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Up & Coming Lawyers Excellence in Diversity Excellence in Firm

Alison R. Bancroft ...... 5 Wayne A. Budd ...... 19 Administration Jason G. Benzaken ...... 5 Angela McConney Scheepers ...... 19 Fangli Chen ...... 6 Catherine E. Reuben ...... 20 Lorraine Curry ...... 23 Zachary N. Coseglia ...... 6 Minita Shah-Mara ...... 20 Sherley E. Cruz ...... 8 Excellence in Operations Vikas S. Dhar ...... 8 Excellence in Pro Bono Steven E. Gagne ...... 9 Julie C. Pease ...... 23 Daniel K. Gelb ...... 9 Hanishi T. Ali ...... 21 Cynthia M. Gilbert ...... 10 Susan M. Finegan ...... 21 Rebecca A. Jacobstein ...... 10 William E. Kelly ...... 21 Excellence in Legal Joseph P. Kennedy III ...... 11 William O’Brien ...... 22 Journalism Adam J. Kessel ...... 12 William L. Patton ...... 22 John B. Koss ...... 12 Michael N. Sheetz ...... 22 Kevin Cullen ...... 24 Stephen M. LaRose ...... 13 Brown Rudnick ...... 22 Katharine L. Milton ...... 14 WilmerHale ...... 22 Daniel F. Toomey Keith A. Pabian ...... 14 Jason S. Pinney ...... 15 Excellence in Marketing Judicial Excellence Noah C. Shaw ...... 15 Vanessa Schaefer ...... 23 Chief Judge Mark L. Wolf ...... 24 Danielle K. Sheer ...... 16 Louis W. Tompros ...... 16 Photos by Merrill Shea Profiles written by Amy E. Burroughs Natasha N. Varyani ...... 18

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Dear Readers,

This special section honors excellence throughout the legal community. Our Up & Coming Lawyers are rising stars in the legal community — Massachusetts attorneys who have been members of the bar for 10 years or less, but who have already distinguished themselves in some manner and appear poised for even greater accomplishments. Our honorees for Excellence in Diversity were chosen for their commitment to diversity, whether through helping a law firm to develop a more inclusive culture or advocating for the legal rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people.

We have added a new category this year, and the firms and individuals chosen as our honorees for Excellence in Pro Bono are all terrific role models for their work in giving back to the community. In addition, we are honoring the often unsung heroes who make sure our offices run smoothly and the trains run on time with our Excellence in Firm Administration, Marketing and Operations awards.

The honorees for Judicial Excellence and Excellence in Legal Journalism, chosen by our partner in this event, the Massachusetts Bar Association, are also featured in this section. This year, the MBA is honoring Chief Judge Mark L. Wolf and Boston Globe columnist Kevin Cullen.

The pages that follow hopefully offer some intriguing insights into the individuals selected for their contributions this year. Please join me in congratulating all our honorees.

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Lawyers UpAlisonComing R. Bancroft i POSITION: Attorney, Law Office of Alison Bancroft, Foxborough AGE: 35 LAW SCHOOL: New England School of Law BAR ADMISSION: 2002

Q. What do you consider your biggest A. All of my clients are indigent. I’m the free achievement as a lawyer to date? appointed attorney through the Committee A. In this past year, I’ve had four clients who for Public Counsel Services. When I first have had new trials granted. started cases, CPCS appointed me a mentor and I call her still, seven years later. Also, I Q. What professional goal are you striving for? was a DA previously, and there’s a really nice group of attorneys down in Bristol County A. Just to get better at doing what I do that I still keep in touch with. We help each other out a lot with cases and asking ques- Q. What’s the most satisfying case or matter tions. It’s hard as a solo to work by yourself you’ve worked on so far? and not to have people to bounce informa- A. Commonwealth v. Barbosa, a case I argued tion off of. to the Appeals Court. They overturned half of the case; I argued at the Supreme Judicial Q. What was your least favorite class in law Court and they overturned the other half. school? That was a big case last year. It’s related to the A. I loved school, but constitutional law was A. The biggest challenge for me personally A. My children, ages 5 and 3 Supreme Court case of Melendez-Diaz v. Mas- not very fun. in terms of my practice is just trying to sachusetts, which was decided a month before maintain contact outside of my office with Q. What’s one thing about you that might sur- my brief in Barbosa was due. As this case went prise people? Q. If you hadn’t become a lawyer, what field other attorneys, just to keep a dialogue going along, that case file was moving along with us, would you have entered? and have connections outside of myself. I A. When I was in law school, I met five friends so it was a lot of following up with the cases and we have continued to stay in contact daily, A. I always was interested in writing. I actu- took a part-time job in a civil litigation firm and trying to figure out how the facts of [Bar- to get out more. even though we’ve all moved across the coun- bosa] should come out on the basis of the ally went to college for journalism and try. Some are in California, Washington, Penn- switched to PR. Some profession in which caselaw as it was being developed. There was Q. What talent would you most like to have? sylvania. We talk every day, all six of us, and we a lot of close reading of the cases and a lot of writing is a key component, because that’s get together as often as we can. We are just as A. I would love to be an eloquent speaker on pushing to get my client what he deserved, what I enjoy doing the most. close as the day when we all left school. which was a new trial. It was a lot of persua- the spot. I have a hard time articulating elo- sive arguing just because the law was so new. Q. If you could meet any famous lawyer in quently when I really need to. Q. What is your dream vacation? You had to think ahead a little bit to try to history, who would it be? A. All of them! I went to Italy on my honey- continue the argument. A. John Adams Q. What is the trait you most dislike in yourself? moon and would love to go back. A. I question myself so often about everything. Q. Who was your most important mentor, and Q. What’s the biggest challenge of being a Q. What word best describes you? how has that person impacted your career? lawyer? Q. What is your most treasured possession? A. Thoughtful

Jason G. Benzaken

POSITION: Founding partner, Benzaken & Wood, Brockton AGE: 35 LAW SCHOOL: Northeastern University School of Law BAR ADMISSION: 2003

Q. What do you consider your biggest Q. What do you consider your biggest profes- achievement as a lawyer to date? sional accomplishment? A. Any time I save someone from a very big A. It’s probably the result in Commonwealth state prison sentence, it feels pretty impor- vs. Kateley, a case I had before the Supreme tant to me. Some of my biggest wins are Judicial Court. His conviction was reversed, probably the ones that are unknown to oth- but the bigger part was the SJC agreed with ers. When you have a heavy trial load with our take on the charging requirements for the superior court, you get pretty accus- lifetime parole. So that was sort of a win that tomed to guys or women being sent to state helped people besides my client. prison for a really long time, so whenever you have a win, that feels pretty important. Q. What was your least favorite class in law school? Q. What’s the biggest challenge of being a plus because I don’t give up on things, but I Q. What’s the most satisfying case or matter A. Property you’ve worked on so far? lawyer? will work obsessively even for a lost cause. Q. If you hadn’t become a lawyer, what field A. We have an unsympathetic public. The A. I had a pretty decent case at the Supreme Q. What is your most treasured possession? would you have entered? public just wants to hear about punishing Judicial Court earlier this year for a sex of- A. My house, because I built it fender. I have represented a lot of sex of- A. I built houses before I became a lawyer people and locking people up. It doesn’t really want to hear about the fairness of the fenders as a criminal defense practitioner, and I really loved it. Q. What’s one thing about you that might sur- process. We see laws get more and more se- and they have just been scapegoated by our prise people? society. There are some really nasty punish- Q. If you could meet any famous lawyer in rious, but it’s so rare that we see a legislature ments out there and they can be particularly history, who would it be? step back and reduce penalties or change A. People are really surprised when they learn that I’m Egyptian. unfair to some of these guys. The case I had A. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood things to make it easier for criminal defen- dealt with lifetime community parole. That’s dants. It’s kind of amazing how quickly as a Marshall. I just think he was a very unique Q. What is your dream vacation? a really horrific sentence, and it’s given to person. He was the lawyer behind some of society, when something bad happens, we people who I don’t think should be put on it. the most important cases in this country’s change the system for the worse for our de- A. I’m doing it this year: spend a bunch of history. The voice he offered, often in dis- fendants, but to do the reverse is impossible. time in Italy on the Mediterranean coast. Q. Who was your most important mentor, and sent, was very important for criminal defen- Q. how has that person impacted your career? dants. I think he recognized, even if he What talent would you most like to have? Q. What word best describes you? A. I learned a lot from my supervisor at the wasn’t on the winning side, the dilemmas A. I wish I had a better singing voice. A. Hard-working public defender’s office, John Darrell. I just and the problems that a lot of criminal de- think he’s one of the best trial lawyers I’ve fendants face in our society and in the crim- Q. What is the trait you most dislike in yourself? Q. What is your favorite movie? ever seen. inal justice process. A. I’m pretty obsessive. In some ways, it’s a A.“Repo Man,” with Emilio Estevez

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Lawyers Fangli Chen Up Coming i

POSITION: Partner, Choate, Hall & Stewart, Boston AGE: 43 LAW SCHOOL: Suffolk University Law School BAR ADMISSION: 2006

Q. What do you consider your biggest good team at Choate in the IP department. achievement as a lawyer to date? A. Being able to add value to my clients’ Q. What do you consider your biggest profes- business. I was able to use my technical ex- sional accomplishment? pertise and legal knowledge to generate A. Coming to be a lawyer and to do well in many successful IP portfolios for my clients this country, because I grew up in China. I to protect their business, and that’s some- was made a partner five years after I gradu- thing that I think is an achievement. ated from law school. That is probably my biggest accomplishment in my career. But if Q. What’s the most satisfying case or matter you ask me my biggest accomplishment in you’ve worked on so far? life, that would be my daughter. A. There was one start-up company I had worked on since 2003. I helped develop a Q. What was your least favorite class in law patent portfolio to protect their key product, school? identify subtle but critical distinctions be- A. I actually enjoyed law school because it tween the company’s product and their was an eye-opening experience. It really competitor’s product, and establish free- changed my thinking process and educated dom-to-operate positions. I also helped me on American culture as to how people est quality work to clients. Sometimes I need Q. What’s one thing about you that might sur- manage their relationship with large bio- react to things. to rely on more junior people, so inspiring prise people? tech partners. It was not an easy journey and those people to get things done the way I A. I’m a passionate fan of football. required a lot of strategic thinking. After Q. If you hadn’t become a lawyer, what field have envisioned is not the easiest thing to would you have entered? seven years, the company was finally bought do. The key is how to bring out the best of Q. What is your greatest fear? for many millions of dollars. One of the rea- A. When I was growing up, I really wanted everybody and make sure everybody is on A. I really hate flying. I’m kind of in panic on sons the buyer gave for buying the company to be a scientist. My role model is Madame the same page. That is a very important skill, the plane, because my fear is that it’s so out after the transaction was the strong IP posi- Curie, who won the Nobel Prize twice. Then and I’m still learning it. of my control. I like to have some control tion this start-up company had. I thought of consulting, because fundamen- tally I’m a problem-solver. But I hate travel- Q. What talent would you most like to have? over a situation. Q. What is the best piece of professional ad- ing, so I decided against that. A. I love fashion. Maybe that’s a talent I vice you ever received? would love to have: to be a fashion designer. Q. What word best describes you? A. Build a team. If I only rely on myself, I Q. What’s the biggest challenge of being a A. Passionate only have so many hours. I have started to lawyer? Q. What is the trait you most dislike in your- appreciate how, in order to be successful in A. As our practice grows, I cannot do every- self? Q. What is your favorite movie? this field, I need a team, and we have a very thing myself, but I want to deliver the high- A. I could be more patient. A.“Gone with the Wind” Zachary N. Coseglia

