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BBA
WEEK - April 27, 2009 |
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Sen. Anthony Petruccelli and Rep. William Straus addressed Environmental Legislation at a recent meeting.
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| 12:00p |
Land Use & Development Committee and Legislation & Public Policy Committee - at John Adams Courthouse, 1 Pemberton Square, Boston; RSVP
Land Use and Development Committee Open Forum
Gregory Bialecki, Massachusetts Executive Office of Housing and Economic Development, will review and discuss Massachusetts House Bill 3572, the Patrick-Murray Administration’s proposed Land Use Partnership Act (LUPA), which would extensively overhaul zoning and subdivision law for the first time in over 30 years. Attendees are welcome to bring their own lunch. |
| 12:30p |
Antitrust Committee - at WilmerHale, 60 State Street, Boston; RSVP
Antitrust Analysis in Pharmaceuticals: Warner Chilcott Case Study
Please join Dr. Rahul Guha, Cornerstone Research, for a brown bag discussion of competition and consumer welfare in the pharmaceutical industry. Dr. Guha will present economic analysis performed on behalf of the defense in the Ovcon litigation, in which Warner Chilcott and Barr were accused of delaying the introduction of a lower-priced generic version of Warner Chilcott’s oral contraceptive. In that litigation, the economists for the defense argued, based on two empirical studies, that consumers and third-party payors do not always benefit from the introduction of generic drugs. Dr. Guha will discuss the theory and empirical analysis supporting this argument. RSVPs are necessary for security purposes, please remember to bring a form of ID with you. Attendees are welcome to bring their own lunch. |
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| 8:30a |
Ethics Committee - at Sugarman, Rogers, Barshak & Cohen, P.C., 101 Merrimac Street, Boston |
| 12:30p |
Tax-Exempt Organizations Committee - at Nixon Peabody LLP, 100 Summer Street, Boston; RSVP
Birth of a Nonprofit: Formation and Tax Exemption Issues
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Jack A. Eiferman |
Join us in a discussion with Richard C. Allen, Casner & Edwards, LLP, and Jack A. Eiferman, Goulston & Storrs - A Professional Corporation. Both experienced and newer attorneys are faced with numerous issues when forming nonprofit organizations and seeking tax-exempt status. Like snowflakes, each one is unique! Mr. Allen and Mr. Eiferman will discuss basic formation and exemption issues as well as traps for the unwary. This is the first installment in a two-part series. Stay tuned for our May program on Death of a Nonprofit: Dissolution and Other Termination Issues. RSVPS are necessary for security purposes, please remember to bring a form of ID with you. Attendees are welcome to bring their own lunch. |
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Construction Law Committee - at Holland & Knight LLP, 10 St. James Avenue, Boston; RSVP
Integrated Project Delivery (IPD): Will Historians Call It The Edsel Or The Prius?
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Stanley A. Martin |
Stanley A. Martin, Holland & Knight LLP and David E. Wilson, Corwin & Corwin LLP, will lead a discussion on Integrated Project Delivery (IPD), what it is, the advantages and disadvantages of IPD, and whether the concept will gain a threshold in the construction industry. RSVPs are necessary for security purposes. Please remember to bring a form of ID with you. Attendees are welcome to bring their own lunch. |
| 4:30p |
Criminal Law Public Policy Committee - at BBA |
| 5:00p |
Immigration Law Committee - at John Adams Courthouse, 1 Pemberton Square, Boston; RSVP
Immigration Judges Panel
Back by popular demand… please join our immigration judges and court administrator Robert Halpin, Immigration Court, for a panel discussion, questions, and comments; followed by a lovely reception. |
| 6:30p |
Foreign Lawyers Committee - at Suffolk Law School, Room 275, Boston; RSVP
The Appeals Route to Taking The MA Bar
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Dganit Sivan |
Our speaker this month will be Dganit Sivan, Ropes & Gray LLP. Dganit recently sat for the Massachusetts bar. She will talk about her experience with and appeals to the MA Board of Bar Examiners, and if there is time she will also talk about non-US lawyers interviewing at US law firms. |
| 6:30p |
Boston Bar Orchestra - at BBA |
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| 12:00p |
Leasing Committee - at K&L Gates LLP,
State Street Financial Center, Boston; RSVP
Landlords, Tenants and Accessibility: A summary of accessibility issues related to leased facilities in Massachusetts
This session will be led by David Kessler, Kessler McGuinness & Associates, LLC. He will provide a summary of accessibility issues related to leased facilities in Massachusetts including relevant regulations, requirements affecting existing buildings and planned alterations and the allocation of responsibility between landlord and tenant. RSVPs are necessary for security purposes for security purposes, please remember to bring a form of ID with you. Attendees are welcome to bring their own lunch. |
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Energy & Telecommunications Law Committee and Air Quality & Climate Change Committee - at Choate, Hall & Stewart, LLP 35th Floor, Two International Place, Boston; RSVP
Carbon Dioxide Cap And Trade Programs: Initial Results From The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative Auctions And Where We Go From Here
