Denise Squillante, the Massachusetts Bar Association's 2010-11
president and a family and corporate law practitioner at Denise
Squillante PC, Attorney at Law, in Fall River, recently joined
Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly's Board of Editors.
The advisory board meets monthly to discuss potential editorials
that will appear in the newspaper. Members of the Board of Editors
are appointed to two-year terms.
Squillante is a Massachusetts delegate to the American Bar
Association's House of Delegates and was co-chair of the joint
MBA/Boston Bar Association Alimony Task Force. She was also
appointed to a legislative task force that drafted major alimony
reform legislation enacted in 2011. Squillante is a former
president of the Fall River and New England bar associations. In
2010, she was awarded the John S. Brayton Jr. Memorial Community
Service Award by the Fall River Chamber of Commerce, and she is a
Fellow of the Massachusetts Bar Foundation, the MBA's philanthropic
partner.