Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly articles from April 2006

Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly archives from April 2006

Commentary: Sideways: Lateral hires and conflicts of interest.
April 3, 2006... Byline: Constance V. Vecchione How can attorneys changing firms whether hiring or being hired avoid importing a conflict of interest that will disqualify the law firm that the newcomer is joining? And is the problem any different if the...

Commentary: The future of the JNC.(Nominating Commission)
April 3, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff "I reserve to myself the responsibility to evaluate judicial temperament and philosophy." "The JNC is to assess qualification; I am to assess suitability." With these words, Gov. Mitt...

Frank Bellotti, former MA politician, reflects on his legal/political career.(Massachusetts)(Biography)
April 3, 2006... Byline: Barbara Rabinovitz "Didn't you run for governor?" a photographer is inquiring of Frank (Francis Xavier, on his birth certificate) Bellotti. "Three times," he deadpans, a momentary smile crossing his face. Approaching his 83rd...

Commentary: Crimson confusion: Harvard Law students missing the point.(Column)
April 3, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Oh, you silly Harvard Law students. Last month the word broke that a group of deliciously ideological lawyer-to-be Cantabrigians were plotting a protest against the Boston law firm of Ropes &...

Ralph Tavares, member of 1970's Grammy-winning band, is now New Bedford court officer.(Brief article)
April 3, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff For nearly two decades, Ralph Tavares stepped onto stages around the world as a member of the two-time Grammy-winning band Tavares and played an instrumental role in making the group one of the...

MA Superior Court judge castigates three attorneys from downtown Boston firm.(Mitchell J. Sikora Jr. )(Brief article)
April 3, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Superior Court Judge Mitchell J. Sikora Jr. didn't mince words in castigating three attorneys from the downtown Boston firm of Hinckley, Allen & Snyder for their recent actions in the Norfolk...

Commentary: Looking back - and ahead - on the Massachusetts legislative front.
April 3, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff This new column on legislative happenings across the state will appear periodically. The upcoming months will prove a challenge for the Legislature and those who follow its workings. The...

Judge addresses concern over fair trial date initiative.(Letter to the editor)
April 3, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff To the editor: Your March 20 editorial presents a measured and, I believe, supportive view of the Superior Court's firm and fair trial date initiative ("Docket efficiency: striking a...

'Old school' judges wouldn't tolerate assault on civility.(Letter to the editor)
April 3, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff To the editor:A Your March 6 editorial "Judges and snap decisions" was well taken. However, the anecdote of the motion denial was incorrectly attributed to Judge Lawrence Brooks. Rather,...

Commentary: What's your price? Billing alternatives beyond the hourly rate.
April 3, 2006... Byline: Edward Poll Legal fees were traditionally based not only on the lawyer's time spent, but also the nature of the service, the result achieved and the amount at stake. Charging an appropriate legal fee was a matter of professional...

Commentary: Customized service builds client loyalty.
April 3, 2006... Byline: Kimberly Proctor Client loyalty is best built with customized services that specifically meet client need. It is time to banish the "standard" treatment including standardized letters and invoices in favor of customized support....

MA Supreme Judicial Court rules arbitrators may impose sanctions.(Massachusetts)
April 3, 2006... Byline: David E. Frank An arbitration panel did not exceed its authority when it imposed financial sanctions on a party that failed to comply with a series of discovery requests during the pendency of a case, the Supreme Judicial Court has...

Plan announced by Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice could reduce pro se cases in two counties.(Margaret H. Marshall, Suffolk, Hampden)
April 3, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Litigants in the Suffolk and Hampden Probate courts will be able to retain attorneys for "limited-scope representation" later this year under a plan announced by Supreme Judicial Court Chief...

Driver uses joint tortfeasor theory to get $620,000 settlement.
April 3, 2006... Byline: Noah Schaffer Attorneys representing a plaintiff involved in a three-vehicle accident say the $620,000 settlement they received for their client with $600,000 received from a party not found at fault demonstrates the advantage of...

Notices from the Courts: April 3, 2006.(child cutsody law)(Brief article)
April 3, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Probate & Family Court announces application of Child Support Guidelines The Administrative Office of the Probate and Family Court has announced that the one change made by Chief Justice...

Appeals Court Case Summaries: April 3, 2006.
April 3, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Administrative Sex offender - Minimization of offense Where a plaintiff challenges his classification as a level one sex offender, the appeal must fail, as the defendant Sex Offender...

