Education:

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

Practice Areas:

• Appeals
• Business Litigation
• Environmental Law (Co-Chair)
• Insurance and Reinsurance
• Real Estate Litigation (Co-Chair)

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:

• Member, Supreme Judicial Court Committee to Study the Code of Judicial Conduct (2012-)
• 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), 2003-2012
• The Best Lawyers in America (Environmental Law, Litigation - Environmental), 2006-2013
• Boston Best Lawyers Litigation - Environmental Lawyer of the Year for 2012
• Lawdragon 3000 Leading Lawyers in America, 2010, 2007, 2006
• The International Who's Who of Environmental Lawyers, 2011-2012; Who’s Who Legal USA: Environment, 2006
• Massachusetts Super Lawyers (Environmental), Boston magazine, 2004-2012; Top 100 Lawyers in Massachusetts, 2007-2012; Top 100 Lawyers in New England, 2007-2012; Top 50 Female Lawyers in Massachusetts, 2004-2012; Top 50 Female Lawyers in New England, 2007-2012
• Named to "The Power List - Lawyers Weekly's roster of the state's most influential attorneys" (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:

• Regis College v. Town of Weston, 462 Mass. 280 (2012) (landmark Dover Amendment decision, establishing standard sought by clients for determining whether a non-profit educational corporation's proposed real estate development is exempt from local zoning laws as a land use "for educational purposes")
• Ware Real Estate, LLC v. Town of Ware, 2012 WL 751739 (2012) (successful pursuit of declaratory and injunctive relief against municipality that sought to revoke a special permit for operation of construction and demolition waste recycling facility)
• 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 MassDEP 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, 2011-2012; President-Elect, 2010-2011; Vice-President, 2009-2010; Treasurer, 2008-2009; Executive Committee and Council Member, 2005-2012; 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 (Trustee, 2010-; Grants Committee, 2012-; Society of Fellows Committee, 2012-)
• 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, 1998-2010)

Admissions:

• Massachusetts
• U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
• Pennsylvania (retired)
• U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Related News:

October 24, 2012 -
22 SRBC Attorneys Recognized as "Super Lawyers"
Twenty-two SRBC lawyers have been listed among the top attorneys in Massachusetts in the annual Super Lawyers rankings.

September 12, 2012 -
Fifteen SRBC Lawyers Named Best Lawyers in America
Fifteen of SRBC's partners have been selected for inclusion in the 2013 edition of The Best Lawyers in America. Best Lawyers calls itself “the definitive guide to legal excellence in the United States.” The publication annually ...
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March 09, 2012 -
Appeals Court Affirms Judgment for C&D Waste Facility Against Town's Challenge
The Massachusetts Appeals Court today affirmed a December 2010 trial court victory by SRBC partners Lisa Goodheart and Dylan Sanders for the owners of a central Massachusetts construction and demolition ("C&D") waste recycling facility, vindicating the facility's special permit and ...
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March 07, 2012 -
Barshak and Goodheart Recognized by Chambers USA
The 2012 edition of the legal directory Chambers USA recognizes SRBC partners Edward Barshak and Lisa Goodheart as leaders in their fields. The annual publication conducts in-depth interviews with a lawyer's peers and clients, and asks for assessment of a lawyer's technical legal ability, ...
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October 26, 2011 -
Sixteen SRBC Partners Named 2011 Massachusetts Super Lawyers
Massachusetts Super Lawyers, an annual peer-review and independent-research survey designed to identify the top five percent of lawyers in the state, has named 16 SRBC partners to its 2011 listing. Several of the partners were also distinguished on shortlists of top lawyers ...
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October 07, 2011 -
Doniger and Goodheart are "Lawyers of the Year"
Having earlier named 13 SRBC partners to its 2011 annual Best Lawyers in America listing, Best Lawyers has singled out two of those partners--Tony Doniger and Lisa Goodheart--for further honors. Tony is Best Lawyers' 2012 Boston Family Law Lawyer of the Year, and Lisa is 2012 ...
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September 09, 2011 -
Thirteen SRBC Lawyers Named to Best Lawyers in America
The 2012 edition of The Best Lawyers in America, described as "the definitive guide to legal excellence in the U.S." and based on a nationwide peer survey of more than 3.9 million lawyers, has named 13 SRBC partners to its annual list. The partners, and the Best Lawyers ...
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September 01, 2011 -
Lisa Goodheart Takes Office as President of Boston Bar Association
SRBC Partner Lisa Goodheart today began her term as President of the Boston Bar Association. In addition to her busy environmental, real estate and business litigation practice, Lisa has been active in the BBA for many years, having served as President-Elect, Vice President, and Treasurer, and ...
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