Ms. Magary practices in the Andover, Massachusetts office and focuses her practice primarily in the areas of civil litigation and investor arbitration, with an emphasis on securities, business, and probate disputes. She has represented parties in various alternative dispute resolution forums, as well as before trial and appellate level state and federal courts. She strives to resolve disputes with a creative approach to serve her clients' interests and achieve optimal results.

Ms. Magary is a member of the Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association, where she serves as the co-chair of the Self Regulatory Organization (SRO) and Legislation committee. She also participates on the Amicus Curiae committees. She has spoken at PIABA conferences regarding trust issues and matters relating to investors and their counsel in New England.

Ms. Magary has represented clients in complex and substantial matters, including achieving a favorable settlement of a multi-million dollar investment dispute that resulted in the largest referral fee ever paid to the Boston Bar Association. She also served as co-counsel in obtaining a million dollar jury verdict in a defamation case against a major media outlet. She further represented investors in the case of Richard C. Young & Co. v. Leventhal, 389 F.3d 1 (1st Cir. 2004), ensuring that the Leventhals, who lived in California and were in their 70s, could not be compelled to travel to Boston to arbitrate a dispute with an investment advisor.

In 1999, Ms. Magary graduated from New England Law Boston, which was the first law school in the country dedicated solely to the legal education of women. Ms. Magary served as the Managing Literary Editor of the New England Journal on Criminal and Civil Confinement and was the recipient of the New England School of Law Service Award. She attended the University at Albany for her undergraduate degree and masters level coursework in Russian literature and linguistics. She was a coxswain for the Albany crew team.

Admissions:

• Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
• U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

Publications:

• Theories of Involuntary Fiduciary Liability - PIABA BAR JOURNAL, Fall 2005 29.
  
  
• Should Expert Witnesses be Sequestered in Securities Arbitration? - co-authored with Mary E. Calhoun, published in SECURITIES ARBITRATION COMMENTATOR, June 2004, at 1, and in DAVID E. ROBBINS, SECURITIES ARBITRATION 2004: A RAPIDLY EVOLVING PROCESS 563.
  
  
• Pitfalls of an ERISA 404(c) Defense - Employers' Potential Liability for Employee-Directed Retirement Plans - PIABA BAR JOURNAL, Spring 2004 59.
  
  
• Imposing Criminal and Civil Penalties for Failing to Help Another: Are Good Samaritan Laws a Good Idea? - NEW ENGLAND INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE LAW ANNUAL, Spring 2000.