Lucy is the managing partner of the firm and chair of its health law, and its intellectual property, technology and Internet law groups. She counsels clients on a wide variety of business and intellectual property issues. Much of Lucy’s practice is devoted to advising clients in the fields of health law, nonprofit, and general business law.  Her clients include artists and writers, manufacturers, emerging technology companies, non-profit organizations, and health care providers. Lucy is also an experienced litigator, handling complex commercial and employment cases in both state and federal courts in  Massachusetts and New York.  Lucy maintains the highest “AV” Martindale-Hubbell rating from her professional peers.

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Lucy is active in the Southern Berkshire community.  For over four years, she served as the Chair of the 8 Town Regional School District Planning Board, a public body that undertood a comprehensive study of the educational and financial feasibility of the merger of two public school districts. She is a member of the Advisory Council of the Mahaiwe Performing  Arts Center and a member of its Education Committee, and she is the past Chair of the Board of Directors of the Literacy Network of South Berkshire, on whose board she served for 10 years.  Under the auspices of Berkshire United Way, Lucy launched an early childhood literacy initiative in southern Berkshire County known as “Chapter One, Our Towns, Our Kids, Our Future,” whose stated goal was closing the achievement gap for children entering kindergarten.  A strong advocate for equal opportunity, Lucy received the  2015 “Woman of Achievement” award from the Berkshire Business and Professional Woman organization for her significant career accomplishments and exceptional commitment to the community, and was profiled as an influential “Woman in Business” by 1Berkshire in 2018. She served for over 20 years as town counsel to the Town of Alford, where she lives with her husband.

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EXPERIENCE HIGHLIGHTS

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• Serves as primary outside counsel to largest health system in Berkshire County.

• Serves as primary outside counsel to manufacturing company with worldwide distribution network.

• Serves as outside general counsel to several nonprofit entities dedicated to the arts.

• Represented Fortune 500 companies in complex litigation in federal courts in Massachusetts, New York and Texas.

• Served as adjunct professor at Albany (N.Y.) Law School, where she taught technology licensing from 1993 to 2004.

• Former partner of New York City law firm, with a concentration in intellectual property litigation.

• Former staff attorney at the Federal Trade Commission in Washington , D.C. , where she litigated antitrust enforcement actions.

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REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

• “Copyright Ownership, Fair Use, and Academic Freedom: Finding the Balance,” featured speaker, Capital Area Technology Association, April 2014.

• “Tempting Tweets and Facebook Flops,” published article, Berkshire Business Quarterly, October 2010.

• “Keeping Secrets: Securing the crown jewels in a down economy,” published article, Berkshire Business Quarterly, August 2009.

• “Fair Game or Foul Play? Testing the limits of Fair Use in a Remix Culture,” featured speaker, Consulting Alliance, February 2009.

•  Navigating Stark Laws, featured speaker, Patient Keeper User Group Conference, September, 2007

• “Massachusetts Health Care Reform, Small Businesses and the Contingent Workforce,” Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, June, 2006

• “Practicing Safe Send: Managing E-mail Risk,” featured speaker, Southern Berkshire Chamber of Commerce, January 2006, published article, Berkshire Trade and Commerce , February 2006.

• “From Safe Send to Safe Save – Managing E-mail Risk,” featured speaker, Siena Business Institute , November 2003; Consulting Alliance May 2003.

• “Artists Online: The Evolving Law of the Internet,” featured speaker, Norman Rockwell Museum, Business and the Arts Series, July 2003

• Copyright Law and the Internet, featured speaker, New York State Bar Association, September 2000.