Victoria L. Steinberg represents colleges and universities, as well as secondary schools, in a wide variety of matters.  She also represents organizations and individuals across a broad range of employment, business, and other civil litigation cases. 

Ms. Steinberg represents educational institutions in state and federal court, as well as at administrative agencies.  Her expertise includes guiding institutions through litigation involving Title VI, Title VII, and Title IX, Office of Civil Rights investigations, faculty and student disputes, government criminal investigations and subpoena responses, and commercial litigation.  Ms. Steinberg is known as a go-to problem solver for universities and colleges that find themselves in high-stakes, complicated, and sensitive disputes.

Ms. Steinberg’s employment expertise includes representing employers and employees in workplace disputes, internal and government investigations, severance and separation negotiations, noncompete and nonsolicitation agreements, and discrimination, harassment and retaliation issues. 

Ms. Steinberg represents individuals and businesses in complex commercial disputes across all industries, including healthcare practices, startup and established technology companies, financial institutions, and non-profit and mission-driven organizations, among many others.   She represents executives, boards of directors, family-run companies, international institutions, employees, and licensed professionals.  

Across all practice areas, Ms. Steinberg handles matters in state and federal courts, as well as before administrative agencies such as the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.  She also has experience serving as an external investigator for organizations reviewing complaints of discrimination, harassment, or retaliation, and as a Title IX investigative hearing officer.

Prior to founding Cloherty & Steinberg LLP, Ms. Steinberg was a partner at a Boston-based law firm. Ms. Steinberg previously served as a Law Clerk for the Honorable William Meade and the Honorable Susan S. Beck, both of the Massachusetts Appeals Court.