Boston attorney Kathleen M. Guilfoyle is named chair of DRI’s Center for Law and Public Policy at the organization’s recent Annual Meeting in New Orleans. DRI – Voice of the Defense Bar, with 20,000 members is the largest organization exclusively representing lawyers of the defense bar. The Center for Law and Public Policy is DRI’s research and advocacy arm.
Ms. Guilfoyle has been a member of DRI for nearly twenty-five years and has served on numerous DRI committees and task forces, including as chair of the Judicial Task Force and vice chair of the Jury Preservation Task Force. She served on DRI’s Board of Directors from 2012 to 2016 and was Secretary Treasurer on the Board’s Executive Committee. She also served as a director for the National Foundation for Judicial Excellence.
Additionally, she has served as chair of the Center’s Judicial Task Force, and member of the American Law Institute Task Force. Ms. Guilfoyle has also served as a Board Liaison to the Women in the Law Committee and the Drug and Medical Device Committee.
Ms. Guilfoyle is a shareholder of the firm of Campbell Campbell Edwards & Conroy, P.C. in Boston. She focuses her practice on aviation defense, drug and medical device defense, products liability, and environmental litigation.
She and her firm represented one of the non-carrier airlines in the litigation filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York arising out of the terrorist attacks of September 11th. In this litigation, she also worked on responding to requests for information from the Kean Commission, and participated in non-public witness interviews of various airline personnel by Kean Commission staffers.
Ms. Guilfoyle was named a Top Woman of Law by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly in 2013 and, she has been repeatedly named as Legal International Who's Who of Aviation Lawyers. She also served on the Board of Directors of the International Aviation Women’s Association.
She graduated from Harvard with a Bachelor of Arts, cum laude in History and received her J.D. from Northeastern University School of Law.