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| 12:30p |
Trusts & Estates Section Steering Committee - at BBA |
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| 8:30a |
Environmental Law Section Steering Committee - at BBA |
| 12:00p |
Leasing Committee - at BBA; RSVP
Leasing Basics: Part 3
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| Elizabeth A. Garner |
This is a follow-up session, supplementing and completing the earlier two Leasing Basics sessions held in January and February for newer practitioners. Eric M. Labbe, Goodwin Procter, LLP and Elizabeth A. Garner, Brennan, Dain, LeRay, Wiest, Torpy & Garner, PC., will deal with lease defaults, election of remedies, and damages, as well as address ancillary documents (estoppels, SNDAs, notices of lease, etc.) often encountered by leasing counsel. |
| 12:30p |
Labor & Employment Law Section - at BBA; RSVP
Traps for the Unwary in Difficult Times
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| Sharen Litwin |
Andrew C. Pickett, Jackson Lewis, LLP and Sharen Litwin, Kotin, Crabtree & Strong, LLP will discuss the requirements for valid individual and group releases of federal age discrimination claims and other claims, as well as WARN Act concerns. |
| 12:30p |
Wetlands, Waterways & Water Quality Committee and Environmental Litigation Committee - at Nixon Peabody LLP,
100 Summer Street, Boston; RSVP
Recent Wetlands Decisions of the Massachusetts Appeals Court: Pollard, Conroy and Conte
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| George A. Hall, Jr. |
George A. Hall Jr., Anderson & Kreiger LLP, Patricia Davidson, Mirick O’Connell, Matthew Watsky, Solo practitioner, and Jeffrey L. Roelofs, Law Offices of Jeffrey L. Roelofs, P.C., will discuss the Massachusetts Appeals Court’s recent wetlands decisions in Pollard v. Cons Comm of Norfolk (12/17/08), Conroy v. Cons Comm of Lexington (1/20/09) and Conte v. Framingham Cons Comm (3/11/09), and their significance to Commissions and project proponents and opponents. Mr. Hall represented the Commissions in Pollard and Conroy. Mr. Watsky represented the applicant in Pollard. Mr. Roelofs represented the applicant in Conte. |
| 4:30p |
Criminal Law Section Steering Committee - at BBA |
| 5:30p |
Diversity & Inclusion Section - at BBA
Group Mentoring Program Kick-off Event |
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| 8:30a |
Education Committee - at BBA |
| 12:00p |
Banking & Financial Services Committee - at Brown Rudnick LLP, One Financial Center, Boston; RSVP
The Buck Starts Here
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| Nonnie Burnes |
This lunch program series focuses on legal and business developments in the tumultuous financial services industry. Each program consists of an update on current market and regulatory events; a drill-down on a significant and timely issue; and a spotlight on a company or an industry and how it is coping with the recession. This week we'll hear from: Kevin Handly, Pierce Atwood LLP; Nonnie Burnes, Massachusetts Commissioner of Insurance; and Walter Pressey, Boston Private. A question and answer period will follow. Co-sponsored by the Morin Center for Banking and Financial Law, BU School of Law. RSVPs are necessary for a headcount on lunch and for arranging security access. Please remember to bring ID with you for security purposes. |
| 12:30p |
Corporate Law Committee and Bankruptcy Section - at BBA; RSVP
Living in the Zone of Insolvency: Legal Dilemmas for Directors in Uncertain Times
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| Gregory S. Fryer |
Please join Gregory S. Fryer, Verrill Dana LLP, and Joseph J. Basile, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP at this brown bag lunch to discuss legal uncertainties facing directors of troubled companies. Current economic circumstances have undermined the balance sheets of many formerly profitable companies. Delaware courts, federal bankruptcy courts, and courts from other jurisdictions have generated a complex mix of case law on legal standards for imposing liability for director conduct or inaction. Mr. Fryer and Mr. Basile will discuss the conflicting case law from the standpoint of corporate lawyers and bankruptcy lawyers, respectively. Much of the case law deals with public companies that have largely independent boards of directors. Mr. Fryer and Mr. Basile will also discuss implications for directors of start-up ventures and PE-backed entities, which typically have few if any independent directors. |
| 12:30p |
College & University Law Section - at BBA; RSVP
FERPA, New and Improved!
Steven J. McDonald, General Counsel, Rhode Island School of Design, will join us for a presentation on the US Department of Education's December 9, 2008's much-anticipated amendments to the regulations implementing FERPA, the primary statute governing the privacy of student records. The first major update in years, these amendments clarify the "health or safety emergency" exception, set new standards and requirements for outsourcing the handling of student records, significantly restructure the definition of what is considered "personally identifiable information," establish a "reasonableness" standard for the security of student records, and make a number of other substantial revisions and additions to the FERPA regulations. This session will review these amendments and their implications for our campus practices and policies. |
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| 12:30p |
Business Law Section Steering Committee - at Hinckley, Allen & Snyder LLP, 28 State Street, Boston |
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| 8:30a |
Bankruptcy Law Section Steering Committee - at John Adams Courthouse, 1 Pemberton Square, Boston |
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