Practice Focus

Health Care, Complex Commerical and personal injury litigation including Medical Malpractice Defense, Products Liability and intellectual property.

Experience

Lisa specializes in advising health care organizations on a variety of daily legal questions including Medicare/Medicaid, Stark and Fraud/Abuse compliance, EMTALA, HIPAA and HITECH Acts, quality assurance, and consent issues.

She also is an experienced litigator, having tried complex cases to verdict in both state and federal courts.

Lisa's litigation experience includes:

• Serving as lead defense counsel in a trial of consolidated, multi-defendant, latex glove products liability cases which resulted in defense verdicts that were upheld on appeal
• Litigating complex intellectual property and products liability cases, including medical devices
• Medical malpractice defense
• Personal injury cases for both domestic and foreign clients
• Obtained $3.55 million verdict against State for its failure to pay appropriate rates to seven residential child care providers.

Practice Areas

• Health Care
• Insurance / Financial Services
• Litigation
• Medical Malpractice and Risk Management
• Products Liability

Professional Activities

• Frequent lecturer on Health Topics, including medical privacy and consent issues
• Frequent lecturer on litigation topics, including evidence and courtroom technology
• Adjunct Professor, New England College, Masters in Health Administration Program
• Past President, American Inns of the Court, Daniel Webster Chapter, Chapter author

Honors and Distinctions

• AV Peer Review Rated, Martindale-Hubbell
• Voted as a 2011 Super Lawyer in 3 categories:
  • Health Law
  • General Litigation
  • Personal Injury Defense: Medical Malpractice
• Bruce Friedman Award 2005 for leadership in child advocacy

Community Involvement

• Member, Pastoral Council of Immaculate Heart of Mary Church

Bar Admissions

Lisa is admitted to practice in the state courts in New Hampshire and Vermont, the Federal Court District Courts in New Hampshire and Vermont, and the First Circuit Court of Appeals.

Education

Dartmouth College, A.B., magna cum laude, Engineering, 1985; Boston College Law School, J.D., magna cum laude, 1988; Note and Case Note Editor, Boston College Law Review