Lawyers e-Journal
Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012
Campbell appoints 2012 Nominating Committee
MBA President Richard P. Campbell has announced the members of
the 2012 MBA Nominating Committee. The committee is charged with
reviewing the nominations submitted for consideration for MBA
officer positions for the 2012-2013 association year to begin Sept.
1, 2012.
Nominations for 2012-13
officer/delegate positions are due to MBA Secretary Robert W.
Harnais by 5 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 24. Click here for more information.
Denise Squillante, chair
Denise
Squillante is the MBA immediate past president and a family law and
corporate law practitioner in Fall River. Long active in the MBA's
Family Law Section and its associated committees, she has lent her
energy to the MBA's Presidential Task Force on Terrorism, and the
Amicus and the Joint Bar committees. A former recipient of the
MBA's Pro Bono Publico Award, Squillante is a longtime member of
the House of Delegates and a Massachusetts Bar Foundation fellow. A
Massachusetts delegate to the American Bar Association's House of
Delegates and co-chair of the joint MBA/Boston Bar Association
Alimony Task Force, Squillante was also appointed to a legislative
task force charged with studying the issue of alimony in
Massachusetts in 2010. Squillante is also a former president of the
Fall River Bar Association and New England Bar Association. In
2010, she was awarded the John S. Brayton Jr. Memorial Community
Service Award by the Fall River Chamber of Commerce.
Valerie A. Yarashus
Valerie A. Yarashus is an MBA past
president and a principal with Meehan, Boyle, Black and Bogdanow
PC, where she concentrates in plaintiff's trial practice and a wide
variety of other general liability cases. Yarashus co-founded the
MBA Monthly Leadership Roundtables, spearheaded the MBA Diversity
Task Force from 2005 to 2007 and is a past president of the
Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys. Awarded the prestigious
Wiedemann-Wysocki "Citation of Excellence" from the American
Association for Justice for her commitment to the civil justice
system, Yarashus has also been named one of Massachusetts
Lawyers Weekly's Hall of Fame for Up and Coming Lawyers.
Edward W. McIntyre
Edward W.
McIntyre is an MBA past president and a solo practitioner in
Clinton. A civil litigator in state and federal court, he
concentrates his practice in the areas of spinal cord and brain
injury law. McIntyre, a U.S. Army veteran, has been a member of the
House of Delegates since 1998, sat on the MBA President's Task
Force on Judicial Evaluations and the MBA's ABA Nominating
Committee. He also fulfilled one-year appointments as vice-chair
and chair of the MBA's Judicial Administration Section Council.
Chair of MBA's Judicial Performance Evaluation Standing Committee
since 2004, McIntyre is a former recipient of the MBA's Community
Service Award and is a Massachusetts Bar Foundation fellow and
trustee.
Thomas J. Barbar
Thomas J. Barbar, the chair of the MBA's Law
Practice Management section and a past co-chair of the MBA Family
Law section council, is a principal with the family law department
at Deutsch Williams, Brooks, DeRensis & Holland PC in Boston,
where he concentrates in the fields of probate and domestic
relations. Before joining his current firm, Barbar was a solo
practitioner in West Roxbury, where he grew up. Barbar has
testified at the Statehouse on behalf of the MBA regarding family
law legislation. He has also been a panel participant and chair for
probate and family law issues for the Boston Bar Association and
the MBA.
Laurence M. Johnson
Laurence
M. Johnson is a shareholder at Davis, Malm & D'Agostine PC in
Boston, where he practices in the area of trials and appeals of
complex business litigation. A past co-chair of the MBA's
Individual Rights & Responsibilities Section, Johnson has been
a member of the MBA's House of Delegates since 2008. A past
president of the Massachusetts Bar Foundation, Johnson is also a
trustee and an MBF Oliver Wendell Holmes life fellow. A member of
both the Massachusetts IOLTA Committee and Supreme Judicial Court
Law Clerks' Society, Johnson has served as director of the Lawyers
Committee for Civil Rights Under Law for more than 30 years. In
addition to being a long-time member of the MBA, he is a member of
the Boston Bar Association and American Bar Association as well as
a life member of the American Law Institute and an elected fellow
of the American College of Trial Lawyers.
Nancy Frankel Pelletier
Nancy
Frankel Pelletier is an attorney with Robinson Donovan PC in
Springfield. Recognized as one of Massachusetts Super
Lawyers "Top 50 Women Attorneys" in 2009, Pelletier focuses
her practice in litigation. A member of the Massachusetts, Hampden
County, women's and federal bar associations, Pelletier is
also a fellow in the International Association of Defense Counsel
and a life fellow of the Massachusetts Bar Foundation. She has also
volunteered as a judge in the MBA's Mock Trial program.
Michelle I. Schaffer
Michelle
I. Schaffer is a shareholder at Campbell, Campbell, Edwards &
Conroy PC, where she focuses her practice on civil litigation,
particularly the defense of complex products liability, toxic tort
and premises liability matters. Actively involved in the Federal
Bar Association and in the Defense Research Institute, Schaffer has
published many articles and has spoken at educational programs on
topics relating to her substantive areas of practice, discovery
techniques and trial practice in general. She has served as the
chair of several educational programs sponsored by professional
organizations, including the American Bar Association, DRI and
Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education Inc.