POSITION: Associate, DLA Piper, Boston AGE: 31 LAW SCHOOL: Boston University School of Law BAR ADMISSION: Massachusetts in 2005, Rhode Island in 2006

Q. What professional goal are you striving for? Q. If you could meet any famous lawyer in A. My goal on a daily basis is to do great history, who would it be? work, do challenging work and make the A. Barbara Jordan. She is one of the greatest clients, the partners and the other attorneys political and legal orators of the past centu- I work with happy. ry. She had such a beautiful and memorable voice that it almost didn’t matter what she Q. What is the best piece of professional ad- was saying — but in fact what she was say- vice you ever received? ing was so important and always so A. Project and instill confidence by knowing thoughtful. I would love to meet her just to your practice area, knowing your clients’ be able to hear that voice in person. business and making sure your colleagues and your clients know you’re on top of Q. What talent would you most like to have? things. Even if you really do “get it,” if you’re A. I never miss an opportunity to tell peo- not conveying that to other people, it might ple I starred in my college soap opera. I all be for naught. think that captures the fact that I was nei- ther a talented actor nor will I ever be a tal- Q. What do you consider your biggest profes- ented actor, but I certainly enjoyed that. about me that don’t really scream Texas, and In fact, as we speak, I’m in southern China sional accomplishment? One of two things happened to you on the that’s probably the reason I felt the need to and last week I was in Singapore. The flight I A. Having a challenging and sophisticated soap opera when you graduated: You either leave Texas as soon as possible. just took from New York to Singapore is the practice, doing complex, interesting work and, went to New York for some sort of spiritual longest direct commercial flight that exists I think, doing that work well. At the same journey or your character died. I was lucky Q. What is your dream vacation? on the planet; it’s 18 and a half hours. For me, time, having a balance and doing things that enough to get spared. I even made a couple A. I’ve taken my dream vacation: two weeks that is 18 and a half hours of misery. go beyond billable work: co-chairing our of cameo appearances when I was in law in the south of France in Nice, Monaco and Boston office’s diversity committee, working school. the tiny medieval village of Eze. It was the Q. What is your favorite movie and why? with Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders most relaxing, enjoyable experience that I’ve A. “Jerry Maguire.” One reason is that I am a and co-chairing the Greater Boston Legal Q. What’s one thing about you that might sur- ever had vacationing. sentimental softie and I shed a tear every Services Associates Fund Drive. Being able to prise people? time she says, “You had me at hello.” The have a thriving practice on one hand, and on A. People are surprised that I grew up in Q. What is your greatest fear? other reason is because if I were to do any- the other hand being able to do important di- Dallas, Texas. I lived there until I came to A. My biggest fear is getting on an airplane. thing professionally with my law degree oth- versity, pro bono and fundraising work makes college and started a new life in Boston It’s ironic because the nature of my practice is er than what I do now, I would literally be me really proud. when I was 18. There are a lot of things such that I travel internationally quite a bit. Jerry Maguire. Bespoke [bih-spohk]: made to the customer’s speciﬁcations

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Sherley E. Cruz i

POSITION: Staff attorney and program coordinator, Greater Boston Legal Services AGE: 34 LAW SCHOOL: Boston University School of Law BAR ADMISSION: 2005

Q. What do you consider your biggest A. A mentor recently gave me the advice to achievement as a lawyer to date? push myself and believe in myself, to think A. Having graduated from law school is my beyond what people expect of me and to re- biggest achievement. Being Latina, having ally reach for whatever I am dreaming of. been born in the Dominican Republic and coming from two parents that have worked Q. What do you consider your biggest profes- their lives in factories, I overcame a lot of sional accomplishment? barriers just by making it that far. A. The Immigrant Worker Leadership Insti- tute was a project I developed with the Q. What’s the most satisfying case or matter Chelsea Collaborative. We created a program you’ve worked on so far? to help immigrant workers advocate for A. Supporting worker centers and providing themselves and learn what their rights are at assistance to low-wage immigrant workers work, not just for themselves, but to be able to has been a thread throughout my career. teach other people in the same situation. We Helping people who have cultural and lin- developed a six-week training program where guistic barriers, who can’t navigate the legal we met on Saturdays with the workers and system on their own — being able to help brought in different government agencies. We clients like that is most satisfying to me. partnered with MCAD, the Department of Unemployment Assistance, OSHA, the attor- Q. Who was your most important mentor, and ney general’s office. Each week, someone Q. If you could meet any famous lawyer in A. Painting how has that person impacted your career? would do an interactive public education history, who would it be? A. I would say my mom, not in the traditional workshop on their rights. It was really neat. Q. What is the trait you most dislike in yourself? A. Sonia Sotomayor, the first Latina U.S. sense of being a mentor, but someone who’s That’s been going on for about five years. Supreme Court justice A. I think I’m too hard on myself. constantly told me how important it is as a It keeps growing. It’s really exciting now to woman and a Latina to have an education and see it transition from Latino immigrants, Q. What is your greatest fear? Q. to be a professional. She’s constantly pushing who are still doing it and taking it to a new Do you see yourself striking out on your A. I hate snakes. me to think about my career and to keep level, to Somali Bantu refugee workers. own one day? moving forward. When I’m doing all these A. I’ve thought about it. I think there are Q. What word best describes you? things, I think about being able to help her be- Q. If you hadn’t become a lawyer, what field definitely more Latino attorneys that could A. Compassionate cause … she still faces a lot of discrimination. would you have entered? be in private practice. It would never hurt to A. I’d be a chef. My kitchen has about 80 have more attorneys of color. Q. What is your favorite movie and why? Q. What is the best piece of professional ad- cookbooks, from every cuisine you can A.“My Cousin Vinny,” because he’s outside vice you ever received? think of. Q. What talent would you most like to have? the box as an attorney Vikas S. Dhar

POSITION: Partner, Dhar Law, Boston AGE: 35 LAW SCHOOL: Southern Illinois University School of Law BAR ADMISSION: 2003

Q. What do you consider your biggest firm to advocate for clients with the same achievement as a lawyer to date? intensity A. Co-founding a dynamic Boston firm with my brother, Vilas, that encourages lawyers to Q. What was your least favorite class in law be experts in their fields and generalists in school? their pro bono practices A. If I had one hour to live, I’d go and sit in another Uniform Commercial Code class, Q. What professional goal are you striving for? because it felt like an eternity. A. Building a firm of 50-plus lawyers in the next three to five years and maintaining our commit- Q. If you hadn’t become a lawyer, what field ment to community lawyering as we grow. would you have entered? A. I would have become a chef. I love food — Q. What’s the most satisfying case or matter cooking it, and then eating it. you’ve worked on so far? A. Representing a woman from Gambia Q. If you could meet any famous lawyer in who was a victim of sexual violence, in a pro history, who would it be? bono capacity, and winning her asylum in A. I’ve always been fascinated by the evolu- the United States tion of civil rights in the United States. I would like to sit down with the judges and Q. What is the best piece of professional ad- attorneys involved in Brown v. Board of Edu- piece of the existing stereotype every time A. My 14-month-old twins, Aryana and Shaan vice you ever received? cation to understand not just the rational ar- we succeed. A. Take your work seriously, but don’t take guments, but the passions involved. Q. What word best describes you? yourself seriously. Great advice, I always Q. What talent would you most like to have? A. Passionate thought. Q. What’s the biggest challenge of being a A. I would love to have a professional singing lawyer? voice, but I think I can sing pretty well. Q. What is your favorite movie and why? Q. What do you consider your biggest profes- A. As my brother, Vilas, and I have built a A. “True Colors” with John Cusack and sional accomplishment? practice based on passion, it’s hard to face a Q. What is the trait you most dislike in yourself? James Spader. It’s a political drama with two A. Bringing some of the values of hard work social construct that lawyers are just out to A. I think I’m a bit of a workaholic. My wife guys who have two totally different ap- and perseverance that I learned doing man- bill high rates. We believe strongly in be- would agree. proaches to life and lawyering, and they’re ual work as a kid in the Midwest, like de-tas- coming a real part of our clients’ lives and both justified in how they think and what seling corn, in order to motivate our entire businesses, and we feel like we break down a Q. What is your most treasured possession? they do.

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Steven E. iGagne

POSITION: First assistant district attorney, Northwestern District Attorney’s Office, Northampton and Greenfield AGE: 38 LAW SCHOOL: George Washington University Law School BAR ADMISSION: 2002

Q. What do you consider your biggest indigent persons charged mostly with misde- achievement as a lawyer to date? meanors. Even though we work on “opposing A. I consider it a great achievement anytime sides” of the criminal justice system, Ed’s exam- I am able to deliver some sense of justice to ple continues to remind me that we all share the victims of crime. The size or nature of common ground in seeking just outcomes in the case makes little difference to me. the cases we handle, and that there is no such thing as “winning at all costs.” We continue to Q. What professional goal are you striving for? stay in touch and do our best to keep the Irish A. I could serve the rest of my legal career bars in D.C. in business whenever I visit. doing exactly what I am doing right now and consider my professional goals to be Q. What is the best piece of professional ad- met. Having said that, I am always looking vice you ever received? for ways to improve my own skills and abili- A. Ghandi’s statement that “The truth never damages a cause that is just.” ties as a prosecutor, as well as those of the CONTRIBUTED PHOTO people with whom I work. Q. What do you consider your biggest profes- Q. What’s the biggest challenge of being a Q. What is the trait you most dislike in yourself? Q. What’s the most satisfying case or matter sional accomplishment? lawyer? A. Procrastination you’ve worked on so far? A. Handling and resolving criminal cases A. Not sinking down to the lowest common A. The first homicide case I ever handled in- against the six students charged in connec- denominator. Treating opposing lawyers Q. What is your most treasured possession? volved a 19-year-old woman who was at- tion with the 2010 bullying and suicide of with respect, even when it’s not A. Anything my 4-year-old son makes for me tacked by two women of similar age and South Hadley High School freshman reciprocated. stabbed to death in Fall River in 2005. My Phoebe Prince Q. What’s one thing about you that might sur- experience in prosecuting that case, and de- Q. Have you ever considered starting your prise people? veloping a relationship with her family, is Q. What was your least favorite class in law own practice? something I will always hold near and dear. school? A. I consider myself an introvert. A. Property law. I still don’t know what the A. I have no intention of [entering] private Q. Who was your most important mentor, and rule against perpetuities is, nor have I ever practice, not unless they’d let me keep prose- Q. What is your dream vacation? how has that person impacted your career? met a fertile octogenarian. cuting. A. I already did it. In the summer of 1998, I A. Ed Shacklee was the director of the Law Stu- drove cross-country with my youngest dents in Court in Washington, D.C., when I at- Q. If you hadn’t become a lawyer, what field Q. What talent would you most like to have? brother. We covered 35 states in 35 days, tended GW Law School. Through that pro- would you have entered? A. I wish I could remember people’s names 13,000 miles, one flat tire. Priceless memo- gram, and with his guidance and mentorship, I A. If not law, probably politics in some form better and stop reintroducing myself to peo- ries. We are almost ready to start speaking to got hands-on experience in court representing or fashion ple I’ve met multiple times. each other again. Daniel K. Gelb

