2010–11 Section Council Chairs

Access to Justice

Isabel Sara Raskin, chair

Raskin is a practitioner in residence at Suffolk University Law School's Education Advocacy Clinic, a program she developed that supervises law students representing indigent clients in both school discipline and special education hearings. She received a Harvard Pilgrim Community Spirit 9/11 grant and was honored with the Boston Bar Association John G. Brooks Award for outstanding advocacy for legal aid clients. The Cambridge is a member of the Boston Public School's Code of Conduct Advisory Council and the Education Law Task Force. She previously sat on the Boston Public Schools' Special Education Advisory Council.

Susan G. Anderson, vice chair

Anderson, a Wellesley resident, is an advisor to the Office of the State Treasurer. A past consultant to not-for-profit agencies through Community Action Partners, Anderson began her career in legal services and has also served as general counsel to the Executive Office of Elder Affairs and as senior counsel at the Division of Insurance. A former chair of the MBA's Access to Justice Section Council, Anderson served as co-chair of the Health Law Section Council, as a member of the MBA Task Force on the Definition of the Practice of Law and on the Presidential Task Force on the Preservation of Rights, Liberties and Access to Justice. She has also regularly served as a judge in the MBA's Mock Trial Program and as a Massachusetts Bar Foundation grant evaluator. Anderson previously served on the Women's Bar Association Board of Directors and currently is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Women's Bar Foundation Elder Law Project. In addition, she was a founding member of the Board of Directors of the Harvard Kennedy School New England Alumni Association.

Business Law

Brian E. Glennon II, chair

Glennon, a Duxbury resident, is corporate counsel at the Cumberland Gulf Group in Framingham, where he handles a wide variety of matters in a law department which serves two multi-billion-dollar companies within the retail and energy sectors. Prior to his position with the Cumberland Gulf Group, he practiced at a Boston firm and served as a law clerk at the Massachusetts Land Court. Since joining the MBA, Glennon has been active in the Business Law Section Council, most recently serving two terms as vice chair. He is a 1997 graduate of Suffolk University Law School and served in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve.  Glennon is vice chairman of the Duxbury Planning Board.

Euripides D. Dalmanieras, vice chair

Dalmanieras, a West Roxbury resident, is a partner at Foley Hoag LLP in Boston, where he focuses his litigation practice on accounting malpractice and bankruptcy litigation, as well as other complex commercial litigation matters. He has served as faculty for several legal education seminars related to bankruptcy, and has written extensively on the subject. Dalmanieras has been named a 'Rising Star' in Bankruptcy & Creditor/Debtor Rights by Super Lawyers magazine in 2006, 2007 and 2008. He is a 2001 graduate of Boston University School of Law and received his bachelor's degree in political science from Tufts University in 1996.

Civil Litigation

Paul E. White, chair

White, a Wellesley resident, is a partner at Sugarman, Rogers, Barshak & Cohen PC in Boston, where he is a trial attorney handling complex civil litigation matters including commercial contract disputes, commercial lease disputes, and product liability, professional liability and insurance coverage claims. He is the Suffolk County delegate on the MBA's House of Delegates and sat on the MBA's Task Force on Law, the Economy & Underemployment. White is a frequent writer and speaker on deposition and trial techniques, in addition to other litigation-related topics. He is rated AV® Preeminent™, the highest lawyer peer rating, by Martindale-Hubbell and has been named a Massachusetts Super Lawyer in the area of business litigation since 2005. A founding member who served as both treasurer and director of the Massachusetts Reinsurance Bar Association, White is also a member of the Real Estate Bar Association of Massachusetts' Commercial Lease Committee, and has been active in several capacities with the Defense Research Institute, Inc. White, who was trained as a barrister in the U.K. before moving to the United States in 1984, earned his law degree from Suffolk University School of Law in 1986.

