Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly articles from July 2006

Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly archives from July 2006

Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers Admonitions: July 3, 2006.
July 3, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff SJC No. BD-2000-0010 IN RE: BERNARD D. PEMSTEIN Reinstatement Hearing The Board of Bar Overseers will hold a public hearing on the petition for reinstatement of Bernard D. Pemstein, of...

Commentary: Violence in courts: a boiling point.
July 3, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff It is with bitter irony that members of the legal community must face the reality that violence and intimidation have become commonplace in our courthouses -- places that are ostensibly houses of...

Commentary: Six-month leave is life-changing sojourn for Boston lawyer.
July 3, 2006... Byline: Patricia Campbell Malone In the late fall of 2002, Leslie Blickenstaff asked for and received a six-month leave from her Boston law firm, sold her condo and placed all of her belongings in storage. She then moved to Coyhaique, a...

MA governor signs bills: July 3, 2006.
July 3, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff 106. An act authorizing the Town of Stoughton to establish a Massachusetts Water Resources Authority Capital Infrastructure Fund. App. June 13, eff. July 1, 1 page. 107. An act validating...

Boston Bar Association bestows its Haskell Cohn Award for Distinguished Justice.
July 3, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Massachusetts judges were out in force on Beacon Hill last Monday when the Boston Bar Association bestowed its Haskell Cohn Award for Distinguished Justice on one of their own: Superior Court Judge...

MA attorneys spends their time away from the office training for and competing in triathlons.
July 3, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff A vacation for Suffolk County prosecutor Cory S. Flashner and his friend, Boston attorney Wendy B. Silverman, involves a lot more than simply plopping down on the beach, reading a good book and...

WBF 'desperately' needs volunteers for pro bono work.(Letter to the editor)
July 3, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff To the editor: In the June 12 Letters to the Editor, Mark I. Berson proposed the formation of a "Massachusetts Pro Bono Academy" to afford access to justice with "full and competent...

Commentary: Coach's Corner: what do you do when you know that other attorney is negligent?
July 3, 2006... Byline: Edward Poll Visualize yourself in a proceeding where you know the other attorney is being negligent in representing his client. Should you say something to the adverse party or to the state bar? Go one step further. You are...

Commentary: getting a handle on the financial end of your law practice.
July 3, 2006... Byline: Rick Trilling Now that we have passed the solstice, you may feel like you are in summer school if you have been following this column. The format is to look at the core subjects taught in business school MBA programs -- each...

Spike in court violence in Massachusetts prompts calls for help.
July 3, 2006... Byline: David E. Frank Judges and lawyers say that additional court officers and surveillance cameras are needed to combat an apparent spike in violence in and around some of the commonwealth's courthouses over the past several months. ...

Boston Municipal Court chief announces peer review for judges.
July 3, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Judges are reviewing fellow judges under a new peer evaluation program launched last month in the Boston Municipal Court. The "Cross Judicial Enhancement Evaluations," initiated by BMC Chief...

Only a handful of foreign-educated attorneys allowed to sit for Massachusetts bar exam.
July 3, 2006... Byline: Noah Schaffer Before Skai Bateman moved to Massachusetts from Israel, she did her homework. She studied the criteria of the state's Board of Bar Examiners and found that it allowed foreign-educated attorneys to sit for the bar exam...

Supreme Judicial Court rules murder suspect's wife must testify at grand jury.
July 3, 2006... Byline: Eric T. Berkman A murder suspect's wife could not invoke spousal privilege to avoid testifying in a grand jury proceeding against her husband, the Supreme Judicial Court has ruled. The suspect's wife argued that the spousal...

Appeals Court rules company can fire worker for cost-cutting purposes.
July 3, 2006... Byline: Barbara Rabinovitz Employment lawyers who represent management are applauding an Appeals Court decision for clarifying under what conditions an employer can terminate an employee and whether that laid-off worker is entitled to...

Notices from the Courts: July 3, 2006.
July 3, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff 1st Circuit issues amendments to procedure, local rule OFFICE OF THE CLERK UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT NOTICE OF FINAL AMENDMENT TO INTERNAL OPERATING...

Commentary: 'Rempelakis' adds ingredient to recipe for proving undue influence.
July 3, 2006... Byline: Ingrid Chiemi Schroffner Earlier this year, the Appeals Court issued Rempelakis v. Russell, a case that adds to the burden-shifting standard established in Cleary v. Cleary, 427 Mass. 286 (1998). As the law now stands, a...

