About Lisa
Lisa Marino built a legal life that moves between two worlds: the deliberative pace of court procedure and the urgent, personal work of family formation. She arrived in law after an undergraduate course of study in the humanities, then spent the early years after graduation establishing a practice that would come to specialize in adoption and assisted reproductive matters.
Marino earned a B.A. in English and Theatre Arts from Mount Holyoke College in 1985. She went on to Suffolk University Law School and received her J.D. in 1991. That same year she took the steps to join the bar in Massachusetts and later gained admission to practice before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
Her career is centered at Wilson, Marino & Bonnevie, P.C., where she became a principal in 1996. That title reflects decades spent in a practice marked by steady caseloads and steady client relationships. Over time Marino’s work narrowed toward the legal issues that arise when families are formed through adoption or assisted reproductive technologies. She combines courtroom experience with the drafting and negotiation of agreements and petitions that must satisfy both family courts and statutory requirements.
Professional association involvement has run alongside her case work. Marino has been a member of the Massachusetts State Bar since 1991. She joined the American Academy of Adoption Lawyers in 2011 and became part of the American Academy of Assisted Reproductive Technology Lawyers in 2014. Those memberships keep her in contact with peers who handle adoption law and reproductive technology matters and provide a forum for current procedural and statutory developments.
Colleagues describe Marino as methodical in approach and practical in counsel. She tends to work on the procedural side of family formation: drafting legal instruments, preparing court petitions, and arguing issues that can determine parental rights. Her practice also involves advising clients on compliance with evolving regulations that touch on assisted reproduction and post-placement processes in adoption. She remains based at Wilson, Marino & Bonnevie, P.C., where she continues to represent clients in adoption and assisted reproductive technology matters.
Her current practice focuses on adoption and assisted reproductive technology law.
