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Dear readers, This special section honors Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly’s Top Women of Law for 2020, including our Circle of Excellence. This year’s Circle is made up of six women who have been honored in the past, but whose continuing achievements and contributions to the community merit additional recognition. All Top Women honorees, including the Circle of Excellence, were selected by a panel comprised of members of the legal community and representatives of Lawyers Weekly. The judges chose to honor individuals who have made signi�icant contributions to the legal profession while also serving as role models for young women entering the law. I’m also pleased to announce this year’s scholarship recipient, Kimberly Flores. Kimberly is a 2L at Boston University School of Law and the �irst member of her family to graduate from college. A public interest scholar, she serves as the 2L editor of the American Journal of Law & Medicine and as vice president of the Women of Color Collaborative at her law school. You’ll learn more about her in the pro�ile included in this section. I hope that you enjoy reading about the impressive women featured here.

Susan A. Bocamazo, Esq. Publisher Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly

2020 Circle of Excellence Elizabeth L.B. Greene ...... 17 Holly A. Harney ...... 18 Betty Francisco ...... 4 Maegan L. Hurley ...... 18 Grace V.B. Garcia ...... 4 Faith D. Kasparian ...... 18 Joan A. Lukey ...... 5 Aliya S. Khalidi ...... 19 Paige A. Scott Reed ...... 6 Julie E. Korostoff ...... 19 Anita P. Sharma ...... 6 Renee M. Landers ...... 20 Lisa M. Tittemore ...... 7 Chiara Urbani LaPlume ...... 20 Sharon C. Lincoln ...... 20 2020 Top Women of Law Stephanie H. Massey ...... 21 Maureen McBrien ...... 21 Nancy D. Adams ...... 9 Amanda McGrady Morrison ...... 22 Marianne Ajemian ...... 9 Barbara A. O’Donnell ...... 22 Kendra L. Berardi ...... 10 Karen O’Malley ...... 23 Inga S. Bernstein ...... 10 Rosa Liliana Palacios-Baldwin ...... 23 Shahria H. Boston ...... 10 Jennifer L.R. Parent ...... 24 Elise Busny ...... 11 Lizette M. Pérez-Deisboeck ...... 24 Ann Hetherwick Cahill ...... 11 Demetra M. Pontisakos ...... 25 Eugenia M. Carris ...... 12 Scarlett M. Rajbanshi ...... 25 Gina D. Cash ...... 12 Whitney A. Reichel ...... 26 Laurie A. Cerveny ...... 12 Jennifer A. Rymarski ...... 26 Yvonne W. Chan ...... 13 Payal Salsburg ...... 26 Hemmie Chang...... 13 Regina Sam Penti ...... 27 Gabrielle Clemens ...... 13 Mary B. Strother ...... 27 Jennifer K. Crawford ...... 14 Jennifer H. Suhl ...... 27 Kathleen R. Cruickshank ...... 14 Michelle K. Tassinari ...... 28 Deborah M. Danger ...... 15 Natacha Thomas ...... 28 Paula M. Devereaux ...... 15 Kimberly P. West ...... 29 Maria R. Durant ...... 16 Tamara S. Wolfson ...... 29 Alison K. Eggers ...... 16 April C. English ...... 16 2020 Scholarship Recipient Michelle A. Flores ...... 17 Ara B. Gershengorn ...... 17 Kimberly G. Flores...... 30

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C E I C RC N LE LE of EXCEL B4 • Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly • Top Women of Law • November 16, 2020 Betty Francisco C E I C General Counsel, Compass Working Capital, Boston RC N LE LE of EXCEL Northeastern University School of Law

hroughout Betty building programs for families with low am constantly trying to champion and Francisco’s more than two incomes. open doors for others.” decade long legal career, “The role has been an amazing In 2012, she co-founded Latina she has taken the path less opportunity to do a lot of awesome Circle, aimed at advancing women into Ttraveled. In addition to practicing law, things,” she says. “Everything from decision-making roles. She followed both at a large law firm and as in-house compliance to legal to working on up in 2017 with Amplify Latinx, a counsel, she is an entrepreneur, an diversity and inclusion, as well as a non-profit whose mission is to increase angel investor and a business executive. whole host of other projects. I get to Latino economic and political power “As a disruptor and an innovator I’m wear my business hat and community in Massachusetts. The organization trying to take a different path in terms hat and investing hat, often at the same has grown to over 4,000 members, of creating opportunity,” she says. “I’m time.” 140 partners and $400,000 in annual really proud to be able to lead the way revenue. in getting involved in things that others “I’m really proud to She shares her expertise as a in my community haven’t been able to be able to lead the way member of several boards of directors, break into.” including Beth Israel Lahey Health, Being at a firm during the dot- in getting involved the Nellie Mae Education Foundation, com boom of the late 1990s exposed in things that others the Boston Foundation, the Investment Francisco to a broad variety of in my community transactions, companies and investors, haven’t been able to Committee of Boston Impact Initiative which led to her first in-house position break into.” Fund and Roxbury Community in the health and fitness space at College, a role she was appointed Millennium Partners Sports Club Francisco leverages her corporate to by Gov. Charlie Baker. She also Management, where she became the background to advocate for increasing serves as an advisory member of the first Latina general counsel. diversity in the law and beyond by Federal Reserve Bank’s New England She parlayed that experience mentoring others, working to close Community Development Advisory into launching her own company the racial and gender wealth gap and Council and acts as an angel investor specializing in youth fitness and creating advancement opportunities for with Pipeline Angels. lifestyle programs before returning women and people of color across all An artist, Francisco achieved one of in-house at Compass Working Capital, professions. her life’s goals last year when she had a financial services nonprofit that “I feel lucky to be able to be vocal her work exhibited in a gallery. provides financial coaching and asset about what I care about,” she says. “I — Correy E. Stephenson Grace V.B. Garcia C E I C Partner, Morrison Mahoney, Boston RC N LE LE of EXCEL Boston University School of Law

hen Grace V.B. built.” other strengthen our skills. Women Garcia was 12 years Some of the highlights of her career need to support other women. old, she wrote a include the first trial that she won, her Connections, networking and letter to the judge first victory in an appellate court case, relationships are extremely important Woverseeing her parents’ divorce. Not and her pro bono work, including the in the law, and the Women’s Group has only did the judge schedule a meeting representation of a Somalian woman helped with all of these.” with her to hear her position, he ruled seeking to obtain a disability waiver A firm believer in giving back and as she requested, and the experience that would allow her to obtain U.S. mentoring, one of her favorite parts of shaped her future. citizenship. the job is watching associates move up “I realized I wanted to be a lawyer to partner and helping them celebrate and that I loved being an advocate,” “I started the Women’s their successes. she says. [Initiative] Group so Garcia recently began her term as Although her original plan to that we could support vice president of the Massachusetts practice family law changed, Garcia Bar Association. She also serves on the didn’t waiver from her intent to be one another and help MBA’s COVID-19 Task Force and co- a litigator. She has spent more than each other strengthen chairs the Well-Being Committee. 20 years defending individuals and our skills. Women Through her work with the MBA, entities in civil litigation in both state need to support other she organized the 2019 MBA Law Day, and federal courts, in cases involving women.” partnering 34 schools and educational construction, products liability, programs with Massachusetts attorneys premises liability and business and At Morrison Mahoney for the last 18 to discuss the topic of free speech, commercial matters. years, Garcia sits on the compensation and collaborated with iCivics to help “I really love trying cases and and technology committees at the students and teachers cultivate a love thinking through how I’m going to firm, where she launched the Women’s for civics and civics education. present a defense from the beginning Initiative Group in 2006 and chaired it Garcia, a former president of of the case to handing it over to the through 2016. the Massachusetts Defense Lawyers jury,” she says. “I have a wide variety “There is always something in life Association, has also served on of cases and clients, and I really enjoy to complain about, and I don’t like the board of directors of ALFA learning from clients and their business, to complain,” she says. “I started the International and is active in the like how they operate, how a particular Women’s Group so that we could Defense Research Institute. product is made, or how something is support one another and help each — Correy E. Stephenson Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly • Top Women of Law • November 16, 2020 • B5 Joan A. Lukey C E I C Partner, Choate, Hall & Stewart, Boston RC N LE LE of EXCEL Boston College Law School

oan A. Lukey can thank a and it is the best feeling.” the judge took part of the verdict drama professor for steering Although her career contains many away, the parties resolved the suit in her in the direction of the highlights, her two favorite cases a confi dential settlement that left her courtroom. The veteran of involve the representation of two client “very happy,” Lukey says. “It was J more than 100 jury trials, individuals. The fi rst was a libel and great to work with two tremendous, myriad bench trials and wrongful termination suit brought by committed, professional women who arbitrations and 60 appeals enjoyed Dr. Lois Ayash against The Boston had created very successful careers.” her college drama classes so much Globe and her former employer, Dana The fi rst woman elected president she considered a career in acting. But Farber. The six-week trial resulted in a of the American College of Trial after a professor suggested she use her win for Lukey’s client. Lawyers, Lukey is also a past president talent in a diff erent way, she began to of the Boston Bar Association, a past consider the practice of law. “What I love most trustee of the Boston Bar Foundation “I love being on my feet and still are the closing and a longtime member of the Dean’s being able to use my brain,” Lukey Advisory Board at Boston College Law says. arguments. You are School. The current president of the Her incredibly varied litigation totally exhausted, ACTL Foundation, Lukey is an elected career includes nearly 30 years at fellow of the International Academy of WilmerHale, a stint at Ropes & Gray having gotten at Trial Lawyers. and roughly six years at Choate, Hall most three hours of Earlier this year, she teamed up with & Stewart, where she chairs the fi rm’s sleep over the course Complex Trial & Appellate Litigation other Boston lawyers to form Lawyers of several weeks, Honoring COVID-19 Caregivers, Group, and her work includes and you should be representation of both plaintiff s a new charity that raises money to and defendants in complex business a basket case. But support frontline healthcare workers disputes, with clients ranging from the adrenaline kicks battling the coronavirus. Lukey chairs individuals to major corporations. in, and it is the best the board of the organization, which “Trials in their entirety are great,” feeling.” has already awarded $75,000. Lukey says. “But what I love most are “It is incredibly rewarding to be the closing arguments. You are totally In the second case, Lukey involved with an organization that exhausted, having gotten at most represented author Patricia Cornwell recognizes those putting themselves at three hours of sleep over the course in an action against her former risk during this horrible pandemic,” of several weeks, and you should be a business manager. That fi ve-week trial she says. basket case. But the adrenaline kicks in, yielded a $51 million verdict. Although — Correy E. Stephenson

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onsidering a future as a “Before I started working at the think about how you can intentionally lawyer, Paige A. Scott MBTA, I didn’t realize how big an affect people’s everyday life by Reed spent six months impact it has on so many people’s changing the rules,” Reed says. working for a legal lives,” Reed says. The immediate past president of Cservices office in Washington, D.C. For example, when she worked the Massachusetts Black Lawyers While helping her clients obtain Social on the procurement of cars for the Association, Reed is vice president for Security disability benefits, she saw Red and Orange lines, she included the Harvard Law School Association firsthand the difference someone with a provision requiring the winning of Massachusetts, a trustee of the an understanding of the law could bidder to manufacture the cars in Boston Bar Foundation, and a member make for other people. Massachusetts, resulting in a new plant of the board of Boston Harbor Now. “As a non-lawyer, there wasn’t in Springfield and new jobs. Active with the Women’s Bar anything I could do to address some Association, she formerly sat on the of the imperfections in the system that “I make it a point BBA’s Executive Council and chaired kept allowing people to fall through the the finance committee for Rachael S. cracks,” she says. “I wanted to go to to find ways to help Rollins’ campaign, helping to elect the law school to have a voice and be able women and people first Black woman to serve as district to change things in the legal system of color and increase attorney for Suffolk County. that seemed totally unfair.” diversity in settings Often finding herself the only Reed found her calling as a where there is not a woman or only person of color in transportation and employment lot of diversity.” the room, Reed aims to identify and attorney. For more than 20 years, her provide assistance to others trying to transactional, litigation, regulatory, Two years ago, she left the make their way in the law. administrative and procurement work government for private practice. She “In the legal profession, women and included roles as general counsel for currently does a lot of work focused on minorities still have a hard time finding the Department of Transportation and the future of aeronautics, including the people who have made it that look like the Massachusetts Bay Transportation implications of drones and unmanned them,” she says. “I make it a point to Authority, as well as serving as or autonomous airborne vehicles. find ways to help women and people of corporate secretary and general “Law has the capability of either color and increase diversity in settings counsel to the Boston 2024 Partnership easing pathways or making them where there is not a lot of diversity.” for the city’s Olympic bid. harder, and I love getting the chance to — Correy E. Stephenson Anita P. Sharma C E I C Executive Director, Political Asylum/Immigration Representation Project, RC N LE LE of EXCEL Boston | Suffolk University Law School