Hector E. Pineiro, vice chair

Pineiro operates the Law Office of Hector E. Pineiro in Worcester, a general practice concentrating in civil litigation in the areas of medical malpractice, catastrophic injury, product liability and civil rights. He is admitted and practices in the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico. He is a former member of the MBA's Joint Bar Committee and is a member of the Reglan Litigation Group of the American Association for Public Justice. Pineiro previously served as a member of the real estate faculty at Northeastern University. He sits on the advisory boards of the National Police Accountability Project as well as serves on the legal panel and as a cooperating attorney of the American Civil Liberties Union. Pineiro served on a nominating committee at the request of U.S. Magistrate Charles B. Swartwood III to screen candidates for the U.S. Federal Magistrate position for the central district. He is a member of the American Association for Public Justice and the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys.

Criminal Justice

Radha Natarajan, chair

Natarajan, a Somerville resident, is a public defender with the Committee for Public Counsel Services in Somerville, where she represents individuals in the Somerville, Malden and Woburn district courts as well as Middlesex Superior Court. She is the 2011 recipient of the MBA's Access to Justice Defender Award. Natarajan is co-chair of the MBA Task Force on Law Schools and the Law Economy and an At-Large Delegate to the MBA's House of Delegates. A graduate of New York University School of Law, she was the managing editor of New York University Law Review. Natarajan's article, "Racialized Memory and Reliability: Due Process Applied to Cross-Racial Eyewitness Identifications" has been citied in numerous articles and by the U.S. District Courts in the Eastern District of New York and the Southern District of Texas. She is an Instructor in the First Year Writing Program at Boston University School of Law.

Adam J. Foss, vice chair

Foss is an assistant district attorney in the Juvenile Division of the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office, where he founded a Reading Program to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students.  The DA's office selected him as the 2012 recipient of the Brian J. Honan Award for excellence in the courtroom and a commitment to the communities he serves. Foss also received a commendation from the State House for those efforts. He sits on the MBA's House of Delegate, is on the executive board of the Massachusetts Black Lawyers Association and vice-chair of its Community Service Committee. In 2008, Foss graduated Cum Laude from Suffolk University Law School and in 2007 he was awarded the prestigious Book Award from the Massachusetts Black Judges Conference. Foss is creating a diversion program for first time juvenile offenders in the Suffolk County Juvenile Court and is co-founder of Roxbury CHOICE Program, an initiative to turn probation from a punitive sentence into a beneficial relationship with the court, the probation department, and the District Attorney's Office. He lives in the Ashmont neighborhood of Dorchester.

Family Law

Michael I. Flores, chair

Flores, an Orleans resident, is the principal of Michael I. Flores LLC in Orleans, a firm devoted to the practice of matrimonial and family law. He is also the regional delegate to the MBA's House of Delegates for the counties of Barnstable, Dukes and Nantucket. Flores is the past president of the Barnstable County Bar Association and the past chair of its family law committee. He is a Fellow in the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers who sits on the Board of Managers for the Academy's Massachusetts Chapter. He is also a hearing committee member of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court's Board of Bar Overseers. Flores has served as a moderator and panelist at family law conferences and seminars sponsored by the MBA and regional bar associations.

Jennifer R. Clapp, vice chair

Clapp, a Brighton resident, is an attorney with Grindle, Robinson, Goodhue & Frolin where she focuses her practice on all aspects of family law. In addition, she is a trained family law mediator. She is on the Board of Directors for the Massachusetts Chapter of AFCC and a member of the  Massachusetts Family and Probate Inn of Court and the Massachusetts Association of Guardian ad Litems. Clapp is published in the Family Mediation Quarterly and authored the family law chapter for the Massachusetts Bar Association's "On Your Own" publication. In addition, she lectures on family law related subjects for organizations including the MBA and MCLE. Clapp was voted a Massachusetts Super Lawyers Rising Star in 2010, 2011 and 2012. She is a 2000 graduate of Hiram College and 2003 graduate Washington College of Law at American University.

