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| Mistakes New Lawyers Make Don't Learn from YOUR mistakes - Learn from ours! Thursday | January 6, 2005 | 4:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Seminar & Reception Boston Bar Association Please join us for an informative seminar and cocktail reception at the BBA’s historic 16 Beacon St. location. The program, moderated by BBA President M. Ellen Carpenter , will feature successful attorneys who will talk about the pitfalls to avoid as you begin your career. The program is FREE for newly admitted attorneys as well as BBA members and their guests. The panel of leading BBA attorneys practice in different areas of the law and in different practice settings. They will discuss issues such as:
M. Ellen Carpenter, Esq. Roach & Carpenter, PC President, Boston Bar Association Ellen Carpenter, one of Boston ’s leading bankruptcy practitioners and a partner at the Boston law firm of Roach & Carpenter, P.C. She began her term as Boston Bar Association president in September of 2004. She is form chair of the Boston Bar Association’s Bankruptcy Committee and the Solo and Small Firm Section. She is also chair of the Board of Bar Overseers. Eve Piemonte-Stacey, Esq. Eve Piemonte-Stacey is the Chief of Government Services for the City of Boston Law Department. Prior to her current position, she served as Assistant Corporation Counsel for the City of Boston Law Department. Eve is a member of the BBA’s Children and Youth Outreach Task Force. She has also served on the New Lawyers Steering Committee. She received her law Degree from Massachusetts School of Law (evening division). Ilene Robinson Sunshine, Esq. Ilene Robinson Sunshine is a partner at Sullivan & Worcester LLP where she is co-chair of the Labor and Employment Law Group. She currently serves as co-chair of the Boston Bar Association’s Labor & Employment Law Section. In 2001, she was elected a Fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers. Before joining Sullivan & Worcester LLP she was of counsel to the office of Hinckley , Allen, Snyder & Comen and served for six years as labor counsel to the Chief Administrative Justice of the Massachusetts Trial Court. Mark J. Warner, Esq. Mark Warner is a partner in the Boston law firm of Witmer, Karp & Warner LLP where he concentrates his practice in divorce and other family law cases, as well as contested probate matters. Mark is in his second year as Chair of the BBA’s Education Committee. He is also President Elect of the Massachusetts Family and Probate American Inn of Court, past co-chair of the Family Law Section of the Boston Bar Association and a member of the Guardian ad litem Standards Review Committee of the Probate and Family Court. Steven Wright, Esq. Steven Wright is a partner at Holland & Knight. He serves as lead counsel and client adviser with several Fortune 500 companies, where he provides strategic legal advice to in-house counsel and corporate executives on complex commercial, corporate and litigation matters. Before joining Holland & Knight he one of his positions was as Deputy Counsel to former New York City Mayor. He is former Secretary of the BBA Executive Committee. He is currently a Trustee of the Boston Bar Foundation.
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