2010–11
Officers
Denise Squillante
President
Firm: Denise Squillante PC.
Education: B.S., Roger Williams College, 1980;
J.D., New England School of Law, 1983, magna cum
laude.
Legal Career: Squillante established a solo
practice in Fall River nearly 30 years ago and now has a
small-firm. She concentrates in family law, corporate law, injury
and estates, and also provides business and legal consulting
services to corporations.
MBA Service: Long active in the MBA's Family
Law Section Council and its associated committees, Squillante has
also lent her energy to the MBA's Presidential Task Force on
Terrorism, the Amicus Committee and the Joint Bar Committee. A
former recipient of the MBA's Pro Bono Publico Award, Squillante is
a longtime member of the House of Delegates and a Massachusetts Bar
Foundation Fellow. Squillante has testified in front of the
Massachusetts Legislature on behalf of the MBA and is a frequent
guest lecturer for MBA continuing legal education programs. She was
instrumental in establishing the MBA's General Practice, Solo &
Small Firm Section, as well as leading the MBA's efforts to assist
lawyers who are transitioning in or out of the practice of law.
Additional Service: A former president of the
Fall River Bar Association, Squillante will become president of the
New England Bar Association in October and is a member of the
Bristol County Bar Association Executive Board. Squillante is also
a member of a legislative task force to study alimony created by
the Joint Committee on the Judiciary and was co-chair of the joint
MBA/Boston Bar Association Alimony Task Force. An MBA delegate to
the American Bar Association's House of Delegates, Squillante is a
member of the Probate Court Modification Task Force, a trustee of
Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, Inc. and on the National
Conference of Bar President's Program Committee. She also
represented the MBA on the Equality Commission - a collaborative
effort of the MBA, BBA and the Women's Bar Association. Highly
involved with efforts to address domestic violence in Fall River,
Squillante was recently awarded the John S. Brayton Jr. Memorial
Community Service Award by the Fall River Chamber of Commerce. A
former member of the board of directors for the Katie Brown
Educational Program, YMCA-Fall River and Domestic Violence Task
Force, Squillante is also a former visiting lecturer at Bridgewater
State College and Bristol Community College.
Additional Information: Squillante lives in
Fall River.
Richard P. Campbell
President-elect
Firm: Founder and chairman of Campbell, Campbell, Edwards & Conroy PC in
Boston.
Education: B.A., University of
Massachusetts-Boston, 1970; J.D., Boston College Law School, 1974,
cum laude.
Legal Career: Campbell represents individuals
in serious personal injury matters, commercial disputes,
multi-district litigation, class actions, aviation disasters, toxic
tort and product liability disputes. In addition, Campbell
organizes and leads his firm's pro bono project, educating parents,
students, and school administrators about civil and criminal social
host liability laws. Campbell was was awarded Boston College Law
School's highest award for dedication to the law ― the Founder's
Medal. Campbell was also the 2009 recipient of the ABA Tort Trial
& Insurance Practice Section (TIPS) Andrew C. Hecker Memorial
Award, in recognition for his leadership, outreach, enthusiasm,
professionalism and pride in TIPS.
MBA Service: A past MBA secretary and vice
president, Campbell is the chair of the MBA's Peremptory Challenges
Task Force and has served on the MBA's governing body, the House of
Delegates, for more than six years; on the Criminal Justice Section
Council for four years; and currently as a Massachusetts Bar
Foundation trustee and Oliver Wendell Holmes Fellow.
Additional Service: Campbell is a fellow of the
American College of Trial Lawyers. Campbell is also a past chair of
the 34,000-member Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section of
the American Bar Association. Campbell served seven years as the
chair of the Board of Overseers for Boston College Law School.
Additional Information: Campbell lives in
Cohasset.
Douglas K. Sheff
Vice President
Firm: Senior partner
at Sheff Law
Offices in Boston.
Education: B.A., University of Michigan, 1980;
J.D., Boston College Law School, 1984.
Legal Career: Sheff is a nationally renowned
brain injury litigation expert and specializes in all aspects of
personal injury law. A seven-time recipient of the American
Association for Justice's Wiedemann Wysocki Award, Sheff holds the
title of governor to the AAJ, where he has spent more than 20 years
working nationally and locally on issues that affect the trial bar.
A Massachusetts Bar Foundation Fellow, Sheff is a recipient of the
AAJ's Next Generation Award. In addition, Sheff is a
Boston magazine "Super Lawyer," and has been recognized in
Lifesavers, for preventing injury through aggressive
representation of victims of defective products.
MBA Service: Serving his second term as MBA
vice president, Sheff is also a member of the MBA's Executive
Management Board and Budget and Finance Committee. In addition,
Sheff served as MBA secretary in 2008-09 and as chair of the MBA
Civil Litigation Section in 2005-06. Sheff also serves as chair of
the MBA Membership Committee and chairs the MBA Gala Dinner
Committee.
Additional Service: Sheff is a past president
of the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys, serving on its
Board of Governors for more than 20 years. Sheff was recently
honored with MATA's inaugural Excellence in Advocacy Award for his
representation of children and adults who have suffered traumatic
brain injury. Elected by his national peers, Sheff is a past chair
of the AAJ's State Delegates and served as chair of its Council of
Presidents, representing 50,000 attorneys nationwide. Appointed a
trustee of the National College of Advocacy, which provides
education for lawyers across the United States, Sheff is also a
recipient of the ORT Award for integrity in the law.