General Practice, Solo & Small Firm

Scott D. Goldberg, chair

Goldberg, a Lexington resident, practiced at small firms before founding The Law Firm of Scott D. Goldberg, PC in 1994. He is now a sole practitioner in Boston who focuses almost exclusively on plaintiff's personal injury law with a concentration in representing injured police officers. He joins MBA leadership following years of membership, including serving as vice chair on the council of the General Practice, Solo & Small-Firm Section during the 2010-2011 association year during which term he was program chair for the section's annual symposium. Goldberg, a 1987 graduate of Suffolk University Law School, is also an active member of the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys and the American Association of Justice. Goldberg is a photographer, an accomplished skier and has many years of martial arts training as both a student and former Sensei.

Beth M. Padellaro, vice chair

Padellaro, a North Andover resident, is an attorney associated with the law office of Frederick L. Nagle Jr. in Haverhill. In private practice since 2006, she is primarily focused on elder law planning, estate and probate planning. Padellaro has been a member of the General Practice, Solo & Small-Firm Section Council since 2010 and has been a speaker for the MBA's Elder Law Education Program. In addition to her MBA involvement, she is a member of the Haverhill Bar Association and the Massachusetts Chapter of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys. Padellaro is a graduate of Newbury College in Brookline and Massachusetts School of Law in Andover.

Health Law

J. Michael Scully, chair

Scully is a partner at Bulkley, Richardson and Gelinas LLP in Springfield, where he is engaged in all aspects of health law practice, with an emphasis on health care reform, regulatory compliance, privacy, finance, contracting, risk management, antitrust and organizational governance. He also handles commercial and other civil litigation. Scully writes and lectures on health law issues, including confidentiality and privacy, and end-of-life issues. A Wilbraham resident, he volunteers with the Springfield School Volunteers Reading Program and a local troop of the Boy Scouts of America. He has also worked with the Community United Way of Pioneer Valley, Junior Achievement and the March of Dimes.

Lorianne M. Sainsbury-Wong, vice chair

Sainsbury-Wong is the litigation director at Health Law Advocates in Boston, where she serves as lead in-house counsel and consulting counsel on complex litigation, including class actions and appeals related to health care, such as Massachusetts constitutional protections for legal residents.  Before joining HLA, Sainsbury-Wong represented consumers in tort claims, won political asylum for a pro bono client, and reviewed claims of policy owners in an alternative dispute resolution. She is a 1986 graduate of Assumption College and a 1996 graduate of New England Law│Boston. Additionally, she studied under U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy at Salzburg University. She is Wellesley resident.

Immigration Law

Michael D. Greenberg, chair

Greenberg operates a private practice in Boston that concentrates in trial practice and appearances before the Executive Office of Immigration Review. He is past chair of the American Immigration Lawyers Association's Unauthorized Practice of Law Committee and was previously a court liaison for the association. Greenberg teaches criminal law and Immigration Court practice and procedures through various education forums locally and nationally. He lives in Marblehead.

Alan M. Pampanin, vice chair

Pampanin founded Pampanin Law Offices in Cambridge in 1986, where the practice is dedicated entirely to immigration law. Since about 1996, his practice has been devoted to business and family immigration matters. He has been an active member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association since 1986, during which time he has served as chairman of the New England Chapter, sat on numerous AILA committees and acted as AILA Liaison to the CIS, the Department of Labor, and to the New England Congressional Delegation. He has the preeminent AV rating from Martindale-Hubbel; has been listed on The Best Lawyers, Massachusetts list since 2001 and has regularly been selected a Massachusetts Super Lawyer. Pampanin is a 1972 graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, where he earned a degree in English Literature. He received the Juris Doctor Degree from Hastings Law School in San Francisco in 1976. He lives in Melrose.

Individual Rights & Responsibilities

Frank A. Smith III, chair

Smith, a Milton resident and principal at Frank A. Smith III & Associates PC in Boston, focuses his practice in the areas of family law, personal injury, business law and civil rights. A frequent lecturer and writer for the Massachusetts' legal community, he served as a 2010 co-chair for a panel discussing legal issues pertaining to the use of Guantanamo Bay and difficulties surrounding detainees at the base. In 2011, he served as moderator for a panel discussion on the anti-bullying statute in Massachusetts. He is a fellow of the Massachusetts Bar Foundation.

