Photo Credit: John Pregmon
MBA President-elect Marsha V. Kazarosian (second from left) discusses the impact of media coverage on the courts.
Massachusetts Bar Association President-elect Marsha V.
Kazarosian was a featured panelist at the American Bar
Association's Fourth Annual Forum on Judicial Independence: "How
Judges, Lawyers, and the Public are Influenced by Media Coverage of
the Courts" on Aug. 8 at the Hynes Convention Center in
Boston.
The program, part of the ABA's 2014 Annual Meeting, was moderated
by Charles Bierbauer, dean of the College of Communications and
Information Studies at the University of South Carolina. Other
panelists included U.S. District Court Judge Shira A. Scheindlin
and Wesley Lowery, a Washington Post journalist.