Lawyers e-Journal
Thursday, Nov. 4, 2010
Section News: Upcoming meetings and special section events
Employment Law Practice Group open meeting; Health Law Section Council meeting; Access to Justice Section Council meeting; Individual Rights & Responsibilities Section Council meeting; Legal Chat: What Title Examiners and Conveyancers Need to Know; Taxation Law Section Council meeting; Juvenile & Child Welfare Section Council open meeting
Employment Law Practice Group open
meeting
Tuesday, Nov. 9, noon-2
p.m.
MBA, 20 West St., Boston
Join the MBA's Labor & Employment
Section at an Employment Law open meeting to welcome, meet and hear
from the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination guest
speakers including newly-appointed Commissioner Jamie Williamson
and Chairman Julian Tynes.
Williamson and Tynes will also be joined by Commissioner Sunila
Thomas George. The discussion will revolve around the ongoing work
of the MCAD and answer questions about practicing before the
commission.
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Health Law Section Council
meeting
Tuesday, Nov. 9, 5-6:30
p.m.
MBA, 20 West St., Boston
The next meeting of the Health Law
Section Council will be held on Tuesday, Nov. 9 from 5 to 6:30 p.m.
at the MBA, 20 West St., Boston.
The guest speaker will be Reni Gertner, editor of the
Massachusetts Medical Law Report. Gertner graduated from
Brown University with a B.A. in Biomedical Ethics and became an
associate editor of Lawyers USA (formerly Lawyers
Weekly USA) in 1997. In January 2005, she obtained a Master's
Degree in public health from Boston University, where she studied
epidemiology, health services and health law. In May 2005, she was
chosen as a member of Delta Omega, the public health honor society.
She became editor of Massachusetts Medical Law Report in
September 2005, and news editor of Lawyers USA in January
2008.
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Access to Justice Section Council
meeting
Tuesday, Nov. 9, 6-7:30
p.m.
MBA, 20 West St., Boston
The next meeting of the Access to
Justice Section Council is scheduled for Tuesday, Nov., 9th from 6
to 7:30 p.m. All section members are invited to attend.
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Individual Rights &
Responsibilities Section Council meeting
Wednesday, Nov. 10, 4-5:30
p.m.
MBA, 20 West St., Boston
The next meeting of the Individual Rights & Responsibilities
Section Council is scheduled for Wednesday, Nov. 10 from 4 to 5:30
p.m. All section members are invited to attend.
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Legal Chat: What Title Examiners
and Conveyancers Need to Know 
Tuesday, Nov. 16, 4-5 p.m.
NOTE: There is no on-site attendance available for Legal
Chats.
It seems that trial courts are setting
aside mortgage foreclosures and voiding mortgages with increasing
frequency and for various reasons. With no guidance yet from the
appellate courts, title examiners are at a loss as to how to
evaluate foreclosure titles and identify what of the many mistakes
made by mortgage lenders are potentially fatal to those
titles.
Join Ward P. Graham, Esq. of WFG National Title Insurance Company
and Gary W. Cruickshank, Esq. for an analysis of recent cases and a
frank discussion of how to deal with the challenges posed by these
decisions when evaluating titles coming out of foreclosures.
Faculty:
Joe Boynton, Esq.
Joe Boynton, Attorney at Law, Worcester
Ward B. Graham, Esq.
WFG National Title Insurance Company, Lynnfield
Gary W. Cruickshank, Esq.
Gary W. Cruickshank, Attorney at Law, Boston
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Taxation Law Section Council
meeting
Wednesday, Nov. 10, 5-6:30
p.m.
MBA, 20 West St., Boston
The next meeting of the Taxation Law Section Council is scheduled
for Wednesday, Nov. 10 from 5 to 6:30 p.m. All section members are
invited to attend.
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Juvenile & Child
Welfare Section Council open meeting
Wednesday, Nov. 10, 4-6
p.m.
Hampshire County Courthouse, 116 Russell St., Hadley
This meeting is free to all attorneys interested in the practice
of Juvenile & Child Welfare. The topics under discussion will
include:
- Standing Order for care and protection trials;
- Proposal for dedicated C&P session in Hadley;
- Permanency hearings for children aging out;
- Juvenile competency after Abbott A.;
- School-based delinquency offenses; and
- Additional timely issues that the bar and bench would like to
address.
The panel includes:
Martha Rush O'Mara, moderator
Law Office of Martha Rush O'Mara, Melrose
The Hon. Charles S. Belsky, associate justice
Hampden County Juvenile Court
The Hon. James G. Collins, circuit justice
Hampden County Juvenile
Court
The Hon. Daniel J. Swords, first justice
Berkshire and Hampden County Juvenile Court
James Morton, case manager
Juvenile Court Department
Christopher D. Reavey, clerk-magistrate,
Hampshire County Juvenile Court Department
To R.S.V.P., click here. Space
is limited.