Attorney Scheft is President of Law Enforcement Dimensions, which provides exceptional legal and human relations training to Massachusetts police officers, supervisors, commanders and law enforcement agencies. In addition to law enforcement training, Attorney Scheft often leverages his impressive legal experience and shares his experience and knowledge through customized legal education programs that have received widespread praise throughout the Massachusetts legal community. Many state agencies have trusted Attorney Scheft to provide the most comprehensive and effective training, including the DEA, Massachusetts State Police, and Boston Police. When the most comprehensive, effective and relevant legal education is required, Mr. Scheft is the first lawyer that comes to mind. Speaker at the Harvard University Symposium on «Police, Lawyers and the Truth» Annual speaker at the annual conference of the New England Community Police Partnership. Attorney John Sofis Scheft has been a partner at Bellotti Law Group, P.C. for many years and is invaluable to the firm. Attorney Scheft began his legal career in 1986 and worked with Attorney Peter Bellotti as a prosecutor in Middlesex County in the late 1980s.
As a prosecutor, attorney Scheft skillfully tried and won numerous cases and was quickly recognized by his colleagues, judges and clients as a first-class litigator. Attorney Scheft graduated with honors from Harvard University in 1981 and received his law degree from Northeastern University School of Law in 1986. Attorney Scheft also served as Director of the Attorney General`s Seniors Protection Project, which has been recognized and praised by the U.S. Department of Justice for its innovative and effective approach to police training. Mr. Scheft has also maintained his keen sense of law and is called upon on several occasions to advise numerous government agencies. Attorney Scheft has been invited to speak at numerous conferences, including his Harvard University alma mater`s symposium on «The Police, Lawyers, and the Truth.» He is also an annual presenter at the annual conference of the New England Community Police Partnership. Recently, attorney Scheft won a landmark appeal for new language in a medical marijuana election question in Massachusetts, «Question 3.» Following attorney Scheft`s diligent defense, a Supreme Court judge ordered, for the first time in Massachusetts` long and historic legal history, the attorney general to revise a «misleading» statement about an election issue and a voter guide prepared by the secretary of state for the fall 2012 election. This unprecedented victory demonstrated Attorney Scheft`s extraordinary determination, knowledge and skills in the face of decades of precedent. Attorney Scheft went ahead and vowed not to rest until justice was served.