Aleksandra Magdziak Lopes (Photo via Twitter)
Meet Aleksandra Magdziak Lopes. As a female boxer with a 16-3-2 record, she’s the current World Boxing Council Silver welterweight champion. Her next match is this weekend in Poland, where she’ll compete against Ewa Piatkowska for the WBC World super welterweight title.
In her spare time, Lopes is an attorney. She graduated cum laude from New England School of Law in 2012, and has been handling workers’ compensation matters at Babanikas Ziedman & King ever since. Her adversaries better watch out, because one of the partners at her firm says she’s as zealous and intense in the courtroom as she is inside the ring.
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The Boston Herald recently profiled Lopes ahead of her world championship match:
As the top boxing attorney in the business, people will ask Lopes whether there are similarities: Is fighting a welterweight similar to sparring with opposing counsel?
“No, in the law a lot of it is about finding the best solution, which often comes from compromise,” she said. “In boxing, there are two people in the ring. Either you win or you lose.”
There is, however, a tougher question to ask someone who became a champion and a lawyer within a decade: What do you do for a living?
“Outside the gym, I’m an attorney. It is what I truly consider my profession after all the education and work,” Lopes said. “However, when I wake up in the morning, in my heart I am a fighter.”
We hope Lopes floats like a butterfly and stings like a law school graduate with hundreds of thousands of dollars in student loan debt on Saturday night. Best of luck in the ring!
Marshfield lawyer trains for boxing title [Boston Herald]
Attorney Aleksandra Magdziak Lopes knows her way around the ropes [Patriot Ledger]
Lawyer hopes to be the best fighter outside of court [ABA Journal]
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