MA Housing Court Case Summaries: April 3, 2006.
April 3, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Landlord and tenant Eviction - Injunction request Where an evicted tenant is seeking an injunction restoring her to possession of her apartment, I find that her request for relief must be...

Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination Case Summaries: April 3, 2006.
April 3, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil rights Race, color and sex discrimination - Place of public accommodation Where a complainant gas station customer alleges that, during a dispute over a purchase of gas, the...

Supreme Judicial Court Case Summaries: April 3, 2006.
April 3, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Appeals G.L.c. 211, Sect. 3 - Alleged error in Probate & Family Court proceedings Where a single justice rejected a petition filed under G.L.c. 211, Sect. 3, by an individual challenging...

Superior Court Case Summaries: April 3, 2006.
April 3, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Employment Recording of employees' telephone conversation - Wiretap Act - Privacy Act Where two plaintiff employees were disciplined based on the contents of a tape recorded telephone...

1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Case Summaries: April 3, 2006.
April 3, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Agency and partnership Dissolution - Valuation Where (1) plaintiffs, who were partners in a real estate partnership, decided to retire and sought to be paid the value of their partnership...

U.S. Supreme Court Case Summaries: April 3, 2006.
April 3, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Real property Water rights The Fort Yuma Indian Reservation will receive the lesser of 77,966 acre-feet or the quantity needed to irrigate 11,694 acres in water rights through various...

MA Lawyers in the News: April 3, 2006.
April 3, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff New associations Brown, Rudnick, Berlack, Israels, which has an office in Boston, has established a climate and energy group. Thomas E. Sartini III has joined Davagian & Associates in...

Commentary: Long-term care planning in wake of changes to Medicaid rules.
April 3, 2006... Byline: Harry S. Margolis and Jeffrey A. Bloom The Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 (S. 1932) (the DRA), signed into law by President Bush on Feb. 8, imposes the most significant changes in Medicaid (MassHealth in Massachusetts) coverage of...

Commentary: Two essential books for your career library.
April 3, 2006... Byline: Stephen Seckler Much of what there is to say about legal careers and marketing has already been said. Get a great education. Follow your interests. Do great work. Find a good mentor. Provide outstanding customer service to clients...

Verdicts & Settlements April 3, 2006: Motorist rear-ended in Maine suffers traumatic brain injury.
April 3, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $1.18 million settlement On Oct. 27, 2001, the 33-year-old plaintiff, a Massachusetts resident, was operating a motor vehicle that was stopped at a pedestrian crosswalk when it was struck in...

Verdicts & Settlements April 3, 2006: 'Keller' procedure leaves woman with bad toe.
April 3, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $175,000 settlement The defendant orthopedic surgeon performed a Keller bunionectomy on the 46-year-old female plaintiff, resulting in a shortened and floppy great toe and persistent pain. The...

Verdicts & Settlements April 3, 2006: Woman complains of headaches following car accident.
April 3, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $162,500 settlement The 40-year-old plaintiff was driving a car that was struck on the passenger side by the defendant, who had allegedly gone through a stop sign. The plaintiff then...

Verdicts & Settlements April 3, 2006: Car pushes pedestrian through plate glass window.
April 3, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $1.2 million settlement In February 2003, the 31-year-old plaintiff was walking on a sidewalk of a privately owned strip mall. The 81-year-old defendant attempted to park her car in a diagonal...

Verdicts & Settlements April 3, 2006: Company circulates false advertisement about competitor.
April 3, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $20.77 million verdict The plaintiff company, based in Boston, designed and sold musical instruments such as trumpets, flutes and clarinets. The plaintiff's instruments were sold at affordable...

Verdicts & Settlements April 3, 2006: Patient dies of sepsis while in rehabilitation facility.
April 3, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $435,000 settlement On March 13, 2000, the 72-year-old plaintiff underwent a left total knee replacement at a local hospital. He was transferred to a rehabilitation facility for short-term...

Commentary: Coach's Corner.(malpractice litigation)
April 10, 2006... Byline: Edward Poll Every lawyer, even the most competent and conscientious, faces the risk of a malpractice lawsuit. Often we seem to accept this as an unavoidable aspect of practice. But the truth is that there are certain red flags that...

MA Board of Bar Overseers Admonitions: April 10, 2006.
April 10, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff ADMONITION NO. 06-09 IN THE MATTER OF DISCIPLINE OF AN ATTORNEY Hearing report submitted by Special Hearing Officer Francis J. Russell on November 14, 2005 On January 21, 2005, Bar Counsel...

