Who We Are

As Linksquares’ chief legal officer, Tim oversees the company’s legal posture and acts as a strategic advisor to the company’s management and corporate counsel customer base.

Tim previously spent seven years as General Counsel for DraftKings. At DraftKings, he scaled the legal function and managed the company’s legal posture throughout numerous financing and fundraising rounds, litigation, and regulatory actions, at both the state and federal level, including the high profile legal challenges the company faced in 2015 alongside the explosion in popularity of daily fantasy sports and strategic acquisitions. Prior to DraftKings, Tim was general counsel for Everest Gaming, a European-based online poker and casino operator, and was also a founder of a company in the cryptocurrency space.

Tim has a J.D. from the Walter F. George School of Law at Mercer University and a B.S. from Oakland University.

Natalie joined the New England Legal Foundation as an accomplished legal advisor and executive-level leader with 10+ years of experience advising senior management teams and boards of directors of companies across multiple industries on a variety of complex business, strategic, risk and legal issues. She thrives on collaborating with passionate, mission-driven leaders to create next level growth.

Prior to joining the New England Legal Foundation, Natalie served as Chief Legal Officer of Accession Risk Management Group, a large, national insurance and risk management company, where she built and managed a team 15 lawyers and legal professionals to enable and support the company’s growth from a $300M business to a $1.7B business over the course of just five years. In addition to her role as CLO, Ms. Logan served as an executive sponsor to the company’s Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Council and joins the Equalizer Institute with a deep commitment to the furtherance of DE&I issues.

Prior to joining Accession, Ms. Logan was a partner at Kirkland & Ellis, where she specialized in advising private equity firms and their portfolio companies on a wide range of corporate, transactional and securities matters and started her legal career as an associate at Ropes & Gray. Ms. Logan is a member of the Association of Corporate Counsel and the Women’s Bar Association, among other organizations. A summa cum laude graduate of the University of Oregon and cum laude graduate of Boston University School of Law, Ms. Logan holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration, a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science and a Juris Doctorate.

Dan Lipton is a principal in EY consulting service’s East Region Indirect tax practice. In this role, Lipton focuses on state income/franchise tax planning, mergers and acquisitions, tax controversy, sales and use tax analysis, and credits and incentives. Lipton leads EY’s East Region state income/franchise tax practice. He also leads EY’s national state income tax lookback review strategy and is part of EY’s state income/franchise tax leadership team. Lipton was also elected as NELF’s Treasurer at its February Board meeting.

Nelson G. Apjohn is a partner in Nutter’s Litigation Department. He regularly represents clients in civil litigation cases, focusing on business litigation and products liability claims. In addition, clients rely on Nelson’s extensive experience litigating a variety of matters such as eminent domain, insurance, executive compensation, legal malpractice defense, construction (both commercial and personal injury), trusts and estates, and various personal injury claims. Nelson has trial and appellate experience in both the state and federal courts, as well as experience in state regulatory proceedings and arbitration.

Mike Marcucci is an experienced, first-chair trial lawyer who has advocated on behalf of clients facing tricky, often novel, financial, commercial, and corporate governance issues. Mike also represents clients in complex litigation arising out of cybersecurity incidents such as ransomware attacks. He has tried matters concerning misappropriation of corporate opportunities, breach of fiduciary duty, fraudulent conveyance, unfair and deceptive trade practices, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), executive severance agreements, and bond trading. Mike has served as a first chair in a bankruptcy adversary proceeding and a contested corporate dissolution hearing. He has considerable experience litigating matters involving structured financial products.

Mike has argued a number of dispositive motions, including motions to dismiss in securities class actions, merger disputes, and residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) litigation, and has taken or defended dozens of depositions. He has tried an ERISA case to a successful verdict. Mike has litigated matters involving residential mortgage-backed securities, antitrust, corporate governance, accounting fraud, and minority shareholder rights, among others. Mike has also successfully resolved commercial and cyber disputes without litigation.

In addition to Massachusetts, Mike has considerable experience in New York courts, including the Supreme Court Commercial Division, Appellate Division, First Department, and the SDNY (Southern District).

Mike is active in his hometown of Medfield, Massachusetts, where he is chairman of the town’s Affordable Housing Trust, and was a member of the Board of Selectmen from 2016 to 2022 and the Warrant Committee from 2013 to 2016.

John is global co-chair of Ropes & Gray’s litigation & enforcement practice group and the former co-head of the firm’s business & commercial litigation practice. He has nearly 25 years of experience successfully representing businesses and institutions in a wide variety of complex civil litigation and related government investigations and enforcement actions.

