PRACTICES
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 almost two decades of experience as a civil litigator, focusing on employment, higher education, insurance coverage and bad faith litigation, and lawyers professional liability. 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 state and federal agencies and courts. In addition, she counsels employers with respect to a variety of employment matters including hiring, termination, protected leave, requests for accommodation, wage and hour, policies and procedures, and restrictive covenants, among others.
In addition to employment matters, Victoria defends educational institutions in disputes with students, represents insurers in complex coverage and bad faith litigation, handles first party property coverage matters, and defends solo, small and mid-size law firms in lawyers professional liability claims.
As part of her role as Co-Chair of the practice group, Victoria also oversees the EPL practice at White and Williams LLP. Victoria also co-hosts the Professional Liability Underwriting Society (PLUS) sponsored Employment Law Counselor Podcast with her colleague, Laura Corvo.
Victoria is a volunteer Hearing Committee Member for the Board of Bar Overseers. She formerly served as an editor of the Boston Bar Journal, and has served several leadership roles within the Boston Bar Association.
Recognition and Involvement
Recognition & Involvement
- Named as one of The Best Lawyers in America®, Litigation - Labor and Employment, 2025 and 2026
- Recognized as a Go-To Higher Education Lawyer by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly
- 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
- The Ins and Outs of A Successful Employment Mediation,5.28.26
In the newest episode of the Employment Law Counselor Podcast titled “The Ins and Outs of A Successful Employment Mediation,” hosts Victoria Fuller and Laura Corvo are joined by Hon. Thomas J. Rueter (Ret.), a seasoned mediator and arbitrator and April Quire, a Senior Claims Examiner with Arch Insurance who has participated in countless mediations.
This podcast shares real-world insights and provides both the mediator’s and insurer’s view of how to successfully mediate employment claims, along with practical strategies that go beyond the usual negotiation playbook. You will also hear how confidentiality and mediator proposals can help move even the toughest cases toward resolution.