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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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20 Years Later, Summer Jobs Program Still Giving Urban Youth a Chance to Succeed

Come June the BBA Summer Jobs Program will celebrate its 20th anniversary. After a record setting year of providing paid internships to 57 Boston Public High School students, the program will have reached more than 440 diverse Boston youth. Learn more.

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Read this week's Issue Spot

Legal Aid: Understand the Budget Process, Frame the Message Appropriately and Build the Business Case For the full post, click here.

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Trusts & Estates Year in Review 2013

An annual hit among estate planning practitioners, this seminar offers a rare opportunity to learn about the year’s significant developments in Massachusetts and federal laws. The panelists will cover Massachusetts legislative developments, and review significant tax and state law cases and regulations between June 2012 and June 2013. For more, click here.

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Theodore B. Olson to Keynote Annual Meeting

Former Solicitor General of the United States will speak at Boston Convention Center on 9/27. For more information on sponsoring or purchasing tickets, Click here.

On Monday, May 2nd, the BBA's Solo & Small Firm Section and New Lawyers Section will be co-sponsoring Start You Up: How to Establish Your New Law Practice, a panel of experts will provide pointers on how to create and maintain a successful law practice. Upon hearing of this event, BBA Week couldn't help but think of "Start Me Up" the Rolling Stones 1981 hit single. We are feeling a little nostalgic, so we are asking:

"What is your favorite song from the 80's? "

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.

	Seth A. Milman - Greenberg Traurig LLP "It's hard to choose because there's so much great music from the '80's. Back then my cassette-tape collection consisted almost entirely of punk and heavy metal. Since then my taste in music has expanded, but if I have to choose a favorite song from that time, it's still Master of Puppets by Metallica."
	Vanessa Hackett - Littler Mendelson "Irene Cara's 'Flashdance... What A Feeling' and Deneice Williams's 'Let's Hear It for the Boy' have to be my two favorite 80s songs, and they come from two of my favorite 80s movies --Flashdance and Footloose. Like the judges during Jennifer Beals's audition for dance school at the end of Flashdance, I can't listen to either of these songs without tapping my toes and humming. They just make me smile."
	Stephen Seckler - Seckler Legal Coaching "Paul Simon's Graceland was one of my favorite albums of the 1980's and although there are a number of great songs on it, 'You Can Call Me Al' stands out. I grew up on Simon & Garfunkel and already had a great appreciation for Paul Simon. But Graceland opened me up to the sounds of South Africa and I loved the way he blended his own music with the bass harmonies of Ladysmith Black Mabazzo to create a whole new sound."
	Rachel Churchill - McCarter & English LLP "Footloose. Just need to update the opening lines to be in accord with an attorney's time-keeping practices... Whether its foxtrot, rumba, ballet, tarantella, or running man, everyone should have some dance in their life and get loose, footloose."
	Stephen M. Nolan - Nolan Sheehan Patten LLP "'I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For' by U2. But 20 years later I do feel closer to finding it than I was in the '80s."
	Lisa M. Geoghegan - Barron & Stadfeld, P.C. "My Favorite 80's song is 'Take On Me' by A-Ha. In my book, the more octaves covered within the song, the better!"