Lucinda Rivera

Biography

Lucinda V. Rivera is an Assistant District Attorney, in the Asset Forfeiture Unit for Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office, where she pursues civil asset forfeiture matters, in Suffolk County Superior Court for Civil Matters.

Prior to joining the District Attorney’s Office, she worked as an Enforcement Attorney for the Office of the Massachusetts Secretary of State, Massachusetts Securities Division, where she pursued the enforcement of the Massachusetts Securities Laws, in connection with the purchase and sale of securities, the registration of investment advisers, and broker dealers.

As a law student at Suffolk University Law School, she was a member of the High Technology and Privacy Moot Court Team, and she was the Vice President of the Student Bar Association in her senior year. After her law school graduation, she joined Norfolk County District Attorney’s Office where she prosecuted criminal misdemeanors in District Court, before joining the criminal defense panel for Suffolk Lawyers for Justice, to represent underserved individuals accused of crime.

Ms. Rivera continues to pursue her passion for public service through her involvement since 2009, as producer, chief underwriter, and host of a public access television educational program known as Discovering the Law, a program designed to acquaint the public with various aspects of the law.

In 2017, she obtained an LLM in Banking and Financial Law from Boston University Law School, where she currently serves as instructor in the Research and Writing Seminar in the American Law LLM Program.

Ms. Rivera is the Chair of Development, and member of the Executive Board of the Boston American Inn of Court (“Boston AIC”), where she implemented an initiative to allow local legal institutions to sponsor a rotating “scholar” for the Boston AIC Scholar Rotating Program.