Laura K. Hennessey

Laura K. Hennessey
  • Associate

Ms. Hennessey’s practice centers on complex commercial and real estate litigation, especially breach of contract, land use, intellectual property, unfair competition and consumer protection disputes. She is experienced in representing corporate plaintiffs and defendants across a broad range of industries, including technology, communications, manufacturing, and clean energy, during all stages of civil litigation, including trial. Ms. Hennessey joins FITCH after serving as a Law Clerk to the Honorable Rya W. Zobel of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Prior to that, she was engaged in private practice.

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Education And Distinctions

Laura K. Hennessey

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Ms. Hennessey joins FITCH after four years at Perkins Coie LLP in Seattle, WA. There she litigated high-stakes commercial matters in federal and state court, including issues of antitrust, trade secret, patent, contract and constitutional law.

In law school, Ms. Hennessey was the Executive Note Editor of the Boston College Law Review and her published Note won the American Bar Association Section of Antitrust Law’s Student Writing Competition. Currently, Ms. Hennessey serves as an Adjunct Professor of Legal Writing for LLM students at Boston College Law School, where she strives to share her passion for legal writing with the next generation of lawyers.

Ms. Hennessey is also committed to pro bono work, focusing her efforts on immigration and children’s issues. For example, while at FITCH she pursued a claim in federal court under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction on behalf of a father separated from his young son. Before joining the firm she partnered with the ACLU to bring a class action challenging the constitutionality of a federal immigration benefit vetting program and separately represented several unaccompanied minors before state and immigration court, successfully qualifying her clients for federal immigration relief.

Teaching and Publications

Adjunct Professor, Legal Writing for LLMs, Boston College Law School, 2022-present.

Adjunct Instructor, Legal Research and Writing, New England School of Law, 2020-2021.

Jon B. Jacobs, David F. Olsky, & Laura K. Hennessey, Court: Department May Prosecute Foreign Defendants for Antitrust Crimes Committed Overseas, Bloomberg Law (2018).

Shylah Alfonso, Susan Foster, & Laura Hennessey, Aerotec Likely to Guide 9th Circ. On Aftermarket Issues, Law360 (Oct. 18, 2016), https://www.law360.com/articles/851056/aerotec-likely-to-guide-9th-circ-on-aftermarket-issues.

Laura Kaplan, One Merger, Two Agencies: Dual Review in the Breakdown of the AT&T/T-Mobile Merger and a Proposal for Reform, 53 B.C. L. Rev. 1571 (2012).

Laura Kaplan, An Implicit Exemption, Implicitly Applied: Blurring the Line of Accommodation Between Labor Policy and Antitrust Law in Harris v. Safeway, 53 B.C. L. Rev. E. Supp. 181 (2012).

Professional Activities and Associations

  • Admitted to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Washington State and bars.