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| 12:15p |
Senior Lawyers Section - at BBA; RSVP
Pro Bono Opportunities at the Attorney General's Office
Senior Lawyers Section
Join us as Attorney General Martha Coakley discusses pro bono opportunities at the Office of the Attorney General. |
| 12:30p |
Trust & Estates Section Steering Committee - at BBA |
| 5:30p |
Section Co-Chair Roundtable - at BBA |
| Tuesday, February 5, 2008 |
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| 8:30a |
Environmental Law Section Steering Committee - at BBA |
| 12:00p |
State & Local Tax Committee - at BBA; RSVP
Massachusetts Discover Tax Program
Join Morris N. Robinson, M. Robinson & Company, P.C. for a discussion about a new Massachusetts Department of Revenue computer program, Discover Tax. The new program targets businesses and has already resulted in over $400 million in additional tax assessments by using "data mining" to "flag" businesses whose income tax returns are inconsistent with the related payroll tax returns or sales/use tax returns. |
| 2:30p |
Labor & Employment Law Section - at BBA; RSVP
The Tax Aspects of Employment Cases
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Rob Webb |
Tangled in tax? Come learn about the myriad of tax issues in employment law cases from Rob Webb, Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP, and Patricia Metzer, Vacovec, Mayotte & Singer. The focus of the program will not only be on the tax treatment of settlement awards, but also strategic issues such as drafting complaints to yield beneficial tax treatment, 409A related issues and other important tax considerations for employment litigators on both sides. |
| 4:00p |
BBA CLE: Health Care Reform and the Individual Mandate - at BBA; Register
Representatives of the Connector, the Department of Revenue, Health Law Advocates, and the Probate Court will discuss how individuals can meet the mandate, what standards will apply to determine whether an individual must pay a penalty or will be deemed exempt due to affordability considerations, and how penalties will be calculated and appealed. The panelists will also discuss the processes that will be in place to determine the insurance status of individual taxpayers. For any practitioner with clients concerned about whether they may face penalties as a result of the individual mandate in the upcoming tax filing season, this seminar will give you a chance to learn about the systems in place to implement the law. |
| 4:30p |
Criminal Law Section Steering Committee - at BBA |
| Wednesday, February 6, 2008 |
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| 8:30a |
New Lawyers Section Steering Committee - at BBA |
| 12:00p |
Real Estate Section Steering Committee - at BBA |
| 4:00p |
BBA CLE: SEC Practice & Investigations: Views from Inside the SEC, Outside Counsel and Into the Future - at BBA; Register
Attend this seminar to learn the ins and outs of practicing before the SEC. Three distinct panels will cover best practices before the SEC, views from in-house counsel, trends in the law and enforcement efforts by the US Attorney's Office and the SEC. |
| Thursday, February 7, 2008 |
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| 8:00a |
BBO Roundatable - at BBA |
| 12:00p |
Solo & Small Firm Section, New Lawyers Section, Criminal Law Section, Environmental Law Section and Bankruptcy Law Section - at BBA; RSVP
Time Management: Tips for Powering up Productivity and Powering Down Stress
Anne Braudy, Braudy Legal Consulting, and Dr. Jeffery Fortgang, Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers, Inc., will offer specific recommendations on how to run your practice more efficiently. In addition to time management tips, strategies will be provided to help combat the internal obstacles that get in the way of applying these time-tested methods in your practice. |
| 12:00p |
Civil Rights & Civil Liberties Section Steering Committee - at BBA |
| 12:30p |
Environmental Litigation Committee - at BBA; RSVP
Detoxifying Toxic Tort Claims
Join us as Jan R. Schlichtmann discusses the new creative model he has developed for putting together classes of plaintiffs to pursue toxic tort and environmental damages claims through a trust vehicle. Mr. Schlichtmann will explain his trust model and how he is putting it into action in cases such as the Danvers Explosion. He will also talk about a legislative proposal he is working on to codify the trust form. Mr. Schlichtmann is a plaintiff's attorneys specializing in the area of consumer, environmental, product, toxic, and mass tort litigation. He has most notably received recognition for his work in the 1980's case against W.R. Grace and Beatrice Foods for the contamination of the Woburn City water supply, subject of the national bestseller and movie "A Civil Action." |
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| 8:30a |
Bankruptcy Law Section Steering Committee - at BBA |
