Previous Events & CLE Programs
June 24, 2008
Section Meeting
A Look at Guantanamo Bay
Sponsors
International Law Section
Senior Lawyers Section
Please join Mark C. Fleming, WilmerHale LLP, and P. Sabin Willett, Bingham McCutchen LLP, as Dick Neumeier, Morrison Mahoney LLP, serves as moderator for a discussion of the Supreme Court's historic decision in Boumediene v. Bush, which held that prisoners at Guantanamo have a constitutional right to habeas corpus. Counsel for Guantanamo prisoners will discuss the background of the case, the decision, and the future of Guantanamo litigation.
May 13, 2008
Section Meeting
The FBI and the Mob
Sponsors
Senior Lawyers Section
Litigation Section
Civil Rights & Civil Liberties Section
Solo & Small Firm Section
Please join Juliane Balliro, WolfBlock, and Victor Garo, two of the attorneys who secured a $101.75 million judgment against the federal government in the malicious prosecution case of Limone v. United States, 497 F. Supp. 2d 143 (D. Mass. 2007), appeal pending, as they discuss the legal and personal issues that they confronted in litigating it.
Background:
Nearly 40 years ago, four alleged organized crime figures were convicted of murder based upon the false testimony of an FBI informant. Of the four of them, two were sentenced to death. Two died in prison, and two others lived long enough to see their convictions vacated. After a decades-long effort and a 22-day bench trial before the Honorable Nancy Gertner, their attorneys obtained civil relief for them.
April 8, 2008
Section Meeting
What's Next? Discussing Options for Senior Lawyers
This meeting is directed to the growing number of lawyers interested in assuming new challenges or making actual career changes as they approach retirement from their law firms, government agencies, and courts.
The session will include a discussion by panelists who have transitioned from their principal career positions and assumed challenging new positions often quite different from their traditional roles. It will offer those attending the chance to learn about available opportunities and meet face-to-face with representatives of organizations who are interested in recruiting senior lawyers or who are counseling senior lawyers about new job or volunteer opportunities.
The Senior Lawyers Section also invites law firm managing partners, pro bono coordinators, and government and judicial officers to attend and learn about the various opportunities that are available to senior lawyers in a variety of legal settings.
This is the start of an ongoing effort to support senior lawyers who want to continue to practice law or apply their legal experience in other ways and to contribute to the many programs supported by the Boston Bar Association.
Panelists include:
- John Pike, Conservation Law Foundation
- Hon. Kenneth Laurence, Office of the Attorney General
- Anne Rogers, Alternatives for Community & Environment
- Hon. Gordon Doerfer, JAMS
- Link Boyden, Greater Boston Legal Services
Resource groups include:
- Boston Municipal Court/Boston Bar Association ADR Program
- Office of the Attorney General
- Alternatives for Community & Environment
- Volunteer Lawyers Project of the Boston Bar Association: Senior Partners for Justice
- Legal Advocacy and Resource Center
- Boston University Law School Career Development Office
- Greater Boston Legal Services
- Mass. Correctional Legal Services
March 18, 2008
Section Meeting
New Orleans Legal Assistant Project (NOLAP)
Join Tom Arnold and Steve Fischbach as they describe how NOLAP is making Boston and national legal resources available to lower income residents of the greater New Orleans area. NOLAP has currently developed a two-track program: (1) Assessing the willingness and capabilities of Boston law firms to take on FEMA appeals and (2) providing financial resources to the legal service providers in New Orleans so that they can hire staff devoted to collecting cases and referring them to out-of-state firms.
February 4, 2008
Section Meeting
Pro Bono Opportunities at the Attorney General's Office
Join us as Attorney General Martha Coakley discusses pro bono opportunities at the Office of the Attorney General.
January 15, 2008
Section Meeting
Update on Supreme Court Argument Concerning Guantanamo Cases
Sponsors
Senior Lawyers Section
International Law Section
Civil Rights & Civil Liberties Section
The United States Supreme Court heard oral argument on December 5, 2007 in Boumediene v. Bush and a related case, which undoubtedly involve the most important issues to come before the Court this term. Steve Oleskey and Mark Fleming, of WilmerHale and counsel for the petitioner, will give their impressions of the argument, the issues and what is likely to happen in the future.
