About Us

Our purpose is and always has been to help our clients achieve great things.

Our Story

The Goodwin story began with a chance encounter on a Boston sidewalk. After some friendly conversation, two young lawyers, former classmates from college, decided to start their own law practice.

An eavesdropper on State Street that late spring morning in 1912 might have been amused at their bravado as Robert Eliot Goodwin and Joseph Osborne Procter, Jr. mapped their professional future. But the firm they forged would flourish, setting the foundation of a professional enterprise that would grow beyond anything either might have imagined.

Today, nearly 2,000 Goodwin lawyers focus on building authentic, long-term relationships with our clients, who are some of the world’s most successful and innovative investors, entrepreneurs and disruptors at the convergence of and within the life sciences, private equity, real estate, technology, and financial industries.

Our Global Operations Team (all business professionals) partners with our lawyers and clients across multiple business of law functions, providing for a truly unique and differentiated client service model.

Our immersive understanding of our clients’ industries – combined with our expertise across high-stakes litigation and dispute resolution, world-class regulatory compliance and advisory services, and complex transactions – sets us apart.

Core Principles

Our core principles are our foundation. They ground us and bind us together as a firm. Our commitment to these values is what drives us and what enables our success.

Social Commitment and Corporate Responsibility

We are committed to helping our clients and the communities in which we live and work. We dedicate our talent and resources to meaningful causes and initiatives that reflect our core principles. For us, it is simple. We have a responsibility to make a difference and to help our clients and our communities thrive.

Firm Leadership

The Management Committee directs our day-to-day operations.

Mark Bettencourt
+1 617 570 1091
mbettencourt@goodwinlaw.com

Lynda Galligan
+1 650 752 3167
lgalligan@goodwinlaw.com

Joanne Gray
+1 212 459 7440
jgray@goodwinlaw.com

Josh Klatzkin
+1 202 346 4129
jklatzkin@goodwinlaw.com

Anthony McCusker
+1 650 752 3267
amcsusker@goodwinlaw.com

Practice leaders lead industry and practice groups.

Complex Litigation and Dispute Resolution 

Caroline Bullerjahn
+1 617 570 1359
cbullerjahn@goodwinlaw.com

William Jay
+1 202 346 4190
wjay@goodwinlaw.com

Financial Services

Samantha M. Kirby
+1 617 570 8794
SKirby@goodwinlaw.com

Intellectual Property Litigation

Elaine Blais
+1 617 570 1205
eblais@goodwinlaw.com

Brett Schuman
+1 415 733 6021
bschuman@goodwinlaw.com

Life Sciences

Mitchell Bloom
+1 617 570 1055
mbloom@goodwinlaw.com

Private Equity

Brian McPeake
+1 415 733 6077
bmcpeake@goodwinlaw.com

Chris Nugent
+1 212 813 8825
cnugent@goodwinlaw.com

Yash Rana
+852 3658 5388
yrana@goodwinlaw.com

John LeClaire
+1 617 570 1144
jleclaire@goodwinlaw.com

Real Estate

Diana Brummer
+1 212 813 8861
dbrummer@goodwinlaw.com

John Ferguson
+1 212 813 8827
jferguson@goodwinlaw.com

Technology

John Egan
+1 617 570 1514
jegan@goodwinlaw.com

Ken Gordon
+1 617 570 1327
kgordon@goodwinlaw.com

Craig Schmitz
+1 650 752 3266
cschmitz@goodwinlaw.com

Chief officers lead the Global Operations Team, all of the firm’s business professionals.

Heidi Goldstein Shepherd
Interim Chief Operating Officer
Chief Talent Officer and Assistant General Counsel for Employment
+1 617 570 8189
hshepherd@goodwinlaw.com

David Fleming
Chief Information Officer
+1 617 570 1985
dfleming@goodwinlaw.com

Kevin Garofoli
Chief Practice Officer – Litigation
+1 617 570 8252
kgarofoli@goodwinlaw.com

Bela Grover
Chief Client Relationship Officer
+1 415 733 6019
bgrover@goodwinlaw.com

Scott Kopcha
Chief Information Security Officer
+1 617 570 3988
skopcha@goodwinlaw.com

Meredith Santos
Chief Practice Officer – Business Law
+1 617 305 8056
msantos@goodwinlaw.com 

Konstantin Shishkin
Chief Communications Officer
+1 212 459 7176
kshishkin@goodwinlaw.com

Christina Wong
Chief Financial Officer
+1 212 459 7158
christinawong@goodwinlaw.com