Biography

Ms. Perrelli is a partner in the firm’s Boston office and Chair of Seyfarth’s Litigation Department. She is a trial lawyer with over 20 years of experience representing regional, national, and international corporations in the financial services, transportation, manufacturing, technology, pharmaceutical, and staffing industries. Her commercial practice focuses on trial work and counseling in the areas of trade secrets and restrictive covenants, unfair competition and complex commercial disputes, including dealer/franchise disputes, contract disputes, and securities fraud. Her experience spans all forms of dispute resolution, including mediation and arbitration, as well as litigation in federal and state courts and before administrative agencies across the country.

Her experience in the employment area includes litigating and advising clients on all aspects of employment law, including reductions in force, hiring and termination, and defense of claims of race, sex, age discrimination and harassment. She also counsels clients regarding compliance with federal and state employment laws, corporate governance issues, employee personnel issues, training programs and compliance audit procedures. She also has extensive experience in drafting and negotiating employment contracts, including non-competition, non-solicitation, non-disclosure and separation agreements.

Ms. Perrelli is a certified Six Sigma Green Belt. Using Lean Six Sigma and project management methodologies, our SeyfarthLean approach delivers increased value to our clients at a time of increased market pressures and competitive demands. Seyfarth’s commitment to delivering legal services in a new way—with an emphasis on value and continuous improvement—has been praised by the Association of Corporate Counsel as being "five years ahead of every other AmLaw 200 firm."

Ms. Perrelli has been selected regularly as one of the state’s “Super Lawyers” in a joint survey conducted by the publishers of Law and Politics magazine and Boston magazine, as part of a special publication entitled “The Top Attorneys in the Northeast.”

Education

J.D., Western New England College School of Law (1984)
        Member, Western New England College School of Law Review

B.A., Skidmore College (1980)

Admissions

• Massachusetts
• Connecticut
• New York

Courts

• U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut
• U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts
• U.S. District Court for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit