Our Mission

Attorneys Christine Sunnerberg and Reyna Ramirez have been working together as a team for nearly a decade, even before they became practicing lawyers and founding Partners of Ramirez and Sunnerberg: Your Partners in Justice. 

Our team provides zealous legal representation to individuals facing a wide range of criminal issues and post-collateral consequences.   

When you hire Ramirez & Sunnerberg, you are joining that team. Through our persistent, tenacious, and creative approach to the criminal justice system, it is our mission to achieve the best possible outcome for each and every client and to do so at reasonable prices for middle and low-income clients.

Christine Sunnerberg, ESq.

Attorney Christine Sunnerberg has experience representing people at all stages of the criminal process. She has defended drug and sex offense charges in the district and superior courts of Massachusetts and she also represents people in all levels of parole and parole revocation matters, Sex Offender Registry Board (SORB) hearings, sexually dangerous persons (SDP) trials, juvenile grants of conditional liberty revocation hearings, prison disciplinary hearings, registry of motor vehicle (RMV) hearings, and other post-conviction matters.

In addition to criminal defense, Attorney Sunnerberg handles civil rights litigation on behalf of Massachusetts prisoners and other marginalized individuals. She previously worked at and co-counseled with Prisoners’ Legal Services litigating guard assaults and has served as temporary supervisor of the PLS Prison Brutality Project. Attorney Sunnerberg has also worked as a supervising attorney in the Boston College Law School Civil Rights Clinic and has trained the law students of Harvard Prison Legal Assistance Project on cross examination tactics in the context of prison disciplinary hearings. She has experience advocating for the rights of incarcerated individuals in multiple contexts and is passionate about protecting the rights of each individual defendant. She has helped to release multiple incarcerated individuals early to the community and to their families, and this is her favorite part of her work. Attorney Sunnerberg also co-counsels and second chairs multiple attorneys on complex litigation matters across the state and enjoys strategizing to find the best possible result for each client.

Attorney Sunnerberg graduated from Brandeis University in 2013 with degrees in Politics, Legal Studies, and American Studies and from Northeastern University School of Law in 2017. In law school, she was fortunate to learn under the supervision and mentorship of Attorney Bruce Watson on both criminal defense and family law matters. She is a lifelong Weymouth resident and is proud to have been asked to speak at her alma mater, Weymouth High School, about prison abolition and the criminal punishment system. When she isn’t sending people home to their loved ones, she enjoys hanging out with her cat, Trixie, hiking by the water, traveling, reading, and baking/eating vegan desserts.

Reyna Ramirez, Esq.

Attorney Reyna Ramirez has a robust practice in the district and municipal courts of Norfolk and Suffolk Counties, as well as representing individuals in post-conviction appellate proceedings. Along with Attorney Sunnerberg, she advises individuals seeking parole, and the two have been successful in advocating for the release of a dozen prisoners, including many second-degree lifers. 

Before becoming a full-time Partner in Justice, Attorney Ramirez worked with Attorney J. W. Carney, Jr. for 4 ½ years on complex criminal matters and also co-authored two chapters in the MCLE publication, Massachusetts Evidence: A Courtroom Reference. During her time there, she co-authored an appellate brief to the Supreme Judicial Court which resulted in changes to involuntary manslaughter law in drug overdose cases. She also spent some time working on family law matters alongside Attorney Bruce Watson.  In 2021, Harvard Law invited Attorney Ramirez to teach their students trial practice. She is available to second-chair complex trials.

Attorney Ramirez graduated from Dartmouth College in 2010 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology with a minor in German Studies. She has worked in various sectors, including education, human resources, real estate, accounting, and was inspired to go to law school after working for the New England Innocence Project for two years. She is passionate about abolition, bail to jail services, science, seafood drenched in butter, garlic, and rescue animals (Paulie, Trixie, and Fancy). In the past two years she has received recognition from SuperLawyers, boston Magazine, and, the state public defender agency CPCS (“Emerging Defender Award”).