Pirozzolo, Lisa J.

Lisa Pirozzolo is a partner in the firm's Litigation/Controversy Department, co-chair of the Intellectual Property Litigation Practice Group, a member of the Appellate and Supreme Court Litigation Practice Group and a former member of the Executive Committee. She is also a co-chair of the firm’s Associates and Work Life Balance Committees. She joined the firm in 1993.

Practice

Ms. Pirozzolo has a general commercial litigation practice, with a particular emphasis on intellectual property litigation. She has represented clients in patent infringement, licensing, and contract disputes involving a wide variety of technologies including pharmaceutical products, gene expression and detection technology, medical devices, printing and photocopy equipment, and telephone services. She has experience handling all phases of litigation, in both the trial court and on appeal, as well as arbitration and mediation proceedings.

Ms. Pirozzolo received a JD, cum laude, from Cornell Law School, where she served as editor-in-chief of the Cornell International Law Journal. She received a BA in classics from Yale College. Following law school, she clerked for the Honorable Franklin S. Billings, Jr., district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Vermont.

Ms. Pirozzolo is admitted to practice in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Professional Activities

• Treasurer, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law of the Boston Bar Association

Honors and Awards

• Recognized as a leader in intellectual property law in the 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 editions of Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business
• Listed as a leading patent litigator in the 2011 edition of IAM Patent Litigation 250
• Named a "New England Super Lawyer" (formerly Massachusetts Super Lawyer") in intellectual property litigation in the 2008 and 2009 issues of Boston Magazine
• Selected by her peers for inclusion in the 2012 edition of The Best Lawyers in America in the area of intellectual property litigation