Nancy Kostakos

Marketing Director, Goodwin Procter LLP

Nancy Kostakos is the Marketing Director at Goodwin Procter LLP, a 100 year old law firm founded in Boston, that now has 850 attorneys and nine offices in the U.S., Asia and Europe. The firm’s practices are equally divided between business law and litigation, with particular strengths in financial services, private equity, technology and life sciences, real estate, intellectual property, products litigation, securities litigation and white collar defense. Nancy’s role is to establish and promote firm-wide and practice-oriented brands and to facilitate recognition for the firm’s attorneys and practices in key markets. She is responsible for marketing collateral, online presence, marketing events and programs, the development and deployment of marketing technologies, and overall marketing operations at the firm.

Prior to joining Goodwin Procter in 2009, Nancy served in the same capacity for 13 years at WilmerHale. Prior to that, she was a marketing manager for architecture and design firms in New York, Atlanta and Boston and a retail marketing manager with Liz Claiborne, Inc. in New York.  She has also served on the Executive Board of the Member’s Guild of the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, and as a board member of her family’s sugar manufacturing business in Louisiana.

Nancy graduated from Harvard College with a B.A. in Fine Arts. Her background is rare in law firms, but a strong sense of design, effective use of technology, and the ability to communicate boldly, efficiently and effectively are skills she has in common with the best lawyers in her firm.