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Lisa C. Goodheart
Sugarman, Rogers, Barshak & Cohen, P.C.
101 Merrimac Street
9th Floor
Boston, MA 02114
617-227-3030 (firm)
617-523-4001 (fax)
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Education:

J.D., University of Pennsylvania Law School (cum laude), 1985
B.A., Williams College (cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa), 1982

Practice Areas:

Lisa Goodheart concentrates in environmental, real estate and general business litigation. Before joining SRBC, she was a partner in the Boston office of DLA Piper US LLP, and before that a partner at Hill & Barlow, P.C. She has extensive experience in cost-recovery cases, permitting appeals, land use disputes, enforcement actions, insurance coverage disputes, design and construction matters, and a broad range of business litigation matters.

An active supporter of the arts community, Lisa has served as a director and officer of several nonprofit corporations operating modern and jazz dance companies, including DanceFusion, Inc., Backyard Dance Theatre, Inc., Impulse Dance Company, Inc., and, currently, Rainbow Tribe, Inc., of which she is also a former assistant artistic director. From 2001 to 2008, she was a member of the Board of Overseers of Celebrity Series of Boston, Inc., the major presenting organization for the performing arts in New England.

Public Service:

Chair, Judicial Nominating Commission, by appointment of Governor Deval L. Patrick (2007-2010)
Member, DEP Wetlands Appeals Streamlining Task Force (2007)

Recognition:

Lelia J. Robinson Award Recipient, Women's Bar Association of Massachusetts (2010)
Chambers USA: America’s Leading Business Lawyers (Environmental Law), 2003-2010
The Best Lawyers in America (Environmental Law), 2006-2011
Lawdragon 3000 Leading Lawyers in America, 2010, 2007, 2006
Who’s Who Legal USA: Environment, 2006
Massachusetts Super Lawyers (Environmental), Boston magazine, 2004-2010; Top 100 Lawyers in Massachusetts, 2007-2010; Top 100 Lawyers in New England, 2007-2010; Top 50 Female Lawyers in Massachusetts, 2004-2010; Top 50 Female Lawyers in New England, 2007-2010
Named to "The Power List" (Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, December 2009)
One of 10 “Lawyers of the Year” for 1997 (Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly)
Rated AV® Preeminent™ by Martindale-Hubbell

Selected Reported Decisions:

Bank v. Thermo Elemental, Inc., 451 Mass. 638 (2008) (successful pursuit of contractual indemnity claim and environmental response cost recovery action)
Friends and Fishers of Edgartown Great Pond, Inc. v. Department of Environmental Protection, 446 Mass. 830 (2006) (successful defense of DEP groundwater discharge permit for wastewater treatment plant)
Weston Forest and Trail Ass'n v. Fishman, 66 Mass. App. Ct. 654 (2006) (successful enforcement of conservation restriction, establishing that laches and estoppel are not available as defenses to actions by private entities to protect the public interest in conservation restrictions)
Emmons v. White, 58 Mass. App. Ct. 54 (2003) (successful enforcement of unrecorded release of easement, based on buyer's actual knowledge of release agreement)
Hanson Housing Authority v. Dryvit System, Inc., 29 Mass. App. Ct. 440 (1990) (successful defense against claims for alleged design defects, breach of warranties and misrepresentations, on statute of limitations grounds; litigated under the name of Lisa D. Campolo)

Memberships:

Boston Bar Association (President-Elect, 2010-; Vice-President, 2009-2010; Treasurer, 2008-2009; Executive Committee and Council Member, 2005-; Co-Chair, Environmental Law Section, 2002-2004)
New England Women in Real Estate (NEWIRE) (President, 2007-2008; President-Elect, 2006-2007; Steering Committee Member, 2004-2008; Co-Chair, Programs and Seminars Committee, 2003-2006)
Boston Bar Foundation (Board of Trustees, 2010-)
American Bar Association (Member, Standing Committee on Environmental Law, 2005-2008; Co-Chair, 2007 National Law and Policy Conference on Global Warming)
Women's Bar Association of Massachusetts
Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, Inc. (MCLE) (Member, Civil Litigation Curriculum Advisory Committee, 1998-)

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