Named one of the “Most Powerful Business People in Boston” by the Boston Business Journal and one of the “Most Influential Bostonians” by Boston Magazine, and inducted into the inaugural Hall of Fame class by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, Beth Boland gets things done. Through her deep involvement in the business, legal, and civic communities in Boston and as a lawyer, board member and advocate, she has built respected relationships and business acumen that she puts to work for clients.
“Beth’s extremely detailed and in-depth knowledge is invaluable,” said a client in Chambers USA about Beth’s securities litigation experience. She leads internal investigations for corporate boards and represents corporations in connection with shareholder disputes, insider trading issues, Ponzi schemes, accounting fraud, corporate control issues, whistleblower claims, executive compensation and strategic business transactions, and SEC and Attorney General investigations.
Beth defends some of the nation’s largest financial institutions and operating companies in class action litigation and multi-agency enforcement actions, and has won numerous class actions with industry-wide ramifications in state supreme courts and federal appeals courts across the country. She works with clients in a wide range of industries, including financial services, innovative technology, and manufacturing.
Beth is vice chair of the firm’s Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) practice, and the former chair of the Securities Enforcement & Litigation Practice and a former vice chair of the Litigation Department.
Active on many fronts in the legal community, Beth co-chaired the Boston Bar Association (BBA) Task Force on Corporate Governance and was appointed by the chief justice of the Massachusetts trial court to co-chair the committee charged with overseeing the state’s new business court. She is considered a pioneer on issues affecting women in the profession and women who are victims of abuse. Her representation of women who flee across international borders to escape abuse has received national attention and has produced seminal court decisions under the Hague Convention on International Child Abduction. Beth was appointed by the governor of Massachusetts to serve on the board of the state Lottery Commission along with the Massachusetts treasurer.
Beth has served on a variety of nonprofit boards and received numerous awards for her work, including the WBA’s highest honor, the Lelia J. Robinson Award, in recognition of her contributions to the legal profession and the greater community. Currently, she is chair of the New England Chapter of the National Association of Corporate Directors.
Earlier in her career, Beth served as a judicial clerk to the Honorable Milton Pollack in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York while he was assigned to the Ivan Boesky and Michael Milken insider trading litigations.