John’s practice focuses on three areas: advising major health care and life sciences companies in connection with False Claims Act litigation, defending clients involved in high-profile business and securities litigation, and helping clients navigate large, multidistrict litigation. This broad range of experience allows John to guide clients facing litigation threats on multiple fronts.

In the area of False Claims Act cases, John has advised clients from the earliest stages of pre-litigation disputes or investigations through trial. At every stage, John has secured successful outcomes. The Legal 500 notes his “strong reputation in healthcare litigation.”

John is an equally skilled advocate for clients in high-impact matters such as consumer class actions, securities and multidistrict litigation. With a deep understanding of businesses across industries, John is able to guide clients toward creative solutions in high stakes matters.

Early in his career, John served as a special assistant district attorney in the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office, where he prosecuted more than a dozen criminal jury trials.

John serves, and has served, as pro bono counsel for capital defendants in post-conviction proceedings.

John Butts is a partner and chair of the Commercial Litigation Group, and a member of the Securities Department and the Securities Litigation and Enforcement Practices. He joined the firm in 2000.

Mr. Butts has litigated and arbitrated across the country in a wide range of complex commercial and securities matters. He has successfully represented clients in the banking, financial services, life sciences, information technology and automotive industries in cases with significant financial implications. His more frequent matters include business tort, trade secret, and contract disputes as well as consumer and securities class actions.

Before law school, Mr. Butts served as a surface warfare officer in the United States Navy.

William J. Cahill, CPCU is Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary at Vermont Mutual Insurance Group. Bill has more than 35 years of insurance industry experience, which includes marketing and underwriting roles early in his career and nearly 30 years as legal counsel at a New England-based national insurer. In addition to his involvement in national initiatives, regionally he has served on the Governing Committee of Commonwealth Automobile Reinsurers (C.A.R.), as Director of the Massachusetts Insurers Insolvency Fund and has been active with the Massachusetts Property Insurance Underwriting Association (FAIR Plan).

James R. Carroll is a global head of Skadden’s litigation/controversy practices. He is recog­nized as a go-to litigator, successfully guiding clients through litigations and arbitrations on a range of issues, including securities, investment management, ERISA, insurance and rein­surance, antitrust and restrictive covenants. 

Ms. Casal is SVP, General Counsel & Chief Privacy Officer at RxAnte, Inc. She has decades of corporate legal experience within the technology, health information, and education sectors.

Paul is a Section Head in the Office of General Counsel at Mass General Brigham, where he leads the Litigation, Compliance and Contracts Section. He also serves as the Managing Counsel for Salem Hospital and North Shore Physicians Group. Paul is a member of the BBF Executive Committee and chairs the Joint Audit Committee. He previously has served on the BBA Council, the BBA Executive Committee, the Fellows Committee, the Adams Benefit Steering Committee, the Law Day Steering Committee, and the Summer Jobs Steering Committee.

He is a past Co-Chair of the Ethics Committee and served as a BBA appointee to the Trial Court Standing Committee on Public Access to Court Records. He is a member of the BBF Society of Fellows and previously was Secretary of the Boston Bar Foundation. Paul is a Board Member and past President of the Association of Corporate Counsel, Northeast Chapter, and a board member and past Chair of the New England Legal Foundation. He also has been an adjunct professor at New England Law Boston.

Paul is a graduate of Boston College and Boston College Law School.

Paul T. Dacier is a partner in Quinn Emanuel’s Boston Office. With a proven track record as a Chief Legal Officer and a highly sought-out advisor, he joined the firm in January 2024 and is in the Corporate Governance Litigation and Crisis Law and Strategy practice groups.

From 2017 to 2023, Paul was the Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary at Indigo Agriculture, Inc., in Boston, Massachusetts – a unicorn start-up science and agriculture technology company. Earlier, Paul served as the Executive Vice President and General Counsel at EMC Corporation (“EMC”) in Hopkinton, Massachusetts. He served under three CEOs during 26.5 years of significant growth – when revenues grew from $170M in 1990 to $24.7B in 2016; market cap grew from $100M to $55B and employees grew from 750 to 68,000. During this time, he helped make business history as EMC became the world’s largest enterprise storage company and later transformed into a diversified technology company and one of the world’s largest software companies through the acquisition of over 40 companies, including VMware, Inc., for $635M in cash in 2003. He left EMC in 2016 after its $67B acquisition by another high technology company.

Given his deep experience, Paul regularly advises general counsels, CEOs and boards of directors on all types of business and legal issues, including corporate governance, shareholder activism, special board committees and investigations, fiduciary duty and derivative claims, disclosure of material events, corporate opportunity, patents, trade secrets and licensing, government inquiries and crisis management. He is an expert on litigation strategy and “bet the company lawsuits.”