Richard W. Cole, vice chair

A Boston resident, Cole is a nationally known civil rights and Safe Schools consultant who served for 16 years in the Office of Attorney General as an assistant attorney general and Civil Rights Division chief. Cole developed and co-chaired former Massachusetts Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly's "Safe Schools Initiative," a statewide collaboration that provides the training and assistance that schools need to make them safe from harassment, hate crimes and bullying. He co-chaired a national initiative that resulted in the 1999 U.S. Department of Education publication, "Protecting Students from Harassment and Hate Crime-A Guide for Schools." As national co-chair of a joint federal-state hate crime training initiative from 1997-99, Cole was a primary author and editor of the U.S. Department of Justice's publication of three hate crime modules currently used to train state and local law enforcement throughout the U.S. on hate crime response, investigation, and enforcement. He also served as the national chair of the Civil Rights Task Force of the National Association of Attorneys General.

Judicial Administration

John J. Morrissey, chair

Morrissey, a Hingham resident, is a founding partner of the law firm of Morrissey, Wilson & Zafiropoulos LLP in Braintree, a boutique law firm practicing in the areas of litigation, bankruptcy & creditors' rights and real estate. He practices in the area of litigation with a principle focus on personal injury and workers' compensation claims. Morrissey served as co-chair of the MBA's Judicial Administration Section for the previous two years. Currently, he serves on the MBA Workplace Safety Task Force and as an arbitrator on the MBA Fee Arbitration Board. He is a member of the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys' Board of Governors and serves as a member of the Board of Bar Overseers' Hearing Committee for Plymouth and Norfolk counties. He is a life fellow and a member of the Grant Advisory Committee of the Massachusetts Bar Foundation. Since 2003, Morrissey has served as a director of Central Bancorp, a publically traded company, and as a director and chairman of the Real Estate Committee of Central Co-Operative Bank since 2004.

Michael T. Maroney, vice chair

Maroney, a Hingham resident, is a partner in the litigation department of the Boston office of Holland & Knight LLP, where he has a broad complex litigation practice, with particular focus upon contract disputes, business torts, toxic and mass torts, product liability, insurance coverage, construction, real estate, and environmental cost recovery and property damage. He began his career as an associate in the litigation department of a large law firm in New York City and served for two years as a law clerk to United States District Judge George A. O'Toole Jr., of the District of Massachusetts. Prior to studying law, Maroney worked as a grants program manager for the United States Department of Justice. He has been named a Rising Star by Massachusetts Super Lawyers magazine and has published several articles focused on various litigation issues

Juvenile & Child Welfare

Michael F. Kilkelly, chair

Kilkelly operates Kilkelly Law Offices in Malden, where he concentrates in juvenile and domestic relations issues. He is a juvenile delinquency supervising attorney for Middlesex Defense Attorneys and the Committee for Public Counsel Services (CPCS) Youth Advocacy Department (YAD). Kilkelly previously spent 10 years as a regional coordinator for the CPCS Children and Family Law program. He is also an adjunct professor in the paralegal program at Middlesex Community College. Kilkelly has participated in continuing legal education programs for MCLE, CPCS, YAD, the Juvenile Bar Association, and others. He authored a chapter on Children in Need of Services (CHINS) proceedings in the MCLE manual, Child Welfare Practice in Massachusetts (2006 and Supp. 2009). Kilkelly was the 2003 recipient of the Judge Mary C. Fitzpatrick Children and Family Law Award from CPCS. He was president of the First District Eastern Middlesex Bar Association from 1998 to 1999. Kilkelly lives in Wakefield with his wife, attorney Susan K. Kilkelly.

