MBA Vice President Kazarosian featured on Lawyers
Weekly Forum Panel
Over the past two decades, Kazarosian has built a national
practice representing clients in high profile media cases, making
case law with precedent-setting issues in areas such as gender and
disability discrimination and police excessive force/civil rights
litigation in the Federal Court. She is the past president of the
Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys and in June 2002, she
became the second female president in the history of the Essex
County Bar Association, the oldest bar association in the
nation.
MBA Vice President Marsha V. Kazarosian participated in
Lawyers Weekly's Women's Breakfast Forum held in late May
at the University of Massachusetts Club in Boston. One of four
panelists, Kazarosian provided attendees with an opportunity to
learn more about her experiences as principal of Kazarosian Law
Offices.
Over the past two decades, Kazarosian has built a national
practice representing clients in high profile media cases, making
case law with precedent-setting issues in areas such as gender and
disability discrimination and police excessive force/civil rights
litigation in the Federal Court. She is the past president of the
Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys and in June 2002, she
became the second female president in the history of the Essex
County Bar Association, the oldest bar association in the
nation.
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MBA Business Law Chair receives honor from BU School of
Law
Massachusetts Bar Association's Business Law Section Chair
Francis C. Morrissey has received the 2012 John S. Baerst Award for
Excellence in Teaching. The honor is bestowed by the Boston
University School of Law's Graduate Program in Banking and
Financial Law. There, Morrissey teaches bankruptcy and creditors'
rights.
Launched in 1984, the program was the first in the nation to
grant the master of laws degree in banking law with its own faculty
and a curriculum designed exclusively for graduate study. The late
John S. Baerst directed the program from 1996 to 2005. The annual
award was established in his name to honor his memory and years of
leadership.
"I am extremely grateful and honored to be receiving this
award," said Morrissey. "My teachers at Boston University School of
Law were inspiring and they provided us with a wonderful education.
I am very fortunate to follow in their footsteps."
Morrissey is a partner in the firm of Morrissey, Wilson &
Zafiropoulos LLP, where he concentrates in the areas of commercial
litigation, insolvency, and distressed acquisitions and
divestitures. He also serves, by appointment of the Supreme
Judicial Court, as a trustee of the Client Security Board and
recently completed his second term as a hearing committee member
for the Board of Bar Overseers.
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Kenney named MDLA's Defense Lawyer of the Year
Massachusetts Bar Association Executive Management Board member
Christopher A. Kenney was named the Defense Lawyer of the Year
Award by the Massachusetts Defense Lawyers Association. The high
honor is presented to the defense lawyer whom the association
believes has best demonstrated the ideals of the legal profession.
Kenney is a founding member and managing shareholder of Kenney
& Sams, P.C. where he represents clients in all types of civil
litigation, including employment litigation, business disputes,
real estate and construction disputes, tort claims and insurance
matters.
Kenney is a former president of the Massachusetts Defense
Lawyers Association, a national director of the Defense Research
Institute, and a member of the International Association of
Defense Counsel. He has been selected for inclusion in every
edition of "The Best Lawyers in America" for the past four
years.