Michelle Limaj is an Associate in the firm's Business Department. Her practice focuses on the needs of private companies, including start-up, technology transfer and licensing, protection and maintenance of intellectual property rights and confidential information, venture capital financing transactions, corporate governance, securities law compliance and day-to-day corporate legal matters. Michelle also represents a number of nonprofit educational and health organizations, and assists them with transactional and intellectual property work as well as compliance with the state and federal laws governing tax exempt entities.
In addition to her corporate work, Michelle maintains an active pro bono practice. She represents victims of domestic violence as well as asylum seekers and U Visa applicants in Massachusetts district and immigration courts. She also provides pro bono assistance to public charities wishing to incorporate, obtain tax exempt status, and fundraise in Massachusetts, and counsels them on governance matters particular to charitable boards of directors.
Before joining Foley Hoag LLP, Michelle spent eight years as a communications officer with international organizations including the United Nations, the International Organization for Migration and Physicians for Human Rights. She has consulted for a number of aid agencies and academic institutions on communications matters. Michelle is also the founder and director of the Rahman Limaj Scholarship Program, a public charity that supports high school education for girls in rural areas of former Yugoslavia.
Professional / Civic Involvement
· Boston Bar Association, Member
· American Immigration Lawyers Association
· Board Member, Rahman Limaj Scholarship Program
· OSCE Election monitor (Kosovo, Serbia)
· American Bar Association
· Albanian American Law Association
· Massachusetts Department of Public Health Clinical Laboratory Advisory Committee Member
Industries
Venture Capital & Emerging Companies
Life Sciences
Energy Technology and Renewables
Nonprofit
Honors/Awards
Boston College Law School Recent Graduate Award, 2011
Lewis S. Gurwitz Award Boston College Law School, 2007
Honorable Sheila E. McGovern Award, MA Association of Women Lawyers, 2005