Lawyers e-Journal
Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011
Top from left to right: Centennial Ball Keynote Speaker Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen G. Breyer and Hennessey Award Honoree U.S. District Court Judge Nancy Gertner.
Bottom left to right: MBA Centennial Conference Co-Chairs Marsha V. Kazarosian and Douglas K. Sheff.
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MBA Centennial Ball to feature keynote by Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer and special presentation of Hennessey Award to retiring Judge Nancy Gertner
The MBA's Centennial Conference, a celebration of the MBA's
century of service to the public, profession and rule of law, will
take place on Wednesday, May 18 and Thursday, May 19 at the Boston
Sheraton Hotel.
The conference will feature three concurrent CLE tracks, the
annual Access to Justice Awards Luncheon and Bench/Bar Panel and
reception on May 18, and the Centennial Ball on May 19. The ball,
which will wrap-up the two-day conference, will include a special
MBA Hennessey Award presentation to retiring U.S. District Court
Judge Nancy Gertner and will also feature a keynote address from
Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen G. Breyer.
Educational
highlights
The MBA's Centennial Conference will kick-off on Wednesday, May
18 with a half-day of continuing legal education programming and
will continue with a full-day of programming on Thursday, May
19.
The conference features three concurrent CLE tracks,
including:
Young Lawyers Track
- Running Your Law Practice on a Shoestring Budget; 60 Sites to
Bring Your Firm Into the Future; Technology From Your Office to the
Courtroom
Litigation Track
- Hot Issues in Discovery; Crafting a Winning Theme - From Soup
to Nuts; Direct/Cross Examination of Expert Witnesses
Substantive Law Track
- Family Law Update; Uniform Probate Code Update; Secret Weapons
for the Personal Injury Attorney; Trends in Employment Law
Look for the full schedule of programming, including
descriptions and faculty, as well as information about the rest of
the conference events in future issues of Lawyers Journal,
Lawyers e-Journal and in e-mail communication.
Centennial Ball
highlights
The MBA's Centennial Ball on Thursday, May 19 will include a
special Hennessey Award presentation to Gertner and a keynote
address from Breyer.
Gertner, who will be retiring from the bench in fall 2011 for a
position at Harvard Law School, was appointed to the bench in 1994
by President William J. Clinton after two decades of criminal
defense and civil activist work. In 2008, Gertner became the second
woman to receive the Thurgood Marshall Award from the American Bar
Association's Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities.
Voted by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly readers as one of
the "best" federal judges in Boston, Gertner has also been awarded
Lawyers Weekly's Judge Toomey Judicial Excellence Award,
the 2006 Massachusetts Bar Foundation's "Great Friend of Justice
Award," the 2007 Suffolk University of Law Charles P. Kindregan
Award and the 2010 Morton A. Brody Distinguished Judicial Service
Award.
A distinguished academic, lawyer and judge, Gertner's
autobiography, In Defense of Women: Memoirs of an Unrepentant
Advocate, will be released in April 2011. As a lawyer, Gertner
taught at Boston University Law School, Boston College Law School
and Harvard Law School and as a judge, Gertner taught for over 10
years at Yale Law School. Since becoming a judge, Gertner has also
traveled widely, teaching women's rights and human rights, most
recently working with Chinese judges and scholars on sentencing
reform.
The Hennessey Award is awarded to federal or state judges
within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts who have demonstrated
extraordinary leadership and dedication to improving the
administration of justice and upholding the highest traditions for
public service.
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Centennial Conference sponsor. Click here for sponsorship information and a
current list of sponsors.