Suffolk County
Massachusetts Bar Association member Meghan E. Huggan has joined Todd & Weld LLP in Boston as an associate and will concentrate her practice on complex commercial litigation.
Huggan represents clients in all phases of civil litigation and arbitration, including drafting pleadings, managing discovery, conducting depositions, arguing motions and developing trial strategy.
Prior to joining Todd & Weld, she was a litigation attorney and she also served as a law clerk for a New Jersey Superior Court judge.
Huggan obtained her law degree in 2019 from Suffolk University Law School and her undergraduate degree in 2015 from Roger Williams University.
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Agyepong Earns Adams Pro Bono Publico Award
Massachusetts Bar Association member Akosua Agyepong, a family law attorney at Turco Legal in Worcester, was honored for her pro bono accomplishments by the Supreme Judicial Court Standing Committee on Pro Bono Legal Services (“Standing Committee”) at a ceremony at the John Adams Courthouse on Oct. 30. The ceremony marked 25 years of pro bono accomplishments since the Standing Committee was established by the Supreme Judicial Court in 1999.
Agyepong was one of four individuals honored with an Adams Pro Bono Publico Award, along with Morgan Lewis attorney Jeff Goldman, WilmerHale attorney Lisa Pirozzolo and New England Law | Boston student Miyuki Masuda. The committee cited Agyepong’s service with Community Legal Aid’s pro bono programs, including the Worcester Probate and Family Court lawyer for the day program and the UMass Memorial Healthcare Medical-Legal Partnership, among other activities.
Agyepong is a 2024 graduate of the MBA’s Leadership Academy, a mentor in the MBA’s Tiered Community Mentoring Program, and co-coordinator of the SJC’s Judicial Youth Corps program in Worcester.
From left: SJC Associate Justice Elizabeth N. Dewar, Lisa Pirozzolo, Jeff Goldman, Miyuki Masuda and Akosua Agyepong.
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