POSITION: Partner, Gelb & Gelb, Boston AGE: 35 LAW SCHOOL: Boston College Law School BAR ADMISSION: 2004

Q. What do you consider your biggest Q. What is the best piece of professional ad- achievement as a lawyer to date? vice you ever received? A. Continuing to build on the practice that A. Practice law not only ethically, but also my parents started in 1987 and co-authoring aspirationally. a book with my father for MCLE Q. What was your least favorite class in law Q. What professional goal are you striving for? school? A. I want to perpetuate our firm’s strong repu- A. Property tation and brand, while at the same time making it a priority to be a productive contributor Q. If you hadn’t become a lawyer, what field and member of the legal community. would you have entered? A. Journalism or teaching. I love to write. Q. What’s the most satisfying case or matter you’ve worked on so far? Q. If you could meet any famous lawyer in is not all about work. It’s about balance, and I Q. What is your greatest fear? A. Almost all the cases I have worked on, re- history, who would it be? am working on getting better at remember- gardless of their outcomes, have had some A. Louis Nizer, Clarence Darrow, Edward A. Losing sight of the importance of a working to calibrate the scale more often. meaning for me in different ways. But the Bennett Williams and Justice Louis Brandeis life balance, because otherwise you’ll not ones that have the most satisfying results are only drive yourself crazy, but you’ll drive Q. What is your most treasured possession? those that have enabled clients to confront Q. What’s the biggest challenge of being a lawyer? your family crazy, too whatever challenges they’re facing and move A. There are very few professions where A. I treasure my family most. I have an amazing wife and 3-year-old twin daughters on in a positive way, so the experience gives everyone involved invests a tremendous Q. What word best describes you? them a sense of closure. amount of resources, both tangible and in- who mean everything to me. A. Collaborative tangible, whether it’s money or emotion or Q. Who was your most important mentor, and time, into a process that is in a lot of ways ex- Q. What’s one thing about you that might sur- how has that person impacted your career? tremely unpredictable and never guaranteed. prise people? Q. What is your favorite movie and why? A. My parents, who are now also my law A. I run off-road trail races and have also A. “Caddyshack.” When you spend most of Q. What talent would you most like to have? partners. They strongly encouraged me to run up a couple of skyscrapers. your days — and a lot of your nights — rep- pursue my own career direction and inter- A. To be in two places at once resenting people whose liberty, reputation, ests outside the firm before even consider- Q. What is your dream vacation? life savings or careers are hanging in the bal- ing working with them. I did and it has Q. What is the trait you most dislike in yourself? A. My wife and I went to Costa Rica for our ance, movies like “Caddyshack” help to light- made all the difference. A. I have a tough time remembering that life honeymoon, and I’d love to go back again. en things up.

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Lawyers Up Coming Cynthia M. Gilbert i

POSITION: Founder and patent attorney, Hyperion Law, Cambridge AGE: 33 LAW SCHOOL: Suffolk University Law School BAR ADMISSION: 2004

Q. What do you consider your biggest lem and say, “It’s so annoying.” Inventors go achievement as a lawyer to date? the extra step and say, “I’m going to do A. Accomplishing what has been a lifelong something about it.” goal of building a successful legal career and sustaining that career during uncertain eco- Q. What do you consider your biggest profes- nomic times is a huge accomplishment for me. sional accomplishment? A. Successfully managing a career at Verizon Q. What professional goal are you striving for? Laboratories and attending Suffolk Universi- A. My mission is to enable others to actual- ty Law School in the evening program. Bal- ize their world-changing insights and I ancing two rigorous schedules to navigate a would love to build a law career that stays technology career, gaining the important true to that mission. I believe very strongly business skills I gained there and being able and passionately in doing outstanding work to transition to a job at a nationally recog- for clients I believe in and cultivating educa- nized law firm — and marry the technology tion, demystification of the law and compas- and the law together in a meaningful way — sion, so creating a career that stays true to is a huge accomplishment. A. I was a technologist and worked in net- A. I would love to be able to travel through the those goals is foremost in my mind. work security and architecture design for French countryside, experience the food and Q. What was your least favorite class in law next-generation networks in the telecommu- the culture and certainly the wines and vine- Q. What’s the most satisfying case or matter school? nications industry, so I would probably have yards, and really get to know the people. The you’ve worked on so far? A. Law school for me was an exciting oppor- kept that career. Sometimes I think it would last time I went to Paris, I was able to get by in tunity to study all these different areas of the be fun to retire and be an astrophysicist. the city, but my French is not yet good enough A. I have two kinds of clients I really appre- that I could just wander through the country- ciate working with. The first kind is develop- law that you don’t think about in your daily life. What is the genesis of property law? Q. If you could meet any famous lawyer in side speaking with people in little villages. ing software and computer technology that history, who would it be? That would be a dreamy vacation for me. is going impact people’s lives for the better How is it when we write contracts that we think about them in this way? To be able to A. Abraham Lincoln and really do something toward saving the Q. What word best describes you? world. The second kind of client I love is just dig in to some of these key aspects of every- the kind of client that makes life fun. My day life that people, for the most part, don’t Q. What’s the biggest challenge of being a lawyer? A. Vivacious clients may not be curing cancer, but they have to think about, because lawyers are A. Translating the nuance and the sophisti- are creating some really enjoyable experi- there to think about it for them, was such an cated thinking and the details that are so im- Q. What is your favorite movie and why? ences for people and finding ways to make interesting experience. portant to us as lawyers into something that A. “The Fifth Element.” It’s got excitement life more interesting, more efficient, more our clients can understand and appreciate. and technology and scientific future and technologically cool. They’re extremely cre- Q. If you hadn’t become a lawyer, what field bombs and explosions and action, but at the ative people. A lot of people look at a prob- would you have entered? Q. What is your dream vacation? heart, it’s really a love story. Rebecca A. Jacobstein

POSITION: Owner, Office of Appellate Advocacy, Watertown AGE: 36 LAW SCHOOL: Harvard Law School BAR ADMISSION: 2001

Q. What do you consider your biggest A. I’ve moved around a lot because I started achievement as a lawyer to date? out in New York, and then went to New A. Because all I’ve done is indigent defense, Hampshire, and then came here, so I’ve had any time where I have been able to get mean- different mentors in different places, and I ingful relief to my client I have found that to feel very fortunate about that. I think it’s re- be my greatest professional achievement, be- ally important to have mentors at each step cause that’s what I do, and if I can’t do that, of the process. then what am I doing? So even though not one particular case stands out, it’s helped Q. What is the best piece of professional ad- them. It’s been meaningful to them and that’s vice you ever received? what makes it more meaningful to me. A. Less is more when writing a brief. Q. What’s the most satisfying case or matter you’ve worked on so far? Q. What was your least favorite class in law school? Q. What’s the biggest challenge of being a with a city I’d want to go to and surrounding A. Different cases have been satisfying to me lawyer? countrysides I’d want to see. A dream vaca- for different reasons. When I have had cases A. I really did not dislike any of my classes A. Right now I work by myself, so the tion for me would not be sitting on a beach. where I have gotten people out of jail, that’s per se. I have to say that once I had decided biggest challenge for me is I don’t have any- very satisfying. In Commonwealth v. Clarke, on the direction I wanted to go, things like one to bounce ideas off of. Q. What is your greatest fear? which the Commonwealth took to the contracts did not really capture my interest. A. As a lawyer, my biggest fear is missing Supreme Judicial Court, my argument was Q. What talent would you most like to have? something. two-pronged. It was that [my client] had in- Q. If you hadn’t become a lawyer, what field voked his right to remain silent under the fed- would you have entered? A. I would be more artistic and creative. Also, I always wished I knew sign language. Q. What word best describes you? eral Constitution and even if he hadn’t invoked A. I would have been an urban planner. his right under the federal Constitution, he had A. One of my colleagues once told me that I Q. What is your most treasured possession? greater rights under the Massachusetts Consti- have an ever-present sense of outrage. She Q. If you could meet any famous lawyer in tution, so his statement should be suppressed. A. Certainly, what I most treasure is my said she was going to miss it. history, who would it be? The Supreme Judicial Court agreed that under family. What I take with me everywhere I go, the Massachusetts Constitution, he had in- A. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood because I’ve moved a lot, is I’ve taken my Q. What is your favorite movie and why? voked his rights just by shaking his head. Marshall. It just seems like when he worked books. I haven’t read them all, but I will. A. I love “The Princess Bride.” I think the and when he ruled that he worked and ruled reason I love that movie and any other Q. Who was your most important mentor, and for the greater good. He would be an inter- Q. What is your dream vacation? movie I also love is because the underdog how has that person impacted your career? esting and smart person to talk to. A. It would be a long vacation, to a place wins, and I root for the underdog.