nita P. Sharma has become empowered and determined to partners.” dedicated her legal career raise her son differently,” she says. She also takes pride in helping to to human rights work. Another memorable case involved a grow PAIR. After deciding in law 15-year-old asylum seeker who had an “We have been able to expand our Aschool that she would be an asylum incredibly hard time opening up and footprint in the community, which attorney, she took a part-time job at sharing his story but today is a happily means we are able to help even more the Political Asylum/Immigration employed U.S. citizen. people,” she says. Representation Project (PAIR) that Sharma’s passion for asylum work quickly expanded into a full-time “I watched her grow is matched by her love of writing and position at the organization, which from feeling helpless literature, and she has spent the last provides free legal services to asylum- two decades teaching in the English seekers and promotes the rights of and crying all the time department as an adjunct professor at immigration detainees. to become empowered Suffolk University. Sharma values every time she is “I feel really lucky that I get to do all able to place a client with either a and determined the things I really love in my career,” PAIR attorney or one of the hundreds to raise her son she says. of attorneys that partner with the differently.” Even in her outside activities, organization and celebrate when that client gains status and safety in the Five years ago, Sharma took on the Sharma works to help others. Co- United States. But there are certain role of executive director at PAIR, with chair of the Liaison Committee cases that stand out as highlights. one condition: She would continue on Asylum for the New England One was an intense domestic doing legal work as well as assuming Chapter of the American Immigration violence case involving a woman and administrative duties and mentorship Lawyers Association and a steering her young son that Sharma worked of the hundreds of ongoing cases at the committee member of the Boston Bar on before domestic violence was an organization. Association’s Delivery of Legal Services established ground for asylum. Over “I am honored to get up every Section, she is a former board member the course of the eight year case she morning and have a job that is of both South Asians Stepping in was able to observe the changes in her so meaningful,” she says. “It is Solidarity and Project IMPACT, as well client. intellectually challenging and I really as a member of the South Asian Bar “I watched her grow from feeling enjoy the strong sense of community Association. helpless and crying all the time to working with all of our pro bono — Correy E. Stephenson Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly • Top Women of Law • November 16, 2020 • B7 Lisa M. Tittemore C E I C Partner, Sunstein, Boston RC N LE LE of EXCEL American University, Washington College of Law

he fi rst member of her expert,” she says. Property Law Association Amicus family to become a lawyer, Chair of the litigation practice group Committee. She is also active with the Lisa M. Tittemore found at Sunstein, Tittemore has been with American Bar Association, Boston her passion in intellectual the fi rm for 24 years and serves on the Patent Law Association, International Tproperty litigation. Executive Committee. Trademark Association, Massachusetts “It is a fi eld that deals with cutting A frequent speaker and presenter on Bar Association, Pharmaceutical edge, interesting technology that is IP topics, she has long been active in Trademarks Group and Women in Bio. facing challenging issues and allows me the legal community. For many years, she has provided to come up with creative solutions,” she pro bono representation to individual says. “One of the things I love about “One of the things I artists and artisans and to multiple what I do is that I am constantly both love about what I do organizations, including GoodWeave, a student and a teacher all the time, which aims to end child labor in the every day.” is that I am constantly carpet industry. Tittemore serves as lead counsel both a student and a Tittemore also gives back to the in patent, trademark and copyright teacher all the time, community by mentoring, teaching litigation in federal courts across the every day.” and tutoring. Over the years, she United States, providing strategic has tutored at the Charles Street Jail counsel to clients on both domestic and The former president of the in Boston and Freedom House in international issues and guiding eff orts Massachusetts chapter of the Federal Roxbury. to protect and enforce her clients’ Bar Association, she has also served on Further, she initiated Sunstein’s valuable brands and ideas. A typical the Boston Bar Association Council involvement in the Citizen Schools day could range from developing a and as co-chair of the BBA’s Litigation 8th Grade Academy program, trademark portfolio to helping a new Section. She currently serves on the teaching writing skills and mentoring drug seek approval from the Food and BBA Law Firm Leadership Forum. 8th graders, and she participates in a Drug Administration to planning the Tittemore is a longtime member of practicum program with students from name for a new product. the Women’s Bar Association, where New England Law|Boston through “My two favorite things are getting she is a mentor for the Women’s the Hamilton Huston Enrichment to visit a factory to see how things are Leadership Initiative, as well as a Program. made, and when I get to work with an member of the American Intellectual — Correy E. Stephenson

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ancy D. Adams started her career plaintiff s to bring claims from years earlier Another major area of focus for Adams is “reps prosecuting domestic violence and involving never-before litigated issues under and warranties coverage.” The policies are used in sex abuse cases as an assistant district policies from the 1960s and 1970s. Plus, copies of corporate mergers and acquisitions to protect the Nattorney in Plymouth County. many of those policies no longer exist. buyer against losses due to breaches of the seller’s Her current role, representing major insurers in representations in the contract. It’s intense work large, complex coverage disputes, would seem like “Now, in some ways, I’ve come but Adams loves it. a diff erent universe, but the Mintz Levin partner full circle and my cases involve “A lot of these claims are literally over $100 says her experiences as an ADA still inform the abuse from a very diff erent million,” she says. “It’s fascinating not only work she does today — particularly because some perspective.” because of the interesting coverage issues but of her most challenging coverage work connects to because it requires a lot of work with experts.” her prosecutorial background. That means Adams and her team have to re- Meanwhile, having recently been named Specifi cally, Adams handles coverage cases from create the policies and determine what the scope co-chair of her practice group, Adams is heavily all over the country arising out of sex abuse claims of coverage would have been for decades-old focused on integrating a number of new attorneys in schools, sports organizations and the Catholic cases. from Squire Patton into the group. She fi nds that Church. “I used to prosecute the perpetrators, and now, aspect of her job particularly rewarding. The church cases are particularly complex in some ways, I’ve come full circle and my cases “I work hard, I love working with our clients because certain jurisdictions have extended their involve abuse from a very diff erent perspective,” and my colleagues. and it’s an honor,” she says. statutes of limitation in that context, enabling Adams says. — Eric T. Berkman Marianne Ajemian Partner, Nutter, Boston | Boston University School of Law

arianne Ajemian’s career is one of time, the nation’s largest health care real estate Ajemian secured the project development rights fi rsts. investment trust — in more than 100 lease and for her clients, negotiated complex ground leases She was the fi rst female real estate loan transactions involving more than $2 billion. with Massport for each project component, and Mpartner at Nutter; she was the fi rst woman to She also handled all the real estate work for handled equally complicated permitting and title serve on the fi rm’s executive committee; and now Tedeschi Food Shops when 7-Eleven acquired its issues. she’s the fi rst woman to chair Nutter’s real estate 181 stores. She says it’s been an exciting challenge. department. “We had to get the project over the fi nish line The granddaughter of an Armenian Genocide “It’s always been important while dealing with the pandemic, but it’s scheduled survivor and daughter of a World War II vet for me to achieve and excel as a to open on time in September,” Ajemian says. who enlisted at 17, she credits her family for her way of paying homage to all the Meanwhile, in her fi rm leadership capacity, success. sacrifi ces my family made.” Ajemian is focused on ensuring Nutter’s real estate “It’s always been important for me to achieve practice is no longer a well-kept secret. and excel as a way of paying homage to all the Most recently, she represented developers of “We’ve never been as focused as some other sacrifi ces my family made,” she says. a “marquee” mixed-use project on land known fi rms on external messaging, but we’ve done a A quick look at her accomplishments would no as “Parcel K” in Boston’s Seaport District. The lot of really great deals across the board, and it’s doubt make her forebears proud. completed project will feature a 12-story, 300-unit really important to make sure our department For one thing, there are all the transactions she’s apartment building, a Hyatt hotel, and offi ce and becomes more well-known than it is,” she says. spearheaded. She represented Meditrust — at the retail space on property owned by Massport. — Eric T. Berkman

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Kendra L. Berardi Partner, Robinson & Cole, Boston | Western New England College School of Law endra L. Berardi, a partner at had already been recorded and the defendant Meanwhile, Berardi has distinguished Robinson & Cole in Boston, loves was operating a business out of the property. herself in the legal community by taking real estate litigation because of The facts were clearly on her client’s side, an active leadership role in the Real Estate Kthe human aspect involved. but the law was more complicated. Berardi Bar Association at a young age, co-founding “There’s something fundamental about had to prove at trial that her client acted in its New Lawyers Section before serving the way people feel about property ownership a manner so as to accept title and show the on its board of directors and its Executive that allows you as a lawyer to represent people defendant’s clear knowledge of her client’s Committee. and even companies at a more individual claim. She succeeded. REBA asked Berardi to co-create the New level,” she says. Lawyers Section out of a recognition that Her enthusiasm has brought impressive “There’s something younger attorneys weren’t becoming involved. results for her clients, even when facing an fundamental about the way Her efforts have paid off, with former chairs uphill climb. people feel about property of the section now chairing four of REBA’s For example, in 2016, she represented substantive law sections. a man who was supposed to inherit from ownership.” “REBA lets you build relationships with his father a piece of property that was “This was a case our client should have lawyers who will often be on the other side, fraudulently conveyed to someone else. The won,” she says. “Without competent legal cultivate real relationships with them, and deed — on which the defendant literally representation, he almost certainly would provide better client service as a result,” she whited out the son’s name and replaced it have lost property that was always supposed says. with the name of his own corporate entity — to be his.” — Eric T. Berkman

Inga S. Bernstein Partner, Zalkind, Duncan & Bernstein, Boston | Harvard Law School or 25 years, Inga S. Bernstein, The second, more recent case involved have loved to resolve both of them before a partner at Zalkind, Duncan & Vanessa Dixon, a Lowell police officer who trial, but they each ended up feeling very Bernstein, has distinguished herself sued her union for retaliating against her vindicated and heard by the jury. ... Having Fas one of Boston’s leading employment, civil by disparaging her publicly and threatening a jury validate the wrongness of treatment rights and criminal defense attorneys. witnesses after she complained about sexual someone’s experienced is very satisfying.” Her work has been fueled by her desire to harassment by male officers. Bernstein seek justice and full participation in society for obtained a $2.2 million verdict on Dixon’s Bernstein has also gained renown for her people from all walks of life. behalf. criminal trial and appellate practice, in which Two cases that perhaps best exemplify this she’s been lead or co-counsel in first-degree are a pair of multi-million-dollar retaliation “Having a jury validate the murder, racketeering, extortion, and a whole verdicts she secured in the early 2000s. wrongness of treatment range of other complex cases. In the first case, Bernstein represented someone’s experienced is She says the most rewarding part of her Roberta Edwards, chief administrative officer very satisfying.” job is the “knotty, interesting legal questions” at the Massachusetts Bay Transportation that allow her to “dig in” and feel like she’s Authority until she was fired after supporting Bernstein says the cases are similar in thinking creatively. a subordinate who had complained of that they both involve women in historically discrimination at the MBTA. male-dominated fields standing up either for “I enjoy fighting for people who don’t Edwards, a Black woman, sued for race themselves or for others. always have a voice — and doing it well,” and sex discrimination and, after a weeklong “I found it rewarding to help them get their Bernstein says. trial in 2001, was awarded $7.6 million. stories before a jury,” Bernstein says. “I would — Eric T. Berkman Shahria H. Boston Sole Practitioner, Stoughton | Northeastern University School of Law s a young girl, Shahria H. Boston the Housing Court by taking on guardian ad always accorded as a Black woman in the lived in subsidized housing and litem appointments in cases involving elders traditionally white, male conveyancing bar watched her parents struggle. But and people with mental disabilities facing where attorneys on the other side of the Ashe also saw them scrape together enough eviction, which she handles at a reduced rate transaction still frequently assume or insinuate to buy their first home and then a string of and often pro bono. These are challenging a lack of knowledge or ability. investment properties. cases, she says. “In this arena, I feel like I always have This led to a passion for homeownership to prove myself more,” she says. “I’m and housing issues, particularly as they affect “I take great pride not afforded the same presumption of minority communities. in assisting [clients] competence.” Today Boston has a successful solo practice achieve their dream of Experiences like this motivate Boston to with a heavy focus on residential real estate support younger practitioners through her conveyancing and landlord-tenant law. A homeownership.” significant chunk of her client base is first- “Gaining the trust of these individuals, involvement in Massachusetts Black Women time homebuyers, many of whom are the first who may have had people act like they Attorneys, which she currently serves as in their family to own a home. were there to help them but took advantage treasurer. “I take great pride in assisting clients of them in the past, is difficult, but it is “I don’t know where I would be if I wasn’t achieve their dream of homeownership,” important to me,” Boston says. “I succeed in involved in this community,” says Boston. Boston says. this role because I treat everyone with dignity “I believe in lifting as you climb, ... and In addition to her conveyancing work and and respect.” organizations like these are very important.” private landlord-tenant cases, Boston assists Dignity and respect isn’t something she’s — Eric T. Berkman