Marlies Spanjaard, vice chair

Spanjaard is the Director of Education Advocacy for The Edlaw Project, an initiative of the Children's Law Center of Massachusetts and the Committee for Public Counsel Services - Youth Advocacy and Children & Family Law Divisions. EdLaw advocates for the education rights of Massachusetts' highest risk children. She is responsible for supervising staff attorneys and interns, making program-wide policy decisions, and conducting state-wide trainings on education-related issues with a specific focus on representing court-involved youth. Spanjaard was previously a staff attorney at the Edlaw Project. She has trained a wide variety of audiences including parents, youth workers, students and lawyers.

Labor & Employment

Sheryl D. Eisenberg, chair

Eisenberg practices at Littler Mendelson PC in Boston, where she focuses on management-side labor and employment law, counseling clients across a broad range of industries on the many labor and employment-related matters facing them today. She was co-chair of the MBA's 2011 Labor & Employment Annual Conference and has served as faculty, chair and moderator for various MBA education programs related to labor and employment law. Eisenberg has been named as a Massachusetts Super Lawyer. She lives in Boston.

John F. Tocci, vice chair

Tocci practices at Tocci, Goss & Lee PC Boston, where he manages the firm's employment counseling and litigation practice. His practice area encompasses a broad spectrum of employment matters and representation of both employers and employees. He is a past co-chair of the MBA Employee's Rights and Responsibilities Practice Group, served as the management chair of the MBA's Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination Parental Leave Guidelines Subcommittee and sat on the MBA's Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination Disability Discrimination Guidelines Subcommittee. He lives in Dedham.

Law Practice Management

Thomas J. Barbar, chair

Barbar, a resident of Boston's South End, is a principal with the family law department at Deutsch, Williams, Brooks, DeRensis & Holland PC in Boston, where his practice concentrates on probate and domestic relations. Previously, Barbar was a solo practitioner in West Roxbury. He is a member of the MBA's Executive Management Board and Budget and Finance Committee. Barbar is a past co-chair of the Family Law Section, a past member of the MBA Nominating Committee and was an attorney mentor for two years with the MBA Tiered Community Mentoring Program. Barbar has testified at the Statehouse on behalf of the MBA regarding family law bills, as well as been a panel participant and chair for probate and family law issues for the Boston Bar Association and the MBA.

Cynthia E. MacCausland, vice chair

MacCausland operates her own flat-fee practice in Norwood, The Law Offices of Cynthia E. MacCausland, where she concentrates in the areas of child welfare, bankruptcy,  family, criminal and consumer law. She also provides representation under the Limited Assistance Representation model. She lives in the Readville section of Boston.

Probate Law

Michael R. Christy, chair

Christy, a Worcester resident, is an associate at Mirick, O'Connell, DeMallie and Lougee LLP in Worcester, where he focuses his practice primarily on probate, trust and fiduciary litigation. He served as vice chair of the MBA's Probate Law Section during the 2010-11 association year. Christy is also a member of the MBA's Massachusetts Uniform Probate Code Resource Desk Committee and chair of an ad hoc committee reviewing Massachusetts' current Power of Attorney law. He has served as a chair and panelist for several continuing legal education seminars.

Jennifer L. Laucirica, vice chair

Laucirica, a Scituate resident, focuses on trust administration at Loring, Wolcott & Coolidge in Boston. Previously, Laucirica practiced at Goodwin Procter LLP in Boston in the Trusts and Estate Planning Practice, managed Cushing & Dolan's estate administration practice, was an associate with State Street Global Advisors, specializing in estate taxation and estate administration, and served as a probate paralegal for the Office of the Attorney General. She is a member of Probate and Family Court Chief Justice Paula M. Carey's Massachusetts Uniform Probate Code Article III Implementation Committee. Laucirica is also a member of the Boston Bar Association. She frequently writes and lectures on the topics related to estate planning, probate litigation and probate law. Laucirica was named a Massachusetts Super Lawyer "Rising Star" in 2010.

