Attorney Brown joined the firm in 2007.  She is highly experienced in complex civil litigation at all levels of the state and federal court systems.  Attorney Brown has provided consultation and representation to numerous government agencies and officials, concentrating in the areas of government procurement contracts, health care fraud, civil rights and torts, professional responsibility and ethics, and commercial litigation.  She has handled many civil and criminal appellate matters in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, and also administrative appeals.  Attorney Brown has provided representation in employment, malpractice, and personal injury matters.

Before returning to private practice, Attorney Brown was an attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice from 1990 until 2004, serving as Legal Counsel to the U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts and in the Civil Division of that office.  She was in private practice as the Law Office of Roberta T. Brown and with Godbout & Brown from 1987-1990.  Attorney Brown served as an Assistant Attorney General for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from 1978 to 1987 and was appointed as Chief of the Torts Division and Legal Counsel to the Attorney General.  Before that, she was an Assistant District Attorney for Middlesex County.

Attorney Brown is admitted to the bars of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and the U.S. Supreme Court.  She has been a frequent lecturer and panelist at professional seminars and has been appointed an adjunct lecturer for courses at Suffolk University and Harvard Law School.  Attorney Brown has also served on the faculty of various advocacy courses.  She graduated from Michigan State University with honors and from Northeastern University School of Law.  Attorney Brown currently attends Andover Newton Theological School.