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oburn employment attorney Elise have predicted how relevant it would be today, carved out a unique niche representing prep Busny has spent 25 years helping amid the COVID pandemic. school and college students in campus disciplinary workers navigate sticky situations proceedings. Wthat threaten their livelihoods while counseling “[I]t’s important for employers Her fi rst case was a referral from her old fi rm, employers through situations that could bring to know that even though their Brown Rudnick, and involved a student accused down the company. of sexual misconduct at a local college. The In some instances this has brought about employees may be in other places, student was found responsible during the initial important developments in the law. they need to be cognizant of their proceeding, suff ering serious ramifi cations, but For example, in 2013, Busny represented a obligations under the Wage Act.” Busny convinced a three-professor panel to reverse Florida resident who had been sales director for the decision. a Massachusetts tech company. He claimed his “In our current economy, where people are Busny has taken on many more such cases in employer violated the state Wage Act by failing to working in very disparate locations, it’s critical to the years since, and considers it a rewarding part pay him more than $100,000 in commissions. know that if you work for a Massachusetts-based of her practice. The employer, in seeking to get the case tossed, employer, you’re protected,” Busny says. “And it’s “You become very involved with the families argued that Busny’s client, as a nonresident, wasn’t important for employers to know too that even because the kids’ futures are really at stake,” she protected by Massachusetts wage laws. Busny though their employees may be in other places, says. “I have three sons, so it’s really resonated with convinced a Superior Court judge and the Appeals they need to be cognizant of their obligations me how important it is to make sure these kids’ Court otherwise. But while the decision seemed under the Wage Act.” rights are protected during the process.” important at the time, Busny couldn’t possibly Alongside her employment cases, Busny has — Eric T. Berkman Ann Hetherwick Cahill Partner, Burns & Levinson, Boston | Suff olk University Law School

nn Hetherwick Cahill fi rst gravitated testing to prove his case, but there is no existing In 2016, the Supreme Judicial Court ruled toward trusts and estates work after her Massachusetts case law about exhuming a body for in Pfannenstiehl v. Pfannenstiehl that a benefi ciary’s step-grandmother’s handwritten will led such a purpose, setting the stage for what would interest in an irrevocable family trust cannot Ato interfamily confl ict that could have wound up have been an unprecedented court battle. be split in his or her divorce, confi rming for the in litigation. estate-planning bar that a trust’s terms are what it “[The situation] taught me a lot about family “[The situation] taught me a says they are. dynamics, the potential for greed and pursuing lot about family dynamics, the Cahill’s client is the benefi ciary of such a legacy,” Cahill says. trust, but the Appeals Court ruled recently in an Today Cahill deals with such issues potential for greed and pursuing unpublished decision that because she was also a professionally, handling probate disputes that are legacy.” trustee, she had enough control over trust assets for both groundbreaking and consequential. For example, several years ago a man emerged The parties ultimately resolved the case without her interest to be deemed a marital asset. claiming he was the previously unknown half- exhumation, but Cahill predicts this issue will Cahill, who has petitioned the SJC for further brother and closest heir to a man who had recently come up again. review, says if the decision stands it could be died with substantial assets. “It was a fascinating case and I hope I get “devastating” for estate planners and families. Cahill represented a group of nieces and another one like it,” she says. “It could result in kids, grandchildren and nephews who otherwise stood to inherit under Currently, Cahill is working on a case that could great grandchildren having their interest reduced intestacy laws. The man sought to have his have major ramifi cations for families seeking to because of one family member’s divorce,” she says. putative father’s body exhumed for DNA preserve intergenerational wealth. — Eric T. Berkman

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Eugenia M. Carris Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Boston | Boston College Law School s a high-school student at Boston contractors bilking the public. Carris spearheaded the prosecution of Latin, Eugenia M. Carris More recently, Carris led the government’s officers and employees at the Massachusetts “[Bringing participated in a fellowship that prosecution of clerks and vendors at the Department of Corrections who were Aexposed her to a variety of careers serving the Registry of Motor Vehicles for their scheme smuggling in drugs for prisoners to deal to about reform] public interest. She spent time working with a to produce false identification documents to fellow inmates. So far, 10 people have been federal judge, where she was exposed to cases sell to undocumented immigrants, previously convicted. is an important involving public corruption, and realized right deported individuals and people facing Carris says these prosecutions have been away she wanted to spend her career fighting criminal charges. Her efforts resulted in a especially important because of the number and perhaps it. half-dozen convictions. of convicts participating in treatment Today Carris works in the public The prosecution also identified systemic programs while serving their sentences. overlooked role corruption unit at the U.S. Attorney’s Office, weaknesses at the RMV that the state then “To have inmates dealing drugs — not where she’s brought countless numbers of was able to address. only does this cause violence in the institution, of the kinds of people to justice for violating the public trust, “That’s an important and perhaps but it really works against recovery efforts and including corrupt cops who’ve threatened overlooked role of the kinds of cases we do,” the efforts against recidivism that correctional cases we do.” citizens with violence, officials who’ve taken says Carris, adding that even prosecutions institutions have really started to focus much advantage of immigrants, people attempting that ultimately do not result in convictions more on,” she says. to commit voter fraud and Big Dig can still lead to important reforms. — Eric T. Berkman Gina D. Cash Director, Bureau of Special Investigations, Office of the State Auditor, Boston | Howard University School of Law hen Gina D. Cash was in high prosecuting all cases in court, even matters as on paper to be cheating the state purposefully, school she saw a close friend, a small as $1,000 in food stamp fraud. Courts but an interview might reveal that she’s young man of color, stand up became clogged with cases while violators battling cancer and that her spouse is not at Wto neighborhood bullies who were wealthy, sometimes received unreasonably punitive home despite documentation indicating he connected and white. dispositions given their circumstances. lives there all the time. The incident led to an unjust assault In such an instance, where prosecution conviction that derailed her friend’s promising “Rather than taking an appears not to serve the interests of justice, future while teaching Cash how easily assembly line approach, BSI might work out an arrangement for that injustice can occur when those in power stick we’re scrutinizing and person to pay back the money owed or to to what they see on paper without considering finding other avenues for remove the spouse from the family benefits all the circumstances. It also motivated her to cases.” calculation. pursue a career seeking justice. “The personal story won’t necessarily Now, as director of the Bureau of Cash instituted a policy of interviewing absolve someone of fraud, but it puts them Special Investigations in the Office of each violator to better understand the in the light of more than someone out to the State Auditor where she oversees the circumstances surrounding their alleged game the system,” Cash says. “Rather than commonwealth’s efforts to address public fraud and then working creatively, where taking an assembly line approach of sending benefits fraud, Cash has shifted BSI’s appropriate, to make the commonwealth everything to court, we’re scrutinizing and approach to reflect these values. whole without pursuing charges. finding other avenues for cases to go.” Historically, BSI had a practice of For example, an individual might appear — Eric T. Berkman Laurie A. Cerveny Partner, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Boston | Boston College Law School aised in a blue-collar family and locations paired with complex financing and and Descartes Systems Group for 12 and 15 with little exposure to higher regulatory issues. Plus, it was the client’s first years respectively, closing dozens of deals over education or the legal community, transaction in a new space vital to its growth, that time. RLaurie A. Cerveny credits her upbringing so there was a tremendous amount at stake. “I enjoy working with companies for the for her success as one of Boston’s leading long term, helping them build their business corporate transaction lawyers. “Because of my background, while working closely with their management “Because of my background, I focus teams and boards,” Cerveny says. on hard work, empathy, what others are I focus on hard work, Meanwhile, Cerveny has made time for going through, and how I can help them empathy, what others are important pro bono work, such as helping get through it,” says the Morgan, Lewis & going through, and how I can secure the release of a disabled man serving Bockius partner. “It may be a multi-billion- help them get through it.” 30 years for a drug offense that, under today’s dollar issue, but I’m still going to approach it guidelines, would have carried a far shorter from the same perspective.” “As with every deal I do, this one sentence. Those qualities were particularly useful highlighted how important it is to think about “He had prostate cancer and was likely when she represented Iron Mountain, the the transaction strategically in the long term,” going to die in jail,” she says. “He was Boston-based information management Cerveny says. “You’re not just buying a actually a lovely person with a wife, family services giant, in its $1.34 billion acquisition company and walking away.” and grandchildren to go back to. And when of IO Data Centers two years ago. The length of Cerveny’s relationships with he did, I felt that more deeply than just about It was an especially sophisticated major clients is indicative of that approach. anything else I’ve done.” transaction that involved real estate in four She’s handled transactions for Citrix Systems — Eric T. Berkman

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Yvonne W. Chan Partner, Goodwin, Boston | Harvard Law School aving moved from Hong Kong individual accountability in criminal and civil v. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in to Canada as a child and then to cases involving corporate wrongdoing. which Chan helped defend MIT against a the U.S. as a young adult, Yvonne Chan played a key role at trial by cross- negligence claim brought by the parents of a HW. Chan has adapted to new situations by examining critical government witnesses. She graduate student who had committed suicide. learning to see multiple perspectives. says hearing the jury say “not guilty” was a Though the Supreme Judicial Court ruled The Goodwin litigation partner says moment she won’t soon forget. in the 2018 case that institutions of higher the skill has served her well representing education have a limited duty to protect institutions of higher learning and white- “A win for any client is great, students from self-harm, it cleared MIT collar criminal defendants, and her track of liability, noting that the student’s prior record bears that out. but when you represent attempts occurred before he was enrolled, For example, Chan was part of the team an individual, there’s an that he lived off campus, and that he had that defended biopharma sales executive W. additional layer.” given no indication he was suicidal. Carl Reichel against federal charges that he Chan says helping institutional clients conspired to provide kickbacks to physicians “A win for any client is great, but when you navigate such legal landmines is both in return for them prescribing drugs from his represent an individual, there’s an additional challenging and rewarding. company. layer,” Chan says. “You know this means “Especially now, where issues facing It was a particularly closely watched case someone now gets to have their father at their colleges and universities are so complicated,” because it came in the wake of the 2015 wedding or be there for the birth of their first she says. “But this was true even before “Yates Memo” announcing that the U.S. child.” COVID.” Department of Justice would be prioritizing Another memorable case was Nguyen — Eric T. Berkman Hemmie Chang Partner, Foley Hoag, Boston | Harvard Law School emmie Chang always had a she says. “I’m honored to be one small part of on the federal and state bench, in law firms passion for science and technology. bringing creative, cutting-edge technology to and other legal organizations. But we still Though she became a lawyer, her patients in need.” have a way to go. ... In some ways, I think Hwork keeps her knee-deep in the science she Outside the office, Chang — who we’re still the ‘other,’ but that is changing.” loves while helping bring to market some of as a child emigrated to America from Chang is also proud of her pro bono work the most innovative, life-saving products in South Korea — is a co-founder of the for the Asian American Legal Defense and the world. Asian American Lawyers Association of Education Fund. Most recently, she’s been As co-chair of the life sciences group at Massachusetts and a leader in the Asian- involved in AALDEF’s efforts to support Foley Hoag, Chang represents major players American bar. universities defending race-conscious in the bio-pharma and medical device spaces, admissions policies. She has contributed handling IP licensing matters, development “I’m honored to be one to amicus briefs in support of affirmative and marketing deals, and closing more than small part of bringing very action policies that detractors claim are $12 billion in transactions over two decades. innovative, creative, cutting- discriminatory. She’s particularly proud of her recent edge technology to patients “There’s no question affirmative action representation of Dicerna Pharmaceuticals, in need.” has actually helped Asians benefit in the which uses RNA interference — or RNAi — admissions process,” Chang says. “I and techniques to target serious disease, in a major “When we founded AALAM, I think you a majority of Asian and Pacific Islanders licensing and research collaboration deal with could have gotten most Asian-American believe that it’s still incredibly valuable to have pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly. lawyers in a small conference room,” she says. a diverse community.” “This has helped put Dicerna on the map,” “Since then, we’ve seen more representation — Eric T. Berkman Gabrielle Clemens Managing Director, RBC Wealth Management, Boston | University of New Hampshire Law School abrielle Clemens no longer her the perfect candidate to help. they go through a difficult time. practices family law, but as a Today, she has a large client base as an “We make sure the decisions they’re wealth advisor with a unique niche advisor at RBC Wealth Management and making throughout the divorce process will Gproviding financial counseling to people going she’s seen a lot of changes over the years. work for them in their post-divorce life,” says through marital breakups, she’s made herself Clemens. “The earlier I get involved, the an indispensable resource to the family law “I’m proud of being able better.” bar and their clients. to help women go through Outside the office, Clemens helps run a Clemens went in this direction two support network where divorce survivors decades ago after she had her first child. She a very difficult time in their share stories with those currently going was working in a law firm that was highly lives.” through the process. During the pandemic, demanding in terms of billable hours and she has organized a recurring “Ask the travel and she had no flexibility to be with For example, she has a lot more male Experts” Zoom call where attorneys, her son. clients than she used to have. She attributes mediators, accountants and business valuation Meanwhile, in the town where she lived this partly to changing trends in families and experts answer questions from divorcing she met a number of women going through divorce, such as same-sex couples and stay- individuals. divorce who had complex financial issues at-home dads, and partly to now-retired men “I’m proud of being able to help women but didn’t understand the financial decisions who married younger, professional women. go through a very difficult time in their lives,” presented to them in the divorce process. She says it’s rewarding to help any clients she says. Clemens’s tax and divorce background made demystify their relationship with money as — Eric T. Berkman