Old court documents in MA consigned to the dustbin of history?
April 10, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff You won't find any passionate advocates pleading for the preservation of old court documents. And yet anyone with remote appreciation for history will be disappointed to hear what is happening...

MA governor signs bills: April 10, 2006.
April 10, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Bills signed by governor 35. An act further regulating the Barnstable County Septic Loan Program. App. March 7, eff. April 6, 1 page. 36. An act establishing a sick leave bank for Marie...

International Academy of Trial Lawyers' exchange program.(Brief article)
April 10, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Italian attorney Bruno Tassone witnessed something here last week that he rarely sees at home: a jury trial. The Rome-based attorney was visiting U.S. courts and staying with Springfield...

Supreme Judicial Court Justice Martha B. Sosman back in court.
April 10, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Supreme Judicial Court Justice Martha B. Sosman, who has been battling breast cancer, was back in Courtroom 1 of the John Adams Courthouse in Boston last Monday morning for the opening of the...

Boston attorney seeks to initiate informal campaign to aide in upcoming N.O. mayoral election.(Charles E. Walker Jr)(New Orleans )(Brief article)
April 10, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff "This is why I went to law school in the first place," says Charles E. Walker Jr. after explaining the process of absentee voting to a group of case workers in Boston's Roxbury neighborhood who...

Time to get control over community preservation.(Letter to the editor)
April 10, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff To the editor: In 2000, Massachusetts enacted the Community Preservation Act (CPA). The law created a Community Preservation Trust Fund in order to provide communities with matching funds...

Why foreign educated lawyers aren't coming to Massachusetts.(Letter to the editor)
April 10, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff To the editor: Although it was interesting to read for the first time in Lawyers Weekly an actual account of what the Board of Bar Examiners is doing with regard to foreign-educated lawyers...

A different view of Howie Carr.(Letter to the editor)
April 10, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff To the editor: I'm a member of the Massachusetts bar who rarely agrees politically with Howie Carr ("To the bar, Howie Carr is a big, fat idiot," March 20). But unlike the publisher, I...

CSB elaborates on Payee Notification Rule.(Letter to the editor)
April 10, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff To the editor: I am writing to explain the initiative of the Clients' Security Board in promoting the adoption in Massachusetts of the ABA Model Rule for Payee Notification, and to reply to a...

Romney has 'marginalized' judicial appointment process.(Letter to the editor)
April 10, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff To the editor: It is regrettable that Gov. Mitt Romney does not seem to get it when it comes to the judicial appointment process, in light of his actions regarding the JNC. I served as a...

Chapter 93A class actions are 'anti-dishonest business'.(Letter to the editor)
April 10, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff To the editor: I read with great interest and even greater consternation your recent article on legislative attempts to curb rights and remedies currently available under Chapter 93A ("Lawyers...

Quote should have been attributed to Long, not Curley.(Letter to the editor)
April 10, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff To the editor: I noted in your opinion page a reference to James Michael Curley as saying "Never put in writing what you can do with the spoken word, and never speak anything you can do with a...

Defense bar: Tide is turning for federal court verdicts.
April 10, 2006... Byline: David E. Frank Whether through audio-taped confessions, video surveillance or other strong physical evidence, for years the prevailing sentiment among the criminal defense bar has been that most of the cases prosecuted in federal...

Are workers' 'internal' complaints protected?
April 10, 2006... Byline: Barbara Rabinovitz The Supreme Judicial Court heard arguments last week in a case that could determine whether employees who lodge only internal complaints with their employer are also protected by a state law that safeguards...

New facility makes Norfolk Probate Court pleasant place to do business.
April 10, 2006... Byline: David Frank This is another in an ongoing series in which Lawyers Weekly -- after spending a day in one of the commonwealth's courthouses -- reports on the issues observed there. It's a nice new building, which makes it a...

MA Supreme Judicial Court rules 'accord and satisfaction' is constitutional.(Massachusetts)
April 10, 2006... Byline: David E. Frank A District Court judge's decision to dismiss a case after the defendant and victim had jointly filed an "accord and satisfaction" was constitutional and did not violate public policy, the Supreme Judicial Court has...

MA Court of Appeals rules mortgage on client's property is barred.
April 10, 2006... Byline: Jason M. Scally A California attorney could not enforce a mortgage taken out on a divorced client's Brookline property where it was procured as security for loans made to a client, the Appeals Court has ruled. A Probate &...

