Boston Alumni Holiday Party & Silver Shingle Gala
The Boston Alumni Holiday Party & Silver Shingle Awards will be held at Hotel Commonwealth (500 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215) on Wednesday, December 7. During the holiday party, we will be recognizing BU Law’s 2022 Silver Shingle Award recipients for their outstanding accomplishments.
Silver Shingle Award Recipients
Silver Shingle for Service to the Profession: Jane Goldstein ’89
Silver Shingle for Service to the School: Jeffrey Woolf ’74
Silver Shingle for Service to the Community: Nancy Shor ’76
Young Lawyer’s Chair: Peter Alvarez ’14
Gerard H. Cohen Award: Jill Collins and Maureen Leo
Jane Goldstein '89
Partner, Ropes and gray LLP | Silver Single for Service to the Profession
Learn More
Jane Goldstein is a partner at Ropes & Gray LLP and co-head of the firm's mergers & acquisitions group for North America maintaining offices in both New York and Boston. She has spent her full career at the prestigious firm since graduating magna cum laude from Boston University School of Law in 1989.
Widely regarded as a leader in her field, Jane has received numerous accolades, including The American Lawyer’s " Dealmaker of the Year” and recognitions from U.S. News, IFLR1000 and The Deal , among others. She advises a wide range of public and private companies with respect to mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, securities regulation, and general legal matters, as well as investment banking firms serving in financial advisory roles.
Consistently a leader, Jane has been breaking barriers since she was the Editor-in-Chief of the Annual Review of Banking Law at BU School of Law. Jane also graduated from Boston University in 1982 magna cum laude in French Language and Literature.
Jane is an avid skier and all-around lover of the outdoors. She and her husband Bruce have an adult daughter, Brett, who works and lives in New York. They currently reside on the beach in Swampscott, Mass. with their three dogs.
Nancy Shor '76
Founder and Former Executive Director, National Organization of Social Security Claimants' Representatives | Silver Shingle for Service to the Community
Learn More
During two years in private practice on Cape Cod after graduation, Nancy realized that there was a gap in legal education about Social Security and SSI programs for people with disabilities. In 1979, she co-founded the National Organization of Social Security Claimants’ Representatives to educate and assist claimants and their lawyers. She has devoted her career to improving the quality of representation for these claimants, and to ensuring their access to full and fair adjudication in the Social Security and SSI disability programs. As the first Executive Director of NOSSCR, she built a national specialty bar association which grew to a membership of over 4,000 lawyers. She became the NOSSCR Senior Policy Advisor from 2013-2016.
Nancy is very honored to receive the 2022 Public Service Alumni Award from Boston University School of Law. She is a member of the National Academy of Social Insurance and a graduate of Wellesley College. She is admitted to practice in Massachusetts and the District of Columbia. In retirement, she is active with organizations assisting children and adults with disabilities.
Peter Alvarez '14
Senior Vice President at Atlantic Global Risk | Young Lawyers Chair
Learn More
Peter is a Senior Vice President at Atlantic Global Risk, a transactional risk insurance brokerage. Prior to joining Atlantic, Peter worked at Choate, Hall & Stewart and Locke Lord advising private equity sponsors and strategic buyers in healthcare, technology, life sciences, and financial services investments, and was designated a "Rising Star" in 2019 and 2020 in Super Lawyers-Massachusetts. Peter holds a law degree from Boston University School of Law (’14) and bachelor’s degree from Boston College (’06). He is a member of the BU Law Alumni Executive Committee, and received the Black Law Students Association's Young Alumnus Award in 2018. Peter has been on the pro bono panel for the EdLaw Project, providing pro bono counsel for low income families with children on Individualized Education Plans and served as a member of the Host Committee for EdLaw's Spring Event. He was on the Steering Committee for the Boston Bar Association's Service Innovation Project, where he worked to develop initiatives to engage BBA members to use their legal skills to dismantle the "cradle to prison pipeline". In January 2022, Peter was appointed by Boston Mayor Michelle Wu as the inaugural chair of the newly formed Civilian Review Board, which reviews complaints from members of the community against members of the Boston Police Department. Peter is the chairman of the board of directors at Union Capital Boston, a mobile-based community engagement nonprofit, and secretary of the board of directors at Minds Matter Boston, a college access and mentorship program for Boston area high schoolers. Prior to law school, Peter taught middle school in Houston, TX and Boston, MA and is a Teach for America alumnus. He is a first generation American and college student, and lives in West Roxbury, MA with his wife, Marisa, and his three children: Marcelo, Solana and Vida.
Jeffrey Woolf '74
Assistant general counsel at the Board of Bar Overseers | Silver Shingle for Service to the School
Learn More
Jeffrey D. Woolf is an assistant general counsel at the Board of Bar Overseers. Before that, he served for 6-1/2 years as an assistant bar counsel at the Office of the Bar Counsel, where he prosecuted cases of lawyer misconduct. He is also an adjunct professor at New England Law | Boston. Previously, he was a lecturer in law at the Law School, where he taught a weekly seminar for eight semesters on topics in legal ethics for students with externship placements. He has been a member of the Dean’s Advisory Board since 2015. He started a scholarship in memory of William Schwartz, the late Dean and professor of law at the Law School. From 1995-2000, he was a special assistant attorney general, where he was one of lead attorneys representing the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the tobacco Medicaid reimbursement litigation, Commonwealth v. Phillip Morris, which generated over eight billion dollars for the Commonwealth.
Mr. Woolf is also one of the founding members of the Boston chapter of the American Inns of Court, which was started at the Law School by two students. He has remained active in the Boston Inn of Court, and has served as its co-president and program chair. For many years, he has funded two annual scholarships to the Inn, so that students at the Law School can attend for free and meet with judges and other leaders of the Massachusetts bar.
Mr. Woolf is president of the National Council of Lawyer Disciplinary Boards, where he formerly served as the program committee chair. He drafted revisions to multiple rules of the Board of Bar Overseers and of the Supreme Judicial Court. He created PowerPoints to train new hearing committee members and pro bono counsel for respondents. He has served as one of the lecturers for the mandatory “Practicing with Professionalism” CLE course for new lawyers. He co-authored and co-edited the treatise Massachusetts Bar Discipline: History, Practice and Procedure. He was a member of the working group that prepared materials for questions about the Rules of Professional Conduct to be included in the Massachusetts bar exam and co-authored the edits and updates. He has given numerous lectures and webinars, and he has also written many articles and book chapters. Mr. Woolf earned his B.A. at Yale University, where he was on the Dean’s List, and an M.A. in English literature at Boston University before attending B.U. School of Law.
Connect with law
How to engage with us on social media:
Follow @BU_Law and tag us in your stories and posts on all platforms
Post, like, and retweet content, using event hashtag and tagging speaker(s)
Share event information on social media
Send registration link to your networks