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Jennifer K. Crawford Partner, Smith, Costello & Crawford, Boston | Suff olk University Law School

overnment relations has traditionally legislation and counseling the committee chair as purchase power through off shore wind contracts. been a male preserve, but that hasn’t he negotiated the fi nal product. Meanwhile, on another front, Crawford leads stopped Jennifer K. Crawford from “It was a very empowering moment when it her fi rm’s cannabis licensing team and reportedly Gbecoming a leader in the fi eld, fi rst as a committee passed,” Crawford says. “I was able to help make has helped more applicants obtain medical and counsel in the Legislature and now as the co- a signifi cant policy impact and negotiate this really recreational licenses than any other Massachusetts founder of one of Boston’s leading law and public important foundation of Massachusetts law.” attorney. policy fi rms. “It’s been a great opportunity to be involved She fi nds the work incredibly rewarding. “It was a very empowering in the development of an industry from the “I really enjoy the ability to shape policy and moment when it passed. I was ground up while helping small business owners the law on a number of diff erent issues that can able to help make a signifi cant navigate the process of licensing and regulatory help move the commonwealth forward,” she says. policy impact and negotiate this compliance,” she says. For example, in 2012, while serving as general really important foundation of Though some still might view the new industry counsel to the Legislature’s Joint Committee on Massachusetts law.” as a controversial one, Crawford is proud of what Telecommunication, Utilities and Energy, she she does. was a key player behind the landmark Green She’s continued her clean energy advocacy in “It’s a legal market voters have approved,” Communities Act, which has put Massachusetts at the private sector, representing the wind industry she says. “The laws and regulations surrounding the forefront in promoting renewable energy while in convincing the Legislature to pass the Energy the industry are designed to ensure safety for addressing climate change Diversity Act, which made Massachusetts the fi rst everyone.” Crawford was responsible for drafting the state to mandate that utilities and other entities — Eric T. Berkman Kathleen R. Cruikshank Shareholder, Murphy & King, Boston | Boston University School of Law

hen Kathleen R. Cruickshank bankruptcy experience. Anyone taking the training trustees. graduated from law school, can also be paired with a veteran mentor attorney Most recently, she represented the trustee the 1980s economy had hit the on a pro bono case. The section is also working in the bankruptcy of Boston Grand Prix LLC, W skids, making it a boom time for with law schools to make students aware of the which planned to stage an auto race in Boston bankruptcy. With a huge demand for bankruptcy opportunities. but went bankrupt after selling nearly $2 million lawyers, her internship at the Offi ce of the U.S. in tickets and running up millions in other debts. Trustee made her an attractive candidate. “I was pleased [the judge] Cruickshank and the trustee worked with the Today, with the economy once again in tatters, recognized we had worked really attorney general to investigate fraud and fi led an even bigger wave of bankruptcies loom in the multiple lawsuits to bring recovery for creditors. pipeline with a potential shortage of qualifi ed hard to uncover the wrongdoing During the proceedings, U.S. Bankruptcy Court counsel. Just as Cruickshank answered the call that had occurred. It felt decades ago, she’s answering the call today as validating.” Judge Melvin S. Hoff man stated in court that the the new co-chair of the Boston Bar Association’s creditors should feel confi dence that the trustee left Bankruptcy Section and as a member of the “This is something we’re really excited about,” no stone unturned in pursuing recoveries. That section’s Standing Pro Bono COVID-19 Response Cruickshank says. “It’s a complicated fi eld to jump meant a great deal to Cruickshank. Committee in eff orts to bring more attorneys into into, so education is necessary.” “I was pleased he recognized we had worked the fi eld. Meanwhile, Cruickshank continues to really hard to uncover the wrongdoing that had The BBA has created free training sessions for distinguish herself through her own representation occurred,” she says. “It felt validating.” new attorneys and established lawyers without of Chapter 7 and 11 debtors and Chapter 7 — Eric T. Berkman

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Deborah M. Danger Managing Member, DangerLaw, Newton | Suff olk University Law School

uring the 1990s, before she became she runs her own family law, estate-planning discount or waive the fee depending on the a lawyer, Deborah M. Danger’s life and asset protection fi rm, with a special focus complexity of the case and the client’s fi nancial partner died of breast cancer. on representing marginalized and underserved situation. DAs a gay couple before Massachusetts communities. Recently, fi rm recently received a call from a recognized same-sex marriage, they had no legal “Listening to [clients’] stories, couple, both teachers, who have two small kids at standing toward one another, but Danger was home. Terrifi ed about returning to school during grateful that her partner’s medical team honored capturing their wishes and a deadly pandemic, they approached Danger to their wishes and relationship, well aware that many making them feel safe is prepare estate plans and arrange for guardianships other couples in her shoes weren’t as fortunate. rewarding.” should they become incapacitated or die. This Danger and her partner had no estate-planning The work is incredibly satisfying to her. inspired Danger to off er a discount to any teacher documents in place. That experience inspired “Listening to [clients’] stories, capturing their or paraprofessional at any level — kindergarten Danger to help ensure other same-sex couples, wishes and making them feel safe is rewarding,” through college — in the same boat. as well as people of color, immigrants, isolated she says. “They should have one less thing to fear, and I seniors and other disempowered groups, had Danger understands many of her prospective can make that happen,” she says. “They’re fi nding someone to look out for their interests in similar clients have a limited ability to pay. In fact, she themselves on the front line and what was just a situations. encourages the attorneys in her offi ce to identify theoretical risk is now a measurable threat.” She did this by going to law school. Today at least one interesting case per year and she’ll — Eric T. Berkman Paula M. Devereaux Partner, Pierce Atwood, Boston | Boston College Law School

aula M. Devereaux initially planned to Meanwhile, Devereaux, through her Judicial Court ruled in 2007 that the DEP had no become a litigator. But she was exposed involvement in NAIOP, a commercial real estate such authority. to real estate law in her fi rst job out industry association, played a key role in pushing Devereaux did a lot of the heavy lifting — Pof law school and realized how much she loved the Legislature to address a legal quirk that including drafting, hearings and testimony — to handling transactions. severely hampered development in and around create a legislative fi x and did it on a pro bono In the years since, Devereaux, now a partner at Boston. basis. Pierce Atwood in Boston, has fostered landscape- “I grasped the ramifi cations early on,” she says. “I knew industry and the shifting development deals while engaging in “I knew industry and the Legislature really had to critical advocacy at the Legislature. Legislature really had to come come together on this.” Most recently, Devereaux represented a client together on this.” Work like that has made Devereaux a leader in the redevelopment of the underutilized former A state law, Chapter 91, mandates an onerous in the real estate community at large, and she HP Hood site in Charleston. She handled the land licensing process to build on or improve tidelands. recently fi nished a term as president of the Real purchases and permitting needed to transform the Estate Bar Association. M L W The Department of Environmental Protection M L W spot into Hood Business Park, a vibrant mixed- had long exempted “landlocked tidelands” — in Looking back on her term, she says, “I’m proud M M L L W W use development now under construction — in other words, landfi ll areas like much of Boston REBA has maintained its membership level in M L M M W L L W W essence, a new neighborhood that will feature and its environs that had been underwater in the an era where a lot of organizations are losing M L W offi ce, research, retail, entertainment and luxury 1600s when Massachusetts was fi rst colonized — members.” residential space. from Chapter 91 requirements until the Supreme — Eric T. 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Maria R. Durant Partner, Hogan Lovells, Boston | Suffolk University Law School aria R. Durant, the managing a product liability lawyer, Durant knew the she says. partner of international firm client’s business inside and out from handling Regarding Durant’s leadership role at her Hogan Lovells’s Boston office, is other matters over the years, so she was the firm, she says it was “humbling” to have the M one of few local women to hold client’s top choice for this one too. endorsement of her partners. such a position. Hogan’s Boston office is the former When asked for her best piece of advice “I worked around the clock litigation boutique Collora, where Durant has for other female attorneys aspiring to roles seven days a week for several spent her career, and one of her top agenda like this, she says, simply, “Work harder than years, but I never got tired items is to expand the firm into new areas like anyone. Male or female.” because it was thrilling to intellectual property, antitrust and corporate This philosophy has served her well, both ... manage this massive law. in her leadership position and as an attorney litigation.” She’s off to a strong start, having brought shepherding life sciences and healthcare clients through sensitive government She then prevailed in two bellwether in attorneys in all these areas. investigations and prosecutions while trials — one in U.S. District Court and one Durant is also determined to ensure handling high-stakes “bet-the-company” in Superior Court — which enabled her to younger attorneys in the firm gain actual trial litigation in court. negotiate a global settlement of all remaining experience, which is a rarity these days. Most recently, Durant defended a medical cases on very favorable terms. “It’s as much for the clients as it is for the device manufacturer against more than “I worked around the clock seven days a associates,” she says. “So they know there’s 11,000 product liability cases brought against week for several years, but I never got tired a deep bench that can carry forth the legal it in a multidistrict litigation. because it was thrilling to have this new work from generation to generation.” Though she doesn’t consider herself to be challenge and manage this massive litigation,” — Eric T. Berkman Alison K. Eggers Partner, Seyfarth Shaw, Boston | Boston College Law School fter Alison K. Eggers graduated program, which was used to incentivize auto industry, however. Earlier this year, she from law school, she spent a number dealers to provide better customer satisfaction won a seven day bench trial representing a of years as a securities litigator, and improve brand recognition. There’s a lot franchisee against the real estate giant, RE/ A achieving considerable success. at stake. MAX. The court found that RE/MAX But when she moved firms and was breached its franchise agreement with her presented with an opportunity to cut her teeth “Representing an auto client, violating Chapter 93A, and awarded in an entirely new area, she did not hesitate. manufacturer, I can tangibly attorney fees in addition to damages. Today, Eggers is a leading franchising “Had the decision come out another way, litigator with a unique niche representing see my contribution. I can it could have meant the end of a business my auto manufacturers in disputes with see a vehicle on the road client spent more than a decade building,” dealerships. While she enjoyed the securities and feel some connection to Eggers says. work she did (and still does), she says this work that.” Outside the office, Eggers — a former is particularly satisfying. high-school and college debater — is the “Not to downplay the impact of my “Under state dealer statutes, [car longest serving volunteer for the Boston securities work,” she says. “But representing manufacturers] — unlike, say, fast-food Debate League. an auto manufacturer, I can tangibly see my franchisors — are severely constrained in “Debate was life-changing for me,” she contribution. I can see a vehicle on the road how they work with their franchise networks,” says. “My goal working with BDL is to and feel some connection to that.” she says. “If [the dealer’s] case is successful, ensure other students have the opportunity to Eggers is currently busy defending a major manufacturers will be very limited in what experience the truly transformative effects of luxury automaker in a lawsuit by a dealer they can do to achieve their goals.” debate.” challenging the structure of her client’s bonus Eggers’s franchise work isn’t limited to the — Eric T. Berkman April C. English Chief of Organization Development & Diversity, Attorney General’s Office, Boston | Northeastern University School of Law hen April C. English was young, unemployment and insurance fraud. race and made awareness of these issues a she decided to become a lawyer In addition, English — a Black woman part of the recruiting process. so she could grow up and who’s acutely aware of how underrepresented “People interested in being part of Wdefend her brother, who had had negative people of color have been in agencies like the attorney general’s office should have interactions with the criminal justice system. the AGO — has fought for racial justice by experiences and attributes that speak to But her dream of a legal career was almost leading efforts to diversify the office. their capability of working in a diverse and derailed when she was an undergraduate inclusive environment and engaging with at Spelman College in Atlanta and lost her “Communities of color and diverse communities,” says English. brother to AIDS. That’s particularly critical in this English initially wondered if there was immigrant communities organization, she adds. still a purpose to her dream, then realized need to feel comfortable with “The attorney general’s office is the she could honor her brother by becoming us helping them.” an attorney and fighting to ensure justice is state,” she says. “Communities of color served for all. That’s why when Attorney General Maura and immigrant communities need to feel She has done this on two fronts during Healey created the full-time position of chief comfortable with us helping them, whether her 17 years with the Office of the Attorney of organization development and diversity we’re talking about fair wages, civil rights or General. in 2013, English was the obvious choice. health care. All of that equates to survival, First, she’s fought on behalf of consumers Since assuming the role, she has implemented and it’s important to have people in the office and taxpayers, fighting telemarketing fraud, trainings on unconscious bias and racial they relate to and trust.” lead in children’s toys, false advertising and inequities, led officewide conversations about — Eric T. Berkman