Additional Information: Sheff lives in the
North End neighborhood of Boston.
Jeffrey N. Catalano
Vice President
Firm: Partner at Todd & Weld
LLP in Boston.
Education: B.A., University of Scranton, 1990;
J.D., Boston College Law School, 1994.
Legal Career: Catalano specializes in
representing victims of catastrophic injuries in the areas of
medical negligence, product liability, auto accident, class action
and other personal injury cases. Catalano was selected as a New
England "Super Lawyer" in 2009 and a "Rising Star" by
Boston magazine in 2005.
MBA Service: Chair of the MBA's Volunteer,
Recognition, Recruitment & Retention Task Force and a member of
its Executive Management Board, Catalano is a past chair of the
MBA's Civil Litigation Section and has served on the MBA's
governing board, the House of Delegates, since 2006. A
Massachusetts Bar Foundation Fellow, Catalano is also a member of
the executive committee for the Massachusetts Academy of Trial
Attorneys.
Additional Service: Catalano is on the board of
directors for the non-profit law firm Health Law Advocates, Inc.,
where his pro bono work includes patient advocacy and representing
chronically ill and impoverished people who are denied access to
health care services. He has spoken on patient rights and
medical-legal issues on national television and for bar
associations across the state. In 2009, he received a "Hero from
the Field" award for his efforts in improving health care quality
and patient rights. Catalano is a recipient of Boston College Law
School's Commencement Award for Professional and Personal
Achievement.
Additional information: Catalano lives in West
Roxbury.
Robert L. Holloway Jr.
Treasurer
Firm: Shareholder and president of MacLean, Holloway,
Doherty, Ardiff & Morse PC, Peabody.
Education: B.A., Amherst College, 1968; J.D.,
Boston University Law School, 1973.
Legal Career: A regular volunteer as a judge
for moot court arguments at Boston University School of Law and
Harvard Law School, Holloway is a trial advisor in the Harvard
Trial Workshop program. A regular panelist for continuing legal
education programs, Holloway is also an emeritus member of the
Board of Editors of Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, having
served on that board since 1981. Recognized by Boston
magazine as a "Super Lawyer" in the area of business litigation,
Holloway is also a past president of the Essex County Bar
Association.
MBA Service: Holloway is a long-term member of
the MBA's Ethics Committee, a member and past chair of the MBA's
Civil Litigation Section Council and a former regional delegate to
the MBA House of Delegates, the governing body of the MBA. In
addition, as MBA treasurer, Holloway currently serves as the chair
of the Budget & Finance Committee. Holloway received the MBA's
Community Service Award in 1993 and served on the Joint Bar
Committee on Judicial Nominations for six years. In August 2009,
Holloway began a three-year appointment to the Supreme Judicial
Court's Standing Committee on Pro Bono Legal Services.
Additional Service: A former member of the Town
of Topsfield Board of Health and an elected representative to the
Masconomet Regional School Committee from 1990 to 1999, Holloway
was also a director of the Topsfield Athletic Association for many
years and served as the organization's president. Prior to that, he
served as member and chair of the Danvers Recreation Committee. In
addition, he was a founding member of Hospice of the North Shore
and served as a corporator of Beverly Hospital.
Additional information: Holloway lives in
Topsfield.
Marsha V. Kazarosian
Secretary
Firm: Managing partner of Kazarosian Law
Offices in Haverhill.
Education: B.A., University of Massachusetts,
Amherst, 1978; J.D., Suffolk University Law School, 1982.
Legal Career: Long active in bar associations
across the state, Kazarosian is a past president of the Essex
County Bar Association and the Massachusetts Academy of Trial
Attorneys. An accomplished trial lawyer, she was named one of the
top 10 lawyers in the state in 1999 by Massachusetts Lawyers
Weekly after successfully suing the Haverhill Golf and Country
Club for gender discrimination. Since 2006, when Massachusetts
Super Lawyers magazine chose Kazarosian for its cover story
titled, "The Power of Marsha Kazarosian," she has been identified
as one of the top woman lawyers in Massachusetts and New
England.
MBA Service: A co-chair of the MBA's Education
Committee, Kazarosian has served on 10 association committees and
sections, including the Access to Justice, Civil Litigation, Family
Law and Probate Law section councils. An MBA vice president
from 2008 to 2009, Kazarosian has also served on the MBA's
Executive Management Board, House of Delegates, Joint Bar Committee
on Judicial Nominations, Nominating Committee and Gala Dinner
Committee. In addition, she is a Life Fellow of the Massachusetts
Bar Foundation.
Additional Service: Kazarosian has served a
two-year term as one of 25 lawyers in the commonwealth appointed to
the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Courts Pro Bono Panel and a
six-year term as a Hearings Committee Officer for the Massachusetts
Board of Bar Overseers. In 2005, Kazarosian debuted as the host of
her own internet radio program on the Legal Talk Network, in which
she discusses relevant legal issues. Active in the North Shore
Community, Kazarosian is a corporator of the Pentucket Five Cents
Savings Bank and was a member of the Essex County 150th Anniversary
Committee. She has also served as a board member of the Northern
Essex Community College Foundation.
Additional information: Kazarosian lives in
Haverhill.