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Lawyers Up Coming

Joseph P. iKennedy III

POSITION: Congressional candidate, 4th Congressional District AGE: 31 LAW SCHOOL: Harvard Law School BAR ADMISSION: 2009

Q. What do you consider your biggest Q. What professional goal are you striving for? achievement as a lawyer to date? A. I am running for Congress in the 4th Dis- A. It’s hard to point to just one. When I was trict of Massachusetts. So far, I am humbled in the District Attorney’s Office, I dealt pri- by all the support I have received and look marily with domestic violence, assault and forward to continuing to get out there and drug offenses. They were incredibly tough talk to voters about what’s on their minds. but rewarding cases. Whether it was an abu- sive parent or spouse destroying the life of a Q. What is the best piece of professional ad- loved one, or a drug dealer threatening a vice you ever received? community, it was a real look at the protec- A. Work hard, keep your head down and the tions the law can offer the vulnerable in our rest will work itself out. For me, it’s not just society and how it can rescue people in dire good advice that I’ve tried to remember circumstances. throughout my career, but it’s the principle Another issue that stands out to me is that this country was founded on. AP PHOTO/STEVEN SENNE from the time I spent at Legal Aid in law school, where I worked for tenants who Q. What do you consider your biggest profes- minican Republic in the Peace Corps. I Q. If you could meet any famous lawyer in were getting evicted from their homes. You sional accomplishment? worked with a group of tour guides to turn history, who would it be? would get people who would buy up proper- the work they were doing into a sustainable A. Being able to advocate for the people of A. Abraham Lincoln or Robert Kennedy ty in cities like Dorchester. They’d buy a business model. I helped put in place a gov- Massachusetts, as an assistant district attorney, triple-decker with a low interest rate and erning structure that fairly compensated lo- has been one of the most meaningful experi- Q. What’s the biggest challenge of being a rent those levels to three families. When that cal guides for their work, allowed them con- lawyer? ences for me. When you write a brief or sub- trol of the park and established a fund that interest rate went up and they couldn’t pay A. Understanding that each case is a prob- mit something to the court, the first words you reinvested profits from the park into educa- their mortgage, the bank would foreclose. lem to solve, not just a person to prosecute. write are “Now comes the Commonwealth of tion, infrastructure and recreation projects But instead of just foreclosing on that one In every case, the victims and the defendants Massachusetts …” Every now and then I throughout their community. That experi- guy, all three families were forced out of have a story to tell. And you have to under- would stop and read that and realize what an ence taught me a lot about the difference a their homes, even if they had been paying stand that story if you are going to find a fair honor it was to be representing the people of job can make in an individual’s life, and the their rent. So we would help those families and just resolution. Sometimes that means this state in my day-to-day work. difference one business can make for an en- keep a roof over their head and keep food trying the case or sending that person to jail. tire community. It was incredibly inspiring, on their table while they tried to find anoth- But sometimes it’s helping someone find the Q. If you hadn’t become a lawyer, what field and if I hadn’t entered the legal world, I er place to live. I’m proud of that work be- assistance they need within our system to would you have entered? would have liked to do more economic de- cause it gave me a chance to fight for people get back on their feet. our system often overlooks. A. After college, I spent two years in the Do- velopment work.

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Lawyers Up Coming

Adam J. Kessel i

POSITION: Principal, Fish & Richardson, Boston AGE: 35 LAW SCHOOL: Northeastern University School of Law BAR ADMISSION: 2004

Q. What do you consider your biggest A. Never underestimate your adversary. achievement as a lawyer to date? A. I would say all of the pro bono work that Q. What do you consider your biggest profes- I’ve done over the last eight years, in particu- sional accomplishment? lar the cases that have involved technology A. I successfully defended a high-stakes soft- and civil liberties and that have allowed me ware copyright case and argued at the Dis- to bring my particular technical and legal trict Court and the 1st Circuit Court of Ap- background to bear on important public in- peals, resulting in a complete victory for my terest issues client against a nine-figure damages claim. Sometimes you’re lucky when the other side Q. What professional goal are you striving for? makes an outrageously large claim. Then A. I’d like to continue to focus my practice when you win, it feels pretty good. on interesting and novel issues, particularly involving software and the Internet. Q. If you hadn’t become a lawyer, what field would you have entered? Q. What’s the most satisfying case or matter Q. What talent would you most like to have? kid. I went to circus camp in Connecticut you’ve worked on so far? A. I always thought I’d be a scientist. I ma- and I learned to juggle flaming torches. jored in chemistry. I like learning about it A. I’m somewhat of a musician, but I’d like A. I represented an undergraduate who more than doing it, and practicing IP law to play more instruments and more types of was improperly targeted with a search Q. What is your dream vacation? you get to learn a lot without having to music. I play mainly piano and guitar, a little warrant on a supposed computer-hacking bit of banjo. A. A vacation to a foreign country, someplace spend years in a laboratory. crime. The police came into his dorm I’ve never been, and somehow managing to room and seized every bit of equipment Q. not check email for several days in a row Q. What’s the biggest challenge of being a What is your most treasured possession? he had — cell phone, laptop, all of his lawyer? A. Probably the possession I enjoy using the storage devices, every last thing. The de- Q. What word best describes you? A. Balance is very difficult. Particularly with most is my bicycle. I actually ride a recum- gree of invasiveness if somebody were to bent bike to work somewhat frequently. I A. Tenacious take all of your digital storage is enor- litigation, there’s kind of an arms race as- pect to it, and you’re never done. You never have one they don’t make anymore — a Bur- mous. I successfully argued that there ley Limbo. Q. What is your favorite movie and why? was no basis for the search warrant. We just say, “OK, I’ve finished everything that’s took that case up to the Supreme Judicial on my plate so I’ll go home and see my kids A. The Terry Gilliam film “Brazil,” and “Nos- Q. What’s one thing about you that might sur- Court and won. now because I don’t have any more work.” talghia,” directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. It’s hard to balance, particularly in an adver- prise people? They’re very different from each other, but Q. What is the best piece of professional ad- sarial setting, something that could take in- A. I juggled flaming torches in a circus as a they both get at central elements of the hu- vice you ever received? finite attention. child. I was into a lot of different things as a man condition.

John B. Koss

POSITION: Associate, Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, Boston AGE: 31 LAW SCHOOL: Boston University School of Law BAR ADMISSION: 2005

Q. What professional goal are you striving for? Q. What do you consider your biggest profes- A. Since I came to Mintz Levin, I have sional accomplishment? worked with the best people on the best cas- A. When I started at Mintz Levin, we had a es. I’ve had a blast. I’ve learned a ton. Work is lot of knowledge in e-discovery, but it wasn’t tough, the hours are grueling, but it works centralized and we didn’t have a systematic for me. I love it here, so my goal is to stay approach. One of the partners asked me to here as long as they will let me — or to be figure it out. About the same time, federal chief justice of the Supreme Court. rules were revised to address electronic ma- Whichever comes first. terials, so I jumped into that case and learned a lot about it. I ultimately helped to Q. What’s the most satisfying case or matter you’ve worked on so far? establish our e-discovery practice group. It’s challenging work because it’s always chang- A. Recently, another associate and I took what ing. There are so many places you can go Q. If you could meet any famous lawyer in Q. What talent would you most like to have? we had learned from our cases and used that and so many pitfalls. I’ve been proud of the history, who would it be? knowledge to advise domestic violence coun- A. I want to be able to see into the future. fact that I was able to help initiate this group, seling centers on best practices of information A. U.S. Supreme Court Justice William J. governance, record-keeping, confidentiality. It and today I think we do a great job with it. Brennan Q. What is the trait you most dislike in yourself? was satisfying because I was taking what I A. I think with every litigator it’s hard to say, learned in my practice and using that knowl- Q. What was your least favorite class in law Q. What’s the biggest challenge of being a lawyer? “We’re done with this.” It’s hard to put down edge with our pro bono clients. So we helped school? A. As litigators, we are at the intersection of an the pen, to put down the paper, to say, “This centers that help others. A. I hate to say it, but evidence. argument. The hardest part about being a is complete; this is good to go.” I wish I lawyer is to work those relationships and fig- sometimes had a better ability to just let it Q. Who was your most important mentor, and Q. If you hadn’t become a lawyer, what field ure out a way to come to some middle ground. go, feel confident and submit it. how has that person impacted your career? would you have entered? It’s a delicate dance. When you’re in a groove A. Sue Finegan at my firm. She is the com- with your opposing counsel, it’s great. But un- A. Q. What is your most treasured possession? plete package — an amazing parent, an At the time I decided to go to law school, fortunately, that’s not always how it goes. A lot A. My passport amazing partner, an amazing attorney, an I was working at a news service. My part- of times, the interpersonal relationships with amazing member of the community. Yet she time job was getting paid a penny a word for the attorneys and the adversaries can make an Q. is the most humble and approachable per- a local Chicago newspaper. I think journal- otherwise not-so-difficult dispute kind of ex- What is your dream vacation? son. If there is ever a question I have, she is ism was really exciting, and it was certainly plode. So the most difficult thing for me is fig- A. I have always wanted to hike the Inca Trail there to help, and the advice she gives is fun, so had I not done law school, I probably uring out a way to best effectuate whatever to Machu Picchu — or any weekend vacation spot-on every time. would have done that. outcome makes sense for our client. where I don’t check my BlackBerry once.

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Lawyers Up Coming

Stephen M.i LaRose

POSITION: Partner, Nixon Peabody, Boston AGE: 41 LAW SCHOOL: George Washington University School of Law BAR ADMISSION: 2002

Q. What do you consider your biggest A. Before I worked here, I worked as an aide to achievement as a lawyer to date? Congressman Joseph Moakley. He was a A. Being elected as a partner was a great ac- tremendous mentor to me. He was in govern- complishment. The other thing is getting ment for all the right reasons. He passed away outstanding results for clients. A lot of times in 2001 and as I look back on him, my best success is understanding what the client is re- recollection is that he just got the most satis- ally looking for and getting that result, so a faction in his work in helping people. He was victory may be in many different forms. You in office for more than 25 years, but he never have to understand what the client needs you had a power-hungry attitude. He got excited to do and how to get to that result, whether about helping the elderly lady down the street it’s winning on summary judgment or win- who was having trouble with her electric bill. ning at trial. Some people say, “We need to get This was a guy that would literally have the this project done well before you could win a president call him on the phone and tell him, trial, so we need to get an end result by X “I need you to help me in the Congress,” but he date.” Every time I hear clients say, “That was didn’t care about that. He would tell us, “I just a great job. As a result, we’re able to do what talked to so-and-so at the power company and Mrs. O’Leary’s lights are going to stay on.” One we need to do in our business now,” that’s the Q. What’s the biggest challenge of being a Q. What is your dream vacation? of the things I learned from him is just how to most satisfying thing you can get. lawyer? deal with people. He treated everybody with A. Sicily and other parts of Southern Italy A. Juggling the schedule, because things are Q. What professional goal are you striving for? respect and I think he got that respect back because of that. I try to act in a similar way. driven by the court’s schedule and the Q. What is your favorite movie and why? A. Being recognized as a go-to person in a clients’ schedules. A. “The Shawshank Redemption.” I’ve particular area, so that when clients have a Q. If you hadn’t become a lawyer, what field problem in this area I’m thought of as one seen it so many times. The first time I saw would you have entered? Q. What talent would you most like to have? of those people that can resolve the prob- it, I didn’t know that he was burrowing A. I’d like to be able to play the piano. I keep lem for them. Over the years, I’ve been A. Architecture. I have no experience in it, but that hole in the wall. Then I realized he’s telling my son, because I didn’t take music working to develop a niche area in disputes that might have been something I would have out of the jail and he did it and he tricked that seriously as a kid, that it’s something I that arise out of certain types of private in- enjoyed. What I really like are old homes. everybody. I like the way the story was wish I had done. vestment funds. presented, where it’s almost like the circle Q. If you could meet any famous lawyer in of life story. The friendship between Andy Q. What is the trait you most dislike in yourself? Q. Who was your most important mentor, and history, who would it be? and Red — how they built that friendship how has that person impacted your career? A. John Adams A. I probably overthink things. was just really well done.