December 20, 2007
Section Event
You are invited Senior Lawyers Holiday Luncheon
Join the Senior Lawyers Section of the Boston Bar Association for a Holiday Luncheon at Locke-Ober. The Section is pleased to welcome this year’s special guest, Justice Greaney of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.
Space is limited so RSVP today!* The cost for lunch will be $60.
*You must register and pay by December 17 to guarantee your space. No refunds for cancellations after December 17.
RSVP to Karen Douglass (617) 778-1952 or kdouglass@bostonbar.org.
Please make checks payable to:
Boston Bar Association
Senior Lawyers Holiday Lunch
16 Beacon Street
Boston, MA 02108
November 8, 2007
Section Meeting
United States v. Spock, et al.: A Retrospective
John Wall, of the Law Office of John Wall and counsel for the United States government, and Edward Barshak, Partner at Sugarman, Rogers, Barshak & Cohen, P.C. and counsel for Mitchell Goodman, will provide a retrospective of the historic United States v. Spock, et al. case.
Forty-nine years ago the United States indicted Benjamin Spock, Michael Ferber, Mitchell Goodman and William Sloan Coffin, alleging a conspiracy to counsel, aid and abet registrants to resist the draft. After getting convictions against every defendant except one, the First Circuit ruled that the evidence was insufficient with respect to two defendants and remanded the case with respect to two others.
September 12, 2007
Section Meeting
Pro Bono Opportunities for Senior Lawyers
Hon. Edward Ginsburg will discuss what he has been doing since his retirement from the Probate & Family Court to afford pro bono opportunities for senior lawyers.
April 26 , 2007
Section Meeting
Issues Affecting "Senior" Lawyers (55+)
Join us as we review the status of lawyers over 55 years old, including the pending case against Sidley & Austin, and recent reports from the New York State and New York City Bar Associations on the subject of mandatory retirement and de-equitization. We will also discuss areas of focus for the Section for the remainder of this year, and for next.
February 28, 2007
Section Meeting
The Assault on the Lawyer-Client Relationship
Sponsors
Civil Rights & Civil Liberties Section
Senior Lawyers Section
An official in the Department of Defense publicly asks corporations to fire lawyers who represent "war on terror" clients, and a major newspaper applauds; the Department of Justice wants corporations to waive the lawyer-client privilege in exchange for favorable treatment; Congress makes Bankruptcy lawyers personally responsible for representations and defaults of debtors; governments wiretap conversations between lawyers and clients. Join us as a panel of experienced and thoughtful experts describe recent attacks on relationships between lawyers and clients, and try to describe what it all means.
Program Chair
Mala Rafik, a partner at Rosenfeld & Rafik, PC. and Co-Chair of the Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Section of the Boston Bar Association
Moderator
Richard L. Levine, Co-chair of the Senior Lawyers Section of the BBA
Panelists Include
Jack Cinquegrana, a partner at Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP and President of the Boston Bar Association.
Judith A. McMorrow, Professor at Boston College Law School
Carol V. Rose, Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts
February 2, 2007
Section Meeting
P. Sabin Willett, a partner at Bingham McCutchen LLP, will discuss his experiences as counsel to twelve Chinese nationals captured in connection with the “War on Terror.” Nine of these prisoners are currently serving their fifth year of imprisonment in Guantanamo Bay, yet no charges of wrongdoing, hostile action, participation or presence on any battlefield have been filed.
Pleadings in the case have included a report that U.S. interrogators told the prisoners that the American government believed them to be innocent. Other, more recent, pleadings have asserted that the U.S. government believed that the imprisonment of these Chinese would bring pressure on China to support the U.S. efforts in Iraq.
November 30, 2006
Section Event
Luncheon with Judge Armstrong
Join us for a luncheon with Judge Christopher J. Armstrong, retired Chief Justice of the Appeals Court. Judge Armstrong served on the Appeals Court for 34 years, and has been Chief Justice since 2000.
Judge Armstrong will reflect on his time on the bench and will provide insight on the transition from the bench to the bar. Come and meet Judge Armstrong and other members of the bar.
Sponsored by the BBA Senior Lawyers Section for lawyers 25 years(+) in practice
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