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Sheila Boston Nominated to Serve as City Bar’s Next President (New York Law Journal)

New York Law Journal, December 2, 2019

Sheila Boston Nominated to Serve as City Bar’s Next President

“Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer litigation partner Sheila Boston has been nominated to be the next president of the New York City Bar Association.

The group said Monday that Boston, who defends companies in mass torts, products liability cases and other complex litigation, had been nominated by one of its committees to fill the shoes of Roger Juan Maldonado, a partner at Smith, Gambrell & Russell who was announced to lead the organization in 2017.

Boston—the first woman of color to be nominated to serve as the organization’s president—had previously been a vice president and secretary of the city bar. She has also been a chair of its committees on diversity, equity and inclusion and on the recruitment and retention of lawyers.”

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