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New BBA Members receive the rest of this year for free!

Pay now and not only will you lock in this year’s dues rate, your membership will be good through the next program year (August 31, 2014). Learn More!

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New Record for BBA Summer Jobs Program -- 57 and Counting

The Boston Bar Association's Summer Jobs Program, celebrating its 20 year anniversary this June, has secured a record 57 summer jobs for Boston Public High School students, with two and a half weeks still remaining for firms to sign on. Read more.

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Read this week's Issue Spot

A Quick Take on the Senate Ways & Means Budget. For the full post, click here.

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Bench-Bar Bankruptcy Conference Facilitates Networking with Ambassador Program

In addition to offering a 50% discount on the registration price for all attorneys who are first-time attendees of the conference, the Bankruptcy Section is pleased to welcome these first-time attendees, new attorneys and law students to network with senior members of the Section through the Bankruptcy Section Ambassador Program. Read more.

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Justice is Sweet is June 27

Get your skewers ready for the sweetest event of the summer! For more information on sponsoring or purchasing tickets, Click here.

On Tuesday, January 11, the Boston Bar Foundation and the Society of Fellows will hold an Open House Reception at 16 Beacon Street where guests will have an opportunity to learn more about the work of the Boston Bar Foundation. The amount of holiday parties and receptions over the past few weeks got BBA Week curious who members of the Bar would bring along if they had the choice, so we asked:

"If you could bring any guest to a party, who would it be? "

If you would like to respond to a future Voices of the Bar, make sure you send a headshot, and contact Eric Fullerton at efullerton@bostonbar.org.

	David Rountree – First Republic Bank "If I could bring any guest to a party it would be the very talented Nora Hanen Gannon Buchanan, Esq., of 'One Life To Live', District Attorney of Llantano County, Llanview, Pennsylvania."
	Robert Ullmann – Nutter McClennen & Fish "At a good party, I’d want to roll with someone witty and well-informed, confident but self-deprecating, a great talker but also a great listener, and not above telling a bawdy joke. Abraham Lincoln."
	Sarah E. Ashby - WilmerHale "I would bring Betty White. She'd be the life of the party! I bet she'd have great stories, and her humor, optimism and energy are contagious."
	Joel B. Sherman - Goulston & Storrs "My guest would be able to double as a DJ, if needed. His name is Jonathan Schwartz whose radio program is on WNYC in New York, and who each weekend afternoon may be heard on Sirius XM Satellite Radio on the Seriously Sinatra station, 73 on the dial. Jonathan plays and comments on the music of the Sinatra era (which shows my vintage), as well as today’s contemporary artists who sing the music of the American Songbook. Known as 'the Dean of American Pop Standards,' he is an engaging person who brings life to the music he plays."
	Richard Harper – US Securities & Exchange Commission "My guest would be John Adams. As drafter of the Massachusetts Constitution and a Boston lawyer, I'm sure he would love to see how things have turned out so far."
	Robert Fitzpatrick – WilmerHale "Alexander J. Cella. Professor, legislator, mentor, friend and fellow traveler on the road to a better understanding of administrative law."
	Ryan D Sullivan – Bodoff & Associates "Assuming a laid back party among friends and family, it is a toss-up between Eric Cartman and John Quincy Adams, but the tie would have to go to Adams since he is more presentable to polite company and less likely to eat all of the cheesy poofs. Adams's public career as an Ambassador, President, and Congressman coupled with the fact that he literally had a founding father would provide for hours of interesting conversation. I'd love to hear Adams recount his travels to St. Petersburg as the first American Ambassador to Russia during the Napoleonic Wars, and hear him explain why he decided to serve a number of terms in Congress after he lost his Presidential reelection bid. (My guess is that he was too liberal for Fox News, and book tours didn’t pay very well in the 1830s, so he molded himself into the most prominent and vocal abolitionist of his day). Regardless of his true motivation for continuing to serve his country after an embarrassing landslide loss to Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams deserves our thanks and a heck of a party. I just hope for his sake that the guy from the Dos Equis commercials doesn’t show up and steal all the attention."