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Lawyers Up Coming Katharine L. Milton i

POSITION: Attorney, Casa Myrna Vasquez, Boston AGE: 34 LAW SCHOOL: Suffolk University Law School BAR ADMISSION: 2007

Q. What professional goal are you striving for? to represent themselves, that is a great accom- A. To continue working in the legal profession plishment. For one woman, I was able to ex- using the law as a tool for social advocacy plain to her what was going on so she could present her information to the judge. She rep- Q. What’s the most satisfying case or matter resented herself and was really proud of her- you’ve worked on so far? self. I think people sometimes think that the law is above them, but it’s really about them. A. Helping a mother obtain legal custody of her child, who needed an organ transplant, Q. What was your least favorite class in law when the father threatened to withhold con- school? sent for the surgery A. Corporations. I learned a lot, but I very of- Q. Who was your most important mentor, and ten had no idea what we were talking about. how has that person impacted your career? Q. If you hadn’t become a lawyer, what field A. I see all other attorneys as potential men- would you have entered? tors and I take note of the way they ap- is natural for them to become emotional Q. What is your most treasured possession? A. I would love to be a travel writer. proach all aspects of their work, whether it’s when talking about them. Working with A. With longer and warmer spring days drafting a legal memo, counseling a client, people in crisis is a real challenge and I do upon us, I would have to say my back porch. supervising a law student or explaining their Q. If you could meet any famous lawyer in my best to support them. Sometimes, I have history, who would it be? work to others. I am lucky to be working learned, you have to take a break from the Q. What’s one thing about you that might sur- with my current supervisor, Janet Donovan, A. Belva Ann Lockwood, who was the first law to help people process what is happen- prise people? who has taught me much about all of those female lawyer to be admitted to practice being. This is a dimension of lawyering that is A. I take classes in ballet. things during my time at Casa Myrna. fore the U.S. Supreme Court. She was also not taught in law school. I work really hard the first woman to run for president. And, at trying to explain what’s happening, taking Q. What is your dream vacation? Q. What is the best piece of professional ad- like me, she liked to ride her bike to work. complicated legal terms and putting them vice you ever received? into real-life terms about how this or that A. I have wanted to travel to Cuba ever since I A. Strive to be the most prepared person in Q. What’s the biggest challenge of being a will affect their daily lives. learned I was forbidden to travel there. The the room. lawyer? ideal trip would include a tour with some lo- Q. What talent would you most like to have? A. As a legal services attorney, I work direct- cals, several cultural events, nights out dancing Q. What do you consider your biggest profes- ly with people on very personal matters such A. I would love to play an instrument. to a live band and days lounging on the beach. sional accomplishment? as their homes, families, employment or lack A. We can’t represent everyone, but if I can of employment, putting food on the table. Q. What is the trait you most dislike in yourself? Q. What word best describes you? speak to somebody and explain to them how These are intimate details of their lives and it A. I doubt everything I do. A. Resourceful

Keith A. Pabian

POSITION: Associate and immigration practice leader, Hirsch, Roberts, Weinstein, Boston AGE: 29 LAW SCHOOL: Villanova University School of Law BAR ADMISSION: 2008

Q. What do you consider your biggest adopted a kid from Canada and he was achievement as a lawyer to date? about to turn 21. In the immigration world, A. I’d say being able to build such a large 21 is a big deal because once you turn 21, national immigration practice that has a your parents can no longer sponsor you for special team sports emphasis. I have about a green card. I flew to Anchorage for the 60 teams across North America, so being green card interview. He got the green card able to build that in a short period of time and has a future here now. It was definitely a has been great. For leagues and teams, I lot of work. There were a lot of times I help them get visas approved for their ath- wasn’t sure if it would work out. letes, which allows them to bring in inter- national players and get them in the coun- Q. Who was your most important mentor, and try and playing very quickly. I also work how has that person impacted your career? with athletes to help them stay here after- A. There’s a lawyer in Philadelphia, John ward. I’ve also done some work with a film Vandenberg. Before I became a lawyer, I agency. worked for him as a paralegal and a law clerk. He’s been helpful along the way in Q. What professional goal are you striving for? terms of practice advice and career advice. A. To be thought of as one of the premier At my firm, I lead the immigration practice immigration lawyers in the field nationally, and he got me to a place where I could do especially in sports and entertainment that. He’s been amazing in terms of teaching me how the law works, how to work with Q. What’s the most satisfying case or matter government and administrative agencies, Q. What’s the biggest challenge of being a could relate to some of my clients a bit more. you’ve worked on so far? and also just how to run a good practice. lawyer? Q. What is the trait you most dislike in yourself? A. We got contacted by a soccer team the A. Dealing with so many things coming at Q. What is the best piece of professional ad- me simultaneously. I’m leading a practice, so A. I could be more patient. morning of the game. Usually I tell teams to vice you ever received? at least give us 24 hours to get the guy on the my biggest challenge is keeping up with the Q. What is your most treasured possession? field. We were able to courier the petition, A. Make sure I do a good job in everything volume of all the clients, while being there and the player was approved in time for the that I do for my colleagues and for my support staff, A. My son, who is a year and a half game that night. He scored five goals, in- and balancing that with my family. cluding the game winner, so that was a fun Q. What was your least favorite class in law Q. What is your dream vacation? one. I also worked on a case for a same-sex school? Q. What talent would you most like to have? A. To take my family to meet a family in China couple from Anchorage, Alaska. They had A. Tax A. I wish I could play soccer better so I that I became very close to when I studied abroad

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Jason S. Pinneyi

POSITION: Counsel, Bingham McCutchen, Boston AGE: 36 LAW SCHOOL: Boston College Law School BAR ADMISSION: 2003

Q. What do you consider your biggest I’ve learned a lot from watching him juggle all achievement as a lawyer to date? the things you need to juggle to get the best A. Representing, pro bono, 12 of 22 Uighurs results for your client. You’ve got to know from the western part of China who were im- what to focus on and when to focus on it. prisoned at Guantanamo Bay. The Uighurs are in the same boat as the Tibetans. China took Q. What is the best piece of professional ad- over their homeland about 60 years ago and vice you ever received? they’re struggling with social, religious and po- A. To take charge of your own career. You litical freedom. It turned into a real political can sit back and wait for people to give you mess because the United States couldn’t send assignments, or you can be proactive, trying them back to China, and no one wanted to to work with people you want to work with take them because they didn’t want to anger and get on cases you want to be on and China and disrupt trade relations. make things happen. Because our clients were found to be non- enemy combatants, we got an order from a Q. What do you consider your biggest profes- federal judge releasing them from Guan- sional accomplishment? tanamo and we were able to get them reset- A. In addition to the Guantanamo cases, I’ve tled peacefully around the world. They spent been able to work as pro bono general coun- the better part of 10 years at Guantanamo sel for organizations that mean a lot to me, A. John Adams. I’ve always looked up to John built like a barn with wide-open spaces and a while things were worked out. like MetroLacrosse. It’s taught me a lot and it Adams for his representation of the British, big chimney in the middle. You can see straight In six or seven years working on those cas- feels good to help a great organization. prior to the Revolution War. It was not a polit- up to the third floor if you stand on either end. es, I argued in federal court, visited Guan- ically popular move at the time, but he under- Kids love that for paper airplane competitions. tanamo several times, spoke before the UN Q. If you hadn’t become a lawyer, what field stood that the country works better when and testified before Congress. The coolest would you have entered? everybody has solid representation. Q. What is your dream vacation? part was seeing the whole system work, from A. I would love to have been a farmer. My A. You could put me down for the Seychelles Q. What talent would you most like to have? the judicial piece to the legislative piece to the family has a big farm in Connecticut and I or New Zealand. media piece to the executive piece. You see live outside of the city now in a rural area. I A. I’d like to be a storyteller, somebody that them all swirling together and you try to do my best to pretend to be a farmer. In par- can get up and easily tell a good story and Q. What is your greatest fear? press all the right buttons for your client. ticular, I would run an orchard. I have about persuade people. For me, it’s more about A. I don’t like to lose, so when it’s a pretrial 45 apple trees in my yard. hard work and preparation. situation, that intensity — which I like — is Q. Who was your most important mentor, and generated in part by not wanting to lose, a how has that person impacted your career? Q. If you could meet any famous lawyer in Q. What is your most treasured possession? fear of failure. That definitely motivates me A. David Boch, a senior attorney at my firm. history, who would it be? A. My house — a post-and-beam house that’s and keeps me going. Noah C. Shaw

POSITION: Associate, Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, Boston AGE: 35 LAW SCHOOL: Northeastern University School of Law BAR ADMISSION: 2002

Q. What do you consider your biggest Q. What is the best piece of professional ad- achievement as a lawyer to date? vice you ever received? A. Negotiating a $132 million settlement A. You don’t want to let other people define that enabled Hurricane Katrina victims in you, but if somebody says, “Noah, you’re capa- Mississippi to receive emergency housing ble of doing this; we want you to step up to the funds to which they were entitled. We sued plate and do X,” don’t let your own insecurities the Department of Housing and Urban De- or lack of confidence get in the way of that. velopment for allowing Mississippi to repro- You need to trust that other people are assess- gram millions of dollars of emergency housing your abilities probably better than you are. ing relief to rebuild the Port of Gulfport. The port had been a longstanding project of Q. If you hadn’t become a lawyer, what field the governor, and he decided this was a would you have entered? good opportunity to cherry-pick funds. A. I would have been a whitewater rafting We got everything we wanted for approxi- guide. I was working on the Middle Fork of the mately 20,000 mostly African-American, low- Salmon River of Idaho in the summer of 1998, income storm victims who hadn’t received any always trying to learn a whole new way of prise people? and I had a choice to either finish up the season federal assistance. That was an amazing practicing law. and go to Costa Rica to work on the river, or A. I love New Wave music from the 1980s. achievement and something the firm let me come back here and apply to law school. run from a strategic level. Not getting the relief Q. What talent would you most like to have? Q. What is your dream vacation? they needed after the storm was a nail in the Q. If you could meet any famous lawyer in A. I’d like to be able to sing. I’m really bad at it. A. Rafting in Chile on the Futaleufu River, coffin for a lot of those neighborhoods. This history, who would it be? coupled with a week of fishing and hanging $132 million will go a long way to bring at Q. What is your most treasured possession? out at some fancy lodge in the mountains least a portion of them back to life. A. Abraham Lincoln A. Before my grandfather died, my wife and I Q. What professional goal are you striving for? Q. What’s the biggest challenge of being a did a 12-hour oral history with him. We sat Q. What is your greatest fear? A. Lawyers are given the knowledge of how lawyer? him down in front of a camera and had him A. Letting down my family or my family some- to navigate a process that is totally foreign to A. I’m a jack-of-all-trades kind of trial litiga- talk about his life growing up in Austria, es- how not feeling like they can depend on me most of the population but that often is de- tor, so the biggest challenge is that, for each caping the Nazis, living in India for a number cisive in terms of people’s livelihoods, busi- case, you often have to learn a whole new in- of years, going to MIT and getting drafted into Q. What word best describes you? nesses, personal lives. So a lot is put on us to dustry. You really have to understand what the U.S. Army in World War II. That recording A. Curious make sure we hold up our end of that bar- clients’ challenges are and how their busi- is probably my most treasured possession. gain. Making sure clients feel like I’m doing ness works or what’s going on in their lives. I Q. What is your favorite movie? that is one of my goals. don’t get bored, but the flip side is that you’re Q. What’s one thing about you that might sur- A.“The Godfather, Part II”

