Boston Bar Association Summer Jobs Program
Emphasizes Opportunity for BostonYouth

In keeping with tradition, two alums of the program made welcoming remarks.  Tiffany Sanders, an incoming freshman at Hamilton College, and Emanuelle Renelique, entering her junior year at George Washington University -- both of whom plan to go to law school -- spoke about the impact the program has had on their lives.  Tiffany spent the summer of 2006 working at the City of Boston Law Department, and will return there this summer.  Emanuelle worked at Ferriter Scobbo in 2003, and this summer will be working at Choate Hall & Stewart through the Boston Lawyers Group’s program for college students.

Thanks to gifts received by the M. Ellen Carpenter Fund of the Boston Bar Foundation, the program this year will feature two new public sector job opportunities.  One M. Ellen Carpenter Public Service Fellow will work at the Committee for Public Counsel Services, and another will work at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for Massachusetts.  All students will participate in the M. Ellen Carpenter Financial Literacy Program, a joint venture of the BBA and the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for Massachusetts.

Also helping to welcome the students was George Field, Co-Chair of the BBA Summer Jobs Program, and Partner in Charge of Verrill Dana’s Boston office.  A former teacher, Field has for many years taken the lead in organizing the weekly breakfast seminars that all students attend.

The BBA Summer Jobs Program is conducted in partnership with the Boston Public Schools and Boston’s Private Industry Council.  Students are paid $9 per hour.