Elizabeth A. "Liz" Ritvo
Recognized since 2009
Boston, Massachusetts
First Amendment Law
Elizabeth Ritvo has more than 30 years of broad experience in complex commercial litigation and has also counseled and represented newspapers, television stations, publishers and other media in libel, invasion of privacy, access, prior restraint, First Amendment and copyright matters before state and federal trial and appellate courts. Liz has also served as an arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association for business and construction disputes.
Liz has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America in the area of First Amendment Law, and was named one of 2013's Top Women of Law by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly.
- One Financial Center
Boston, MA 02111
- University of Virginia, J.D., graduated 1976
- Yale University, BA, graduated 1973
- Massachusetts, United States
- District of Columbia, United States
- American Bar Association Forum on Communications Law: - Co-chair, Member (1998 – present); Diversity Moot Court Competition Committee Member (2009 – present)
- Boston Bar Foundation Grants Committee - Co-chair (2011 – present); Member, (1999 – present)
- Media Law Resource Center - Member (2002 – present); Member, Model Shield Law Committee, (2006 – Present); Member, Media Copyright and Trademark Committee (2013 – present)
- New England Center for Investigative Reporting - Advisory Board Member (2012 – present)
- New England First Amendment Coalition - Board Member (2011 – present)
42 The Best Lawyers in America® awards
21 Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America awards
- First Amendment Law, Boston (2022)
- First Amendment Law, Boston (2020)
- First Amendment Law, Boston (2017)
- First Amendment Law
- Defamation
- Listed in the 2009 – 2015 editions of Woodward/White Inc.'s The Best Lawyers in America in the specialty of First Amendment Law
- 2013 Top Women of Law, Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly
- Received highest peer review rating by Martindale-Hubbell (AV)
- Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law
- Litigation - First Amendment
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