As Co-Chair of the firm’s White Collar and Regulatory Practice Group, Carol handles all stages of critical, sensitive matters. She provides clients with first-hand, invaluable insight into how the government prioritizes, investigates, and resolves high-stakes criminal and regulatory matters, whether at the state or federal level. Carol’s practice spans internal investigations, responding to grand jury and regulatory subpoenas, and defending against criminal indictments and complaints, culminating in complex jury trials and appeals. Carol has more than three decades of successful trial work, ensuring her clients are strategically protected against liability in all types of civil and criminal proceedings.
Prior to joining the firm as a white-collar defense attorney, Carol dedicated fourteen years to public service as a prosecutor, first as an Assistant District Attorney, and then as Chief of the Economic Crimes Division of the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office, where she concentrated in white collar crime and public corruption. There, she prosecuted hundreds of financial crime and public corruption cases, including some of the largest cases ever indicted on behalf of the Commonwealth. She leverages this experience to now inform her defense work with first-hand knowledge about how the government prioritizes, investigates, and resolves high stakes criminal and regulation matters involving both individuals and State and Federal corporations. Her deep background as a prosecutor and her current civil and criminal defense work give her perspective from all angles, whether she is conducting internal investigations for her clients, or preventing, mitigating, and defending them against liability in all types of civil and criminal matters.
A highly respected leader in the legal community, Carol currently serves as Vice-Chair on the Board of Directors for the Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corporation (MLAC), an appointment by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. She is serving a three-year SJC appointment to the IOLTA Committee and is an ABA House of Delegates Representative appointed by the Boston Bar Association. Carol is a past President of the BBA (2016-2017) and has held numerous other leadership positions, including past Chair of the Joint Bar Committee on Judicial Appointments and former Vice-Chair for the White Collar Defense and Investigations Committee for the International Association of Defense Counsel (IADC). She has served on several Legislative Commissions, including as a Commissioner on the Legislative Commission to Study Civil Asset Forfeiture laws, where she has testified before the state legislature. She also served on the Commission to Study Compensation of Assistant District Attorneys and Public Defenders. Carol has been honored by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly as a Top Woman of Law in 2012, a Circle of Excellence honoree in 2017, and she was inducted into their Hall of Fame in 2023. She has also served on the Board of Editors of Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly since 2019.
Carol has been selected for inclusion in the 2016–2025 editions of Best Lawyers in America® and has been recognized as one of the Top Lawyers in New England for white-collar defense, as one of the top Fifty Women Lawyers in Massachusetts, and as a “Massachusetts SuperLawyer”—as published by Law & Politics, Boston Magazine, and Thomson Reuters—every year since its inception in 2004. Carol has also received an AV Peer Review Rating–the highest rating–in the Martindale-Hubbell Lawyers Directory. She is a graduate of the University of Colorado at Boulder and Suffolk University Law School.