Since 2020, Paul has been Chairman of the Board of Directors of AerCap Holdings, N.V., (NYSE:AER). AerCap is the world’s largest commercial aircraft leasing company with over $70B in assets. From 2017 to the present, Paul has been on the board of directors of Progress Software (NASDAQ:PRGS) and is also Chairman of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.

Paul is active in the Boston community. For example, from 2015 to 2022, Paul was Chairman of the Judicial Nominating Commission (“JNC”) under Governor Charlie Baker. The JNC was responsible for advising Governor Baker on judicial nominations to the Massachusetts Trial Courts and Appeals Court. This resulted in 262 new judges (or 60% of the Massachusetts Judiciary) and 35 Clerk Magistrates assuming office. From 2016 to 2022, Paul was Co-Chairman of the Supreme Judicial Court Nominating Commission. He co-led this 12-member committee that advised Governor Baker on nominating candidates, including the Chief Justice, for seven historic vacancies on the Supreme Judicial Court.

In 2013 and 2014, Paul was President of the Boston Bar Association (“BBA”). He was the first general counsel to serve as President of the BBA and its then 10,000 lawyer members in its 223-year history.

Michael is the Chair of the McLane Middleton’s Litigation Department and a past member of the firm’s Management Committee. Having served as Attorney General of New Hampshire (2009 – 2013), legal counsel to Governor John H. Lynch (2006-2009), Deputy Attorney General (2004-2006), and Chief of the State’s Homicide Prosecution Unit (1999-2004), Michael is highly regarded in and out of government for his strategic judgment and skills as a lawyer.

Michael represents organizations and individuals with government and internal investigations and complex civil and criminal litigation. He also advises schools, colleges and universities on Title IX issues, responses to faculty and student misconduct and compliance issues.  Michael conducts and oversees internal investigations and provides counsel to organizations on crisis management.

As chief law enforcement officer and chief legal counselor of the State, he handled a broad range of complex litigation and regulatory matters, including multi-state cases, fraud investigations, corporate compliance issues, financial services regulation, health and hospitals litigation, environmental litigation and energy matters, contract disputes, labor and employment, not-for-profit organizations, criminal law, antitrust, and consumer issues.

Michael is a 1994 graduate of the Georgetown University Law Center and he graduated cum laude from the College of the Holy Cross in 1991.

Edmund DiSanto is former Executive Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer, General Counsel and Secretary of American Tower Corporation. Mr. DiSanto joined American Tower in April 2007. Prior to then, he had been with Pratt & Whitney, a unit of United Technologies Corporation. Mr. DiSanto started with United Technologies in 1989, where he first served as Assistant General Counsel of its Carrier subsidiary, then as corporate Executive Assistant to the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of United Technologies. From 1997, he held various legal and business roles at its Pratt & Whitney unit, including Deputy General Counsel and, most recently, Vice President, Global Service Partners, Business Development.

Prior to joining United Technologies, Mr. DiSanto served in a number of legal and related positions at United Dominion Industries and New England Electric Systems. Mr. DiSanto earned a J.D. from Boston College Law School and a Bachelor of Science from Northeastern University. In 2013, Mr. DiSanto became a member of the Board of Directors of the Business Council for International Understanding.

Ms. Ditomassi is a seasoned attorney with over 30 years of experience. Her early professional focus included commercial litigation and the prosecution of public corruption crimes. In the second part of her career, she transitioned to the insurance sector, serving as General Counsel and Deputy Commissioner of the Massachusetts Division of Insurance.

Subsequently, Ms. Ditomassi served as General Counsel and Global Chief Compliance Officer for Beazley Insurance, a global specialty lines insurer based in the UK, and later as Chief Compliance Officer of AXA XL’s North American Compliance and Regulatory function.

She is also the co-author of a treatise on insurance regulation, “Fundamentals of Insurance Regulation,” and has taught this subject at Boston University’s Program for Financial Studies within the School of Law.

Scott Ford manages Mintz’s Litigation Practice and handles contract and commercial disputes.

Scott’s real estate work includes representing owners, developers, tenants and real estate funds in a range of disputes, including joint venture, ownership, construction, leasing and permitting matters.  He has resolved real estate disputes and litigated real estate cases in numerous jurisdictions across the country for multiple fund clients.

In the private equity space, Scott represents funds in fiduciary disputes, in addition to handling disputes for and with fund portfolio companies.  These cases include fiduciary, ownership, officer/director, M&A and related transactional matters. He also represents fund executives in various related disputes.

