Education
- Northeastern University School of Law, JD, 2000
- Boston University, BA, 1995, magna cum laude
Kathy Henry Receives Woman of Justice Award
Kathy Henry has been selected by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, in partnership with the Women’s Bar Association and the Massachusetts Association of Women Lawyers, to receive their first “Woman of Justice” Award.
Kathleen Cloherty Henry
Kathy Henry is the firm’s first Hiring & Pro Bono Partner, focusing exclusively on legal recruiting and managing the firm’s pro bono efforts.
Kathy joined the firm as a litigator in 2000, and became a member of the Insurance & Reinsurance Practice Group. She worked on a substantial number of complex environmental and asbestos coverage disputes on behalf of direct-side insurers, ceding companies and reinsurers. She has also co-authored several articles and presentations produced at Mealey’s Insurance, Mealey’s Reinsurance and ARIAS conferences. In 2007, she became partner in the Insurance & Reinsurance Practice Group. Since joining the firm, Kathy has participated in legal recruiting, most specifically the firm’s vibrant summer program.
Kathy has also performed extensive pro bono work, representing asylum seekers including child soldiers from the Congo, a sex slave from Liberia and an Egyptian Coptic Christian through the Political Asylum Immigration and Refugee Project. She has represented victims of domestic violence on a pro bono basis before the Suffolk Country Probate and Family Court through the Women’s Bar Foundation’s Family Law Project for Battered Women. For her efforts, in 2004, Kathy was one of ten leaders from across the state to be appointed to the Boston Bar Association’s first Public Interest Leadership Program. In 2006, Kathy was honored as a recipient of the Boston Chamber of Commerce Jaycees’ TOYL Award, as one of Ten Young Outstanding Leaders in Boston. She is listed as a Massachusetts Super Lawyers Rising Star.
Kathy is also involved in community work. From 1996 to 2003, she volunteered each summer at Camp Birch in New York to work with children and families affected by HIV and AIDS. She served on the Northeastern University School of Law Alumni/ae Board of Directors, and currently serves on the Boston Bar Association’s Public Service Committee. She is a board member of The LAMP For Haiti Foundation, a non-profit providing medical care and human rights advocacy to the urban poor of Cite Soleil, Port-au-Prince.
Publications and Presentations
- "PAIR: A Unique Public/Private Collaboration That Saves Lives," author, Boston Bar Journal, Summer 2010.