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Danielle K. Sheer i

POSITION: General counsel, Carbonite, Boston AGE: 31 LAW SCHOOL: Georgetown University Law Center BAR ADMISSION: 2007

Q. What do you consider your biggest you’re not ready to do, find an environment achievement as a lawyer to date? in which you’re very comfortable so you can A. Making the transition from private prac- find your voice, and work for someone who tice to in-house practice and learning how believes in you — because when they believe to become a trusted advisor to the business. in you, they’ll invest in you.” What’s most There is an overwhelming opportunity to important is that you’re willing to take on a learn and grow professionally. challenge, willing to ask questions, willing to listen and ultimately willing to give it a shot. Q. What’s the most satisfying case or matter you’ve worked on so far? Q. What do you consider your biggest professional accomplishment? A. The initial public offering the company went through in August 2011 was an incred- A. One of the first things I did at Carbonite ible opportunity. The process is a ton of was to start a legal internship program. We work that starts well before you end up go- offer young attorneys-to-be hands-on expe- ing public, and a large team of talented peo- rience to hopefully give them a little edge in ple contributed to making it successful. a tough legal market. I have had four interns, and I am proud to say all four have success- Q. If you could meet any famous lawyer in Q. What is your most treasured possession? Q. Who was your most important mentor, and fully secured legal employment. If I can pro- history, who would it be? A. My chocolate Lab, Reilly how has that person impacted your career? vide early opportunities for some of these young attorneys in the same way that other A. He wasn’t famous, but I’d say my great- Q. What’s one thing about you that might sur- A. One of my mentors is our CEO at Car- people have provided for me, that is and will great-grandfather. I’m the second lawyer in my prise people? bonite. He gave me the opportunity to start continue to be my biggest accomplishment. family; he was the first. He studied and lived in a legal department as Carbonite’s first gener- Boston. I even think he ran for local public of- A. My parents are musicians. My mother’s a al counsel. Something happens when you’re Q. If you hadn’t become a lawyer, what field fice. How remarkable is it that I’ve ended up in professional violinist, and my father was a keeping your head down and just working would you have entered? the same place where he lived and went to professional opera singer. hard. Before you realize it, you’ve created A. Teaching. In law school, I was part of an school, and that in a way I’m following in his Q. What is your dream vacation? something big and special, and that’s just organization called Street Law, a national footsteps? I’d like to have a chat with him. what happened here. non-profit organization that creates class- A. I want to go to the Maldives. A little hut room and community programs to teach Q. What’s the biggest challenge of being a lawyer? in the middle of the ocean, a speedboat and Q. What is the best piece of professional ad- students about law, democracy and human A. The different hats that an in-house lawyer nobody else — except for my husband — vice you ever received? rights worldwide. Some of my most special wears on a daily basis is quite a challenge. In around for miles. A. I often reflect on a quote from Marissa memories are teaching law to a great group any given day, an in-house attorney serves a Mayer, an exec at Google: “Work with the of high school students at the Maya Angelou variety of roles, and it’s important to be able Q. What word best describes you? smartest people you can find, do something Public Charter School in Washington, D.C. to shift gears quickly and appropriately. A. Warm Louis W. Tompros

POSITION: Partner, WilmerHale, Boston AGE: 33 LAW SCHOOL: Harvard Law School BAR ADMISSION: 2003

Q. What do you consider your biggest A. An incredibly satisfying case was a trial achievement as a lawyer to date? for a pro bono client referred to us through A. The win we had last year in In re Klein be- Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts. We repre- fore the federal circuit court. I represented an sented a Jamaican artist who had loaned inventor whose patent application had been some artwork to a museum. The artwork rejected by the patent office and by the Board was damaged while in the museum’s cus- of Patent Appeals. When I saw the board’s de- tody, and the museum refused to take re- cision, it was clear to me they were misapply- sponsibility. We took the case and we won. ing the law. To get a patent, you have to have an invention that is new and not obvious. The Q. Who was your most important mentor, and way the patent office decides if something is how has that person impacted your career? obvious is to look at what has been done be- A. Jack Regan is a trial lawyer and intellectu- fore in analogous areas. al property lawyer in our Boston office. I Our client had invented a mixing device have a vivid memory of sitting at the coun- for hummingbird and oriole nectar. Your ra- sel table, fresh out of law school, with Jack A. I would probably be a high school teacher A. I don’t think so. For this kind of litigation, tio of sugar and water is very important in next to me and giving me advice as to why or a college professor. The learning and it’s great to have the resources of a firm like the bird-feeding world. He invented a con- he’s doing what he’s doing. The fact that he teaching process has always been something ours. It would be tough to be doing what I’m tainer with dividers that allow you to gain the would take the time to explain, in the mo- I’ve been drawn to. doing now alone. right ratio and concoct your nectar in the ment, why we were doing what we were do- Q. right way. The patent office rejected his appli- ing was terrific. What’s the biggest challenge of being a Q. What’s one thing about you that might sur- cation not because anybody had invented a lawyer? prise people? similar bird-feeding device, they rejected it Q. What is the best piece of professional ad- A. Speaking as a litigator in high-stakes cases, A. I am a big fan of reality TV, particularly on the basis of prior pieces in different fields. vice you ever received? it is almost always possible to do more, and the competition shows like “Survivor” and Notably, one of them was a desk drawer from figuring out where to draw the line is a hard the ones that show people at their most con- the 1800s that had movable dividers. I didn’t A. It should be your goal at all times to be thing. Figuring out where to draw the line for niving. I find them absolutely fascinating. think this sounded right. I argued the appeal doing something you’re not quite comfort- your clients so you’re not costing them a for- and we won. It’s a bit of a rare thing to over- able doing and don’t quite know how to do. tune; figuring out where to draw the line per- Q. What is your favorite movie and why? turn the Board of Patent Appeals. The patent If you do one thing over and over again, you sonally to make sure you still have time for office has since changed its procedures. don’t learn. family and other things that matter. A.“Field of Dreams.” The idea that you can be so overcome with something so inspiring Q. What’s the most satisfying case or matter Q. If you hadn’t become a lawyer, what field Q. Do you see yourself striking out on your that you would be willing to just drop every- you’ve worked on so far? would you have entered? own one day? thing and run with it — I love that idea. Foley & Lardner LLP is proud to be a sponsor of the Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Excellence in the Law awards, and congratulates Danielle K. Sheer, Carbonite’s General Counsel, for being named a 2012 Up & Coming Lawyer.

Attorneys in our Emerging Technologies, Private Equity & Venture Capital, and Transactional & Securities practices were thrilled to work with Danielle during Carbonite’s successful IPO. We look forward to providing continuing support to Danielle and the Carbonite team in our role as the legal counsel for the world’s better backup plan.

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Natasha N. Varyani i

POSITION: Senior associate, McCarter & English, Boston AGE: 34 LAW SCHOOL: Suffolk University Law School BAR ADMISSION: 2003

Q. What do you consider your biggest Q. Who was your most important mentor, and achievement as a lawyer to date? how has that person impacted your career? A. I’m proud of the practice I’ve built A. Phil Olsen, a partner at my firm. I’ve through relationships and networks that worked with Phil almost since the beginning have helped me to get clients and to serve of my career. In addition to guiding me in clients well. I’m proud of the work I’ve done gaining strong knowledge of tax, he’s shown with improving the diversity of the Boston me, by example, how to work with clients and legal community with the South Asian Bar adversaries to get the best results possible. He’s Association and other organizations. also been a role model in establishing priori- ties and remembering what is most important. Q. What professional goal are you striving for? Q. A. I’d like to continue to build a practice and What do you consider your biggest professional accomplishment? to be an expert in tax, which I really love. I’d love to be able to impact tax policy. I want to A. My reputation is something I work hard on keep working on getting the Boston legal every day and everything I do, I hope, will help me build a reputation as someone who A. I come from a family of doctors, so it was do, I harbor a lot of guilt. I can do it, but I community to a much better place than it’s at sort of a departure to go to law school. They wish I could move on a little quicker. right now in terms of diversity and making can be relied on, who cares about the community and who will do the right thing always. all expected me to go into medicine. sure there’s no group that feels like it’s not Q. What is your most treasured possession? It’s not an accomplishment that I feel like I’ll completely open and welcoming to them. Q. If you could meet any famous lawyer in A. My wedding necklace. We got married in ever get to and think, “This is it. I’m done,” be- history, who would it be? the South Asian tradition. It has beads that cause it’s a constant process. But I’m proud of are supposed to signify the experiences that Q. What’s the most satisfying case or matter where I’ve come and excited to continue. A. Gandhi. He was not a lawyer in the United you’ve worked on so far? States, but he was a lawyer in India and used bind us together. I never take it off. A. I’ve been working with a team that just Q. What was your least favorite class in law his legal degree and his passion to change not Q. What is your greatest fear? only government policy, but also people’s finished litigating Kimberly-Clark Corpora- school? A. I’ve worked hard to build a reputation, so my minds about the way things should be. tion v. the Massachusetts Department of Rev- A. Criminal law never really spoke to me. It fear is that I know it can take years and years to enue.at the Appeals Court. It wasn’t a good was tough because everybody else seemed Q. What talent would you most like to have? build one, but just a few minutes for a reputa- decision for us, but I’m proud of the work to be enthralled by it, but it was never what I tion to be broken. It’s what keeps me striving to we did. Tax cases are not frequently over- wanted to do. A. I would love to be a natural athlete. do my best and to do what I think is right. turned at the appeals level. It’s an important case not only for Massachusetts, but it’s Q. If you hadn’t become a lawyer, what field Q. What is the trait you most dislike in yourself? Q. What word best describes you? something a lot of states are thinking about. would you have entered? A. It’s difficult for me to say “no,” and when I A. Adaptable

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in Diversity Wayne A. Budd i

Senior counsel Goodwin Procter, Boston

s a student in the 1960s, Wayne A. proud of my work in that firm and with Budd thought law school was a those individuals than anything else I’ve ever good foundation for a professional had the opportunity to do.” A career, but he doubted that actu- He himself went on to a number of ally being an attorney was feasible for an achievements. As U.S. attorney, Budd earned African-American. praise for his efforts to fight street crime and Two years into law school, he changed his gang violence in inner-city communities, not mind. a typical priority for an office focused on “If one says it’s difficult now, it was difficult complex, sophisticated cases. by a multiple of 10-fold for those trying to “I thought it was important that we use make a go of it in our state 50 or 60 years ago,” our presence to try to make the lives of ordi- Budd says. “There were lawyers of color and nary citizens better,” he says. some were successful, but it was very difficult.” He also was a partner at Goodwin Procter He went on not only to succeed, but to and held senior positions with John Han- make history. Budd was the nation’s first cock Financial Services and Bell Atlantic African-American to lead a state bar associa- Corp., now Verizon Communications. tion and the first in Massachusetts to serve “I’ve had a lot of opportunity to do a lot of as a U.S. attorney. different things, and I have absolutely no re- He was appointed to the U.S. Sentencing grets with any of them,” he says. “I’ve been Commission and served as an assistant at- extraordinarily fortunate.” torney general, overseeing the civil rights, Of the legal profession today, Budd, 70, environmental, tax, civil and anti-trust divi- says lawyers of color have far more opportu- sions at the U.S. Department of Justice, as nities now than when he started out, but the well as the Bureau of Prisons. playing field is still not level. As a new lawyer in 1969, though, Budd “I do believe it has improved, and frankly I “If one says it’s difficult now, it was difficult struck out on his own as a co-founder of think it has a ways to go.” Budd, Wiley & Richlin. The firm became one One key to his success has been the gen- by a multiple of 10-fold for those trying to of the largest minority-owned practices in erosity of those who have shared mentor- the Northeast, and all of its six partners went ship, advice, encouragement and support make a go of it in our state 50 or 60 years on to success as district attorneys, general along the way. That’s something he strives to ago. There were lawyers of color and some counsels, state attorney generals and part- give to the next generation. ners in major Boston firms. “I figured that the very least I can do is to were successful, but it was very difficult.” “When you think of this small firm, I take pay forward the things that were given to MLW tremendous pride in it,” Budd says. “I’m more me,” Budd says. Angela McConney Scheepers

