Boston Managing Partner Kathleen Donovan-Maher has been selected as one of the Top Lawyers of 2021 by Boston Magazine in its inaugural list of the “best lawyers in the region.” The list was compiled through a two-step peer-review process across several practices areas, including voting and a further review by an “an advisory board of select lawyers, chosen for their credentials and the high number of votes they received.”
Kathleen focuses her practice on litigating complex class actions including securities, RICO, and consumer litigation, in addition to serving as Managing Partner of the Boston office and a member of the Firm’s Executive Committee. Recently, Kathleen led a consumer class action brought on behalf of individuals who took out high interest rate loans from American Web Loan AWL, an online lender alleged to have circumvented state and federal law, including RICO, usury laws and other laws against high-interest lending to make loans of between $300 and $2,500 that carry annual interest rates as high as 726%. Earlier this year, the Court granted final approval of the $186.5 million settlement, which provides for an $86 million cash recovery for the class, cancellation of $100.5 million worth of outstanding class period loans and other significant non-monetary and injunctive relief.
“We congratulate Kathleen on being selected a ‘Top Lawyer’ by Boston Magazine and her peers,” commented Boston Partner Leslie R. Stern, “it is well earned in light of Kathleen’s decades of successes representing shareholders and consumers.”
Boston Magazine is a publication that has focused on the Boston area for more than 40 years and has “been named among the three best city magazines in the nation seven times by the City and Regional Magazine Association.”