The American Bar Association Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section will honor Boston attorney Maureen Mulligan with its Kirsten Christophe Memorial Award for excellence in Trial and Insurance Law. The award will be presented at the TIPS leadership reception and dinner on Saturday, Oct.17, at 6 p.m. during the Fall Leadership Meeting at the Westin Kierland Resort and Spa in Scottsdale, Ariz.
The Kirsten Christophe Memorial Award recognizes TIPS members who demonstrate expertise in an area of trial practice or insurance law and personify the exemplary attributes of its namesake, a former TIPS council member who died in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and who excelled in balancing career, profession and family in life and practice.
"Maureen has been a TIPS leader for many years," TIPS Chair G. Glennon Troublefield said. "She embodies all of the qualities that TIPS seeks to recognize with the Kirsten Christophe Award and, along with the prior distinguished recipients of this award, honors the memory of Kirsten through her unwavering dedication to the practice of law, to her family and to TIPS."
Mulligan is a shareholder of Ruberto, Israel & Weiner in Boston. She is an experienced litigator who represents clients in complex business disputes regarding Internet use, technology, digital media, trademarks, banking, finance, shareholder conflicts, professional liability claims and insurance coverage. She advises clients on privacy, security and data breach response, and is a strategic advisor to public and private companies on risk management, corporate investigations, crisis management, fiduciary and ethical duties. Mulligan has extensive first chair trial and negotiation experience and was trained as a mediator through the Harvard Law School Program of Instruction for Lawyers Mediation Workshop. She is a member of the bar in Massachusetts and California.
Mulligan has been recognized as a leader by her peers in the legal and business community. The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts appointed her to a four-year position on the Board of Bar Overseers and she has chaired the Board's Rules Committee and Technology Committee. She has also served on the Boston Bar Association Counsel and is a past co-chair of the Boston Bar Association Litigation Section and the section's Professional Liability Committee.
Mulligan has held multiple leadership roles within TIPS, including former chair of the section's Corporate Governance Institute and Professionals' Officers' and Directors' Liability Committee. She currently serves as the section's liaison to the ABA Commission on Women in the Profession and holds an active role in the Section Conference Task Force.
In 2009, she was recognized by the Women's Business Journal as one of the area's Top Ten Women Lawyers and in 2012, received the Top Women of the Law Award from Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly. She has also been recognized by Boston Magazine as a Massachusetts/New England Super Lawyer in Business Litigation in 2004 and 2006-14.
Mulligan received her J.D. from Boston College Law School in 1990 and received her undergraduate degree at Brown University in 1985.
Published: Fri, Oct 09, 2015
