Search

2024 MBA Annual Dinner - Sold OutSOLD OUT Web

The Massachusetts Bar Association will hold its Annual Dinner on Thursday, May 2, at the Westin Boston Seaport District, 425 Summer St., Boston.

This year's keynote speaker will be Sean K. Ellis, director of the Exoneree Network of the New England Innocence Project, with a video introduction by attorney Rosemary Scapicchio.

The MBA Annual Dinner will include the presentation of the Legislator of the Year Award to State Sen. Michael J. Rodrigues, the President’s Award to Hon. Angela M. Ordoñez, Outstanding Young Lawyer Award to Mariana Medeiros and the Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Scholarship to Johanna Merlos.

 

This year's event has sold out!

Meet the Keynote Speaker: Sean K. Ellis

Sean K. Ellis is an exoneree, motivational speaker and fierce advocate for reforms to the criminal legal system. At the age of 19, Ellis was arrested for the murder of a police officer and was wrongfully convicted at his third trial, only after two juries could not reach a unanimous verdict. He was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole. Significant police corruption and misconduct, including witness coercion, evidence tampering and misleading forensic evidence, led to Ellis’ wrongful conviction. He was fully exonerated in 2021 after spending nearly 22 years in prison for a crime he did not commit, and his story is now the subject of the Netflix docuseries Trial 4. In 2020, he co-founded the Exoneree Network, a peer-led program funded by the New England Innocence Project, to support the practical, emotional and spiritual reentry needs of exonerees as they process the trauma of long-term incarceration and work to rebuild their lives in freedom. Ellis is frequently invited to speak to help spread awareness about wrongful convictions throughout New England. He spoke at NEIP’s 2020 Voices of the Innocent: Power in Community virtual event and was an exoneree storyteller at the inaugural Voices of the Innocent: Still We Rise in 2019. Pronouns: he/him/his 

Meet the Keynote Speaker: Sean K. Ellis

Annual Dinner Sponsors:

Gold:

CNA Insurance
Justia
Kenney & Sams, P.C.
Meehan, Boyle, Black & Bogdanow, P.C.
Morrison Mahoney LLP
Nifty Marketing
Peabody & Arnold LLP
Rockland Trust
Rubin & Rudman LLP 
Santoro & Gray* (Launching May 10)

Silver:

Arrowood LLP
Association of Assistant Clerks and Magistrates
Breakstone, White & Gluck, PC
Boyle | Shaughnessy Law
Burns & Levinson
Conn Kavanaugh Rosenthal Peisch & Ford, LLP
Dempsey Associates
Diller Law
Eden Rafferty
FAZ Forensics
Freeman Mathis & Gary, LLP
Goodwin
Hirsch Roberts Weinstein LLP
Jones Kelleher LLP
Kazarosian Costello LLP
Keches Law Group, P.C.
Massachusetts Bar Foundation
McGrath & Kane
Milne Law PC
Ringler Associates
Robins Kaplan LLP
Sheff & Cook, LLC
Todd & Weld 
UMass Law 

Bronze:

Board of Bar Overseers
Boston Bar Association 
Boston University School of Law
Brick, Jones, McBrien & Hickey LLP
Bristol County Bar Association
Cetrulo LLP
Committee For Public Counsel Services
Denise Squillante, P.C.
Esdaile, Barrett, Jacobs & Mone
Floyd Advisory
FTI Consulting 
Goulston & Storrs 
JAMS
Kaplan/Bond Group 
Law Offices of Samuel A. Segal
Magna
Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys 
Massachusetts Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
Massachusetts Association of Hispanic Attorneys
Massachusetts Black Lawyers Association
Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly
MDD Forensic Accountants
Michael I. Flores, PC
Sherin and Lodgen LLP
Suffolk Law 
Superior Court Clerks Association


Annual Dinner Honorees:

Mike Headshot

Legislator of the Year Award

State Sen. Michael J. Rodrigues

Hon Angela Ordoñez

President's Award

Hon. Angela M. Ordoñez

OWH_Johanna Merlos

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Scholarship

Johanna Merlos, Suffolk University Law School

Mariana Medeiros (002)

Outstanding Young Lawyer Award

Mariana Medeiros, Sobosik Law
© Copyright 2017 Massachusetts Bar Association    Sitemap