Property Law

Thomas L. Guidi, chair

Guidi is a partner at Hemenway & Barnes LLP in Boston, where he focuses his practice on commercial real estate and non-profit law while chairing the firm's real estate practice group. He has been a regular panelist for continuing legal education seminars and has written numerous articles on real estate law topics. Guidi was a contributing author of MCLE's publication, "Drafting Commercial Real Estate Documents in Massachusetts." A Danvers resident, he previously served on the town's Zoning Board of Appeals and on the Board of Governors of the Salem Country Club. Guidi is active in fundraising for both Dartmouth College and St. John's Preparatory School in Danvers.

Michael G. Gatlin, vice chair

Gatlin operates the Law Office of Michael G. Gatlin in Framingham, a general practice which concentrates in commercial and residential real estate and development. He is an agent for First American Title Insurance Company. Gatlin is a frequent lecturer for MBA continuing legal education programs related to real estate law. He lives in Framingham, where he serves as chair of the town's Economic Development Industrial Corporation.

Public Law

Michele E. Randazzo, chair

Randazzo, an Avon resident, is a principal at Kopelman & Paige PC in Boston, where she practices municipal law with a focus on labor and employment matters. She represents governmental entities in litigation in all state and federal trial and appellate courts, as well as before administrative agencies. In addition, she counsels clients on a variety of public sector issues, such as the Open Meeting, Public Records, Conflict of Interest, and Municipal Finance laws. Randazzo previously served as a staff attorney for the Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys, U.S. Department of Justice. She previously served two years as a co-chair of the MBA Public Law Section.

Robert J. Kerwin, vice chair

Kerwin, a West Roxbury resident, is a shareholder at Tarlow, Breed, Hart, & Rodgers PC in Boston, where he concentrates on business litigation and municipal law. He previously sat on the MBA's House of Delegates and served as co-chair of the MBA's Business Law Section. A former town counsel and special counsel on litigation and digital forensic issues, he has served as  President of the City Solicitor Town Counsel Association. Kerwin was a member of the Joint Bar Committee on Judicial Appointments from 2007 to 2009, and is a frequent lecturer and participant in continuing legal education programs. Since 2005 Kerwin has been selected as a Massachusetts "Super Lawyer" by Boston Magazine. He served as president of the Friends of Brandeis Athletics for four years.

Taxation Law

Richard M. Stone, chair

Stone operates the Law Office of Richard M. Stone in Boston, where he focuses on complex state, federal and international tax matters, including planning, audits, appeals and litigation. In addition to his private practice, the Boston resident is of counsel at McLane, Graf, Raulerson, & Middleton PA in Woburn. Stone has also served as general counsel of two major multinational U.S. companies including Western Development Corporation (later known as The Mills Corporation) and APCOA, Inc. Stone was selected to be a member of the American Bar Association Advisory Panel, which informs the ABA's priorities and decisions. He contributes to the legal community by lecturing and writing; his most recent appearance was as a featured speaker at the MBA's 2010 Annual Conference. Stone is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

David G. Saliba, vice chair

Saliba is a partner at Saliba & Saliba in Boston, where he exclusively practices in the area of property taxation. He is past co-chair of the MBA's Municipal Tax Practice Group. Previously, Saliba worked at the Massachusetts Department of Revenue Office of Special Investigations. He writes a quarternly tax column for the American Property Tax Counsel, authored the Legal Opinion Column for the newsletter of the Massachusetts Association of Assessing Officers from 1982 to 2000, and also wrote a monthly column for GlobeSt.com.

Young Lawyers Division

Thomas M. Hoffey Jr., chair

Hoffey, a resident of Holden, is an attorney at Fuller, Rosenberg, Palmer & Beliveau LLP, where he is a member of their Insurance Defense Litigation Group. His civil litigation practice is focused in the areas of insurance defense litigation, automobile tort, and personal injury. Hoffey has practiced in many of the courts in Massachusetts from small claims to the Massachusetts Appeals Court. He routinely represents clients across the commonwealth from Berkshire to Barnstable County. Prior to joining Fuller, Rosenberg, Palmer & Beliveau LLP, Hoffey worked as an associate in a general practice law firm and focused on plaintiff's litigation, real estate conveyancing and estate work. Hoffey is also a member of the Worcester County Bar Association and the State Bar of Montana.