Ep 244 | The Law Office of Dale J. Tamburro, PC | Lindsay & Dale Share Their Paths From Chemist and MIT Engineer to Estate Planning Attorneys
The Lawyer Stories Podcast
Benjamin Gold
5.0 • 541 Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
In Episode 244 of The Lawyer Stories Podcast, we sit down with Dale J. Tamburro, Principal of the Law Office of Dale J. Tamburro, and his associate, Attorney Lindsay Chen, who focuses her practice on estate planning.
This episode was recorded live at Caveau in Boston, Massachusetts, prior to our Boston Connect event. Dale and Lindsay's firm is based in Belmont, MA, a suburb just outside the city.
Dale shares his journey from chemist to attorney, and Lindsay discusses her background as an MIT-trained engineer - two very different beginnings that ultimately led to rewarding careers in the legal profession. We explore how their former professions shaped their analytical thinking, client-centered approach, and the way they solve complex estate planning challenges.
Dale is known for being highly approachable, dedicating significant time to educating seniors on the importance of proper estate planning, while Lindsay brings a fresh perspective working with a younger demographic. Together, their complementary strengths form a partnership focused on delivering exceptional service to their clients.
This episode highlights how unconventional pathways can translate into excellence in law - and how both Dale and Lindsay found purpose and happiness through serving their clients.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Lawyer Stories podcast with host Benny Gold. Lawyer Stories was founded in July 2017 on Instagram and is an expanding global network of lawyers and law students sharing their personal journeys to the noble profession of the practice of law. |
| 0:17.0 | Join us on this podcast as we dig deeper into these stories and hear from lawyers and law students from around the world in all areas of the legal profession. |
| 0:26.0 | Here at lawyer stories, we believe that every lawyer has a story. What's yours? |
| 0:34.1 | Welcome to the Lawyer Stories podcast with Benny Gold. |
| 0:44.1 | Today, we're fortunate enough to be live before our Boston Connect event here at Kavot, our second year in a row here. |
| 0:45.2 | I'm super excited. |
| 0:49.0 | I don't do live podcasts that often, but we're starting to do them more and more before events. |
| 0:55.9 | And today we have the pleasure of sitting with Dale Tamboro, principal at the law office of Dale J. Tamboro and his associate, Lindsay Chen, both Boston suburb-based estate planning and elder lawyers. How are you both doing? |
| 1:05.3 | Very well, thanks. It's awesome. Great to have you here. Thanks for joining us live and making it happen tonight. |
| 1:11.3 | We're very excited for what's to be a great night. |
| 1:13.7 | So Dale, let's start with you. |
| 1:16.3 | For those who may not know, tell us a little bit about your background |
| 1:19.7 | and how you came to focus on estate planning and elder law. |
| 1:22.8 | Well, it was a long road, actually. |
| 1:24.7 | I didn't actually practice law until I was 28, 29. I was a chemist. |
| 1:29.5 | Went to chemical engineering school and ran into someone who convinced me I should go to law |
| 1:34.3 | school. So I went to law school, thought I was going to go into corporate law, decided not to do |
| 1:39.2 | that and got involved in real estate law, and then very quickly estate planning and discovered it was something that I loved. So how does somebody just convince you to go to law school? That's like a big undertaking. Like, what was that moment like when they're like, hey, you should go to law school, and you're like, okay. Well, you hate to admit it, but usually it's a movie you saw that. I think it was injustice for all was the name of the movie with Al Pacino. |
| 2:02.7 | And I saw that when I was a kid and I said, you know, I think it would be cool to be a lawyer. |
| 2:07.2 | But then I discovered that my reading and writing skills were below average and my science |
| 2:11.7 | and math skills were much better. |
| 2:13.4 | So that's why I went into chemistry. |
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