Beth McCormack

Before joining VLS, Professor McCormack practiced in the Litigation Section of the Boston law firm Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C.  She has extensive experience in commercial litigation, with a particular focus in construction law. Her practice included all aspects of state and federal litigation, as well as alternative dispute resolution. Professor McCormack is also very experienced in arbitration practice and procedure and has represented clients before various arbitration panels and in pre- and post-arbitration proceedings. Professor McCormack was a member of the firm's hiring committee and served as a mentor to new associates. In addition, for the past eight years, Professor McCormack was an instructor at Boston University School of Law where she taught Legal Research and Writing to first year law students.

In 2007, Professor McCormack served as a Special Assistant District Attorney at the Middlesex District Attorney's Office. During that time, she took more than twenty criminal cases to trial.   She is admitted to practice in Massachusetts, before the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts and the First Circuit Court of Appeals. 

Professor McCormack received her AB from the University of Chicago and earned her J.D., cum laude, from Boston University School of Law.  During law school, Professor McCormack was a member of the Public Interest Law Journal.  She also participated in the Stone Moot Court Competition, the Albers Honors Moot Court Competition, and was a member of the Craven National Moot Court Team.