Lydia Edwards is a member of the firm's Litigation Practice Group. Within the firm, Ms. Edwards serves as member of the Boston Diversity Committee.
Prior to joining the firm Ms. Edwards clerked for the Massachusetts Superior Court.
While in law school, Ms. Edwards participated in the Women and Law Clinic and helped coordinate relief efforts in Louisiana and Mississippi after Hurricane Katrina. As a Marshall-Brennan fellow, Ms. Edwards taught Constitutional law in Washington D.C. public high schools. Ms. Edwards also interned with the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights under the Law.
Ms. Edwards also is founding editor in chief of The Modern American, one of the few law school student run publications dedicated to the current issues of race, sexuality, religion and disability. Ms. Edwards published a law review article in the University of California Berkeley Journal of African American Law and Policy. Her article entitled, Protecting Black Tribal Members: Is the Thirteenth Amendment the Linchpin to Securing Equal Rights Within Indian Country? , 8 Berkeley J. Afr.-Am. L. & Pol'y 122 was subsequently cited and quoted in the decision of Vann v. Kempthorne, 467 F. Supp. 2d 56 (D.D.C. 2006).
At the end of her law school career Ms. Edwards was awarded the Rising Star Award for 2006 which is given out annually to one African American student and is chosen by his or her peers.