Appellate Tax Board Case Summaries: July 3, 2006.
July 3, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Taxation G.L.c. 59, Sect. 2C - Sale of tax-exempt property Where (1) the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Boston sold a parcel of land which had not been subject to real estate tax and (2) the...

Appeals Court Case Summaries: July 3, 2006.
July 3, 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: July 3, 2006.
July 3, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Criminal Guilty plea - Colloquy Where a defendant, who pled guilty in 1986 to drunk driving, now moves to withdraw that guilty plea, the motion must be denied because of the defendant's...

Department of Industrial Accidents Case Summaries: July 3, 2006.
July 3, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Workers' compensation Ankle condition Where an administrative judge has awarded an employee permanent and total incapacity benefits, we find that the case must be recommitted to address...

Land Court Case Summaries: July 3, 2006.
July 3, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Real property Cranberry bogs Where the plaintiff asserts that she possesses the right to build a cranberry bog on a certain Rochester, Massachusetts lot (Lot 14/19), I find from the...

Massachusetts Commission against Discrimination Case Summaries: July 3, 2006.
July 3, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Employment Retaliation - Constructive discharge Where a complainant alleges that she was retaliated against for her internal complaints of sexual harassment, that claim must fail because...

Supreme Judicial Court Case Summaries: July 3, 2006.
July 3, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Appeals G.L.c. 211, Sect. 3 - Protective order Where an individual petitioned a single justice for relief from a certain protective order, the single justice acted permissibly in denying...

Superior Court Case Summaries: July 3, 2006.
July 3, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Agency and partnership Real estate partnership - Motions in limine Where (1) the plaintiff limited partners in a real estate partnership allege that the defendant general partners breached...

U.S. Bankruptcy Court Case Summaries: July 3, 2006.
July 3, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Bankruptcy Reconsideration - Motion to extend automatic stay Where a Chapter 13 debtor has moved for reconsideration of this court's order denying her motion to extend the automatic stay,...

1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Case Summaries: July 3, 2006.
July 3, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Bankruptcy Sanctions - IRS Where a judge presiding over a bankruptcy proceeding imposed sanctions on the Internal Revenue Service, that order must be vacated on the ground that the...

U.S. District Court Case Summaries: July 3, 2006.
July 3, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Attorneys Fees Where a jury has awarded a plaintiff bi-racial police officer a verdict on some of the claims she filed against a number of defendants under Title VII and G.L.c. 151B, I...

U.S. Supreme Court Case Summaries: July 3, 2006.
July 3, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Constitutional First Amendment - Campaign finance A state statute capping campaign expenditures and contributions violates the guarantee of free speech under the First Amendment and...

MA Lawyers in the News: July 3, 2006.
July 3, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff New associations Gary J. Lieberman has joined the Boston office of Edwards, Angell, Palmer & Dodge as counsel in the litigation management department. Paul G. Afonso has joined the Boston...

The Big Picture: July 3, 2006.
July 3, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff A power-ful case As the battles over wind turbines in Massachusetts rage on, a Boston-based lawsuit that involved gas turbines in Connecticut and $1.5 billion in claims appears to be nearing...

Commentary: 'Same-Sex Marriage' doesn't do the subject justice.(Book review)
July 3, 2006... Byline: Gerald L. Nissenbaum and Madeline M. Celletti The road of U.S. judicial history is littered with potholes of one-vote majorities forcing the traveling public to swerve here or there. By way of a recent example is George W. Bush...

Verdicts & Settlements July 3, 2006: Contractor, developer dispute G.L.c. 40B-project payment.
July 3, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $265,198 arbitration award The plaintiff developer entered an AIA contract with the defendant site contractor for site preparation on a 44-unit, moderate-income housing being built in...

Verdicts & Settlements July 3, 2006: Motorist suffers knee pain months after broadside collision.
July 3, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $125,000 settlement The 56-year-old plaintiff was traveling down a main road in Wrentham when a commercial vehicle pulled from a parking lot directly in his path and a broadside collision...

Verdicts & Settlements July 3, 2006: Surgeons injure woman's ureter during hysterectomy.
July 3, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $250,000 settlement The plaintiff was referred by her primary care physician to the defendants for assessment of a pelvic mass consistent with a uterine fibroid. Following evaluation, the...