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Michelle A. Flores Associate General Counsel, Litigation and Business Development, Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma America, Marlborough | University of Colorado School of Law efore going to law school, Michelle Among her notable accomplishments at entrusted me to lead this effort,” she says. A. Flores was a research chemist Sumitomo, Flores led the company’s efforts to Meanwhile, on the transactional side, at Exxon. Though she was good at enforce its patent for a dosing regimen to curb Flores has closed more than $1 billion in Bwhat she did, she says she’s a much-better side effects associated with Latuda, which lucrative licensing agreements, acquisitions attorney. treats schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. and commercial promotion agreements. And as associate general counsel at That entailed collaborating with Japanese At the same time, Flores, who is Mexican- Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma America, inventors, who had created the drug years American, knows well how rare it is to where she plays a key role in enforcing ago, in order to formulate a strategy. see a woman of color in the upper ranks the company’s patents and closing critical of a corporate legal department, and she transactions, she still gets to work closely with “It was a great honor that understands what it takes to get there, which the science for which she has such a passion, is why she makes a point of mentoring while also getting to serve as a counselor, the company entrusted which she finds particularly rewarding. me to lead this [patent younger attorneys aspiring to similar “I just love talking to folks, hearing about enforcement] effort.” positions. the issue, and understanding what I can do to “That is probably one of my favorite move us forward,” she says. “And the work we Flores’ team ultimately resolved the dispute parts of being an attorney,” she says. “The do — to me, it all really marries well, using and she says protecting the patent could relationships I have with younger lawyers is my strong basis in science and turning it into generate significant revenue for Sumitomo. everything to me.” business solutions.” “It was a great honor that the company — Eric T. Berkman Ara B. Gershengorn Attorney, Harvard University Office of the General Counsel, Cambridge | Columbia Law School ver the course of her career, Ara my client [within the university] is trying to admissions,” she says. “Not just for Harvard, B. Gershengorn has had the achieve and based on Harvard’s mission and but for higher education overall. ... Harvard’s opportunity to experience pretty finding the best way to achieve that within the consideration of race is precisely what the Omuch any plum position an attorney could legal framework,” she says. [U.S.] Supreme Court has pointed to in dream of, whether it’s clerking for a federal Most recently, Gershengorn served as saying, ‘This is the legally permissible way to appeals court judge, arguing appeals for lead counsel in Harvard’s defense of its do this.’” the U.S. Department of Justice, prosecuting affirmative-action admissions program. Gershengorn also managed the university’s fraud cases as an assistant U.S. attorney or investigation into its ties with disgraced counseling private clients as a partner in a “I’m giving advice based on financier Jeffrey Epstein, who committed large Boston firm. the goals my client [within suicide in jail last year while facing charges But her latest role as an attorney in the university] is trying to that he operated an underage sex ring. Harvard University’s general counsel’s achieve.” “This was a really important thing for office, where she advises various subdivisions Harvard to [investigate] and it acknowledged on legal issues while litigating some of the The plaintiffs argued that the program that this was something it wanted to be university’s most high-profile, contentious discriminated against Asian-American transparent about,” says Gershengorn. cases, lets her experience the best of all applicants. Gershengorn was part of the “It was an important undertaking [for the worlds. defense team at trial, which led to a ruling in university] to take the time to see where She says it’s a uniquely rewarding Harvard’s favor. things have worked and where there might be challenge. “It was an incredible opportunity to places to improve.” “I’m giving advice based on the goals be defending the consideration of race in — Eric T. Berkman Elizabeth L.B. Greene Partner, Mirick, O’Connell, DeMallie & Lougee, Worcester | Boston University School of Law lizabeth L.B. Greene’s grandparents in Worcester, has spent nearly three decades Beyond her own practice, Greene is a were both attorneys. In fact her communicating these challenges to juries national leader in the medical law arena, grandmother, who practiced with and arbitrators, creating a long record of chairing the Physician Issues Interest Group, Eher grandfather, was one of the first women favorable outcomes. She says her most an important subcommittee of the American to graduate from law school. difficult but impactful cases have been those Bar Association’s Health Law Section. She also has a number of doctors in her involving alleged delay and diagnosis of In this capacity, Greene organizes seminars family, including her father, and saw growing cancer. and conferences (all virtual during the up the commitment physicians have to their pandemic) addressing legal issues important patients. So when she graduated from law “I care a lot about quality to doctors and their practices. She’s also school herself, the opportunity to represent medical care and the helped organize a joint continuing legal physicians and other medical practitioners physicians who are caring education/continuing medical education seemed like a natural choice. for all of us.” conference addressing such issues as “I care a lot about quality medical care and Greene says these cases resonate with her telemedicine, ethical dilemmas managing the physicians who are caring for all of us,” emotionally because of the tragic nature of resources amid COVID-related shortages and she says. “Recognizing the challenges they the injuries suffered and because many such other currently relevant topics. face [and] supporting them at often the most cases have involved providers who cared “It’s an opportunity to support attorneys challenging point of their career means a lot deeply about what they were doing, tried their in taking care of their clients, and I’ve made to me personally.” best to care for patients and simply couldn’t some very dear friends,” she says. Greene, a partner with Mirick O’Connell control all medical outcomes. — Eric T. Berkman

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Holly A. Harney Managing Attorney, Law Offices of Holly A. Harney, Barnstable | New England Law|Boston hen Holly A. Harney was story to the prosecutor. The charges were And she’s finishing up a term as president working as a prosecutor after ultimately dropped. of the Barnstable County Bar Association — law school, she realized she “This stands out to me because often you a term like none before, given the impact of Wwas seeing only one side of the story. But the don’t get a just result and walk away feeling the COVID-19 pandemic and the push for occasional glimpses she caught of the other bad,” she says. “This time I felt good because racial justice in the wake of the George Floyd side affected her. the right thing happened.” killing. Those stories, along with a general desire In her role as leader of the bar group, to give back, motivated her to enter private “I’ve been very proud to Harney has responded to the coronavirus by practice as a defense attorney. serve [Barnstable County]. working with local courts to shift their “lawyer In the decade since, she’s built a robust of the day” programs to virtual ones so the criminal and family law practice while giving It’s been an amazing needs of low-income and elderly individuals back through pro bono involvement and bar experience.” don’t go unmet. She’s also spearheaded efforts leadership on the Cape. by the bar association to investigate racial Harney is particularly proud of a case Meanwhile, Harney has been recognized inequities in the courts and the bar while in which she was representing a father in a repeatedly by the Probate & Family Court taking action to make positive change. divorce and the mother lodged false charges for her pro bono efforts, which have included “I’ve been very proud to serve this of assault. Because he was her client in the representing children caught in the middle of county,” Harney says. “It’s been an amazing divorce, Harney was familiar with both sides custody fights and advocating for their best experience.” of the issues and was able to convey the full interests. — Eric T. Berkman Maegan L. Hurley Managing Attorney, Massachusetts Debt Relief Foundation, Boston | Suffolk University Law School hough Maegan L. Hurley didn’t the Massachusetts Debt Relief Foundation, and was forced to relocate to Massachusetts. grow up planning to be a consumer the state’s first nonprofit law firm focusing The client’s debt followed her, but consumer bankruptcy lawyer, her career on pro bono consumer bankruptcy work. In bankruptcy gave her the fresh start she Tchoice makes perfect sense in hindsight. the decade since its establishment, MDRF needed to put her life back together. She didn’t necessarily feel it at the time, but — which Hurley helped create — has filed “She’s such a grateful and ideal client — a her parents struggled financially, often barely nearly 300 cases, provided more than 1,000 sweet, amazingly nice woman who deserved scraping together enough to pay for heating free consultations, and helped discharge this so much,” Hurley says. oil. almost $10 million in consumer debt. She also describes a homeless client Then, in law school, while working in the with a history of trauma trying to get on school’s housing clinic, she felt a true sense of “When [a formerly homeless disability and how the discharge of his debts empathy with clients facing eviction. via bankruptcy enabled him finally to get After law school, Hurley started working client] moved in and they approved for housing. for a small firm specializing in Chapter 7 and delivered his recycling bin, “When he moved in and they delivered 13 bankruptcy, initially knowing relatively he was in tears.” his recycling bin, he was in tears,” she recalls. little about the area of law. She soon realized, “He’d never had a recycling bin because he however, how much it connected with her Each of the cases has a human story never had a place of his own. I started crying, passion for helping others through rough behind it, Hurley says. too, because we really do change lives for the times. She describes a client from Puerto Rico better.” Today, Hurley is the managing attorney of who lost everything in Hurricane Maria — Eric T. Berkman Faith D. Kasparian Member, Morse, Barnes-Brown & Pendleton, Waltham | Duke University School of Law aith D. Kasparian is a classically federal sector-specific and international Chitika Inc. against Federal Trade trained singer. While this isn’t the privacy and data security laws,” she says. “If Communication charges that techniques typical background for an attorney, you’re Microsoft, it’s easy to spend a ton of related to its tracking of consumers’ online Fshe says the listening, collaboration and money and figure out how to solve a problem. behavior constituted an unfair and deceptive communication skills required of a top- But for a small or medium sized enterprise? trade practice. echelon musical performer, not to mention Finding a practical approach to compliance is Targeted advertising based on individual the discipline, have served her well in the legal a challenge, but I love it.” browsing habits was relatively new at the time arena. Additionally, says Kasparian, she feels like and this was the first FTC action against such As the leader of her firm’s privacy and she’s doing good. an “online behavioral advertiser,” so the case data security practice team and one of the generated national attention. Kasparian was first attorneys in the nation to focus on this “Finding a practical able to negotiate a settlement on her client’s relatively new practice area, Kasparian approach to compliance is a behalf. counsels companies at all stages of growth challenge, but I love it.” on compliance with a complex and rapidly “It was very exciting,” Kasparian says. evolving body of privacy law while helping “We’re helping businesses do the right “But my most satisfying moments come on them develop best practices and respond to thing by the individual to whom the data a daily basis where I’m working through crises. relates,” she says. problems with a person in the business, She finds the work incredibly worthwhile. Perhaps Kasparian’s most noteworthy whether it’s the general counsel or director “You have to find a practicable solution accomplishment in this capacity is her of IT.” for a business amid this patchwork of state, successful 2011 defense of online advertiser — Eric T. Berkman

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Aliya S. Khalidi Assistant District Attorney, Middlesex County District Attorney’s Offi ce, Woburn | Suff olk University Law School

he events of Sept. 11, 2001, and competency, such as knowing how to appropriately all walks of life into our offi ce has been great. I’m subsequent hate crimes against those greet someone to put them at ease or recognizing also really proud of having a training agenda that of South Asian ethnicity and Islamic various factors that might infl uence how someone is focused on bringing diff erent voices into the Tfaith pushed Aliya S. Khalidi to become a lawyer. tells their story, for example. fold and working on being more inclusive of other “I saw that my community was not represented perspectives.” in leadership positions,” she recalls. “I wanted a “I saw that my community was Khalidi’s philosophy is refl ected in her civic seat at the table to be a voice for my community.” not represented in leadership involvement and community outreach work. Khalidi took the public interest route and positions. I wanted a seat at The immediate past president of the National became a prosecutor in the Middlesex County the table to be a voice for my Association of Muslim Lawyers, she served as the District Attorney’s Offi ce. In 2016, she was tapped community.” as the offi ce’s director of hiring, training and vice president of the New England Muslim Bar professional development, a role where she strives “This is why I wanted to be a lawyer in the fi rst Association, mentors law students through the to diversify the offi ce with individuals who refl ect place, to increase diversity and the representation South Asian Bar Association of Greater Boston the community they serve. of diff erent life experiences,” she says. “When I and is a 2017 graduate of the Women’s Bar She also works to provide learning opportunities started, I was among the few brown faces in the Association’s Women’s Leadership Initiative. to correct blind spots in racial and cultural offi ce. Having the ability to bring in people from — Correy E. Stephenson Julie E. Korostoﬀ Member, Mintz Levin, Boston | University of Pennsylvania Law School

ver the last 25 years, Julie E. Korostoff partnerships with other companies and minimize Elevation Committee, Tech Steering Committee, has been involved in some of their risk.” Recommendations Committee and Women’s Boston’s most signifi cant technology Initiative Steering Committee, and is a member of Otransactions, helping her clients create, scale “I really value relationships with the Policy Committee. and refi ne their businesses through technology my clients. I spend a lot of time In response to the coronavirus pandemic, she development, licensing and distribution, as well coaching clients on how to get the was a member of the Mintz Levin pro bono team as through the outsourcing of related business most out of their partnerships that advised Partners In Health on the launch processes and services. with other companies and of the Massachusetts COVID-19 Community Health care IT entities make up a large part of minimize their risk.” Tracing Collaborative, a $45 million deal that was her practice as chair of her fi rm’s IT transactions completed in just four days. and outsourcing practice group, resulting in her “It was so rewarding to work on that and Committed to developing a fi rm culture expertise in transactions involving electronic health feel like I was contributing in some minor way,” that allows attorneys and staff to thrive and record systems, telemedicine, e-prescribing, data Korostoff says. analytics and business intelligence. feel included, Korostoff has worked to play a She is a member of the American Health “I really value relationships with my clients,” role in decision-making that benefi ts the fi rm’s Lawyers Association, Women’s Bar Association Korostoff says. “I spend a lot of time coaching diverse, women and junior attorneys. She holds and the League of Women Voters. clients on how to get the most out of their leadership roles on the Corporate Partnership — Correy E. Stephenson

