandwich Fire Department for 15 years. He is now Chief of the West Barnstable Fire Department, a primarily volunteer organization.

Joe lives in East Sandwich with his wife, Regina and their two daughters, Nina and Carly.

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Laura M. Boucher

Attorney Laura M. Boucher was born and raised in Centerville, Massachusetts and graduated from Barnstable High School and Middlebury College.

Having spent several years in public relations and special events in New York City and Boston, Attorney Boucher attended and graduated from Suffolk University Law School in 1991. After two years as a litigator with Feinberg, Charnas and Birmingham in Boston, she worked as a legal recruiter with Bickerton & Gordon, and later became the Assistant Director of Human Resources for Hutchins, Wheeler and Dittmar. She returned to the Cape in 2002 and worked as an associate at Toabe and Riley in Chatham until 2008, specializing in trusts and estates and real estate. She joined Sykes and Cole in 2009.

Attorney Boucher is a member of the Barnstable County Bar Association and the Estate Planning Council of Cape Cod. She is admitted to practice in New York and Washington, DC, as well as Massachusetts.

Laura lives in Centerville.

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