After serving as a senior Investigator for the Massachusetts Office of Bar Counsel for eight years, Aisha Milbury Ellis joined DeMoura|Smith as of-counsel in March 2015.

Aisha represents clients in civil litigation matters involving premises liability, negligence, personal injury and wrongful death, contract disputes, fraud, consumer law, employment law, discrimination, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, election law (including recount proceedings), estate asset recovery, and higher education law. Aisha appears before the Massachusetts Superior Courts, Appeals Courts, Federal Courts, Probate Courts, and administrative bodies such as the MCAD. Aisha is engaged to conduct sexual misconduct investigations and independent workplace investigations. Her clients include individuals, real estate developers, colleges and universities, and other businesses and institutions.

Matters highlighting the breadth and depth of Aisha’s practice include:

  • Obtaining a $660,000 order of judgment, including attorney’s fees and treble damages, for the victim of a real estate investment fraud.

  • Recovery of a confidential six-figure amount for family due to wrongful death of elderly aunt’s fall from nursing home bed.

  • $150,000 recovery for 64-year-old male who suffered a facial laceration and scarring in bicycle accident.

  • Principal investigator in independent investigation of provost of local university.

  • Recovery of $100,000 for client who sustained a concussion in a low-speed, rear-end auto collision.

  • $100,000 recovery for passenger who sustained a broken wrist in a motor vehicle collision.

Before serving as a senior Bar Counsel Investigator, Aisha worked at the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers and the Boston Bar Association. She was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar in 2008. Aisha is a 2008 graduate of New England School of Law and a summa cum laude graduate of the University of Massachusetts. In 2007, Aisha received the Massachusetts Black Judges Conference Book Award, given annually to recognize excellence in academic achievement. While a Criminal Justice major at University of Massachusetts, Aisha received the Distinction in Criminal Justice Award in 2003.

Committed to the community she lives in, Aisha has been an elected member of the Revere School Committee since 2022.