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Renee M. Landers Professor of Law, Suffolk University Law School, Boston | Boston College Law School enee M. Landers grew up in and Masters of Science in Law Life Sciences involvement in leadership positions in many Springfield, Illinois, just eight Program. community, health care and professional blocks from Abraham Lincoln’s organizations. Rhome. That triggered an interest in the law “My advice to every class The first African-American woman and that turned into a career. After law school, that I teach is that being first law professor to be president of the she worked at Ropes & Gray and for the a lawyer gives you the Boston Bar Association, she was elected as Department of Justice and Department of education to be a really well- a fellow of the American Bar Association Health and Human Services in Washington, informed citizen. You should Section of Administrative Law and D.C., in before moving to academia as a use the knowledge and skills Regulatory Practice in 2019. The former professor at Suffolk University Law School chair of the board of overseers of Harvard in 2002. you’ve learned to make the University, she is a member of the Dean’s “I really enjoy getting to know the world a better place.” Advisory Council for Radcliffe College. students and hearing their ideas,” she says. “My advice to every class that I teach is A member of the Supreme Judicial Court “It is always impressive to see their level of that being a lawyer gives you the education Committee on Judicial Ethics, Landers sits engagement with the courses and hear their to be a really well-informed citizen,” she says. on the board of trustees of Massachusetts thoughtful questions.” “You should use the knowledge and skills General Hospital, the National Academy Landers teaches courses in health care, you’ve learned to make the world a better of Social Insurance, New England Donor constitutional, privacy and administrative place.” Services and Planned Parenthood League of law, and serves as the faculty director of the Over the course of her career, Landers Massachusetts (where she chairs the board). Health and Biomedical Law Concentration has taken her own advice to heart, with — Correy E. Stephenson Chiara Urbani LaPlume Founder, LaPlume Law, Newton | Boston University School of Law ince opening her own law firm nine working as a paralegal and a law clerk before Association, having served as co-chair of years ago, Chiara Urbani LaPlume sitting for the Massachusetts bar. Hanging out the Solo and Small Firm Committee and has represented clients ranging from her own shingle was “terrifying,” but she has the Business Development Committee and Semotional first home purchasers starting embraced the challenges. developed programs such as the SocialPlus on their American Dream to real estate series and Fee Circles, where women lawyers development companies that have redesigned “When you are dealing with have the opportunity to discuss fee practices the Greater Boston skyline. somebody’s home or their to avoid underpricing their services. She “What I love about my practice is that I livelihood, the rewards are is also a graduate of the WBA’s Women’s am in a position to see how I’ve positively easy to see.” Leadership Initiative. impacted someone’s life,” she says. “Most of A member of the Business Lawyer’s my real estate clients are either individuals “Like most attorneys I’m pretty risk averse, Network and the Real Estate Bar Association, or small businesses and my corporate clients but I felt like opening my own firm was what LaPlume has recorded podcasts for the are businesses on the smaller side. When you I needed to do,” LaPlume says. “I discovered Legal Talk Network and lectured for the are dealing with somebody’s home or their I’m better at taking risks than I realized and Massachusetts Law Office Management livelihood, the rewards are easy to see.” I enjoy the flexibility and freedom being my Assistance Program on starting a legal LaPlume immigrated to the United States own boss allows.” practice. 20 years ago with a law degree from England, LaPlume is active in the Women’s Bar —Correy E. Stephenson

Sharon C. Lincoln Partner, Casner & Edwards, Boston | Harvard Law School he law is Sharon C. Lincoln’s fourth “somewhere in the social venture space,” Association’s Tax Exempt Organizations career. Before law school, she was including guidance regarding benefit Section Steering Committee and the drafting an account executive for a high-tech corporations and other hybrid entities. committee for Chapter 180B. She also sits on Tstartup, a high school history teacher, and a And she continues with her tax work, the American Bar Association’s Tax Section newspaper editor. helping clients through audits in tax State and Local Tax Executive Committee “All of the experiences created a wonderful controversies with the Internal Revenue and chairs the SALT Subcommittee on Tax- fabric that has been useful to my practice,” Service. Exempt Organizations. she says. “Elements I learned in the business She is a board member of the Tax Exempt world still stand me in good stead today. “I really enjoy the big- Government Entities’ Exempt Organizations When I read documents, my editing skills Council and chair of the Governance and allow me to catch more drafting errors and picture strategic work, and Forms Committee of the Benefit Corporation inconsistencies. And my teaching experience then figuring out how to has been critical, from being able to speak in implement that practically.” Bar Association. public to helping educate a judge in terms of A founding board member of New what my position is.” “I really enjoy the big-picture strategic England Women in Energy and the Lincoln’s practice began focused on tax work, and then figuring out how to Environment, Lincoln is an advisor to the law. As time went on, she found herself drawn implement that practically,” she says. “As for Finance Committee of Philanthropy MA to working with nonprofits, which expanded the tax work, I never saw myself as a litigator, and sits on the board of the Dartmouth her scope to corporate transactional work for but I like being able to make a difference and Educational Association and The Associates her clients. help my client come to a resolution.” of the Boston Public Library. She also advises for-profit entities that are Lincoln is a member of the Boston Bar — Correy E. Stephenson

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Stephanie H. Massey Partner, Locke Lord, Boston | Boston College Law School

lthough she was interested in the fi eld or government institutions on tight budgets, college campus and see dorms and dining halls of law in high school, Stephanie H. requiring her to be “extremely effi cient” in order I’ve worked to fi nance, or walk by a hospital where Massey didn’t “stumble upon” her to work within the constraints of their fi nancial I worked on a new building or renovation project. Achosen practice area until after law school. The limitations. Knowing how many people have benefi ted from co-chair of Locke Lord’s public fi nance practice Massey, who juggles between 10 and 20 active these things is a great feeling.” group, she has almost 25 years of experience transactions at a time, appreciates that she can Massey also plays a role in fi rm leadership, serving as bond counsel and/or borrower’s counsel actually see the fruits of her labor. having served on the board of directors, mentored to Massachusetts institutions and working on associates and recruited lateral attorneys and fi nancings for nonprofi ts such as colleges and “I can drive through a college summer associates. universities, hospitals, community health centers campus and see dorms and An active member of the National Association and cultural institutions. dining halls I’ve worked to of Bond Lawyers and Boston Women in Finance, “I didn’t even know this type of practice existed fi nance, or walk by a hospital Massey volunteers with the Judge Baker Children’s where I worked on a new building when I was in law school,” she says. “But the Center, Forever Home Rescue New England, Pine or renovation project.” history of this practice goes back to the late 1800s, Street Inn and the Wrentham Developmental and I’m proud to continue the legacy.” “Helping all of the nonprofi ts and government Center. She was elected as a fellow of the The niche practice can be particularly agencies I’ve represented is my proudest American College of Bond Counsel in 2018. challenging as many of her clients are nonprofi ts achievement,” she says. “I can drive through a — Correy E. Stephenson Maureen McBrien Partner, Brick, Jones, McBrien & Hickey, Newton | Suff olk University Law School

seasoned family law practitioner, in February that found marital lifestyle is not a Merriot, when the court adopted the view espoused Maureen McBrien has signifi cant factor to be considered when assessing whether by the amicus brief McBrien co-authored in that experience at both the trial and an alimony recipient should continue to receive case. Aappellate levels in a variety of family law matters, alimony beyond a durational limit. “I have never shied away from legal positions in with particular expertise in alimony cases and which I believe, even if unpopular, but it was really litigation that arises from surrogacy and assisted “I have never shied away from vindicating when the SJC agreed with our view,” reproduction. legal positions in which I believe, she says. Following a clerkship at the Probate & Family even if unpopular, but it was McBrien is active in the American Bar Court, she spent eight years in the domestic really vindicating when the SJC Association’s Family Law Section, where she relations department at Todd & Weld before agreed with our view.” sits on the council, as well as the Nominating joining Brick, Jones, McBrien & Hickey as a Committee, Strategic Planning Committee and partner in 2012. Following the Alimony Reform Act of 2012, Publications Board. She’s been a fellow of the “I really enjoy interacting with people and she challenged aspects of the statute, in particular American Bar Foundation since 2016. helping them out of unhappy situations,” McBrien that the new law could not be retroactively applied McBrien co-authored “Assisted Reproductive says. except with respect to cases in which the obligation Technology” and the 4th edition of Some of her cases have created new law and exceeded the durational limits in the act. “Massachusetts Practice — Family Law and guidance for family law practitioners, including Her interpretation faced opposition until the Practice.” Relle v. Voorhis, a case decided by the Appeals Court Supreme Judicial Court’s 2014 decision in Chin v. — Correy E. Stephenson

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Amanda McGrady Morrison Partner, Ropes & Gray, Boston | Harvard Law School

manda McGrady Morrison regularly seniority and creatively build a deal.” visited a Ropes & Gray offi ce outside of Boston. represents clients in private equity and “I’ve long been focused on advancing diversity “I’ve long been focused on M&A transactions on deals ranging in the law, particularly gender diversity,” she A advancing diversity in the law, from $100 million to more than $1 billion. Her says. “As a co-chair for the last four years, I’m experience includes a seminal deal that ranked particularly gender diversity.” really proud of the work we’ve done, including as the second largest leverage buyout — and the Today the co-head of Ropes & Gray’s private professional development grants for women largest tech leverage buyout — at the time the equity industry group, Morrison started at the attorneys, expanded networking opportunities, transaction took place, and she’s handled several new workshops, and a strong mentoring program. fi rm as a summer associate 20 years ago. She also multi-billion-dollar matters in the last year alone. All of these things do make a diff erence.” serves as co-chair of Ropes’ 600-member global “There are so many things I enjoy about my A member of the American, Boston and Women’s Forum and values the opportunity to practice,” she says. “The pace of the deals, the Massachusetts bar associations, Morrison also opportunity to learn about a new business or mentor associates, whether through a formal participates in pro bono initiatives at Ropes industry, and, most importantly, the chance to mentoring program, in the context of deal-making & Gray and is clerk of the Boston Episcopal develop a team and bring together a collection with clients, or — pre-COVID — by scheduling Charitable Society. of folks with diff erent perspectives, expertise and meetings with female associates each time she — Correy E. Stephenson Barbara A. O’Donnell Attorney, Sulloway & Hollis, Needham | Boston College Law School

n insurance coverage, bad faith and claims examiners to discuss claims handling O’Donnell is active in the Federation of Defense professional liability defense attorney obligations and eff ective ways to minimize and Corporate Counsel, having held leadership with over 30 years of experience, exposure to extra-contractual liability claims. roles in various sections and currently sitting on ABarbara A. O’Donnell appreciates how her “I really enjoy the opportunity to think through the Admissions Committee. practice has evolved. how to put all the pieces of a particular challenge She is also a member of the Defense Research “A lot of the diffi cult but satisfying matters I’ve together, to really immerse myself in the matter Institute and the American Bar Association’s handled over the years involved a lot more than and come up with a plan,” she says. Tort and Insurance Practice Section, and she just the coverage advice,” she says. “My role as just completed a term as a hearing offi cer for the coverage counsel is really about trying to chart a “I really enjoy the opportunity to Board of Bar Overseers. course to solve my client’s problem, whether that think through how to put all the O’Donnell has been a member of The Boston means getting the case resolved, lessening the pieces of a particular challenge Club since 1998 and served as secretary of the exposure, or fi nding some other pathway.” together, to really immerse board for several years. O’Donnell is well-versed in resolving defective myself in the matter and come up “Professional involvement has been an construction, additional insured, priority of with a plan.” important part of my entire career,” she says. coverage, and allocation disputes in jurisdictions A fellow of the American College of Coverage “Building those networks and relationships outside throughout the Northeast. She also counsels Counsel and admitted to the American College the daily grind enrich your life.” insurers and presents educational sessions for of Coverage and Extracontractual Counsel, — Correy E. Stephenson