Verdicts & Settlements July 3, 2006: Driver spins car into guardrail to avoid two-car accident.
July 3, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $620,000 settlement The 57-year-old plaintiff was operating her motor vehicle on Route 128 North during rush hour on April 15, 2003, when she came upon a two-vehicle collision unfolding in...

Verdicts & Settlements July 3, 2006: Patient injured during surgery; sphincter is disrupted.
July 3, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $750,000 settlement The plaintiff had an extensive medical history, including ulcerative colitis that required multiple abdominal surgeries. All of her procedures had been performed by a...

Verdicts & Settlements July 3, 2006: Man not screened for colon cancer develops tumor.
July 3, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $350,000 settlement The plaintiff began treating with the defendant in 1996, when the plaintiff turned 50. The defendant performed no colon cancer screening on the plaintiff until June 1999,...

Verdicts & Settlements July 3, 2006: Patient left with more pain following surgery.
July 3, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $215,000 settlement The 45-year-old plaintiff had a long-standing history of back problems and multiple surgeries for herniated discs, spinal instability and degenerative lumbar disease. ...

Foreign-schooled lawyers: a need to loosen the rules.
July 10, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff According to the criteria of the Board of Bar Examiners, foreign-educated attorneys may sit for the bar exam if they can prove they have the equivalent of an American law degree. But,...

Commentary: ATLA's media blackout: a double-secret convention.(Association of Trial Lawyers of America)
July 10, 2006... Byline: David Yas I like to think that I'm a pretty decent guy to invite to a party. I know a couple of knock-knock jokes and I'm not a bad dancer. But the Association of Trial Lawyers of America won't have me at their party in...

Taunton Daily Gazette mistakenly names Norton man as sex offender.
July 10, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff When a Taunton Daily Gazette reporter called Richard Daly at his Norton home last month for his reaction to news of a level-three sex offender living in the neighborhood, the 39-year-old father...

Attorney Max D. Stern's photography to be on display in South Boston.
July 10, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Boston attorney and civil rights advocate Max D. Stern has long had his eye on an avocation in art -- as a photographer. And beginning this month, members of the public are getting a look at...

Boston attorney says timing is everything in U.S. Immigration Court.
July 10, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Representing illegal immigrants has always posed challenges to immigration attorneys, one of whom now claims that the government is not doing right by his client. Desmond P. Fitzgerald of...

BBO chairman thanks Crane for 'stellar service'.(Letter to the editor)
July 10, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff To the editor: As chair of the Board of Bar Overseers, I feel compelled to write in response to the one-sided article on the Office of Bar Counsel that appeared in the June 19 issue of Lawyers...

A question for the gubernatorial candidates.(Letter to the editor)
July 10, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff To the editor: On June 29, Deval Patrick appeared at a breakfast sponsored by the Massachusetts Bar Association and Lawyers Weekly to air the gubernatorial candidates' views on issues...

BBO process doesn't need overhaul.(Letter to the editor)
July 10, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff To the editor: It should come as no surprise that some lawyers who regularly represent their wayward colleagues before the Board of Bar Overseers complain about various aspects of the process...

Commentary: coach's corner.(legal information management tools)
July 10, 2006... Byline: Edward Poll Technology advocates regularly proclaim that we will all soon use only plastic to pay our bills, and read our news only on the Internet. Similarly, as electronic tools from BlackBerries and cell phones to word...

A business tip from Boston attorney C. Forbes Sargent III.(Brief article)
July 10, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff In this new feature, Lawyers Weekly's Noah Schaffer solicits pointers from attorneys, experts and others on various issues relating to the business of law. If you have a business tip to share,...

Superior Court judge rules mother may sue for sex discrimination.
July 10, 2006... Byline: Eric T. Berkman A paralegal who claimed she was repeatedly denied promotions because she was a mother with small children could sue her employer for sex discrimination, a Superior Court judge has ruled in a case of first...

MA Supreme Judicial Court rules homeowner subject to suit for not securing weapons.
July 10, 2006... Byline: Eric T. Berkman A homeowner could be sued for failing to secure a gun collection that her live-in boyfriend kept in her basement after her boyfriend's son used one of the guns to kill a police officer, the Supreme Judicial Court...

