Edward W. Wayland is a Boston area native and resides in Cambridge with his wife and two children. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree form McGill University in 1990. In 1993, he earned his Juris Doctor, cum laude, from the Vermont Law School, where he was honored with the American Legal History Award. While at the Vermont Law School Mr. Wayland drafted and argued criminal appeals for indigent defendants before the Vermont Supreme Court. Several of those cases resulted in published opinions. Mr. Wayland also wrote the winning brief in a landmark First Amendment decision concerning the constitutionality of school voucher programs.

From 1993 to 1996 Mr. Wayland was an associate at a general practice firm in New York, where he concentrated in litigation. He represented a variety of business and individual clients as lead trial counsel. In 1996 he returned to Massachusetts, where he continued to focus on trial work. He was a partner in the Newton firm of McCarthy & Wayland and formed his own firm before joining Perry, Krumsiek & Waylamd, LLP.

Mr.Wayland has broad experience successfully representing individuals and businesses in a variety of forums. He has represented businesses at trial and on appeal in contract claims, construction and land disputes, and employment litigation. He has obtained favorable judgments for individuals in divorce trials, faulty construction litigation, wrongful termination claims and criminal charges. Mr. Wayland's effective appellate representation is reflected in the published court decisions of three states.

Mr. Wayland is a member of the New York and Massachusetts bars, is licensed to practice before the United States District Courts for the Districts of Massachusetts, Northern and Western New York, and is admitted by the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. He has also attended, on special scholarship, the National Criminal Defense College in Georgia. Mr. Wayland is a member of the Boston Bar Association, the Massachusetts Bar Association, and the Massachusetts Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys.