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Bar Admissions

•    Commonwealth of Massachusetts
•    District of Massachusetts

•  First Circuit Court of Appeals
•    Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, 1994

Education

Certified Financial Litigator, American Academy of Financial Litigators

Yale Law School, New Haven, CT, J.D. 
        
Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, New York, NY, M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. English Literature

American University School of International Service, Washington, DC,  B.A., magna cum laude, International Service and Literature

Professional Publications

Domestic Violence Issues, forthcoming in Paternity and the Law of Parentage (MCLE, 3rd ed.).

Legal Analysis: Magazu and the Expansion of Agency Power, Boston Bar Journal, Fall 2016.

Challenging the Status Quo: Divorce, in Breaking Barriers: The Unfinished Story of Women Lawyers and Judges in Massachusetts. Eds. Saris, Botsford & Berenson. Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, 2012. 

Challenging the Status Quo: Nonmarital Children, in Breaking Barriers: The Unfinished Story of Women Lawyers and Judges in Massachusetts.

Preventing and Protecting Against Domestic Violence, in Representing Nontraditional Families.  Ed. K. Triantafillou. Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, 2000.

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Same-Sex Domestic Violence: Strategies for Change.  Sage, 1999.  With Beth Leventhal.

Equal Protection/Equal Safety: Representing Victims of Same-Sex Partner Abuse, in Same-Sex Domestic Violence: Strategies for Change, supra.

Assisting Victims of Same-Sex Domestic Violence, Florida Domestic Violence Law.  Ed. Florida Bar Association, 1995; reprinted 1996.

Abuse That Dare Not Speak Its Name:  Assisting Victims of Lesbian and Gay Domestic Violence in Massachusetts, 28 New Eng. L. Rev. 273 (1994).

Leaving the Nest:  Employee Preparation to Compete, ABA Bus. Torts Newsletter, Oct. 1990.

Editor, AIDS and the Law: A Guide for the Public. Dalton, Burris, et al. Yale Univ. Press, 1987.

Starting a TRO Project, 96 Yale L.J. 1985 (1987).  With Gary Brown and Karen Keitel.

I Do, But I Can't:  Immigration Policy and Gay Domestic Relationships, 5 Yale L. & Pol'y Rev. 185 (1986).

Recent Seminars and Presentations

How to Represent Incapacitated Adults While Protecting Your Practice and Their Dignity, Co-Chair, Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, October 2020.

Different Perspectives on Marital Assets: The Different Approaches T&E and Family Lawyers Take. Trusts and Estates Consortium, Boston, MA. June 15, 2017.  Co-presenter. 

When DCF Steps Into Your Case, Chair. Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, Boston, MA.  2017, 2018, 2019.

Preparing Your Client for Life After Divorce.  Social Law Library, Boston, MA.  January 26, 2016. Chair and Moderator.

Speaking Their Language: Writing for the Justices. Massachusetts Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers Advanced Post-Conviction Litigation Seminar, Boston, MA. May 16, 2015. Lecturer. 

Selected Awards

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Super Lawyers, 2018 - 2020

50 Top Women of Law, Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, 2016

Community Service Award, Massachusetts Bar Association, 1997

Unsung Hero Award, Massachusetts Coalition of Battered Women's Service Groups/Jane Doe Safety Fund, 1993

Award for work on behalf of battered women, Women's Bar Association, 1993

Outstanding Service Award, Political Asylum/Immigration Representation Project, 1992

Law-Related Teaching and Mentoring    

Attorney Lundy is a Mentor to other attorneys in the Women’s Bar Foundation Family Law Project. She has taught legal writing and research, family law, law and policy, and domestic violence law at Wheelock University, Northeastern University Law School, and Boston University School of Law. Attorney Lundy has been a Facilitator for the Trial Court’s Changing Lives Through Literature course at Newton District Court.  She is a past board member of the Women’s Bar Association, the Domestic Violence Council, the Same-Sex Domestic Violence Council, and the Boston Bar Journal Board of Editors. She is a member of the Boston Chapter of the American Inns of Court.