2012–13
Section Council Chairs
Access to Justice
Isabel Sara Raskin
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.
Access to Justice
Susan G. Anderson
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
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.
Business Law
Euripides D. Dalmanieras
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
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.
Civil Litigation
Hector E. Pineiro
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
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.
Criminal Justice
Adam J. Foss
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
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.
Family Law
Jennifer R. Clapp
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
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.
General Practice, Solo & Small-Firm
Beth M. Padellaro
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
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.
Health Law
Lorianne M. Sainsbury-Wong
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
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.
Immigration Law
Alan M. Pampanin
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
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.
Individual Rights & Responsibilities
Richard W. Cole
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
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.
Judicial Administration
Michael T. Maroney
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
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.
Juvenile & Child Welfare
Marlies Spanjaard
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
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.
Labor & Employment
John F. Tocci
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
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.
Law Practice Management
Cynthia E. MacCausland
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
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.
Probate Law
Jennifer L. Laucirica
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
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.
Property Law
Michael G. Gatlin
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
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.
Public Law
Robert J. Kerwin
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
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.
Taxation Law
David G. Saliba
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.
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.