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aren O’Malley balances a busy deeply involved with the organization. In the aff ordable housing projects such as the Codman real estate practice with a strong last year alone, she and members of her fi rm Square Neighborhood Development Corp. commitment to pro bono work and have negotiated fi ve offi ce leases for the VRLC, A strong proponent for supporting and Kactivism. provided human resources guidance on staffi ng, promoting other women, O’Malley is a frequent Originally broad based, her real estate work and hosted both a training and panel presentation. mentor to younger attorneys and served as co- has evolved to focus on retail and offi ce leasing in She also serves as co-chair of the statewide Sexual chair of the Northeastern University School of complex, mixed-use projects. O’Malley took over Assault Response Unit. Law’s annual Women in Law Conference in 2019. as co-chair of Goulston & Storrs’ retail, restaurant “I’m most proud of seeing the people I’ve “I’m most proud of seeing the and consumer group in 2018. mentored, women in particular, come into their “I love being in a position to help my clients people I’ve mentored, women in own voices and fi nd success as they defi ne the think about their overall business strategy, think particular, come into their own term,” she says. creatively about solving problems, and plan for the voices and fi nd success as they O’Malley sits on the advisory board of future,” she says. “That is incredibly rewarding.” defi ne the term.” Georgetown University Law Center’s Advanced O’Malley began her career as a civil rights Co-chair of Goulston’s Pro Bono Committee, Commercial Leasing Institute and is a member of lawyer and continues her eff orts on a pro bono her other pro bono clients include organizations CREW Boston and the International Council of basis. She helped launch the Victim Rights such as Physicians for Reproductive Health and Shopping Centers. Law Center in 2003 and continues to be Sociedad Latina, and she lends her expertise to — Correy E. Stephenson Rosa Liliana Palacios-Baldwin Deputy General Counsel for Labor, Employment and Litigation, Tufts University, Medford | Northeastern University School of Law n a daily basis, Rosa Liliana Palacios- inclusivity at the university, working on affi rmative the culture and how people work, which makes the Baldwin’s work impacts the lives of action plans, developing progressive policies provision of legal services easier,” she says. “Not students at Tufts University as well as for faculty and staff , and collaborating with her only do I get to give advice, but then I get to see Oscientists, philosophers and artists at the school. colleagues to increase access for historically under- how it plays out.” “My goal is always to identify practical represented groups. Active in the higher education community, approaches to challenging problems,” she says. Palacios-Baldwin is co-chair of the Latino Affi nity “One of the benefi ts of being Her experience as an employment attorney on Group of the National Association of College and both the plaintiff and employer side of labor and in-house is getting to know the University Attorneys, the former co-chair of the employment matters — including nine years in client and having a sense for the College and University Section of the Boston Bar the Boston offi ce of the U.S. Equal Employment culture and how people work, Association, and a member of the advisory board Opportunity Commission — provides her with which makes the provision of of the National Center for the Study of Collective a unique perspective that helps with her work at legal services easier. Not only do I Bargaining in Higher Education. Tufts’ nine schools, four campuses and six labor get to give advice, but then I get to A member of the Academy for Academic unions while she leads its litigation defense and see how it plays out.” Personnel Administration, she currently sits on the prevention eff orts. “One of the benefi ts of being in-house is BBA Council and the WGBH advisory board. Palacios-Baldwin has driven eff orts to promote getting to know the client and having a sense for — Correy E. Stephenson IN-HOUSE COUNSEL Virtual Breakfast ORDER TICKETS! Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 10:00 AM

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Jennifer L.R. Parent Director, McLane Middleton, Boston | Suff olk University Law School

ecently celebrating her 25th anniversary Immediate past president of the National Trial Lawyers in 2019. She is a member of the of legal practice, Jennifer L.R. Parent Conference of Bar Presidents and the New International Association of Defense Counsel, the has spent her career litigating and England Bar Association, she served as president Defense Research Institute, and the Association of Rresolving disputes for companies and business of the New Hampshire Women’s Bar Association Defense Trial Attorneys. owners in a range of complex commercial cases (an organization that she helped found in 1998) as A life fellow of the American Bar Foundation and employment matters in both Massachusetts well as the New Hampshire Bar Association. and the New Hampshire Bar Foundation, she is and New Hampshire. president of the Suff olk University Law School She is also a trained mediator with experience “I have tried to give back, move New Hampshire Alumni Association and a in alternative dispute resolution. member of the Joint Committee of Law Firm “I enjoy working on sophisticated cases with the profession forward, and Partners and Corporate Counsel of the National sophisticated clients,” she says. hopefully leave it in a better Judicial College, as well as the National Center for Chair of the litigation department at McLane place.” State Courts’ Lawyers Committee. Middleton, where she has worked since law school, “I like lawyers,” Parent says, laughing. “I have Parent has served on the fi rm’s Management A member of the Massachusetts Bar tried to give back, move the profession forward, Committee, chaired the employment law practice, Association’s Women in the Courtroom and hopefully leave it in a better place.” and co-chaired the Strategic Planning Committee. Committee and chair of the American Bar Her involvement also extends beyond the legal Viewing lawyers as the center of communities, Association House of Delegates Drafting fi eld, as chair of the board of trustees for The Parent has served as a bar leader at the national, Committee to the Rules and Calendar Committee, Palace Theatres. regional and local levels. she was elected to the American College of — Correy E. Stephenson Lizette M. Pérez-Deisboeck General Counsel and Chief Compliance Offi cer, Battery Ventures, Boston | Boston University School of Law izette M. Perez-Deisboeck is a lifelong on an international transaction, for example — to younger lawyers — particularly women and learner. and oversight of the compliance program at the lawyers of color — she is a mentor in the Women After graduating from law school company. Bar Association’s Women’s Leadership Initiative. L and clerking for a federal judge, she Often invited to speak at venture capital spent several years at Goodwin Procter, where she “Sometimes the legal profession industry events, Perez-Deisboeck serves on became the fi rst Latina partner. She left the Boston seems to have a well-worn path the advisory board of Founders Workbench, a fi rm to work at an incubator before joining Battery resource for entrepreneurs and founders, and sits Ventures in 2009. that everyone goes down. I didn’t on the board of advisors of WGBH. A member “The fi rm was a wonderful place, but I took follow it — and I’m happy I of the board of trustees of the University of a risk and changed the trajectory of my career didn’t.” in a really positive way,” she says. “My advice to Rochester, where she serves as co-chair of the young lawyers would be the importance of taking “My days are never 100 percent deals or 100 Diversity Advisory Council and chair of the professional risks. Sometimes the legal profession percent compliance, but they are 100 percent Alumni Board, she is also a member of the seems to have a well-worn path that everyone goes intellectually stimulating,” she says. “I have been investment committees of the Business Equity down. I didn’t follow it — and I’m happy I didn’t.” practicing law for a long time, but I learn new Fund and Business Equity COVID-19 Emergency As general counsel and chief compliance things all the time. I love that.” Fund, initiatives that support Black- and Latino- offi cer at Battery Ventures, Perez-Deisboeck A fi rm believer in paying it forward by owned businesses in Massachusetts. divides her time between legal issues — working providing mentorship, support and sponsorship — Correy E. Stephenson NOW ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS FOR 221

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Demetra M. Pontisakos Sole practitioner, Topsfield | New England Law|Boston

or more than 30 years Demetra M. she misses her frequent visits to the courthouse in the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, Pontisakos has represented individuals the COVID-19 era, she still enjoys talking to her where she served on the board of governors for in family law matters ranging from clients and hearing their stories. several years, and has been an active member of Fdivorce, support and property division to paternity, “I am particularly fascinated by what people do the board of directors of the Essex County Bar grandparent visitation, guardianship issues and for a living,” she says. “Clients come in and they Association for 19 years. domestic violence matters. Her dual licensure have done so many different things that it really A volunteer mentor for the Massachusetts Bar in Massachusetts and New Hampshire has keeps my job interesting.” Association and the Women’s Bar Association, broadened her expertise and allows her to handle she regularly presents to new attorneys as part of interjurisdictional family law disputes between the “Running a successful solo the “Practicing with Professionalism” program two states. practice is not an easy thing to do, required by the Supreme Judicial Court. The first half of her career was spent at law and I’ve done it.” firms as well as stints at Merrimack Valley Legal Pontisakos is also a member of the Services and the Department of Revenue and Pontisakos has served as a court-appointed Massachusetts Collaborative Law Council, the Child Support Enforcement Division. Pontisakos conciliator, guardian ad litem in complex custody Massachusetts Probate & Family Inn of Court, the hung out her own shingle in 2009. cases and parenting coordinator in Probate & New Hampshire Bar Association and the Greater “Running a successful solo practice is not an Family Court. Newburyport Bar Association. easy thing to do, and I’ve done it,” she says. While She’s a fellow of the Massachusetts chapter of — Correy E. Stephenson Scarlett M. Rajbanshi Partner, Peabody & Arnold, Boston | Boston College Law School

ust a few years into her legal career, elements of writing arguments and then arguing in end,” she says. “I probably briefed it four or five Scarlett M. Rajbanshi was handed her court,” she says. times as it worked its way through the courts. If first insurance coverage case and found you asked me to sit down and write a brief on J her path. Visionaid from memory, I could do it. It’s burned “Insurance coverage is a puzzle, “Insurance coverage is a puzzle and you have and you have to put all the pieces in my head. Professionally, I’m the most proud of to put all the pieces together to figure out whether together to figure out whether and that case.” and to what extent something might be covered,” to what extent something might A member of the American Bar Association, she says. She began asking for more coverage be covered.” Massachusetts Bar Association, New Hampshire assignments until they comprised the bulk of her Bar Association, Rhode Island Bar Association, practice. She has participated in seven trials — three as Women’s Bar Association of Massachusetts and Today, Rajbanshi focuses on insurance coverage first chair — and was involved in Mount Vernon v. Professional Liability Underwriting Society, disputes, general liability and professional liability Visionaid, Inc., where the Supreme Judicial Court Rajbanshi volunteered for the OneMelrose defense. Her clients include lawyers, accountants, ruled in 2017 that an insurer does not need to Campaign, which successfully passed an override condominium boards and skilled nursing facilities, prosecute counterclaims on the behalf of the measure of Proposition 2 ½ to increase public among others. insured as part of the insurer’s duty to defend. school funding in the city of Melrose. “My favorite parts of the job are the creative “I worked on that case from the beginning to — Correy E. Stephenson

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Whitney A. Reichel Principal, Fish & Richardson, Boston | University of Michigan Law School n her 15 years practicing law, Whitney a group of associates, gathering reviews about events each quarter for the women in the A. Reichel has experience litigating their work and providing feedback to help office to connect with and mentor each other. complex patent cases in federal them improve and develop as lawyers. A member of ChIPs, Reichel devotes I courts around the country, across a more than 160 hours to pro bono work each range of industries and involving a host of “Every case presents a year. For over 10 years, she has been involved technologies. unique opportunity to with the Political Asylum/Immigration Drawn to intellectual property law because Representation Project, representing asylum of her engineering background, the practice interpret a patent claim relative to a product in a seekers from the Congo, El Salvador, “checks all the boxes for me,” she says, Honduras, Iran and Uganda, and she with opportunities to work on interesting way that allows for creative represents transgender asylum seekers technology in a field with issues of first thought and your own novel through Immigration Equality. In addition impression that change over time. way to interpret the law, “Every case presents a unique opportunity to her asylum efforts, Reichel has worked to interpret a patent claim relative to a while potentially expanding on various cases through Medical Legal product in a way that allows for creative legal doctrines.” Partnership involving housing, immigration, thought and your own novel way to interpret specialized education and family law issues. the law, while potentially expanding legal She also serves as the recruiting principal “I am hugely proud of and happy about doctrines,” she says. for the Boston office, managing the summer being able to help people obtain asylum and Reichel has spent her entire legal career associate interview process and helping to run have a lasting impact on someone else’s life,” at Fish & Richardson, where she serves as a the program each summer, and chairs the she says. group leader in the Boston office, mentoring firm’s Boston Women’s Initiative, planning — Correy E. Stephenson Jennifer A. Rymarski Partner, Morrison Mahoney, Springfield | Western New England College School of Law ennifer A. Rymarski knows the value rewarding.” A believer in “women supporting other of hard work. After holding down a Rymarski’s civil litigation practice women,” Rymarski is active in Morrison job continuously since the age of includes professional liability in the medical Mahoney’s Women’s Initiative Group. J 16, she started working at a law firm malpractice arena, health care law and “There needs to be more openness and while she obtained her paralegal certification. business matters. willingness to ‘throw the ladder down’ and She built on her experience, moving up to also to push women up — not just lawyers, law clerk, associate and income partner before “There needs to be more but all women in general,” she says. becoming an equity partner at Morrison openness and willingness A member of the Hampden County and Mahoney in 2016. to ‘throw the ladder down’ Massachusetts bar associations, Rymarski Although appreciative of her success, and also to push women up served for several years on the board of — not just lawyers, but all Rymarski’s proudest professional women in general.” Children’s Study Home and chairs the achievements are the “unexpected thank- Planned Giving Advisory Committee of the yous” from her clients. “It’s a nice blend for me,” she says. “I really Ronald McDonald House of Springfield. “Sometimes, you do your job day in and enjoy meeting people and learning what they She also coordinates fundraising events at day out and don’t know if it is making an do. And in the med-mal world, it’s almost like Morrison Mahoney, such as food drives, impact on anybody,” she says. “But when having two careers in one, because I get to annual holiday toy collections, and book and clients come back for another matter or send learn the medicine as well as handle the legal supply drives. a nice note or a thank-you, that is incredibly issues.” — Correy E. Stephenson Payal Salsburg Partner, Laredo & Smith, Boston | Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad Law Center or Payal Salsburg, the practice of law the person my clients call when they have of Massachusetts and the Women’s Bar is all about community. She moved a question, even if I may not be the right Association. to the United States by herself at person, and the fact that they trust me to She is very active in the Boston Bar Fage 17 to attend college and ended up in law advise them.” Association, sitting on the Steering school “by happenstance,” spending the first Committee of the Business and Commercial five years of her legal career in Florida before “My favorite part of the Litigation Section as well as the Ethics moving to Boston in 2012. job is being the person my Committee. “My biggest obstacle was coming here clients call when they have a Further, she was recently appointed from another jurisdiction and not having the as a hearing officer for the Board of Bar connections and network to the area,” she question, even if I may not Overseers. says. be the right person, and the A member of the board of directors of The solution: hard work and involvement. fact that they trust me to Salsburg’s practice focuses in the areas advise them.” Boston CASA, Salsburg regularly helps of business litigation, corporate advice and out at the St. Francis House Day Shelter as counsel, and white-collar criminal defense. Salsburg’s involvement spans the legal well as Ricesticks and Tea, and she began “Most of my clients are small businesses profession as well as the community. A board volunteering at Massachusetts General and I provide one-stop shopping for member of the South Asian Bar Association Hospital at the beginning of the COVID-19 counseling and advice on corporate matters,” of Greater Boston, she is also a member of pandemic. she says. “My favorite part of the job is being the Asian American Lawyers Association — Correy E. Stephenson

