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Lisa Ropple

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35 years of experience
Business Law
Massachusetts, Massachusetts, 1989

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Practice Area

Business Law

Additional Practice Areas

General Civil
Litigation

Jurisdictions Admitted to Practice

Massachusetts
Since 1989

Massachusetts, 1989

Professional Experience

Partner: Ropes & Gray; Current

: Current; Since joining the firm in 1989, Lisa has represented a wide variety of clients, in industries ranging from manufacturing and retail to high technology, pharmaceutical, and financial services, in complex civil litigation of all types in federal and state courts throughout the country. Lisa currently is representing The TJX Companies, Inc. in connection with the criminal intrusion(s) into portions of TJX's computer network that has been reported to have resulted in the largest theft of customer data in history. As part of that engagement, Lisa is the lead lawyer representing TJX Companies, Inc. in connection with an investigation by 37 state Attorneys General into the largest computer intrusion in history. Some of the favorable results Lisa has previously obtained for clients include: In representing a well-known company in federal court against claims that it breached a contract and violated the Lanham Act by granting overlapping exclusive licenses to two licensees, obtained summary judgment on counterclaim against plaintiff; plaintiff dismissed its claimed $20+ million case without any settlement payment from our client; Successfully defended a high technology client against securities fraud class action lawsuit, obtaining dismissal of case in trial court; First Circuit affirmed decision on appeal in a precedent-setting securities case in the First Circuit (Greebel v. FTP Software); and In a case simultaneously litigated in three federal courts, obtained summary judgment in manufacturing client's favor on the interpretation of a contractual indemnification provision contained in an asset purchase agreement governing environmental liability, resulting in a highly favorable settlement of matter. Lisa also represents clients under investigation by the Department of Justice, the FTC, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and other federal and state regulators. Some more recent matters include representing clients in connection with the criminal and civil investigations by the DOJ and SEC of mutual fund market timing practices and successfully representing Aurora Foods Inc. in a prominent accounting fraud enforcement action by the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York and the SEC in New York.

Education

Boston College Law Review: J.D.; 1989; magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, West Publishing Prize ,for class rank - ranked second in class, Articles Editor