Lawyers e-Journal
Thursday, Sep. 29, 2011
MBA president speaks about social host liability at Essex DA breakfast
Massachusetts Bar Association President Richard P. Campbell was
one of four featured speakers at Essex District Attorney Jonathan
W. Blodgett's Policymakers' Breakfast at the Peabody Marriott on
Sept. 27 that focused on the physiological, criminal and civil
consequences of underage drinking. The meeting followed a Sept. 26
presentation on the effects of alcohol on the adolescent brain.
Campbell spoke about the legal consequences of the social host
liability laws in Massachusetts. Campbell's firm, Campbell,
Campbell, Edwards & Conroy PC in Boston, has undertaken this
topic as its pro bono project; educating parents, students and
school administrators about civil and criminal laws applicable to
underage drinking in private homes.
Other speakers at the breakfast included Jack Claypoole,
administrator of the Drug Free Communities program in the
president's Office of National Drug Control Policy and Aaron White,
program director of Underage and College Drinking Prevention
Research at the National Institute of Alcohol, and author of
"Keeping Adolescence Healthy."