Scott has extensive experience handling high-profile and high-value probate related disputes for individual private clients.  His work in this area includes handling trustee removal actions, executor and administrator fiduciary claims and a range of will and trust disputes. He has represented clients in these cases in both state and probate courts.

His retail and consumer practice includes representation on a broad range of disputes for a public international medical device manufacturer, a public international solar panel manufacturer, a public international software company, multiple automotive dealers and a national auto glass retailer.

He has appeared before the US District Court, United States Bankruptcy Court, Massachusetts Superior Court, Massachusetts District Court, Massachusetts Housing Court, and Massachusetts Probate and Family Court as well as various state, federal, and local regulatory bodies. He has tried numerous cases, and he has also argued appeals before the Massachusetts Appeals Court and the Supreme Judicial Court.

During law school, he was a member of the National Moot Court Team.

Hanok George (“George”) joined Azurity Pharmaceuticals in 2018 and serves as the Company’s Chief Legal, Compliance & Human Resources Officer. Bringing years of executive leadership experience at life sciences companies, George advises the Board of Directors, CEO, senior management and business leaders on legal, compliance, and HR matters to enable Azurity’s significant growth goals. George also oversees Azurity’s global workplace services and communications support, and country management of the company’s operations in Ireland and India.

George is a graduate of Siena College and Albany Law School of Union University and is licensed to practice law in Massachusetts and New York.

Lana Graf, PhD – is an impact investor and principal industry specialist at Disruptive Technologies and Funds dpt. at IFC, a private sector arm of the World Bank Group (WBG), where she leads Ai/ML and Deep tech verticals.

At IFC, Lana is helping to bring advanced technologies to clients and industries across emerging markets, utilizing the WBG platform to maximize deep tech and AI’s reach and impact worldwide.

Prior to joining the WBG, Lana spent over a decade as a corporate executive in the Ai/Robotics and Industrial automation sector. She has extensive expertise in investing and implementing advanced technologies and process automation solutions across several areas, including large data sets analytics, AI/ML-driven industrial automation solutions, enterprise-grade software, and hardware.

Lana is a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) alumna. She serves on the Board of The Engine, an early-stage VC fund spanned out of MIT. She also is a seasoned startup advisor.

Lana frequently speaks at AI/Deep-tech conferences and believes in the importance of supporting women’s leadership in advanced technological fields.

John Griffin is General Counsel at Hologic, Inc. Mr. Griffin joined Hologic in February 2015 with nearly 30 years of experience across a broad spectrum of legal matters. Before joining Hologic, Mr. Griffin worked at Covidien from 2000 to 2015, where he served as Vice President and Deputy General Counsel. From 1994 to 2000, he served as Assistant US Attorney in Boston, and prosecuted complex criminal cases. He began his career at Nutter, McClennen & Fish in Boston. Mr. Griffin currently serves on the Board of Directors for Por Cristo in Boston, and the New England Legal Foundation. He also serves as Treasurer on the Board of Directors of Health Care Volunteers International. He has a JD from Harvard Law School and a BA in Political Science from Columbia.

Jonathan Handler is a litigation partner at Day Pitney LLP.  In this role, Jonathan represents corporate clients in complex commercial litigation with an emphasis on large-scale contract and product liability disputes. He has represented clients in state and federal courts in Massachusetts and elsewhere in matters involving toxic torts, wireless telecommunications, construction, accounting, litigation, insurance broker malpractice, unfair and deceptive trade practices, and mergers and acquisitions. He also assists corporate clients in a variety of industries, including specialty chemicals and aerospace, in evaluating the risks and benefits of particular actions and counsels them on ways to mitigate risk and avoid litigation.

Jonathan has been published on a variety of legal subjects, including “earn out” disputes, Chapter 93A, the work product doctrine and recent developments in product liability law. He is a former member of the firm’s Executive Board and previously served as office managing partner of the firm’s Boston office.

David serves as a Deputy General Counsel at Bank of America and is a member of the BofA Operating Committee. In this role, he is primarily responsible for managing the legal teams that support Merrill Lynch Wealth Management, Consumer Investments/Merrill Edge, Merrill’s Investment Solutions Group, the Merrill Chief Investment Office and the Retirement and Personal Wealth Solutions business unit.

David advises BofA management team members and senior risk/compliance executives on strategic, legal, regulatory and reputational risk matters impacting Merrill and BofA.

David also serves as the executive sponsor of the BofA Legal Department’s Global Pro Bono and Volunteer Group.

