For more than thirty years, Joan Lukey has tried complex business litigation, First Amendment, and other cases in state and federal court in Massachusetts and New Hampshire and nationwide. She has tried approximately ninety jury trials, and a myriad of bench trials and arbitrations in all aspect of business disputes. In addition, she is an accomplished appellate lawyer, having argued approximately sixty federal and state appeals. Since 1983, Joan has been selected by her peers for each edition of The Best Lawyers in America in the areas of business, bet-the-company, commercial, personal injury, employment and First Amendment litigation. She has also been routinely recognized for the last several years in Chambers U.S.A. and Chambers Global as a Band One Litigator.
Joan is a Past President of the prestigious American College of Trial Lawyers, the first woman ever to hold this position. She joined Ropes & Gray as a partner in the Complex Business Litigation Practice Group in 2008, after almost thirty years as a partner at WilmerHale. She has served twice as a Massachusetts Special Assistant Attorney General and has written extensively on issues of Gubernatorial and Presidential Executive Privilege.
Honors & Awards
- Chambers Global: The World's Leading Lawyers for Business (2010-2012)
- Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business (2009-2011)
- The Best Lawyers in America (1983-2012), listed under Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, First Amendment Law, Labor and Employment Law and Personal Injury Litigation
- Massachusetts Super Lawyers (2004-2011)
- Highlighted in the 2004 publication of Massachusetts Super Lawyer as the second-highest voted recipient in the Commonwealth
- Has been listed among Boston Magazine's "Top 50 Female Massachusetts Super Lawyers" and as one of its "Fabulous 40," a group of forty Bostonians celebrated for their career success and dynamic, unique personalities
- Named one of the "35 influential judges and lawyers in Massachusetts of the past 35 years" in Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly
- "America's 50 Top Women Litigators," National Law Journal
- Named one of the most powerful attorneys in Massachusetts by the Massachusetts edition of the National Law Journal
- Singled out for one of the top 10 defense verdicts nationally in 2001 by the National Law Journal
- Burton Award for Legal Achievement In Writing
- Founders' Medal from Boston College Law School (2004)
- St. Thomas More Award (2003)
- Inducted into YWCA's Academy of Women Achievers (1996)
Professional & Civic Activities
A past president of the Boston Bar Association (2000-2001), Joan has received repeated recognition from her peers, including election in 1991 to the American College of Trial Lawyers, an invitation-only organization drawn from the best of the trial bar. In 2000, she was also elected to fellowship in the International Academy of Trial Lawyers. A wife and mother, she is active in several community and professional organizations, including past service as an overseer of Boston College Law School and as a trustee of the Boston Bar Foundation.
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Education
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JD, cum laude, Boston College Law School, 1974; Order of the Coif; Editor, Environmental Affairs Law Review; Member, National Moot Court Championship Team; first woman selected as Best Oral Advocate at National Moot Court Competition
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BA, magna cum laude, Smith College, 1971
Bar Admissions
- Massachusetts
- New Hampshire
Courts
- Supreme Court of the United States
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
- U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts
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