The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), the first mandatory, market-based effort in the United States to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, recently held its third auction of tradable carbon dioxide pollution rights for electric power plants. Join us for a discussion of how the program has worked, lessons learned for those currently developing federal or other regional cap-and-trade programs, and the fate of RGGI in a federal scheme. Panelists: Rachel Evans, Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources; Brian M. Jones, M.J. Bradley & Associates, LLC; and Paula Hamel, Dominion Energy New England, Inc. Moderator:
Peter Bryan Moores, Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP. RSVPs are necessary for security purposes, please remember to bring a form of ID with you. Attendees are welcome to bring their own lunch. |
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Life Sciences Committee and College & University Law Section - at Ropes & Gray, LLP, One International Place, Boston; RSVP
The Balancing Act of University Technology Transfer – Addressing Societal, Policy and Legislative Issues in a Business Environment
Nadav Shichor and Cris Rothfuss, both of the Harvard University Office of Technology Development, will join us for this brown bag lunch. In licensing technologies to industry, universities must balance the business needs of for-profit licensees on the one hand and the university’s requirements based on its culture, mission, legal obligations and various stakeholders on the other. In this presentation, we will focus on various “pressure points” in license agreements, where the divergence of needs is most evident. We will explore the rationale for the positions taken by universities, the challenge of reconciling such positions with the desires of corporate licensees and approaches we have used to strike a balance. RSVPs are necessary for security purposes, please remember to bring a form of ID with you. Attendees are welcome to bring their own lunch. |
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Estate Planning Fundamentals Committee - at Hemenway & Barnes LLP, 60 State Street, Boston; RSVP
An Introduction to QPRTs
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Dennis R. Delaney |
Dennis R. Delaney, Hemenway & Barnes, LLP, will review the basic principles and relevant Internal Revenue Code sections governing qualified personal residence trusts (“QPRTs”). This brown bag lunch will be an excellent introduction to QPRTs for new lawyers, as well as a good refresher for more experienced practitioners. RSVPs are necessary for security purposes, please remember a form of ID with you. Attendees are welcome to bring their own lunch. |
| 12:30p |
Elder Law & Disability Planning Committee - at Day Pitney LLP, One International Place, Boston; RSVP
An Overview of Long-Term Care Insurance
Join David F. Keefe III, Eagle Strategies LLC, for a class that is truly an overview of Long-Term Care Insurance. Find answers to your questions. What is it? What does it cover? How much does it cost? What are the alternatives? In addition, Mr. Keefe will discuss the current environment for Long-term care insurance. The insurance industry has been affected by the economic downturn. Learn about financial ratings of insurance companies and how to choose a company to work with. Special focus will be on product design, 2009 tax deductibility, and examples of current rates. RSVPs are necessary for security purposes, please remember a form of ID with you. Attendees are welcome to bring their own lunch. |
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BBA CLE: Hot Topics in Internet Law - at BBA; Register
This seminar will focus on current legal issues presented by recent developments in the technology and use of the Internet. Topics covered will include protecting intellectual property and avoiding infringement online; employment issues and what employers can do to minimize their risks; and other potential claims arising from online conduct. |
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Diversity & Inclusion Section Steering Committee - Choate Hall & Stewart LLP, Two International Place, Boston |
| 12:00p |
Solo & Small Firm Sectin Steering Committee - Schlesinger and Buchbinder LLP, 1200 Walnut Street, Newton Highlands |
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Intellectual Property Law Section Steering Committee - at Gesmer Updegrove LLP, 40 Broad Street, Boston |
| 4:00p |
Immigration Law Committee - at BBA; RSVP
Refugee Roulette: Disparities in Asylum Adjudication
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Jaya Ramji-Nogales |
Immigration law practitioners have long suspected that the likelihood of winning asylum depends in large measure on which asylum officer or immigration judge is randomly assigned to adjudicate a case. Drawing on huge databases, Andrew I. Schoenholtz and Philip G. Schrag, both of Georgetown University Law Center, and Jaya Ramji-Nogales, Temple University Beasley School of Law will: examine the degrees of disparity among asylum officers deciding similar cases at each of the nation’s eight regional asylum offices; reveal the extent to which immigration judges in the largest immigration courts differ with each other in similar asylum cases, and the correlations between those differences and the genders and prior work experiences of the judges; demonstrate the effects of Attorney General Ashcroft’s “streamlining reforms” on the adjudication of asylum appeals at the Board of Immigration Appeals; and show the differences among and within U.S. Courts of Appeals when they review asylum decisions of the Board. |
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