David’s background is predominantly in retail brokerage and investment management, retail/institutional alternative investments and retail/consumer banking. Prior to joining the BofA, David was Counsel at two international law firms, WilmerHale and Sullivan & Worcester. At both WilmerHale and Sullivan & Worcester, he was a member of the Investment Management Practice Groups, where he advised investment advisers, broker dealers, hedge funds, and mutual funds on various formation, regulatory, compliance, operational and enforcement matters.

Chad Higgins is a partner at Dentons’ Portland, Maine offic and a member of the Commercial Litigation practice. Chad is an experienced litigator who represents clients in state and federal courts across the United States in all stages of litigation and trial. His practice includes products liability and mass tort defense, with a focus on environmental litigation. Chad has defended numerous businesses in lawsuits related to Per- and Polyfluorinated Substances (PFAS) and groundwater contamination lawsuits regarding Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether (MTBE), a discontinued gasoline additive. In addition, he often provides Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulatory counseling and represents clients in grand jury investigations.

Chad works with clients in a wide range of industries including pharmaceuticals, energy, consumer products, food and beverage, and higher education. Drawing on his deep litigation experience, Chad works with clients to better understand their organization to help them manage risk, limit potential liability, avoid costly litigation and achieve their goals.

Beyond his litigation experience, Chad advises clients on compliance involving the Food and Drug Administration, Federal Trade Commission, California’s Prop 65 and consumer class actions related to marketing claims and ingredients. He also works with clients on compliance with Consumer Product Safety Commission regulations. He develops corrective action plans, and counsels on avoiding unnecessary recalls and adapting operations to address the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act.

Daryl Joseffer is executive vice president and chief counsel at the U.S. Chamber Litigation Center, the litigation arm of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. A former principal deputy solicitor general, Joseffer has argued 12 cases in the U.S. Supreme Court and briefed many more. He has argued dozens of appeals in other courts across the country.

Before joining the Chamber, Joseffer practiced law with King & Spalding LLP, where he was a partner and head of the firm’s appellate group. Previously, he served in the Solicitor General’s Office and as a deputy general counsel in the White House Office of Management and Budget, a partner at Kirkland & Ellis, and a law clerk to the Honorable Jerry E. Smith, Circuit Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School and received a B.A. in economics from Stanford University.

Brian G. Leary is a partner in Holland & Knight’s Boston office and is the Practice Group Leader for the Boston Region of the Corporate, M&A and Securities Group. He regularly advises several national and global companies on legal and business considerations in deal negotiation, litigation avoidance, customer management, sales channel and supply chain development and management, intellectual property (IP) protection, regulatory strategy and dispute resolution.

He leads multiple deal teams across the firm that, in the past year, have completed more than two dozen transactions for private equity-sponsored clients.

In addition, Mr. Leary has led the defense of high-stakes litigation matters in state and federal courts across the country.

Mr. Leary has negotiated settlements with, and collaborated on, the drafting of regulations and legislation with several divisions within the Office of the Attorney General and the U.S. Department of Labor, as well as with numerous state executive branch departments.

Prior to entering private practice, Mr. Leary was the founder and CEO of Mogall, Inc., one of the early pioneers of the social networking phenomenon, and later Arctius Corp., a developer of knowledge management software. Arctius was acquired by a national consulting firm in 2001.

Prior to founding Mogall, Mr. Leary was a nationally recognized reporter and anchor for Boston’s WCVB-TV. In 1997, he received the prestigious George Foster Peabody Award, considered to be broadcasting’s Pulitzer Prize, for his investigative reporting on the Massachusetts Probate Court. Mr. Leary reported extensively from overseas. In 1999, he was awarded the National Society of Professional Journalists’ top prize for his reporting from Cuba.

In 2012, Mr. Leary was appointed as chairman of the City of Boston’s gaming commission, officially known as the Host Community Advisory Committee, by Mayor Thomas Menino.

Grace Lee is the Regional President for Eastern MA for M&T and is a demonstrated leader with over 35 years of experience in the public and private sector. Throughout her career she has had a deep commitment to social justice and equity advocating for underrepresented groups. Prior to joining M&T, Lee was with the law firm of Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC where she served as the Vice Chair of the Public Finance Group.

Prior to joining Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC, Lee served as First Deputy Treasurer and General Counsel for Massachusetts State Treasury, where she was the first Asian American to serve as First Deputy Treasurer and also the first Asian American to serve as chief legal counsel to a statewide officeholder in the history of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. As First Deputy Treasurer, she was responsible for the management and oversight of the Massachusetts State Treasury.

As First Deputy Treasurer, Lee was statutorily authorized to assume the responsibilities of the State Treasurer in his absence or designation. She also oversaw the operations of the Treasury and its divisions, such as Cash Management, Debt Management, Abandoned Property and Water Pollution Abatement Trust, and Administration and Finance. Additionally, as a member of the Massachusetts bar, she was responsible for managing the legal affairs of the Treasury, which includes: compliance with state and federal regulations and statutes; drafting policies, and managing litigation by outside counsels and agencies.

