Melanie Conroy

Melanie A. Conroy is a senior associate in the Firm’s Boston and New York offices and a member of the Securities Litigation practice group. Ms. Conroy has worked on a variety of securities and commercial matters in federal and state courts, as well as in private arbitration and mediation.

Her practice focuses on defending securities class action litigation, shareholder derivative suits, corporate governance disputes, and litigation arising from mergers and acquisitions.

In addition, Ms. Conroy has experience representing clients in connection with internal investigations as well as government and regulatory investigations, including investigations by the Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority.

She is also involved in counseling boards of directors, board committees, and senior management with respect to a broad range of matters, including securities, corporate governance, disclosure, and regulatory issues.

Ms. Conroy is highly committed to pro bono work, focusing her active pro bono practice on immigration matters referred from the Political Asylum/Immigration Representation Project, the International Refugee Assistance Program, Central American Legal Assistance, and the HIV Law Project. She has represented asylum seekers before the Second Circuit, the Board of Immigration Appeals, Immigration Court, and the USCIS Asylum Office.

She has also represented unaccompanied minors seeking Special Immigrant Juvenile Status in immigration and family courts. In addition to immigration pro bono work, Ms. Conroy has experience counseling non-profits and international non-governmental aid organizations on legislative and litigation matters.

Ms. Conroy has also served as an attorney volunteer for Election Protection’s nonpartisan voter helpline and the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund’s poll monitoring program, and is a Junior Fellow of the Boston Bar Foundation Society of Fellows, the official charity of the Boston Bar Association.

Ms. Conroy is a member of the Firm’s Pro Bono Committee and serves on the board of a not-for-profit organization in Massachusetts. She is also a member of the American Bar Association, the Boston Bar Association, and the New York City Bar Association.

Ms. Conroy received her B.A., cum laude, in Government and Legal Studies and Religion from Bowdoin College. She received her J.D. from Harvard Law School, where she served as Executive Editor of the Harvard Human Rights Journal.

Admissions:

• US Court of Appeals 2nd Cir.
• New York State
• Commonwealth of Massachusetts
• Southern District New York
• Eastern District New York
• District of Massachusetts
• District of Colorado

Education:

• Bowdoin College (B.A., 2005)
• Harvard Law School (J.D., 2008)