Amy-Lee Goodman Carmelli is an associate in Quinn Emanuel’s Boston office. She joined the firm in 2025. Her practice focuses on complex civil litigation matters. Amy-Lee maintains an active pro bono practice, including representation of clients seeking asylum and abuse prevention cases for clients in domestic violence crisis situations, for which she received the Massachusetts Women’s Bar Foundation’s Nery J. Arrano Award in 2021.
Prior to joining the firm, Amy-Lee served as a law clerk for the Honorable Denise J. Casper in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Amy-Lee also previously worked as an associate at another international law firm for several years where she represented financial services, technology, pharmaceutical and other companies in a wide range of complex civil litigation and government and regulatory matters, including in state and federal appellate courts.
Amy-Lee graduated summa cum laude from Boston College Law School, where she served as the Executive Articles Editor of the Boston College Law Review. During law school, Amy-Lee served as a Rappaport Fellow in the Governor’s Office of Legal Counsel for former Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker.
- Boston College Law School
(J.D., summa cum laude, 2019)- Order of the Coif
- Boston College Law Review:
- Executive Articles Editor (Vol. 60), Staff Writer (Vol.59)
- Wellesley College
(B.A., honors, Political Science, 2010)
- The State Bar of Massachusetts
- Law Clerk for the Honorable Denise J. Casper
- U.S. District Courts, District of Massachusetts, 2024-2025
- A “Natural” Stand-Off Between the Food and Drug Administration and the Courts: The Rise in Food-Labeling Litigation & the Need for Regulatory Reform, Note, 60 B.C. L. Rev. 271 (2019), reprinted in Practicing Law Institute’s course handbook for its Manufacturing and Consumer Products Law Institute (April 14, 2021).
- Title VII is Not the Only Cure for Employment Discrimination: The Implications of Doe v. Mercy Catholic Medical Center in Expanding Claims for Medical Residents Under Title IX, Comment, 59 B.C. L. Rev. E. Supp. 64 (2018)