Turmoil at MA Appellate Tax Board; ethics complaint filed.(Massachusetts)
April 10, 2006... Byline: Noah Schaffer The state's Appellate Tax Board descended into chaos last week. One of the board members filed a complaint with the State Ethics Commission against Anne T. Foley, chair of the ATB. Foley, meanwhile, reversed an...

Notices from the Courts: April 10, 2006.
April 10, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff DOR posts notices of public hearings THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Pursuant to the provisions of General Laws Chapter 14,...

Commentary: Catholic Charities and the end of tolerance.
April 10, 2006... Byline: Dwight G. Duncan How is it that Catholic Charities is now out of the adoption business? After all, adoption is about as Catholic as the pope. Consider what the current pontiff said in his recent encyclical, calling "love for...

District Court/BMC Appellate Division Case Summaries: April 10, 2006.
April 10, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Commercial 'Lease purchase' of truck - Repairs Where (1) a plaintiff, having performed repairs on a truck, brought suit seeking to have the defendant lessor pay for them and (2) the...

MA Court of Appeals Case Summaries: April 10, 2006.
April 10, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Appeals Judgments affirmed The Appeals Court has affirmed, pursuant to Rule 1:28, judgments in the following cases. Although the decisions do not appear to address any substantive issues...

District Court/BMC Trial Division Case Summaries: April 10, 2006.
April 10, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Search and seizure Stop - Reasonable suspicion Where police officers effectuated a stop of the defendants' vehicle without having a reasonable suspicion of wrongdoing, the stop was...

Department Of Industrial Accidents Case Summaries: April 10, 2005.
April 10, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Workers' compensation Gynecomastia - Causation Where an administrative judge has awarded an employee medical benefits for the work-related condition of gynecomastia, an appeal of the...

Land Court Case Summaries: April 10, 2006.
April 10, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Real property Right of way Where a dispute has arisen regarding a Beverly right of way, I find from the evidence that the defendant (1) has a legal right to pave the right of way and to...

MA Supreme Judicial Court Case Summaries April 10, 2006.
April 10, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff March 28, 2006 Further appellate review granted: PAUL N. CHERVIN vs. TRAVELERS INSURANCE COMPANY. Reported below: 65 Mass. App. Ct. 394 (2006). MME. JUSTICE COWIN did not participate. ...

MA Superior Court Case Summaries: April 10, 2006.
April 10, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Administrative Department of Veteran's Services - General release Where the defendant Commissioner of Veteran's Services required a plaintiff benefit claimant to provide a general release...

U.S. Bankruptcy Court Case Summaries: April 10, 2006.
April 10, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Bankruptcy Preferential transfers Where (1) the plaintiff liquidating supervisor of consolidated Chapter 11 debtors filed an adversary proceeding seeking the return of three alleged...

1st U.S. Circuit Court Of Appeals Case Summaries: April 10, 2006.
April 10, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil practice Motion to amend complaint - Motion for additional discovery Where six plaintiff workers (1) filed suit alleging that a layoff methodology negotiated between a defendant...

U.S. District Court Case Summaries: April 10, 2006.
April 10, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil practice Motion to revisit - Injunctive relief Where (1) this court denied a petitioner's request for injunctive relief but without prejudice to the petitioner requesting relief...

U.S. Magistrate Judges Case Summaries: April 10, 2006.
April 10, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil practice Motion to disqualify counsel Where (1) a plaintiff administratrix has sued a number of defendant insurance companies for their alleged violations of G.L.c. 93A and 176D and...

MA Lawyers in the News: April 10, 2006.
April 10, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff New associations Meghan E. Walt has joined the Boston office of Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi as an associate. Promotions Craig W. Kaylor has been promoted to vice president and...

The Big Picture: April 10, 2006.
April 10, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Block party The Boston office of WolfBlock showed off its new digs, in the downtown Boston office tower known as One Boston Place, with an open house at the firm a couple of weeks ago. ...

Verdicts & Settlements April 10, 2006: Rear-seat passenger dies when car hits tree in Medfield.
April 10, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $1.6 million settlement A single car automobile collision occurred in the early hours of Nov. 26, 2004 on a back wooded roadway in Medfield. A group of recent high school graduates had...

Verdicts & Settlements April 10, 2006: Baby dies of irreversible hypoxic injury after delivery.
April 10, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $750,000 settlement On Sept. 14, 2002, the 33-year-old plaintiff was admitted to the hospital in labor. Initially, the fetal monitor showed positive signs of fetal well being -- accelerations...