Once-busy real estate bar coping with market slump in MA.
July 10, 2006... Byline: Barbara Rabinovitz "Mass. home prices drop 4% as sales fall" "Home foreclosures double in May" "Fed boosts key interest rate to a 5-year high" The headlines are bearing grim news for new buyers and would-be sellers of...

MA Attorney General's Office targets financial mismanagement at charities.
July 10, 2006... Byline: Barbara Rabinovitz Having filed legislation to promote "the financial integrity" of public charities in Massachusetts, the Attorney General's Office is beaming a spotlight on potentially problematic financial practices at those...

Notices from the CourtsNotices from the Courts: July 10, 2006.
July 10, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Liability insurance rule announced COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS At the Supreme Judicial Court holden at Boston within and for said Commonwealth on the twenty-eighth day of June, in the...

Waltham attorney Martin S. Dansker dies at age 71.
July 10, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Martin S. Dansker, who practiced law for more than 40 years, died June 23 at the age of 71. Born in Lynn and raised in Salem, Dansker graduated from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and...

Commentary: using technology to make the workers' comp system more efficient.
July 10, 2006... Byline: Teri A. McHugh Workers' compensation attorneys in Massachusetts may recall 15 years ago when the Department of Industrial Accidents' forms could only be obtained at the regional offices of the DIA and had to be typed or...

MA Court of Appeals Case Summaries: July 10, 2006.
July 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. Bessette, et al. v. Bessette (Lawyers Weekly No. 81-577-06) (3...

U.S. Bankruptcy Appellate Panel Case Summaries: July 10, 2006.
July 10, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Bankruptcy Concealment - Intent Where a debtor was denied a discharge based on the bankruptcy judge's finding that, during the year preceding the bankruptcy filing, the debtor...

District Court/BMC Trial Division Case Summaries: July 10, 2006.
July 10, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Licenses and permits Books - Public sidewalk Where a defendant has been charged with violating a Cambridge ordinance banning the unlicensed sale of books on a public street, the complaint...

Department of Industrial Accidents Case Summaries: July 10, 2006.(cases)
July 10, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Workers' compensation Interest - Trust fund Where an insurer was awarded second injury fund reimbursement against the Workers' Compensation Trust Fund, the award should be amended to...

MA Housing Court Case Summaries: July 10, 2006.
July 10, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Real property Condominium - Nuisance Where the defendant condominium trustees have moved for summary judgment with respect to a nuisance count brought by a plaintiff unit owner, the...

MA Land Court Case Summaries: July 10, 2006.
July 10, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Real property Title Where a dispute has arisen regarding the ownership of a parcel of Barnstable land, I conclude from the record that the plaintiff owns fee title free from any claim of...

Other MA Agencies Case Summaries: July 10, 2006.
July 10, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Elections Fort Devens - Public funds Where ballot questions have been planned to address the disposition of a former military base, the Massachusetts Development Finance Agency may,...

MA Supreme Judicial Court Case Summaries: July 10, 2006.
July 10, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Criminal Wetlands Protection Act - Indictment Where a judge dismissed without prejudice an indictment charging the defendants with violating the Wetlands Protection Act in connection with...

MA Superior Court Case Summaries: July 10, 2006.
July 10, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Administrative Sex offender - Dissemination - Injunction Where a plaintiff, classified as a level 3 sex offender, seeks an order precluding dissemination of his sex offender registration...

U.S. Bankruptcy Court Case Summaries: July 10, 2006.
July 10, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Bankruptcy Trustee's objection - Res judicata Where a Chapter 7 trustee has filed an "Objection to Claim of the Bank of Western Massachusetts and Request for Disgorgement of Overpayment,"...

1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Case Summaries: July 10, 2006.
July 10, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Administrative ADA regulations - Private right of action Where plaintiffs filed suit seeking enforcement of regulations promulgated under the Americans with Disabilities Act, a judgment...

U.S. Magistrate Judges Case Summaries: July 10, 2006.
July 10, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Attorneys Disqualification - Witness Where defendants request disqualification of the plaintiff's attorney, the request must be granted on the ground that the attorney is a necessary...

U.S. Supreme Court Case Summaries: July 10, 2006.
July 10, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Constitutional Prisoners' rights A prison policy forbidding dangerous inmates from access to magazines, newspapers and photographs does not violate prisoners' First Amendment rights. ...