Administrative magistrate Massachusetts Division of Administrative Law Appeals

ngela McConney Scheepers is a firm the internship program to bring in larger believer that a rising tide lifts all numbers of law students, giving them sub- boats. In the field of law, she said, stantive projects to work on and helping A everyone benefits when the profes- them gain real-world exposure to the practi- sion is inclusive and open to diverse attorneys. cal workings of the law. As a former president of the Massachu- “It’s very important that law students of setts Black Lawyers Association, McConney color can connect with a minority attorney. I Scheepers, 43, made a point of reaching out think that really makes a difference for to a variety of like-minded organizations, in- them,” McConney Scheepers says. “I see cluding the South Asian Bar Association, the [mentoring] as a real role that an attorney Massachusetts LGBTQ Bar Association, the can take to lead young people.” Massachusetts Association of Hispanic At- The students, in turn, were inspiring to work torneys and the Asian American Lawyers with: “What I found very heartening about Association of Massachusetts. these young people is they don’t find it unusual “We realized that we all had to work to- at all that the president is black. … It was amaz- gether,” she says. “Diversity isn’t just for ing watching the world through their eyes.” lawyers of color. Diversity covers women, McConney Scheepers believes the legal people with disabilities, people with different profession has come a long way when it cultural backgrounds. I see it more as engag- comes to mutual respect of diverse perspec- ing the whole bar.” tives. “Working with people of different Among other accomplishments as MBLA backgrounds helps everybody,” she says. president, McConney Scheepers worked to Before joining the Civil Service Commis- revive a gala that had not been held for many sion, McConney Scheepers spent three years years, leading to a successful revitalization in as an assistant district attorney in the Suffolk 2008. The event raises funds for the organiza- County District Attorney’s Office and three tion and honors an outstanding law student. years as chief legal counsel to the Joint Com- McConney Scheepers also has helped to mittee on Criminal Justice in the Massachu- organize the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. An- setts House of Representatives. She also nual Memorial Breakfast. worked at Western Massachusetts Legal Serv- “It’s very important that law students of color Before becoming an administrative magis- ices, where she represented low-income clients trate for the Division of Administrative Law in family law cases and handled immigration can connect with a minority attorney. I think Appeals, McConney Scheepers , a graduate matters for victims of domestic violence. of the University of Iowa College of Law, was She is a fellow of the Massachusetts Bar that really makes a difference for them.” general counsel to the Massachusetts Civil Foundation and has held several positions with MLW Service Commission. There, she expanded the Massachusetts Bar Association.

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in Diversity Catherine E. Reuben i Partner Hirsch, Roberts, Weinstein, Boston

hen Catherine E. Reuben treat employees appropriately. learned that the Massachu- Representing employers helps her advoca- setts LGBTQ Bar Association cy work, and vice versa, she says. Wwas starting a committee on “It’s not about us versus them. It’s about civ- transgender inclusion, she was grieving the il rights and fairness and justice and legal loss of a good friend, a transgender man, to compliance,” Reuben says. “I think it enhances cancer. Joining the committee seemed like a my employer-side practice because I’m cer- good way to honor his memory. tainly better able to advise my clients on these That was several years ago, and Reuben, issues. People on the employee side come to 48, has since become a strong advocate for know about my commitment to justice and the legal rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual and fair treatment, so that allows us to resolve cas- transgender people. Last year, she testified es faster and come up with solutions for before state legislators on behalf of the Mas- things like reasonable accommodation.” sachusetts Bar Association in support of In one pro bono case, Reuben represented Massachusetts’ Transgender Equal Rights a longtime restaurant employee who transi- Act, which takes effect this July. tioned from male to female, but wasn’t al- “I was very proud that I was designated to lowed to use the women’s restroom. By edu- be the one to say, ‘This is MBA’s position on cating the employer about transgender this law,’” Reuben says. issues, Reuben helped her client gain access. She also worked with the American Bar Stories like that make her work extremely Association’s Commission on Sexual Orien- satisfying, she says. tation and Gender Identity to draft a best “Once you start meeting people and start practices guide that helps law firms promote making a difference and hearing people’s LGBT diversity. stories, it becomes a passion,” Reuben says. “You have to walk the walk,” Reuben says. “I found the underlying issues interesting. “It’s not enough to just say, ‘We don’t dis- What does it mean to be male, to be female? criminate.’” These are fascinating issues that go to the Reuben, a graduate of Harvard Law core of our identity as human beings and is- “I think most people get that you’re not School, trains lawyers in LGBT advocacy, sues of civil rights and justice.” teaches in continuing legal education pro- Even better is that she actually can make supposed to fire someone because of their grams, provides pro bono representation a difference: “I think most people get that and volunteers for numerous organizations. you’re not supposed to fire someone be- race, but people who do not fit gender In her firm, where she is one of seven found- cause of their race, but people who do not ing partners, Reuben represents employers fit gender norms continue to be singled out norms continue to be singled out for in labor and employment matters and han- for discrimination and violence. That’s just discrimination and violence.” dles commercial litigation. Her focus is mak- wrong, so if I can help end that, I’m doing a ing sure employers comply with the law and good thing.” MLW Minita Shah-Mara Director of diversity and inclusion Bingham McCutchen, Boston

t Bingham McCutchen, no less than MultiCultural Law magazine named it one of 12 partners help create strategies for the Top 100 Law Firms for Diversity and for fostering a culture that is inclusive women. Four years in a row, the firm had a A of women, lawyers of color, gays perfect score on the Human Rights Cam- and lesbians, and other diverse employees. paign Foundation’s Corporate Equality Index. That’s in addition to a firm-wide Diversity Creating inclusivity in a law firm is chal- Committee composed of 31 attorneys and lenging, but rewarding, Shah-Mara says. She 28 staff members. notes that while law firms often are at the Expanding partners’ involvement in diversi- forefront of civil rights advocacy, historically ty initiatives is just one goal 33-year-old Minita they have lacked diversity, especially in the Shah-Mara has accomplished since joining the top ranks. That, in turn, can deprive minori- firm in 2008 as its first diversity manager. ty attorneys of relationship-building oppor- “Historically in diversity programming, you tunities that lead to better client access and have women talking to women, lawyers of col- career-making assignments. or talking to each other,” says Shah-Mara, who “In an industry that should be completely has an MBA and a master’s degree in social aware of these issues, concepts around diver- work. “Part of what I’ve really worked to do is sity and unconscious bias are things that are bring senior leadership into the conversation.” newer to this industry, so that is a piece of The firm has a robust set of mentorship, the challenge,” she says. recruitment and professional development Her goal has been to broaden the conver- programs, including a new initiative to re-in- sation by encouraging employees to talk tegrate women into their practices after ma- about obstacles to diversity and strategies for ternity leaves. Bi-annual retreats for LGBT overcoming them. lawyers and attorneys of color provide op- “That takes an incredible amount of open- portunities for coaching and feedback to the ness from our senior leadership and com- firm. On a daily basis, the firm culture em- mitment from them,” Shah-Mara says. “I phasizes the importance of multiple talents. have to sometimes face associates and talk It’s more than just “the right thing to do,” through challenges, and I couldn’t do that if I Shah-Mara says. Increasingly, clients want to didn’t have faith in our leadership that we are know that the legal minds tackling their is- going to address issues in a very real way.” sues can apply a wide range of perspectives. Having set a new standard for the firm’s “Clients are recognizing that if they have a “Clients are recognizing that if they have a diversity programs, Shah-Mara plans to con- homogenous group of lawyers working on tinue refining those strategies and introduc- homogenous group of lawyers working on business or legal problems, that group is like- ing new ones. ly to leave a solution on the table,” she says. “We’re constantly looking at how to create business or legal problems, that group is The firm’s efforts are gaining attention. Last more innovative programs that are going to likely to leave a solution on the table.” year, Bingham received the General Electric make us an employer of choice for diverse National Law Firm Diversity Award, and talent,” she says. MLW

Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly • May 2012 • B21

in Pro Bono i

Hanishi T. Ali Susan M. Finegan William E. Kelly

POSITION: Founder and POSITION: Partner and pro bono POSITION: Partner, Nixon Peabody, managing attorney, Mithras committee chair, Mintz, Levin, Boston Law Group, Westborough Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, Boston William Kelly’s extensive pro bono LAW SCHOOL: University work for the AIDS Action Committee of Edinburgh, U.K. In addition to overseeing approx- of Massachusetts has included leading imately 300 pro bono matters, Su- a team that helped the organization Hanishi Ali is known for her well- through two mergers with other or- rounded commitment to a number of san Finegan holds several appoint- ments from the Supreme Judicial ganizations. Kelly’s contributions, organizations, including her pro bono from conducting due diligence to drafting new bylaws, work with Saheli, a domestic violence protection agency, Court and serves on the Judicial Nominating Commis- sion and the Commission on Judicial Conduct. Her helped AIDS Action to expand its services and set an in- her mentorship of students at Babson College, and her spiring example within his own law firm. service in key positions of the American Bar Association. own pro bono work has focused on sexual assault and domestic violence.

