Foley & Lardner LLP Partner Beth Boland is honored by Boston Magazine as one of the Most Influential Bostonians. The list celebrates the city’s leading individuals who are “all playing a part in shaping a new and vibrant Boston.”
“With Barbara Lee easing into retirement, Boland stands as Greater Boston’s next biggest proponent of, and fundraiser for, women in politics,” Boston Magazine wrote. “But that’s just a piece of what’s put Boland into the Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Hall of Fame. There’s also her litigation and corporate governance work at Foley & Lardner, and her advocacy for women in the law profession.”
Boland 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.
Through her deep involvement in the business, legal, and civic communities in Boston and as a lawyer, board member, and advocate, Boland has built respected relationships and business acumen that she puts to work for her clients. She is chair of the New England Chapter of the National Association of Corporate Directors and co-chaired the Boston Bar Association’s Task Force on Corporate Governance. Considered a pioneer on issues affecting women who are victims of abuse, Boland’s representation of women fleeing across international borders to escape has received national attention and has produced seminal court decisions under the Hague Convention on International Child Abduction.