In addition to serving as First Deputy Treasurer and General Counsel, Lee served as Interim Executive Director to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Asian American Commission, which was established pursuant to Massachusetts General Laws c. 3, §67(a) and became effective October 29, 2006. The Asian American Commission is a permanent body dedicated to political advocacy on behalf of Asian Americans throughout Massachusetts.

We live in a culture of crises. The common thread of a career that started with leading implementations nationally on behalf of start-ups in the education industry has now come full circle as I work to drive new venture development and investment throughout the Commonwealth of Massachusetts with a focus on deep tech on behalf of MassVentures.

As a recent graduate from the Harvard Kennedy School, my focus on crisis management was heightened during this global pandemic, but more crises lie ahead. I’m committed to helping public and private sector leaders apply lessons learned in leadership, communications, resilience, adaptation and mitigation in their roles, governments, and businesses.

My own work is inspired by a focus on environmental justice and the disproportionate impact crises like COVID and natural disasters have on those who are most disadvantaged. I’ve been focused on this in The Bahamas since Hurricane Dorian, and continue to heavily focus on climate tech and other climate mitigation strategies.

Ultimately I consider myself an enabler. Enabler of the dreams of individuals and organizations seeking to do good for our earth and people, and make a positive difference in the world. I am blessed to do this work both in my personal and professional lives.

Kevin P. Martin is a partner and co-chair of the Appellate and Supreme Court Litigation practice at Goodwin, where he has practiced since 2001. Kevin has argued and briefed numerous cases in federal and state appellate courts around the country, and also has extensive experience in both trial matters and internal and government investigations. Prior to joining Goodwin, Kevin clerked for Justice Antonin Scalia on the United States Supreme Court and Judge Laurence Silberman on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

Kevin is a fellow of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers. The Legal 500 has noted that Kevin is known as an “excellent writer, advocate, and strategist.” He is ranked a “Star” for Appellate Litigation in Massachusetts by Benchmark Litigation, and has been named a “Lawyer of the Year” by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly for his work before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC). He has been recognized by the Boston Business Journal as one of its “Power 50,” an annual listing of top executives and “movers and shakers” in the Boston economy. Kevin is past Chair of the board of directors of the New England Legal Foundation, and is a member of Goodwin’s Pro Bono Committee.

Eileen McAnneny served as President of the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation (MTF) from 2015 to 2022 and is now a Senior Fellow at the Pioneer Institute. Prior to her work at the MTF, Ms. McAnneny held executive level positions at the Massachusetts Society of CPAs, serving as its President and CEO; at Fidelity Investments as a Director of Public Policy; and at Associated Industries of Massachusetts as its Senior Vice President of Government Affairs and Associate General Counsel, where she focused on health care and tax policy issues for the employer community.

Ms. McAnneny worked in the public sector as a staff attorney for the Joint Committee on Revenue of the Massachusetts Legislature, playing a key role in numerous significant tax policy changes, including reforms to the corporate tax code, an overhaul of the Appellate Tax Board, amendments to DOR’s administrative practices and updates to unclaimed property collections.

A cum laude graduate of Tufts University and Suffolk University Law School, Ms. McAnneny holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science and a juris doctorate in law. She is a Commissioner of the Group Insurance Commission and on the Board of Directors of the Cooperative Central Bank.

Sean McSweeney began his career at Liberty Mutual in 1987. He currently is the Executive Vice President, Deputy General Counsel of Liberty Mutual Group’s Litigation & Coverage Department. He manages a team of skilled attorneys, paralegals, and technical professionals providing dedicated litigation and coverage support to Liberty Mutual Insurance Company.  For seven years, Mr. McSweeney served as the Executive Vice President, Deputy General Counsel of Global Retail Markets Strategic Business Unit leading the legal team supporting the personal lines and small commercial products and services Liberty Mutual Group provides globally. For ten years he led and served as the Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel of Litigation & Coverage.

Mr. McSweeney is currently a director and the Chairman of the Property Liability Research Bureau. He is a member of the National Chamber Litigation Center Amicus Advisory Committee, the Massachusetts Bar Association, American Bar Association, Boston Bar Association, and ARIAS.  Mr. McSweeney received a J.D. from the University of Kansas in 1987 and a B.A. in History from Boston College in 1984.

