BBA Announces 2011 Annual Meeting Co-Chairs

The BBA is delighted to announce that Christina Miller of the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office and Russell Beck of Beck Reed & Riden have been named Co-Chairs of the Boston Bar Association's 2011 Annual Meeting. In addition to serving as Chief of District Courts and Community Prosecutions, Christina is a BBA Council Member, BBA Mentor and former Co-Chair of the BBA's Criminal Law Section. Russell, a founding partner at Beck Reed & Riden and a leading authority on the law of trade secrets and noncompetes, was an integral member of the Boston Bar Foundation John & Abigail Adams Benefit Steering Committee, which set attendance records for the event and raised approximately $620,000 for the BBF earlier this year.

Christina Miller Russell Beck
 
This year's Annual Meeting will be held at the Westin Copley Hotel on October 13, 2011. The BBA is excited to welcome Harvard Law School Jesse Climenko Professor of Law Charles Ogletree to deliver the keynote address. Professor Ogletree is one of the most prominent legal theorists of our time.  An award winning author and head of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice, he examines highly complex and controversial issues of race, racism and discrimination and works to ensure that the justice system affords equal protection to all individuals.  His most recent book, The Presumption of Guilt, explores the issues surrounding the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and examines the continued impact of race on American society.
 
Professor Ogletree has been named one of the 50 Most Influential Minority Lawyers in America by the National Law Journal, was awarded the ABA Spirit of Excellence Award in 2009 and received the City of Boston's first ever Rosa Parks Civil Rights Award.

For more information on Annual Meeting, or to register, click here or contact Christine Cheung at ccheung@bostonbar.org or (617) 778-1930.