Lawyers e-Journal
Thursday, Apr. 22, 2010
MBA section news
Employment Law open forum; The Greater Boston Food Bank volunteer opportunity; Municipal Tax and State Tax practice groups joint open meeting; Individual Rights & Responsibilities open meeting
Employment Law open forum:
Advocating for and representing transgender clients
A training workshop
presented by MLGBA's Committee on Transgender Inclusion
Tuesday, April 27, noon-1:30 p.m.
MBA, 20 West St., Boston
You are about to meet with a
transgender client for the first time. Could you answer the
following questions? What sorts of challenges might this person
have faced, and how will they shape the way you interact?
- What preconceptions might you be bringing with you, consciously
or unconsciously?
- How will the client's gender identity or expression affect the
case?
- Is his or her transgender status even relevant? If so, how is
it relevant, and what questions should you ask? How do you
decide?
- Bring your lunch and join us at the MBA's Employment Law open
forum where these, and other questions, will be discussed. Drinks
and snacks will be served.
Program speakers include M.
Barusch, who has served as one of the advocates for
Massachusetts Transgender Legal Advocates and on the Steering
Committee of the Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition, and
Catherine E. Reuben, a partner at Hirsch, Roberts
Weinstein LLP in Boston, who concentrates her practice in labor and
employment law.
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Volunteer opportunity
The Greater
Boston Food Bank
Wednesday, April 28, 9 a.m.-noon
70 South Bay Ave., Boston
The Business Law Section Council will host a volunteer
opportunity at The Greater Boston Food Bank on Wednesday,
April 28 from 9 a.m. to noon at 70 South Bay Ave., Boston
just off the X-way. Volunteers will help out by inspecting, sorting
and repacking donated food and grocery products and labeling boxes.
Volunteers can come alone or bring family members to help
out.
The Greater Food Bank has distributed over 31 million pounds of
food and grocery products to almost 600 hunger-relief agencies
throughout eastern Massachusetts and serves over 394,000 people
annually.
Click here
to R.S.V.P. to volunteer.
Space is limited. Only 20 spots are available. Click here to learn
more about the work of The Greater Boston Food Bank. Contact
Christine O'Hurley at [e-mail ohurleylaw] with any questions.
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Municipal Tax and State Tax
Practice Groups open meeting
Thursday, May 6, 5-6:30 pm
MBA, 20 West St., Boston
The Taxation Law Section's Municipal Tax Practice Group and
State Tax Practice Group will host a joint open meeting on Tuesday,
May 6. The business meeting will begin at 5 p.m. and the guest
speaker at 5:30 p.m. will be Mark Defrancisco,
chief counsel to the Appellate Tax Board's legal department.
Defrancisco advises the board on legal, evidentiary and related
issues; reviews and advises the board on motions heard before the
board; and drafts, edits and approves the board's findings of fact
and reports. With experience in state and local taxation, in both
the public and private sector, Defrancisco has spoken frequently on
matters relating to Massachusetts taxation at conferences sponsored
by MCLE, Massachusetts Association of Assessing Offices, county
assessors associations, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and the
MBA and Boston Bar Association's taxation committees. This meeting
is free.
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Individual Rights &
Responsibilities open meeting
Guantanamo Bay: Opened -
Closed, Why and When
Thursday, May 27, 4-6 p.m.
MBA, 20 West St., Boston
This open meeting presentation will explore the legal issues
relating to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as well as legal, ethical and
political principles relating to detainees.
The panel will explore whether and to what extent Guantanamo Bay,
Cuba, should be opened or closed, and the faculty will suggest what
role citizens and legal practitioners can have as to the legal and
political process. Topics include:
- Representation of detainees;
- The legal, ethical and political issues involved in
representation of detainees;
- The role of citizens and lawyers as to Guantanamo Bay; and
- Selected syllabus of Supreme Court decisions regarding
detainees.
Faculty:
Frank A. Smith, III, Esq., program co-chair, Law
Office of Frank A. Smith III, Boston; Buz Eisenberg,
Esq., Weinberg & Garber PC, Northampton; Shiva
Karimi, Esq., Karimi & Associates PC, Boston;
Kevin G. Powers, Esq., Rodgers, Powers &
Schwartz LLP, Boston; Robert Roughsedge, Esq.,
Lawson & Weitzen LLP, Boston