James L. Messenger is a partner in the Boston office of GRSM. James focuses his practice on complex commercial litigation in areas such as intellectual property, business transactions, shareholder disputes, franchise disputes, breach of fiduciary duty claims, and environmental and bankruptcy matters. He is an arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association (AAA).

James has obtained successful outcomes for complex litigation clients at every stage of the trial process, including case-ending motions to dismiss, summary judgments, trials, and appeals.

Christopher Moore is Angelo Gordon’s General Counsel & Interim Chief Compliance Officer and is responsible for the firm’s legal and compliance matters. Prior to joining Angelo Gordon in April 2020, Christopher served as the General Counsel for GE Capital and for GE Corporate Treasury & Capital Markets, where he led the legal and compliance functions of both organizations. Previously, he served as Global Head of Litigation & Legal Policy for GE Capital and Senior Counsel, Litigation & Legal Policy at GE. Before joining GE in 2008, Christopher was a Partner at Goodwin Procter LLP in Boston, focused on securities and corporate governance matters, internal and government investigations, and other complex litigation. 

His public service positions include Chairman of the Judicial Nominating Commission for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and Commissioner of the Massachusetts State Ethics Commission.  Christopher began his legal career in Washington, D.C. as an associate in the Civil, Criminal, and Constitutional Litigation group at Sidley Austin LLP after serving as a law clerk to the Honorable Michael S. Kanne of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. He holds a B.A. degree in history from Cornell University and a J.D. degree from the Northwestern University School of Law.

Carol Palmer-Winig is a partner in Forensics & Integrity Services at EY. She has over 30 years of professional service experience. Her area of focus includes fraud and forensic accounting, corporate internal investigations and anti – corruption and litigation advisory services in a wide variety of industries. Carol is the Americas leader of Forensic Services for audit clients. This includes evaluating the sufficiency of the client’s investigation to the audit team to rely on the investigative conclusions for the audit.

Before joining Ernst & Young’s Forensics & Integrity Services Practice, Carol used her technical accounting experience as a member of EY’s Professional Practice Group.   In that role, she consulted with engagement teams on a variety of technical accounting matters including revenue recognition, compensation, purchase accounting and asset impairment.

Prior to joining EY, Carol was an audit partner at Arthur Andersen LLP. Her 14 years in the audit practice included a two-year rotation in Silicon Valley serving clients such as Cadence Design Systems, Nuance and SAP.

Carol received a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Boston College with double concentration in accounting and computer science.   She is a member of the Counsel for Woman of Boston College and on the Board of the New England Legal Foundation.

As Managing Director of Delta Consulting Group, Jimmy Pappas advises legal counsel, management, and boards of directors on accounting, internal control, and financial matters in the context of internal investigations, civil and criminal litigation, business disputes and corporate governance. He has over 25 years of experience in the forensic and financial statement audit disciplines of accounting – thirteen of which were with Big Four accounting firms – and has served clients internationally.

Jimmy has consulted as an accounting, audit, and economic damages expert on disputes adjudicated in federal courts, state courts and international venues. He has testified as an accounting expert on behalf of regulatory agencies such as the US Securities and Exchange Commission, has been engaged as a consulting expert by defendants in criminal securities fraud litigation initiated by the US Department of Justice, and has advised plaintiffs and defendants in litigation involving such matters as: post–acquisition disputes, shareholder disputes, failed investment disputes, intellectual property disputes, valuation and insolvency disputes, breach of contract, financial statement fraud, accounting malpractice and business interruption.

Jimmy also conducts internal investigations at corporations and governmental entities involving such issues as the integrity of financial statements, corruption, misappropriation of assets, and internal control failures. His work in this area is often in response to regulatory inquiry.

Don Pinto is a partner at Pierce Atwood LLP and has over 35 years of experience as a civil litigator with a focus on complex real estate and land use disputes. He handles cases at the trial and appellate levels in the state and federal courts and before administrative agencies. Outside the courtroom, Don has successfully resolved many disputes through negotiation, mediation, and arbitration.

Don is also the founder, editor, and one of several authors of Massachusetts Dirt and Development Law, the firm’s real estate law blog.

Before joining Pierce Atwood, Don was a director of the Boston firm Rackemann Sawyer & Brewster, P.C.

Don Savery is Senior Vice President and General Counsel for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, the largest private health plan in Massachusetts and one of the largest independent, not-for- profit Blue Cross Blue Shield plans in the country. The company serves nearly three million members and is rated among the nation’s best health plans for overall member satisfaction and quality.  As the company’s general counsel, Mr. Savery leads the BC/BS of Massachusetts law department, providing legal advice and counsel to the company and ensuring compliance with federal, state and local laws.  He joined the company in  2012 and was named vice president and general counsel in 2017.

