Experience

Rating: 9.8 (Superb)

Honors

2014

White collar criminal defense, The Best Lawyers in America

2014

Leading Investigations Lawyers, Who's Who Legal Guide to the Leading Investigations Lawyers in the World

2013

Litigation, white collar crime and government investigations, Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business

2013

Life Sciences Star, LMG Life Sciences

2013

Business Crimes Lawyers, The International Who's Who of Business Crime Lawyers

2013

New England Super Lawyer, Boston Magazine

2013

Top 50 Women Massachusetts Super Lawyers, Boston Magazine

2011

Top Women in Law, Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly

2009

Fellow, Litigation Counsel of America

2005

Top 100 Massachusetts Super Lawyers, Boston Magazine

2002

Annual Dinner Honoree for pro bono work, Granada House, Inc.

2001

Hall of Fame (professional category), Women's Business

2001

Leading Women Award, Patriots' Trail Girl Scout Council, Inc.

1997

Park Street Forum Award, Park Street Corporation

1991

Fellow, American Bar Foundation

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Work Experience

2004 - Present

Partner, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP

1996 - 2004

Senior Partner, Hale and Dorr LLP

1993 - 1996

Deputy U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Massachusetts

1993 - 1993

Chief of Staff, Office of Governor

1987 - 1993

Senior Partner, Hale and Dorr

1984 - 1986

Assistant U.S. Attorney, Deputy Chief of Civil Division, U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Massachusetts

1982 - 1984

Litigation Associate, Hale and Dorr

1981 - 1982

Law Clerk, U.S. District Court for District of Massachusetts

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Associations

2011 - Present

Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation

Trustee

2010 - Present

Harvard Club of Boston

Director

1992 - Present

The Boston Club

Member, former Director

1991 - Present

Boston Bar Foundation

Fellow

1985 - Present

Boston Bar Association

Member

1978 - Present

Harvard Alumni Association

Member, former Director

American Bar Association

Member

National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers

2008 - 2013

National Association of Women Judges

Member, Resources Board

1988 - 1991

Boston Bar Association Council

Member

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Education

1981

Harvard Law School

JD, cum laude

1978

Radcliffe College, Harvard University

A.B., magna cum laude

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Publications

2014

Bloomberg BNA's The United States Law Week Minding the Monitor: Disclosure of Corporate Monitor Reports to Third Parties

2014

Financial Fraud Law Report Testify Now, Learn Why Later: Responding to Civil Investigative Demands for Testimony Under the False Claims Act

2012

Breaking Barriers: The Unfinished Story of Women Lawyers and Judges in Massachusetts, edited by Hon. Patti B. Saris, Hon. Margot Botsford and Barbara Fischbein Berenson, and published by Mass. continuing Legal Education, Inc. Confessions of a Chinese Acrobat

2005

White Collar Crime 2005, a National Institute publication of the American Bar Association Center for Continuing Legal Education and Criminal Justice Section E-Mail Privacy: A High Wire Act

2002

White Collar Crime 2002, a National Institute publication of the American Bar Association Center for Continuing Legal Education and Criminal Justice Section TAP'n at the Door: Pharmaceutical Companies, Freebies, and the Anti-kickback Statute

1998

Boston Bar Journal Justice for All

1996

Winning Before Indictment, MCLE Publication No. 96-06.21 Comply Now or Pay Later: Corporate Compliance Programs, Voluntary Disclosure, Cooperation and the Exercise of Prosecutorial Discretion

1991

Civil Litigation Prep, MCLE Publication No. 92-2101 Investigating and Organizing the Facts of a Case

1982

The Advocate Mitigating Litigating: An Analysis of Mediation Within Small Claims Courts

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Languages

English

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