Lisa G Arrowood

Practice Areas

Lisa Arrowood, founding partner at Arrowood LLP, has practiced law for more than four decades, focusing on business litigation, employment disputes, legal malpractice, medical malpractice and personal injury. Well known for her expert ability to try to a jury, judge or arbitrator, Lisa has litigated cases in state and federal courts in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, New Jersey, Texas, Virginia, Rhode Island, Nevada, and Connecticut.

Experienced in all types of business litigation, Lisa has handled breach of contract and misrepresentation disputes; disputes concerning non-competition agreements and other restrictive covenants; breach of fiduciary duty cases; and unfair business practices cases. She has successfully tried to resolution numerous business dispute cases, and has represented both publicly traded corporations and family businesses. Her experience includes disputes within the financial services industry, including venture capital and private equity.

Also experienced in employment litigation, Lisa has successfully represented employers across all major industries in cases involving sexual harassment, gender and race discrimination, handicap discrimination and other claims. She has obtained settlements for employees in the high six and seven figures and skillfully negotiated complex severance packages and employment agreements on behalf of financial, marketing and sales executives as well as physicians.

Her extensive expertise also encompasses legal malpractice matters. She has represented individuals and corporations in legal malpractice claims against their lawyers and law firms. Additionally, she has represented attorneys against whom malpractice claims have been made. Lisa has worked on matters involving mistakes made by corporate lawyers, employment lawyers, estate planning lawyers and other specialties. Although she has successfully tried cases to verdict, she usually achieves pre-trial settlements in legal malpractice matters.

Lisa is also known for her accomplishments in the areas of medical malpractice and personal injury claims. She has represented plaintiffs in virtually every type of medical malpractice action, ranging from birth injury to failure to diagnose cancer, heart attacks, and stroke. She won, what was at that time, the third largest jury verdict in Massachusetts for a medical malpractice case. Her successes in personal injury claims are well documented in Massachusetts as well as in local and federal courts across the United States. She has achieved settlements in the millions of dollars, representing plaintiffs in suits involving injuries suffered in construction accidents, automobile accidents, industrial accidents, and products liability claims.

Career

Lisa Arrowood has been described in Chambers USA, America’s Leading Lawyers for Business as a “dynamic courtroom attorney” and “a force of nature” with “tremendous talent” in cross-examination.

Widely recognized for her achievements and extensive jury trial experience, she was inducted as a fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers in 2000 and the International Academy of Trial Lawyers in 2014. Over the years, she has held numerous leadership positions, most recently having been appointed in 2025 to a six-year term on the Massachusetts Commission on Judicial Conduct. She also served a five-year term on the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers.

Lisa has been a member of the American Bar Association since 1985 and a member of its House of Delegates since 2016. She's currently serving a three-year term as the Massachusetts State Delegate to ABA's House of Delegates. Lisa was co-chair of ABA’s Women in Litigation Joint CLE Conference in 2021 and was a member of the Practitioner’s Reading Group for the evaluation of U.S. Supreme Court then-nominee Amy Coney Barrett in 2020. In addition, she held a three-year appointment as the First Circuit Representative to the ABA Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary and was vice-chair of the Medicine and Law Subcommittee of Tort and Insurance Practice Section.

An active member of the Boston Bar Association, Lisa has served as president, vice president, secretary, co-chair of the Tort Litigation Committee, and member of other committees including BBA’s Executive Committee and BBA Council.

Throughout her distinguished career, Lisa has been consistently honored for her outstanding work. She was inducted into the Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Hall of Fame in 2024. She has also been named by Best Lawyers® every year since 2002 as one of the “The Best Lawyers in America” for Commercial Litigation, Medical Malpractice Law and Personal Injury Litigation. She has been recognized as one of the “Top Ten Massachusetts Super Lawyers” by Super Lawyers every year since 2013, and named by Lawdragon as a Lawdragon Legend in 2025 and one of “The 500 Leading Lawyers in America” from 2015 to the present.

Prior to Arrowood LLP, she was a founding partner of Todd & Weld LLP and a partner and associate at Hale and Dorr.

Professional Memberships

BAR MEMBERSHIPS

United States District Court, Massachusetts

United States Court of Appeals, 1st Circuit

United States Court of Appeals, 4th Circuit

Admissions pro hac vice in various courts

Clients

Lisa Arrowood has skillfully represented a diverse list of prominent clients including Dr. David Sabatini, Dr. Barry Sears, creator of the ZONE Diet, Staples, Inc., Fidelity Investments, Gillette, Procter & Gamble, the New York Times, Meredith Corporation (publisher of Better Homes and Gardens magazine), Ropes & Gray, as well as several other law firms, and many other individuals and businesses of all types and sizes.

Education

Awards