Before joining Blue Cross, Mr. Savery served as Assistant United States Attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts, focusing on health care fraud civil and criminal enforcement. He is a former partner in the litigation and securities practices at Bingham McCutchen LLP. Early in his career, he served as a law clerk to Hon. Joseph R. Nolan at the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and to Hon. Francis J. Boyle at the U.S. District Court in Rhode Island.  Mr. Savery is co-author of the Massachusetts Practice Series treatise on civil practice in the federal courts, Federal Civil Practice (2d ed. 2008, Thompson West), and he has authored numerous articles touching on civil litigation and procedure. He has taught courses on civil litigation strategy as an adjunct professor at Boston College Law School, and a course on health care fraud at New England Law Boston. A member of the American Law Institute and a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, he received his J.D. from Boston College Law School, an LL.M. from the University of Cambridge, and a B.S. in computer science from Fitchburg State University.

Danielle Sheer serves as Chief Legal and Compliance Officer of Commvault (NASDAQ: CVLT), a leader in data protection and data management software and SaaS solutions. She leads the company’s global legal and compliance teams and its governance, commercial, intellectual property, and privacy programs.

Prior to joining Commvault, Danielle served as General Counsel at financial technology services company Bottomline (NASDAQ:EPAY) and at cloud-backup SaaS solutions provider Carbonite (NASDAQ:CARB).

In 2018, Danielle was honored by Corporate Counsel as one of 2018’s Innovative Women in Law. Previously, she was named to the Boston Business Journal’s “Forty under 40” list of emerging business leaders, honored by the Massachusetts Bar Association as an “Emerging Leader” and received the “Maverick of the Year” Stevie award for Women in Business.

Sarayu Srinivasan is a venture capitalist, entrepreneur and executive focused on technology and consumer companies in the US, India and emerging markets. Previously, Ms. Srinivasan served as a White House Presidential Innovation Fellow and Senior Advisor to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in the White House and at the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST); was an investor at Intel Capital; founded logistics platform KAARGO; and was at a series of successful early-stage technology companies and Pepsi earlier in her career.

Jay B. Stephens is a retired partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. He practiced in collaboration with attorneys across the Firm to support client engagements by counseling boards and senior management on corporate governance, transactional, and enforcement matters; by advising clients regarding complex internal investigations, compliance issues and regulatory enforcement strategies; and by contributing to the sound resolution of regulatory and litigation disputes.

Jay has served in a variety of senior executive, leadership, and legal positions in government service, business enterprise, and private practice. His significant leadership experience in law, business, and government service gives him a foundation from which to provide sound advice and creative solutions for complex governance, regulatory compliance, global business, and dispute resolution matters. He has served in senior leadership positions in the White House, the Department of Justice, global business enterprises, and major international law firms. He has hands-on operational experience advising in the board room, litigating in the courtroom, negotiating in the conference room, and collaborating with teams of talented colleagues to achieve positive results.

For the past more than 12 years, he served as Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary of Raytheon Company, a global enterprise with businesses in defense technologies, intelligence, and cybersecurity. As a member of Raytheon’s senior leadership team, he participated in the operational management and strategic planning of the company. In his role as General Counsel, Jay led the company’s legal and regulatory affairs, ethics and compliance programs, and corporate governance activities. He also supervised corporate staff activities in the areas of risk management, safety, and environmental quality. Under his leadership, the company received national recognition for its outstanding governance, global compliance, safety, environmental sustainability, and ethical education programs.

 John A. Sten is a partner at Byrd Campbell, P.A. with over 25 years of corporate, securities, and white-collar criminal defense experience. Prior to joining Byrd Campbell, P.A., Mr. Sten was a partner at Armstrong Teasdale. Mr. Sten began his distinguished legal career in the SEC Division of Enforcement in Washington, D.C.

YuFan Stephanie Wang (Stephanie) is Executive Vice President (EVP), Chief Legal Officer (CLO) and Secretary at Progress Software. In this role, Stephanie oversees all aspects of Progress’ legal, compliance and corporate governance efforts.

Prior to joining Progress, Stephanie was with W. P. Carey Inc. (NYSE:WPC), a $1.3B revenue public real estate investment trust, where she most recently held the role of Senior Vice President and Deputy Chief Legal Officer. In this capacity, she was principal legal advisor on all corporate transactions and issues, including capital markets, M&A, SEC filings and public communications. Stephanie also served as Secretary of WPC’s Audit Committee and of the Boards of its other public affiliates. She was also a founding member of WPC’s Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) committees. Stephanie previously practiced in the corporate departments of Proskauer Rose LLP and Clifford Chance US LLP.