Beth I.Z. Boland is chair of Foley & Lardner’s Securities Enforcement & Litigation Practice and vice chair of the Litigation Department. She represents clients in shareholder suits, SEC, and Attorney General investigations and consumer class actions. Recently named one of the most “influential” attorneys in the Commonwealth by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, Boland regularly represents corporations and institutional investors in connection with insider trading issues, Ponzi schemes, accounting fraud, corporate control issues, and derivative actions. She advises corporate boards and leads internal investigations and the defense of government enforcement actions involving whistleblower claims, government contracts, corporate governance issues, and disputes involving executive compensation and strategic business transactions. Boland also defends some of the nation’s largest financial institutions and retailers in connection with class-action litigation and multi-agency enforcement actions involving privacy, fraudulent sales practices, and other statutory violations. She has won numerous class actions, including a case with industry-wide ramifications in front of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. Her clients operate in a wide range of industries, including financial services, retail, high technology, and manufacturing. Prior to joining Foley, Boland was a partner at Bingham McCutchen LLP, where she was in the firm’s Securities Litigation practice in Boston. Earlier in her career, she served as a clerk to the Honorable Milton Pollack in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York while he was assigned to the Ivan Boesky and Michael Milken insider trading litigations.