Photo Credit: Jean Stevens
From left to right: MBA Regional Delegate Veronica J. Fenton, MBA President-elect Robert L. Holloway Jr., MBA Treasurer and NEBA Director Douglas K. Sheff, MBA Immediate Past President and NEBA President Denise Squillante, SJC Justice John M. Greaney (ret.), Appeals Court Chief Justice Phillip Rapoza, MBA Vice President and NEBA Director Marsha V. Kazarosian and MBA Chief Operating Officer and Chief Legal Counsel and NEBA Secretary Martin W. Healy.
The Massachusetts Bar Association hosted the 41st
Annual Conference of the New England Bar Association on October 20
- 22 at the Cranwell Resort, Spa and Golf Club. The conference
started Thursday evening with a cocktail reception, where New
England Bar Association members were welcomed by MBA Immediate Past
President and NEBA President Denise Squillante.
Panelists from each of the six New England states participated in
programs on Friday and Saturday. The programs included "Challenges
to the Image of the Profession and Bar Responsibility for
Improvement;" "The Role of the Bar in Addressing Law Schools on the
Unemployment of New Lawyers;" "30 Tips, Apps and Sites in 30
Minutes for Better Bar Leadership;" "Ethics 20/20;" and "Tapping
into Gen Y for Membership and Volunteerism."
During the luncheon on Friday, the Hon. Phillip Rapoza, chief
justice of the Massachusetts Appeals court, spoke about his work
for the United Nations, serving in the former Portuguese colony of
East Timor as chief international judge on the Special Panels for
Serious Crimes. MBA President-elect Robert L. Holloway Jr. also
presented Rapoza with the MBA's Presidents Award.
The conference included the passing of the gavel from 2011 NEBA
President Denise Squillante to the Hon. Thomas A. Zonay, who will
succeed Squillante as NEBA's 2012 president. The keynote speaker
was Jim Snack, from the Humor Project, who spoke about the
FUNdamentals of Leadership.