NOMINATED BY SHAAN K. MAJMUDAR NOMINATED BY H. JOSEPH HAMELINE NOMINATED BY STACEY B. SLATER Associate, Holland & Knight, Boston Chairman of litigation section, Mintz, Pro bono partner, Nixon Peabody, New York “What stands out about Hanishi Levin,Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & “Bill fully embraced this organiza- is the body of work with which she Popeo, Boston tion and helped it with mergers in is involved. It’s not as though she “Sue runs a large pro bono prac- 2010 and 2011. He’s really led the has done one thing here or there. tice in a way that makes it really ef- way. He got some of our other She’s a commissioner of the Massa- fective, in terms of its impact in the lawyers to help with corporate gover- chusetts Commission on the Status community and in legal representa- nance, housing advocacy, trademark of Women; she’s very involved with tion. She does it in a way that involves a lot of younger issues and a number of other services the South Asian Bar Association; she founded the associates and some partners, in doing the kinds of that our lawyers were able to provide to AIDS Action. Network of South Asian Women — these are all caus- things that we’re all committed to as lawyers. Sue brings He really has gone above and beyond, putting in time es she’s passionate about. The fact that she’s able to do people in because of her energy, commitment and sense himself and leading by example. He’s a partner in the all that and balance a successful private practice at the of humor. She’s a tremendous mentor, and she shares firm, so it’s really great when a partner steps up and ac- same time is something a lot of people would strive good common sense with folks who are trying to do tually does a lot of the work.” for, but only a few people can achieve. She recognizes complicated things. She’s done an amazing amount of that she has a unique skill set she can use to help work in all of these committees. The justices of the SJC those who really need help the most.” absolutely respect her and keep putting her on these commissions, which is a real feather in her cap. “

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B22 • Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly • May 2012

in Pro Bono i William O’Brien William L. Patton Michael N. Sheetz

POSITION: Legal counsel, Nuance POSITION: Retired partner, POSITION: Partner, Cooley, Boston Communications, Burlington Ropes & Gray, Boston LAW SCHOOL: Georgetown LAW SCHOOL: Suffolk University LAW SCHOOL: Duke University University Law Center Law School School of Law Michael Sheetz, board chair for the The 22-member board of direc- In his pro bono work for the Volun- Anti-Defamation League’s five-state tors of the Association of Corporate teer Lawyers Project, William Patton New England area, helped lead a Counsel’s Northeast chapter voted represents low-income families seek- campaign that resulted in a land- unanimously to nominate Pro Bono ing guardianship. He also has trained mark anti-bullying law being passed Chair William O’Brien. He significantly expanded the more than 50 associates to provide legal support to the or- in Massachusetts in 2010. An ADL volunteer for more organization’s mediator program, particularly by im- ganization; under his guidance, attorneys and paralegals than 20 years, Sheetz contributes his time and expertise proving training. He also started a “Clinic in a Box” have donated almost 1,300 hours. almost daily to help the organization fulfill its mission. that provides legal advice to non-profit organizations.

NOMINATED BY ROSALYN NASDOR NOMINATED BY DERREK L. SHULMAN NOMINATED BY KATHLEEN F. BURKE Senior pro bono manager, Ropes & Gray, Boston Regional director, Anti-Defamation League General counsel, MKS Instruments, Andover NOMINATED BY VERONICA SERRATO New England Region, Boston “The biggest thing you could say Staff attorney, Volunteer “Mike was involved in every step of about Bill is that pro bono is in his the anti-bullying campaign: helping Lawyers Project DNA. I can’t imagine what the to draft the legislation, lobbying it Northeast chapter of ACC would of the Boston Bar through the legislative process, partic- be like without Bill. In everything Association, Boston ipating in press conferences, deliver- that he has taken on to help ad- “What is most unique about Bill ing testimony, making sure 50 coali- vance the interest of the chapter, is the way his efforts multiply so NASDOR tion organizations stood united he’s done a beautiful job, but pro bono is really where that more people can reach greater behind this legislation. Few, if any, of these critical aspects he came alive. We’ve had a pro bono initiative for a numbers of people in need. He has would have happened without his hands-on leadership. long time, but it never really did much until Bill took become quite an expert in family Mike’s also developed a real instinct for issues and he can over. We have a program where we provide mediators law and guardianship. Bill will sit anticipate issues for the organization, which is a whole at court, and Bill whipped that into shape. Mediators with clients, literally for hours, and other level of expertise. What also stands out is the stag- are far better trained than they used to be, and it’s let them tell their entire story and gering number of hours that he puts in. When you see a running like clockwork.” he will work with clients to figure SERRATO volunteer giving as much of himself as he does, it sets a out the best solution. It’s not a mat- very high bar not just for other volunteers, but even for ter of what’s the easiest thing to do or the most routine the professional staff. He’s a remarkable guy.” thing to do. Bill is patient, kind, generous with his time and insightful. He’s really good at hearing people’s stories and getting to the heart of the issue. He wants to help people, whether it be clients or young associates. He’s a very humble person, but he’s absolutely inspirational.”

Brown Rudnick WilmerHale Boston Boston

When Brown Rudnick created the Center for the Public Interest and the Brown Rudnick WilmerHale’s pro bono contributions include long-term relationships with a select group Charitable Foundation in 2001, it was the first law firm in the country to establish a sepa- of community organizations, the firm’s Legal Services Center at Harvard Law School and rate public-interest entity led by a director. The center’s three-part strategy of pro bono its Pickering Fellowships, which enable associates to spend six months at a public interest work, charitable giving and community service remains a national model. organization.

Albert W. Wallis, the center’s executive director: John J. Regan, a partner and co-chair of the Pro Bono and Community Service “The center was designed to be an overarching way of coordinating and champi- Committee: oning community work. Most major law firms try to do that kind of work, but I’m not “In 1996, I was asked to put together a group of lawyers and staff who had public sec- sure many have it as integrated and as part of the firm’s personality, so that makes the tor experience to rethink the way we were doing our giving. We did a due diligence center unique. We value impact, things that can move the needle in terms of the issue, process and came up with four to five organizations with whom we have deep partner- and we value hard work, so our Impact Projects are a way of moving that concept to a ships, including giving substantial money, making available pro bono legal services, vol- pro bono context. unteer activities and other services. We’ve been involved with several of those organiza- “Our charitable foundation, which focuses on inner-city education, also is rather tions for the entire 16 years. The idea is that if you go deep with an organization, you unique. This opens doors for those in our community who have fallen behind because have more impact, and we’ve seen that here. It’s also good for the lawyers to get exposed they don’t have the same type of opportunities that others do. We can really make a dif- to inner-city kids and to be of some assistance in shaping their futures. Having a caring, ference in a classroom and for our nonprofit clients in terms of how educational servic- interested adult in their lives is really important to these children, so our lawyers have es are delivered.” had a variety of amazing experiences.”

NOMINATED BY ALBERT WALLIS NOMINATED BY JOHN REGAN Executive director Partner

i Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly • May 2012 • B23

i in Marketing in Firm Administration in Operations

Vanessa Schaefer Lorraine Curry Julie C. Pease

POSITION: President and creative POSITION: Firm administrator, POSITION : Executive clemency director, Clockwork Design Looney & Grossman, Boston coordinator and executive Group, Waltham paralegal, Massachusetts Parole As the firm administrator, Lor- Board, Natick Vanessa Schaefer, founder of raine Curry is an integral part of Clockwork Design Group, provides operations, handling everything Julie Pease was nominated on the basis advertising and design services to nu- from human resources to market- of her professional dedication and her ex- merous law firms and other business- ing. Since joining the firm in 1993, pertise in the field of parole in Massachu- es. At Bernkopf Goodman, her cre- she has expanded her contributions setts, which have earned her the respect of ative and effective campaigns have earned high marks. and become the point person in several key areas. colleagues throughout the state’s criminal justice system.

NOMINATED BY ARIA ANTONOPOULOS NOMNATED BY CHARLES P. KINDREGAN NOMINATED BY TIMOTHY V. DOOLING Director of marketing and client services, Managing partner, Looney & Grossman, Boston Deputy chief legal counsel, Bernkopf Goodman, Boston “Lorraine has taken on a number of different responsi- Massachusetts Parole Board, Boston “She’s been doing this for more than 25 years, and bilities over the years, and she’s almost like the oil that “She is the glue that keeps the legal unit together. She’s she’s well-known in the legal mar- keeps the machine running. This the go-to person. Parole in Massachu- keting arena. She and her staff make place would grind to a halt without setts is a specialized field that a lot of it seem almost like they’re working her oversight. She is the go-to person people know a little bit about, but not in our office. Her ideas are brilliant. for almost anything related to the many people know a lot about. Julie She redesigned our website and our firm other than individual practices, knows a lot about parole. She’s been advertising campaign, and she came so she fields all of those calls, and she here many years, and she’s worn many up with a great presentation for us. does it in a way that saves an enor- different hats. She’s the first one here Everything she does is very different for every single mous amount of time. Somebody who always does an ex- every morning. She’s a very diligent worker, and she can client, and everything stands out when it gets to the cellent job, always puts in the time that is necessary, does always be counted on. Not to use a cliché, but she really is a m e d i a .” things that go well beyond their job description and wonderful team player. Like most state agencies, we’re un- doesn’t expect anything for it in return — that struck me derfunded and understaffed, and we’re constantly being as somebody who exemplified the idea of excellence.” asked to do more with less. She’s always available to pick up the slack. She’s a great employee and a great person.”

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Kevin Cullen THE BOSTON GLOBE

Kevin Cullen is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who has written for The Boston Globe since 1985. Cullen initially worked as the newspaper’s law enforcement and legal correspondent, and in 1987 won a Livingston Award for his portrait of an East Boston hoodlum. He spent several stints on The Globe’s Spotlight Team, helping in 1988 to expose mobster James “Whitey” Bulger as an FBI informant. Cullen covered the conflict in Northern Ireland for more than 20 years, and in 1994 was honored by the Overseas Press Club of America for his interpretive reporting from Northern Ireland. In 1997, he was appointed as The Globe’s Dublin bureau chief, covering the peace process in Northern Ireland full time. He was described by The Irish Times as “the most informed American journalist on Irish affairs,” while the media crit- ic at The Independent of London called him “the most astute observer of Irish affairs in the American media.” After a year in Dublin, he moved to London to serve as the paper’s chief European correspondent, covering the war in the former Yugoslavia. He reported from more than 20 countries across Europe. In 2001, after four years abroad, he returned to Boston and joined The Globe’s inves- tigative team that won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2003 for exposing the cover-up of sexual abuse of minors by Roman Catholic priests. He was promoted to metro columnist in 2007 and has gone on to win several awards for his columns since then.

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Chief Judge Mark L. Wolf U.S. DISTRICT COURT

Mark L. Wolf was appointed to the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachu- setts in 1985 and became its chief judge in 2006. He is a member of the Judicial Conference of the United States, having previously served on its committees on Criminal Law, the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure and Codes of Conduct. Judge Wolf previously served in the U.S. Department of Justice as a special assistant to the deputy attorney general in 1974 and the U.S. attorney general from 1975 to 1977, and as deputy U.S. attorney for the District of Massachusetts and chief of the Public Corruption Unit in that office from 1981 to 1985. He was in private practice in Wash- ington, D.C., with Surrey, Karasik & Morse, and in Boston with Sullivan & Worcester. Among other honors, Judge Wolf received a Certificate of Appreciation from President Gerald Ford for his work in the resettlement of Indochinese refugees, the Attorney Gener- al’s Distinguished Service Award, the Boston Bar Association’s Citation for Judicial Excel- lence and a similar citation from the Boston chapter of the Federal Bar Association. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO He is the chairman emeritus of the Albert Schweitzer Fellowship, past chairman of the Judge David S. Nelson Fellowship and chair of the John William Ward Public Serv- ice Fellowship.