Lisa Arrowood, Esquire was appointed to the Commission in 2025. Ms. Arrowood has over four decades of legal practice experience. She is a founding partner of Arrowood LLP, where she concentrates her practice in business litigation, employment disputes, medical malpractice, personal injury, and legal malpractice. Prior to Arrowood LLP, she was a founding partner of Todd and Weld LLP and a partner and associate at Hale and Dorr.
Ms. Arrowood is an active member of the Boston Bar Association and served as its president from 2015-2016. She was also a member of BBA’s Executive Committee from 2010-2016 and the BBA Council from 2009-2016. She has also held leadership positions in the American College of Trial Lawyers and was a member of the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers from 2009 to 2015.
From 2010 to 2013, Ms. Arrowood served as the First Circuit Representative to the ABA Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary; she is currently the Massachusetts State Delegate to the ABA, which evaluates all nominations of Article III judges to the federal district courts, circuit courts of appeals and the United States Supreme Court, as well as various territorial district courts.
In 2000, Ms. Arrowood became a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. Since joining that Fellowship, she has served the American College of Trial Lawyers as Chair of the Gates Award Committee (2015-2017), as a Member of the Journal Committee (2013-present), as a Member of the Regents Nominating Committee (2011), and as Chair of the State Committee (2009-11).
In 2018, Ms. Arrowood was inducted into the Circle of Excellence by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly’s Top Women of Law, and then in 2024, she was inducted into the Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Hall of Fame. Ms. Arrowood has also been selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America for Commercial Litigation, Litigation – Labor and Employment, Medical Malpractice Law – Plaintiffs and Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs, each year since 2001.
Ms. Arrowood is recognized by Lawdragon as a Lawdragon Legend, 2025, the 500 Leading Plaintiff Consumer Lawyers, 2019-present, Most Powerful Employment Lawyers, 2016-present
The 500 Leading Lawyers in America, 2015-present.
Ms. Arrowood has been a featured speaker or panelist for the Inn of Court, the Boston Bar Association, the Women’s Bar Association, Harvard Law School, Brown University, Suffolk Law School, the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Lawyers, and the American Bar Association.
Ms. Arrowood received a Bachelor of Arts from Brown University, where she graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa and received her law degree from Harvard Law School, where she graduated cum laude.