Elizabeth Ritvo

Elizabeth Ritvo has been a Partner and is now of counsel with Brown Rudnick LLP. Her practice has focused on media, First Amendment, and commercial litigation matters before trial and appellate courts.

Liz graduated from Yale College in 1973 and the University of Virginia School of Law in 1976. Involved with a variety of bar and professional groups, Liz has served as past president and trustee of the Women’s Bar Foundation, trustee of the Brown Rudnick Charitable Foundation, co-chair of the ABA Forum on Communications Law’s Women in Communications Law Committee and a member of the Forum’s Diversity Moot Court Competition Committee, and a member of the board of the Media Law Resource Center and past president and Executive Committee member of its Defense Counsel Section.

Presently, Liz serves as a member of the BBA’s Council and co-chair of its Amicus Committee, and the Boston Bar Foundation’s Grants Committee of which she was previously co-chair. She is also on the advisory board of the New England Center for Investigative Reporting and the board of the New England First Amendment Coalition.

As an Access to Justice Fellow, Liz will work with the Access to Justice Commission’s Administrative Justice Committee. The AJC was formed to examine barriers to the state’s administrative systems as experienced by low income and underserved members of our community. This year, the AJC will focus on three issues: technology-related barriers; language access barriers; and the need for greater coordination and efficiencies between administrative agencies. The AJC will prepare a report to the Commission with its findings and recommendations. Liz will assist the AJC with its research and analysis and its development of draft recommendations and a report to the full Access to Justice Commission.