PRACTICES
INDUSTRIES
OVERVIEW
Victoria Fuller is a Partner and Co-Chair of the Labor and Employment Practice Group. She practices out of White and Williams' Boston office. Victoria has over 17 years of experience as a civil litigator, focusing on employment litigation and counseling, higher education litigation, insurance coverage and bad faith litigation. Victoria is well-known for her creativity, commitment, efficiency and strategic focus with clients.
Victoria regularly represents businesses, educational institutions, and non-profits in employment litigation pending in the EEOC, MCAD, as well as in Massachusetts state and Federal Court. In addition, she counsels employers with respect to a variety of employment matters including hiring, termination (including RIFs), requests for accommodation, policies and procedures, and restrictive covenants. In addition to employment matters, Victoria also defends educational institutions in legal disputes with students. Victoria also represents insurers in complex coverage and bad faith disputes and handles first party property coverage matters.
Victoria is a volunteer Hearing Committee Member for the Board of Bar Overseers. She formerly served as an editor of the Boston Bar Journal, co-chaired the Boston Bar Association’s Massachusetts Practice and Procedures Committee, and is a former member of the Boston Bar Association’s Education Committee.
Recognition and Involvement
Recognition & Involvement
- Named as one of The Best Lawyers in America®, Litigation - Labor and Employment, 2025
- ATIXA Civil Rights Investigator Two: Advanced Certificate
- Selected as a Massachusetts “Rising Star” by Super Lawyers from 2012-2016, 2021
Credentials
Bar and Court Admissions
New Hampshire
Massachusetts
U.S. District Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut
U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire
United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts
Education
Boston College Law School, JD, 2006
Boston College, BA, 2003, cum laude
News & Insights
REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS
- Obtained a defense verdict in suit brought by student seeking tuition forgiveness and equitable relief against university
- Successfully moved to dismiss university from lawsuit brought by student asserting multiple claims arising out of student’s dismissal from university’s academic program after being terminated from a required internship
- Represented restaurant in sexual harassment and discrimination action pending in MCAD
- Obtained Lack of Probable Cause determination for college in failure to accommodate action in MCAD
- Represented defense contractor in disability discrimination action in the District of Massachusetts
- Defended restaurant in pregnancy discrimination claim in the MCAD
- Advised restaurant with respect to chef’s protected leave
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Defended employer in Wage Act class action in Massachusetts Superior Court
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Defended assisted living facility in sexual orientation discrimination and retaliation matter pending in the MCAD
BLOGS & PODCASTS
Blog Posts
Podcasts
The Employment Law Counselor Podcast
- Best Practices for Employers In An Unsettled DEI Climate2.20.25
This episode of The Employment Law Counselor podcast, in collaboration with the Professional Liability Underwriting Society (PLUS), dives into recent executive orders which end Federal DEI programs and, among other things, encourage private sector employees to end “illegal DEI” programs. Victoria Fuller, Partner and Co-Chair of Labor and Employment Practice Group, and Laura Corvo, Counsel, are joined by Marlena Ellis, Associate, to discuss the implications of those executive orders on employers and offer some best practices employers should implement promptly to manage legal risks while still attracting and retaining high quality employees.