Top Rated White Collar Crimes Attorney in Boston, MA

Honors/Awards:

• Selected to Massachusetts Super Lawyers by the publishers of Boston Magazine every year since the designation was created in 2004.
• Selected as Top 50 Women New England Super Lawyers by the publishers of Boston Magazine (2012, 2014, 2015, 2016)
• Awarded President's Award on behalf of the Boston Bar Association's (BBA) Mentoring Program (2011)
• Selected as Circle of Excellence Honoree by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly (2017)
• Selected as Top 100 New England Super Lawyers by the publishers of Boston Magazine (2014)
• Selected as Top 50 Women Massachusetts Super Lawyers by the publishers of Boston Magazine (2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017)
• Awarded Fraud Fighter of the Year by the Boston Chapter of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (2002)
• Selected for inclusion in the 2016, 2017 and 2018 publications of The Best Lawyers in America ©.
• Selected as Top 100 Massachusetts Super Lawyers by the publishers of Boston Magazine (2014, 2015, 2016)
• Selected as Top Women in the Law Honoree by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly (2012)
• Awarded Outstanding and Invaluable Prosecution by the Insurance Fraud Bureau of Massachusetts (2001)

Bar/Professional Activity:

• Secretary, Boston Bar Association (2011-2012)
• Appointed to Strategic Communications Committee, Boston Bar Association
• Council member of the Boston Bar Association (2004-2007 and 2011-2012)
• President, Boston Bar Association (2016-2017)
• Co-Chair, Boston Bar Mentoring Program
• Appointed Committee Member by Governor Deval Patrick to the Gubernatorial Commission to study compensation of Assistant District Attorneys and Public Defenders, pursuant to Executive Order No. 551. (2014)
• Appointed to head and facilitate The Organized Theft Task Force by the Attorney General (2000)
• Member, Massachusetts Bar Association
• Vice Chair, White Collar Investigations and Defense Committee, International Association of Defense Counsel (IADC)
• Chair of the Joint Bar Committee (JBC) for Judicial Appointments
• United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts
• Member of the Boston Bar Association Diversity & Inclusion Section
• Vice President, Boston Bar Association (2014-2015)
• Member, Criminal Section for the Massachusetts Bar Association
• Treasurer, Boston Bar Association (2013-2014)
• Appointed to head and facilitate The White Collar Crime Initiative by the Attorney General (1997)
• Member, Boston Bar Association
• Co-Chair, 2012 Boston Bar Association Law Day Dinner
• Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts
• Committee member for the National Association of Women Judges Annual Leadership Conference in Boston, Massachusetts (2008)
• President-Elect, Boston Bar Association (2015-2016)
• Co-Chair, Criminal Law Section Steering Committee for the Boston Bar Association
• Chair of the Boston Bar Association's Finance Committee (2014)
• Appointed Committee Member by the Honorable Chief Justice Wilkins of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court for the Supreme Judicial Court Committee On Lawyer Advertising. Findings and recommendations published in report dated October (1999)

Scholarly Lectures/Writings:

• Speaker and organizer, Boston Bar Association’s Mentoring Program Kick-off event, 2009
• Speaker on Criminal Law and Procedure at the John Adams Courthouse for the Supreme Judicial Court, 2007
• Panelist on training participants and teacher at Boston Public Schools for Law Day on Separation of Powers, 2006
• Speaker, Women’s Bar Association, “Women in the Law”, 2005
• Speaker, Boston Bar Association’s Leadership Retreat in Newport, RI, 2004
• Panelist and Moderator, First Boston Municipal Court Conference on hot topics of criminal and civil practice before the newly consolidated BMC, 2003
• Moderator and Panelist, BBA's Sixth Annual Bench/Bar Conference & Reception covering topics on dispositional advocacy, the Circuit System of the Superior Court, jury voir dire issues, and the state of the courts, 2003
• Guest on New England News Channel's "NewsNight," with Chet Curtis, to discuss the Kobe Bryant case, 2003
• Moderator and Panelist, BBA's Fifth Annual Bench/Bar Conference & Reception covering topics on trial advocacy, statute of limitations on sexual offenses, technology in the courtroom, and corporate fraud, 2002
• Speaker, National White Collar Fraud Conference on the topic of, "Conducting White Collar Criminal Investigations", 2002
• Speaker, High Technology Crime Investigation Association, New England Chapter, 2002
• Speaker, National Convention of Certified Fraud Examiners on the topic of, "White-collar Crime: The Change In Approach To Prosecution Utilizing New Technology", 2002
• Reviewer, Supreme Judicial Court on the Report from the Visiting Committee on Management in the Courts, also known as the "Monan Report," hosted by Justice Ireland.
• Author, 3rd Edition of Massachusetts Courtroom Advocacy, Chapter 7, "Direct Examination", 2017
• Author, 1-3rd Editions of MCLE Publication, "Using Social Media to Win Cases."
• Author, "Federal Leaders Need To Know How Costly It Would Be To Cut Legal Aid", The Boston Globe, June 2017
• Contributor to the Women's Bar Association of the District of Columbia, Raising the Bar, "Bar Associations Speak Out", November/December 2016 issue 
• Speaker, Boston Inn of Courts, "Trial Ethics and Social Media.", September 2015
• Speaker, MCLE, "Using Social Media to Win Cases.", June 2014, 2015
• Panelist Speaker, Massachusetts Academy of Trial Lawyers and the Massachusetts Defense Lawyers Association, “Introducing Social Media as Evidence at Trial”, 2014
• Panelist, Boston Bar Association’s Continuing Legal Education program entitled “Health Care Fraud 2013: There Are New Sheriffs in Town”, 2013
• Panelist speaker, MCLE, “Using Social Media to Win Cases”, 2012
• Speaker, International Association of Defense Counsel (IADC) Annual Meeting, How the False Claims Act Threatens Your Client's Business, 2011

Educational Background:

• University of Colorado at Boulder, B.A. (1984)