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Regina Sam Penti Partner, Ropes & Gray, Boston | Harvard Law School egina Sam Penti took a somewhat great feeling.” the Women’s Sailing Foundation and an non-traditional path to the As co-chair of the firm’s Diversity undocumented immigrant and victim of practice of law. After graduating Committee, Penti strives to enhance domestic violence seeking safety in the United Rfrom MIT with an engineering degree, she opportunities and build a more inclusive States. joined Ropes & Gray as a technical advisor in culture for all lawyers. Co-chair of the Boston Bar Association’s the intellectual property group. Internet and Technology Law Committee, Intrigued by breaking down technological “Particularly in the current she worked with colleagues to launch the concepts and examining them through a legal market, things have been Boston International IP Summit, partnering lens, she applied to law school and continued challenging, so to be able to with Boston College Law School. Now in its at the firm, becoming a partner in the IP power through and get some third year, the event brings together legal and transactions group in 2018. deals closed has been a great business executives from around the world to She also worked to qualify as a solicitor in England and Wales, developing a trans- feeling.” discuss challenging global IP issues. Atlantic legal expertise to help meet the “This work is both exciting and humbling A guest lecturer on patent law at MIT global needs of her clients. and very close to my heart,” she says. “There Sloan School of Business, she is also a “What I like the most is when a really is a real desire to actually affect change, but member of the Boston IP American Inn difficult transaction comes together,” she says. change takes time and all of us are in a hurry of Court and a voting member of the “Particularly in the current market, things and want to see the change yesterday.” Intellectual Property Owners Association’s have been challenging, so to be able to power Penti’s pro bono work is focused on issues European Practice Committee. through and get some deals closed has been a that impact women, with clients including — Correy E. Stephenson Mary K. Strother First Assistant Attorney General, Attorney General’s Office, Boston | Columbia Law School or Mary K. Strother, the practice of call from her former firm colleague Maura T. it is the top quality work that we all strive for law appears to be genetic. Following Healey, who asked her to join the AG’s Office and achieve on a daily basis,” Strother says. “I in the footsteps of her grandfather as first assistant. love the drive and the passion that everybody Fand her father, she became a lawyer, who works here has for what they do, and it initially focusing her practice on litigation at “I love the drive and the is great to feel like a part of something that is WilmerHale. passion that everybody who making a positive difference.” The first half of her 20 years with the firm works here has for what A member of the Conviction Integrity was spent litigating in a variety of practice they do, and it is great to Working Group and the Supreme Judicial areas. For the second half, she took on the feel like a part of something Court Standing Committee on Lawyer Well- position of deputy general counsel at the that is making a positive Being, she is on the Executive Committee firm, providing risk management, ethical and difference.” of the Boston Bar Association as well as the legal advice to firm management, attorneys Advisory Committee of the BBA’s Women’s and staff. “My initial reaction was that I wasn’t sure Leadership and Advancement Forum. “It was a chance to do something why she wanted me to do it,” she says. “But I Strother, who served as chair during her interesting and different,” she recalls. “I really have loved every minute of this job.” term on the Board of Bar Overseers, also enjoyed being able to advise the lawyers in the While she doesn’t argue cases or write sits on the board of directors of Princeton firm on difficult matters.” briefs, “I’m here to facilitate other people Internships in Civic Service. In January 2017, Strother took a phone getting their work done and making sure that — Correy E. Stephenson Jennifer H. Suhl Deputy District Attorney, Northwestern District Attorney’s Office, Northampton | Northeastern University School of Law ennifer H. Suhl has spent her career increase the number of sexual assault cases, still have cases of my own to handle in court, as a prosecutor speaking for victims including alcohol-involved college-age sexual but I spend a great deal of time mentoring and survivors of crimes. First at the assaults, brought forward to court,” she says. and supervising ADAs on their cases.” J Middlesex County District Attorney’s “I am very proud to have been able to play A member of the Hampshire County Office and then at the Northwestern DA’s a small role in helping survivors of sexual and Franklin County bar associations, she Office, she has investigated and prosecuted assault come forward, have their cases heard is a member of the Hampshire County a wide variety of cases, from homicide to in court and obtain justice.” Sexual Assault Response Team and the Five narcotics trafficking. Colleges, Inc. Sexual Assault Prevention and Over the last 10 years, she has primarily “I am very proud to have Intervention Committee. handled rape cases. Suhl established a been able to play a small Suhl supports her local community with role in helping survivors centralized adult sexual assault unit in the of sexual assault come fundraising efforts (including the YMCA Northwestern DA’s Office and changed forward, have their cases of Greenfield and the Children’s Advocacy how the cases were handled, building up heard in court and obtain Center of Franklin County and North relationships with the police department as justice.” Quabbin) and assisting with local government well as the community, partnering with rape projects, such as the Public Safety Building crisis centers, social service providers, local In 2019, Suhl was promoted to deputy Working Group. She also volunteers at her universities and women’s programs. district attorney, “an awesome responsibility children’s school and coaches softball. “I made it my mission to significantly that I take very seriously,” she says. “Luckily, I — Correy E. Stephenson

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Michelle K. Tassinari Director and Legal Counsel, Elections Division, Secretary of State’s Office, Boston | New England Law|Boston hen Michelle K. Tassinari began for local elections officials to postpone their with these crazy types of issues.” working in the Elections Division municipal election dates in a clear and consistent Despite the craziness, “I love being part of of the Secretary of State’s Office manner and has shifted to the changes necessary democracy, making sure it continues and that we W more than 20 years ago, she never to administer the state primary and election safely have free and fair elections,” Tassinari says. expected to become an expert in cybersecurity or and securely, working with the Committee on President-elect of the National Association on how to administer elections safely and securely Election Laws to amend the appropriate statutes. of State Election Directors, Tassinari is the state during a pandemic. appointee to the Election Assistance Commission “In a non-pandemic year, a lot of our work is “I love being part of democracy, Standards Board, a member of the Bipartisan cyclical, with peaks around filing deadlines and Policy Center Voter Registration Task Force, an election seasons,” she explains. “But there is always making sure it continues and that advisory board member of MIT’s Election Data something happening somewhere and somebody we have free and fair elections.” and Science Lab, and a working group member of needs help. We are taking calls from voters, towns, the Council of State Governments Overseas Voter elected officials or commenting on election laws.” Then came the lawsuits — more than a dozen Initiative. This year has been significantly different. filed since April, with more likely on the horizon. Tassinari is the author of “Massachusetts “Since March, the implications of COVID-19 “What we experience in a normal election year Municipal Law” and the editor and author on the administration of elections have been an is amplified exponentially,” she says. “We certainly of “Massachusetts Election Administration, all-consuming affair,” Tassinari says. expected a presidential election year would be Campaign Finance and Lobbying Law.” It began with trying to provide a mechanism busy, but we didn’t expect it would be this busy — Correy E. Stephenson Natacha Thomas Associate General Counsel, Boston Retirement Board, Boston | Suffolk University Law School

atacha Thomas’ legal career has been and ensures compliance by the board’s benefit bar associations and the Massachusetts Association shaped by her identity as a woman program. of Public Pension Attorneys, she is a 2013 of color and the daughter of Haitian “This is a huge area of law, and not many graduate of the WBA’s Women’s Leadership Nimmigrants. Watching her parents’ struggles at people specialize in it,” she says. “The statute is Initiative. work — and influenced by a racist experience as a so vast, and I love being able to use my persuasive Chair of the executive board of the Fair child — she followed a path to the law as a way to skills to fight for my client.” Employment Project, a nonprofit organization fight her feelings of helplessness and vulnerability. whose mission is to reduce violations of “Even as a child, I acknowledged how someone “This is a huge area of law, and employment civil rights, Thomas was appointed could use the law to help another,” she says. not many people specialize in by Boston Mayor Martin Walsh in 2017 to Finding her passion in employment law, it. I love being able to use my the Advisory Committee of the Living Wage Thomas spent two years at Greater Boston Legal persuasive skills to fight for my Ordinance. Services on a fellowship before spending several client.” years in-house and at law firms, including her own “I am really proud of where I am today,” solo practice. Since 2016, Thomas has been an adjunct Thomas says. “My mom only had an eighth-grade She joined the government as a labor counsel professor in Northeastern University School of education and my parents were working-class for the city of Boston and has spent the last three Law’s masters in legal studies program, teaching a immigrants. I am the first attorney in my family, years at the Boston Retirement Board, where she course on wage and benefits. and I am passionate about what I do.” provides guidance on state employee benefit laws A member of the Massachusetts and Women’s — Correy E. Stephenson

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Kimberly P. West Partner, Ashcroft Law Firm, Boston | Suff olk University Law School

imberly P. West has experience as a in state history. and joined the Ashcroft Law Firm, parlaying her prosecutor at every level, from county However, her favorite experience was the fi ve experience to work with international clients in (as an assistant district attorney in years she spent as a war crimes prosecutor for investigations involving government agencies such KPlymouth County) to state (where she was the fi rst the United Nations at the International Criminal as the Securities and Exchange Commission, the minority woman chief of the attorney general’s Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. Department of Justice and the State Department. Criminal Bureau) to federal (as an assistant West is committed to helping the immigrant U.S. attorney) to international (as a war crimes “When you work on a case like community. Active with Project Citizenship, she prosecutor). that, you play a role in the history is a member of the American Bar Association’s “I have enjoyed each level, but they are all very of the nation. Being involved in International Criminal Justice Standards diff erent,” she says. “As a DA, you are invested in the prosecution was incredibly Advisory Group and the Boston Bar Association’s the community and you get to know the people. In signifi cant.” the U.S. Attorney’s Offi ce, the prosecutions have a International Law Steering Committee. ‘big picture’ perspective.” “When you work on a case like that, you play A graduate of Lead Boston’s Executive At the AG’s Offi ce, West led the human a role in the history of the nation,” she says. Leadership Program, West makes a concerted traffi cking division in a shift to treating women as “Being involved in the prosecution was incredibly eff ort to mentor and advocate for other female victims and not co-conspirators and oversaw the signifi cant.” attorneys. execution of the largest state police search warrant Just over a year ago, West changed direction — Correy E. Stephenson Tamara S. Wolfson Partner, Anderson & Kreiger, Boston | Boston College Law School

amara S. Wolfson litigates commercial dollars in contested coverage payments for clients chairing the program at Anderson & Kreiger and cases and represents insurers and and successfully defended insurers in bad faith serving as a member of the Volunteer Lawyers insureds in complex insurance coverage suits. Project board for more than 20 years. Earlier this Tand bad faith litigation. She discovered her niche A typical day could include helping a client year, she was part of a team from her fi rm that as a young associate when one of the fi rst cases draft new language to revise its policies to avoid received the Pro Bono Asylum Award from the she worked on involved a complicated dispute over issues in the future, working on a motion for a case Political Asylum and Immigration Representation environmental claims, some of which presented in litigation, or answering a discrete question that Project for their work obtaining political asylum questions of fi rst impression. needs an immediate answer. for a woman and her two children after they were “I remember fi nding the coverage issues forced to fl ee Venezuela. fascinating,” she says. “Insurance touches on “I remember fi nding the coverage A fellow of the American College of Coverage so many other underlying new legal issues or issues fascinating.” problems as they develop — whether coverage for Counsel, she mentors associates at her fi rm and sexual misconduct claims or the issues arising out “I really enjoy working with my clients to try to helped to launch Boston Women in Insurance of the pandemic — that you are always faced with come up with creative ways to solve problems and Coverage, which brings together woman attorneys new and interesting challenges.” helping them navigate the myriad issues they face working in the fi eld of insurance coverage for Over the course of her more than three on any given day,” she says. networking and support. decades in the law, Wolfson has won millions of Wolfson has an active pro bono practice, — Correy E. Stephenson

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