Verdicts & Settlements April 10, 2006: Patient in labor suffers anoxic brain damage.
April 10, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $6.6 million settlement The 35-year-old plaintiff was admitted to the labor and delivery unit at full term after her membranes ruptured spontaneously. Her pregnancy had been normal. While...

Verdicts & Settlements April 10, 2006: 20-year-old dies in accident after night of drinking.
April 10, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $2.01 million verdict The decedent was a 20-year-old junior in the nursing program at UMASS Amherst. In addition to being a full-time student, the decedent was employed part time in a nursing...

Verdicts & Settlements April 10, 2006: Electrician falls from ladder, injures head.
April 10, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $1.75 million settlement The plaintiff was a union electrician working at a construction site in Boston. On the morning of the accident, he ascended a wooden ladder and began working on an...

Verdicts & Settlements April 10, 2006: Social worker fails to file report about mother's neglect.
April 10, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $4 million verdict In 1989, when the plaintiffs were about to turn 4-years and 2-years old respectively, their father died suddenly of a heart attack. From that point forward their mother...

Commentary: Where have all the trials gone?(Column)
April 17, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff This column offers readers an opportunity to ask a former judge with 25 years of experience on the bench questions that are of interest to lawyers. To ask Judge Ginsburg a question, e-mail...

Commentary: Keep bias out of adoption law.(Brief article)
April 17, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Catholic Charities has seen a swirl of controversy since its officials decided that it would no longer offer adoption services because the church was opposed to granting adoptions to same-sex...

Bristol County District Attorney believes in speaking his mind.(Paul F. Walsh Jr.)
April 17, 2006... Byline: Noah Schaffer "I'm just a country lawyer from a little fishing village," says Bristol County District Attorney Paul F. Walsh Jr. And clearly Walsh feels right at home as he strolls along the New Bedford docks. He can explain...

Commentary: Gay-marriage opponents: Time to hang it up, guys.
April 17, 2006... Byline: David Yas I have a message for the people who continue to fight against same-sex marriage in Massachusetts: Please go away. Now. You lost, guys. The highest court in the state decided this matter three years ago. You had a case...

Suffolk County prosecutors begin presentations on four murder trials.
April 17, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Last week, as local, national and international media were tracking the arraignment of Englishman Neil Entwistle in Middlesex Superior Court in Cambridge on charges he murdered his wife and...

Commentary: Korman & Associates hires two associates in wake of "email firestorm".(Viktor A. Theiss and J. Leon Smith )(Brief article)
April 17, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Reading the understated announcement that two new associates -- Viktor A. Theiss and J. Leon Smith -- have joined the small Boston firm of Korman & Associates, one would never know that name...

When lawyers fail to comply with duty of candor.(Letter to the editor)
April 17, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff To the editor: During several recent appearances, I have observed what appear to be absolute fabrications voiced by opposing counsel. The statements weren't merely subtle nuances of a disputed...

Nothing wrong with students' protest of firm.(Letter to the editor)
April 17, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff To the editor: The April 3rd column from the publisher confuses ethical imperatives in civil and criminal matters when it criticizes law students for protesting Ropes & Gray's representation...

Commentary: Is law a commodity? Only if we let it become one.
April 17, 2006... Byline: Edward Poll In recent years, two Cs -- convergence and commoditization -- have become major issues for large regional and national law firms. Convergence is the trend among large corporate clients to reduce their legal expenses...

U.S. District Court judge says City of Sommerville should have hired veteran as police officer.
April 17, 2006... Byline: Noah Schaffer A city should not have refused to hire an Army veteran who was offered a job as a police officer, even though the veteran was unavailable for police training due to his Army obligations, a U.S. District Court judge...

Superior Court short on bar advocates in Middlesex County.
April 17, 2006... Byline: Barbara Rabinovitz Private practitioners qualified to accept bar-advocate assignments in the Superior Court are in short supply in Middlesex County and in sufficiently small numbers in other counties that the Committee for Public...

Mass. House budget seeks study of office space used by DAs, Trial Court administration.(Massachusetts, district attorneys)
April 17, 2006... Byline: Noah Schaffer Tucked into the proposed fiscal 2007 budget for the House Ways & Means Committee are possible swipes at the state's district attorneys and the Trial Court administration. The language seeks studies of office space...