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Joan A. Lukey
Partner
Ropes & Gray
One International Place
Boston, MA 02110-2624
T +1 617 951 7171
F +1 617 235 9810
+1 617 854 2214 secretary
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Practice
Joan Lukey is a partner in the litigation department at Ropes & Gray focusing on complex business litigation. 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 and personal injury litigation, labor and employment and First Amendment law.
Professional Experience
Joan is the President of the prestigious American College of Trial Lawyers, the first woman ever to hold this position. A highly regarded trial attorney, Joan has tried more than 70 federal and state cases, predominantly to juries. She is an experienced appellate advocate, having argued approximately 15 cases before the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and approximately 40 cases before state appellate courts in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
Honors & Awards
- Chambers Global: The World's Leading Lawyers for Business (2010)
- Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business (2009-2010)
- The Best Lawyers in America (1983-2011), listed under Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, First Amendment Law, Labor and Employment Law and Personal Injury Litigation
- Massachusetts Super Lawyers (2004-2009)
- 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)
Publications
An accomplished writer, Joan's OpEd pieces have appeared in The Washington Post and The Boston Globe. She is the author of the chapter "Employment Litigation" in the ABA's Business and Commercial Litigation in the Federal Courts. She is a co-editor and co-author of the treatise Federal Litigation in the First Circuit.
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 service as an overseer of her law school and as a trustee of the Boston Bar Foundation.
Bar Admissions
- Massachusetts
- New Hampshire
Courts
- Supreme Court of the United States
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit
- U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts
Education
- 1974,
J.D., cum laude, Boston College Law School; 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
- 1971,
B.A., magna cum laude, Smith College
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