Education

Boston College Law School, Newton, MA, J.D., magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, 2006

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, B.A., English and American Literature and Language, magna cum laude, 2001

Admissions to Practice

Commonwealth of Massachusetts

United States District Court, District of Massachusetts

United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

Professional Affiliations

Boston Bar Association

American Bar Association

Women’s Bar Association of Massachusetts

Awards and Recognitions

Cornelius J. Moynihan Award, for academic excellence and community involvement, Boston College Law School

Continuing Education and Commitment to Excellence

Moderator, "Hidden Bias in Discrimination Cases," New England Regional Conference of the National Employment Lawyers' Association (2011)

Panelist, "Appellate Practice Seminar," Boston Bar Association (2009)

Speaker and Panelist, "The Economics of a Humanities Education," Harvard University (several years)

Publications and Press

SJC Orders Employer to Pay Terminated Employee Earned Vacation Time

Appeals Court Orders Massachusetts Employer to Produce Payroll Records

Co-author/contributor, Chapter on “Employment Law,” Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, Inc.

Quoted in Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly for legal analysis on women’s rights as spokesperson for the National Organization for Women, Massachusetts Chapter

Ouoted in Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly in article entitled, "SJC Limits Tolling Based on Fraud - Concealment not Binding Against Co-defendants,"  January, 2012

Author, “A Heat of Passion Offense,” BC Third World Law Journal (2005)

Pro Bono / Community Service

Volunteer attorney, ABA Death Penalty Project

Volunteer attorney, Framingham Project for Incarcerated Women

Current Vice President in charge of fundraising, and former Co-President, National Organization for Women, Massachusetts Chapter

Steering Committee member, American Civil Liberties Union Amicus Club

Victoria L. Steinberg

617 371 1023

vsteinberg@collorallp.com

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Clients and Industries

During her career, Victoria has represented a number of companies, institutions, executives, doctors and other licensed professionals in a variety of industries, including the technology, health care, industrial materials, telecommunications, home furnishing, and food and beverage industries.  She has also represented educational institutions and non-profit organizations.

Practice Areas and Experience

Victoria has handled both civil and criminal matters in state and federal courts, and she has represented clients in proceedings before the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.  Her work has included civil and criminal discovery, trial preparation, representation at trial, post-conviction litigation, sentencing and appeals.

In civil matters, she has represented clients in an array of complex business disputes relating to commercial contracts, real estate and finance. Victoria has also represented both employees and companies in a range of employment matters involving severance and separation negotiations, breach of non-compete and non-solicitation agreements, discrimination issues and various employment-related torts. 

Victoria’s government investigation and white collar criminal defense practice includes representation of businesses and individuals in proceedings related to allegations of health care fraud, off-label drug marketing, and other regulatory infractions.

In addition, she has represented physicians and other licensed medical professionals in disciplinary proceedings before the Board of Registration in Medicine.

Professional Experience Outside of Collora LLP

Victoria served as a law clerk to the Honorable William Meade and the Honorable Susan Beck in the Massachusetts Appeals Court before joining Collora LLP in 2007.  As a student lawyer, she was selected to participate in the Rapapport Honors Program, through which she was a fellow at Jane Doe, Inc., the Massachusetts Coalition against Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence.  Through the Boston College Legal Assistance Bureau, she represented low-income clients in administrative and probate proceedings.

Sample of Results in Practice *

• Successfully represented numerous employees in matters involving employment separation, obtaining separation and settlement agreements that were satisfactory to the clients without necessity of trial.
• Successfully represented health research employee laid off after 20 years of service, obtaining for her an improved severance arrangement in case involving issues related to age and gender discrimination.
• Successfully represented president and chief executive of a health care institution, obtaining a separation settlement that was satisfactory to the client as a result of successful mediation that followed an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) action.
• Successfully represented company faced with EEOC litigation related to allegations of harassment, settling the case for substantially less than the plaintiff’s initial demand.
• Successfully represented physician-shareholder in suit by fellow shareholders, obtaining a complete dismissal after several pre-trial motions. Thereafter, the matter was amicably settled in a way that allowed the client to maintain control of his practice.
• Successfully represented a young engineer who had not been paid for wages and bonuses in accord with the Massachusetts Wage Act, ultimately obtaining a favorable settlement without necessity of trial.
• Part of a legal team that represented a company in the food and beverage industry that had lost a case at trial (with another lawyer), advising the company on its options for appeal and ultimately negotiating a settlement satisfactory to the client after positioning the case for appeal and possible re-trial.
• Successfully represented a Muslim worker in a case involving issues of discrimination, harassment, intentional infliction of emotional distress, assault and retaliatory firing, obtaining settlement compensation on all issues that was satisfactory to the client from a defendant that initially offered nothing in compensation.

* This sampling of cases represents a selected, small portion of this lawyer’s total experience, and past performance is not intended to be a representation of likely future results, which must be assessed on a case-by-case basis.