Dedicated to increasing the diversity of the bar and serving the community,
the Boston Bar Association will hold a
news conference/breakfast on Thursday, June 28 at 9 a.m. at 16 Beacon Street,
Boston to welcome 55 Boston public high school students into the 2012 BBA
Summer Jobs Program before they head off to paid internships at law firms,
legal aid agencies, and public and private legal departments.
Speakers
Boston Mayor Thomas M.
Menino
Chief Justice Roderick Ireland of Massachusetts' Supreme Judicial
Court
Boston Bar Association President Lisa C. Goodheart
David Rosenblatt
of Burnes & Levinson & Edward
Notis-McConarty of Hemenway &
Barnes (BBA Summer Jobs Program Co-Chairs)
Established in 1993, the BBA Summer Jobs Program represents a partnership
of the BBA, the Boston Public Schools, and the Boston Private Industry Council.
In addition to working at a variety of legal venues, the students will
participate in the M. Ellen Carpenter Financial Literacy Program and attend
interactive seminars focusing on civics.
Of the 55 students starting work on June 28, 45 will be paid by law firms
and public and private legal departments; 10 will work in public interest
settings, thanks to a generous grant from the Boston Bar Foundation.
Anderson & Kreiger
LLP
Boston Bar Association
#
Bingham McCutchen
LLP
Burns & Levinson
LLP #
Choate Hall &
Stewart LLP
Chu, Ring
& Hazel LLP
City of
Boston, Office of the Corporation Counsel
#
Collora
LLP
Committee for Public
Counsel Services*
Cooley
LLP
DLA Piper
LLP
Donnelly, Conroy &
Gelhaar, LLP
Donovan Hatem
LLP
Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
#
Ferriter Scobbo &
Rodophele, PC
Foley Hoag
LLP
Goodwin Procter
LLP
Hemenway & Barnes
LLP
Hinckley, Allen &
Snyder LLP
Holland & Knight
LLP
Massachusetts
Law Reform Institute*
Morrison
Mahoney LLP
Mintz, Levin, Cohn,
Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo
P.C.
Nixon Peabody
LLP
Nutter McClennen & Fish
LLP
Peabody & Arnold
LLP
Pierce Atwood
LLP
Prince Lobel Tye
LLP
Proskauer Rose LLP
Ropes & Gray LLP
#
Shaevel &
Krems
Sovereign
Bank
Sherin and Lodgen
LLP
Shilepsky Hartley Robb
Casey Michon LLP
Suffolk County
District Attorney's Office #*
Suffolk University School of
Law
Sugarman, Rogers, Barshak
& Cohen, P.C.
Sunstein Kann
Murphy & Timbers LLP
Todd
& Weld LLP
US Bankruptcy
Court*
Verrill Dana
LLP
Volunteer Lawyers Project of
the Boston Bar Association #*
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr
LLP
Wolf, Greenfield &
Sacks, PC
# Hiring more than one student
*Funding Provided by the Boston Bar
Foundation