MA Lawyers in the News: July 10, 2006.
July 10, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff New associations Roger C. Zehntner has joined the New Bedford office of Partridge, Snow & Hahn as a partner. He focuses his practice on environmental, insurance coverage, litigation,...

Boston attorney believes New England could attract TIC investor interest.(tenancy in common)
July 10, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff With the golf season in full swing, Foley & Lardner attorney Stephen L. Burr is basking in the attention he and his firm have attracted with the recent closing of what he says is the first-ever...

Verdicts & Settlements July 10, 2006: Teen passenger injured when drunk driver strikes car.
July 10, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $350,000 settlement The 18-year-old plaintiff was a rear seat passenger in a car that was struck by an oncoming SUV that veered across the center line of the road in Brockton. The...

Verdicts & Settlements July 10, 2006: Falsely imprisoned man seeks damages upon release.
July 10, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $3.7 million settlement The defendant city and two city police officers settled a civil rights lawsuit brought by the plaintiff, who was wrongly convicted of a 1989 rape and imprisoned for 10...

Verdicts & Settlements July 10, 2006: Worker severely burned by welding project above him.
July 10, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $252,000 settlement The plaintiff was badly burned by slag that fell from welding/torch work being performed on floors above the location where he was working. The plaintiffs alleged that...

Verdicts & Settlements July 10, 2006: Disabled man thrown from wheelchair van is injured.
July 10, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $250,000 settlement The 56-year-old disabled plaintiff sustained injuries when he was vaulted from his wheelchair while riding in a wheelchair van owned and operated by the defendant. The...

Verdicts & Settlements July 10, 2006: Surgical sponge left in patient during C-section.
July 10, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $1 million settlement The plaintiff underwent an emergency Caesarean section, and during the course of the procedure a surgical sponge was left within her abdomen. One month later, the...

Verdicts & Settlements July 10, 2006: Cruise manager claims she was sexually assaulted by chef.
July 10, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $940,000 settlement On the plaintiff's first day of work as the assistant hotel manager on a cruise vessel, she was allegedly sexually assaulted by the vessel's chef in Boothbay Harbor, Maine....

Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers Admonitions: July 17, 2006.
July 17, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff SJC No. BD-2005-0058 IN THE MATTER OF: MAURICE FITZGERALD SJC No. BD-2005-0058 IN THE MATTER OF: MAURICE FITZGERALD Last known address: 75 Spring Street Lexington, MA 02421 Memorandum of...

Commentary: aggregate settlements: know the rules and proceed with caution.
July 17, 2006... Byline: Nancy E. Kaufman Multiple clients with consistent goals at the beginning of the representation may very well part company when a global settlement is proposed. Perhaps only some of the clients want to settle; or there may be a...

The Lowdown on MA Superior Court Judge Elizabeth B. Donovan.
July 17, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff THE LOWDOWN ON JUDGE DONOVAN Born Dec. 29, 1943, in Cambridge Graduated Boston University School of Law, LL.M., (1977); Suffolk University Law School (1974); Boston State College, M.Ed.,...

Commentary: Lawyers: a back-row seat to MA governor's race?
July 17, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff The 2006 campaign for governor in Massachusetts is shaping up to be one of the more closely contested races in recent memory, and profound questions loom for the legal community. The...

Inventory of what's on Boston lawyer Christopher Marston's desk.
July 17, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff In this feature, Lawyers Weekly periodically checks out the workspace of random lawyers across the state. This week, Lawyers USA's Nora Lookwood Tooher gets an inventory of what's on Boston lawyer...

Massachusetts lawyer discovers Afghanistan is where she wants to be.
July 17, 2006... Byline: Patricia Campbell Malone Rebecca Gang vividly remembers the day she decided to go to law school. It was early June 2001. She was in Kathmandu, Nepal, standing on the roof of the office building housing the South Asia Forum for Human...

Massachusetts governor signs bills: July 17, 2006.
July 17, 2006... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff 122. An act making appropriations for the fiscal year 2006 to provide for supplementing certain existing appropriations and for certain other activities and projects. App. and eff. June 24, 63...

Commentary: personal resources to improve your business competency.
July 17, 2006... Byline: Edward Poll This column often refers to "The Business of Law"-- running a law firm in a professional, businesslike way. Many attorneys have difficulty with this concept because their training never provided or reinforced it....