Lois Pines, a respected advocate on issues related to women’s health, consumer rights and the environment, is currently regulatory counsel for INFONXX Inc., a leading telecommunications firm, where she helms the firm’s international litigation in countries including the United Kingdom, France and Italy.
From 1999 to 2001, Pines was an adjunct lecturer on policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, where she brought her years of real-world legislative experience to students. During her tenure as a Massachusetts state senator, from 1987 to 1998, Pines pioneered groundbreaking legislation in areas such as breast cancer research and protection of reproductive rights for women. Pines is credited with authoring and supervising the implementation of legislation that created the nation’s first state-funded, peer-reviewed small grant breast cancer research program, a program that provided incentives for researchers to devote the first ten years of their career searching for a cure for breast cancer. The program is recognized as a national model and was heralded by “ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings” as ‘unique’ and ‘remarkable.’
Pines is also credited with authoring what the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists hailed as the nation’s toughest law to protect new mothers from “drive-through” deliveries. Her law required 48 hours of in-hospital care for all new mothers and at least 72 hours for those who delivered via C-sections. Furthermore, she is recognized as a committed reproductive health advocate, having authored the Massachusetts Clinic Access Law, which made it illegal for anti-abortion protesters to block clinic access for women.
In 1979, Pines was appointed regional director of the New England office of the Federal Trade Commission by the Carter administration, where she directed 35 attorneys on consumer protection issues. Pines holds a bachelor’s from Barnard College and a law degree from the University of Cincinnati Law School. She has been quoted in and featured on numerous news outlets including the Boston Globe and “McNeil Lehrer” on PBS.
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