Photo Credit: Jeff Thiebauth
Top: MBA President Victoria M. Santoro speaks during the 2025 Annual Dinner.
Second from top: U.S. Sen. Edward J. Markey (D-Massachusetts) delivers the keynote address.
Second from bottom: Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell (left) receives the MBA President's Award from MBA President-elect Michael H. Hayden.
Bottom: Alexandra A. Mitropoulos (left) of Hirsch Roberts Weinstein LLP receives the Outstanding Young Lawyer Award from MBA President Victoria M. Santoro.
The Massachusetts Bar Association held its sold-out 2025 Annual Dinner on Thursday, May 8, with nearly 1,000 members of the legal community in attendance at the Westin Boston Seaport District.
This year’s event featured the presentation of the MBA President’s Award to Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell and the Outstanding Young Lawyer Award to Alexandra A. Mitropoulos of Hirsch Roberts Weinstein LLP. The awards presentations followed opening remarks by MBA President Victoria M. Santoro, who highlighted the MBA’s year-long focus on mental health and reproductive justice and its vocal opposition to federal attacks on the rule of law and diversity in the workplace.
U.S. Sen. Edward J. Markey (D-Massachusetts) echoed similar themes in his keynote address, discussing the current administration’s targeting of legal professionals, law firms, and state and federal judges. He also emphasized the importance of due process for immigrants and the binding nature of the Constitution and its separation of powers. Markey closed his speech by calling on lawyers to continue their defense of the rule of law, thereby honoring Massachusetts’ history as a bastion of civil rights and the birthplace of the American Revolution.
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Thank you to our 2025 Annual Dinner sponsors:
Champion of Justice
MBA Insurance Agency
Santoro & Gray LLC
Platinum
Aperture LLC
CNA Insurance
TOSS C3
Gold
Kenney & Sams PLLC
Meehan, Boyle, Black & Bogdanow PC
Morrison Mahoney LLP
Peabody & Arnold
Rockland Trust
Todd & Weld LLP
Turco Legal
Silver
Arrowood LLP
Breakstone, White & Gluck PC
Callahan, Barraco, Inman & Bonzagni PC
Cohen Cleary PC
Conn Kavanaugh
Diller Law
Eden Rafferty
Freeman Mathis & Gary LLP
Hirsch Roberts Weinstein LLP
Jones Kelleher LLP
Justia
Keches Law Group
Lubin & Meyer PC
Marcotte Law Firm
Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys
Massachusetts Bar Foundation
McGrath Kane Law
Milne Law
MJP Wealth Advisors
Nifty Marketing
Ringler Associates
Sheff & Cook LLC
Sloane and Walsh LLP
Sugarman
Sweeney Merrigan Law LLP
Bronze
Bergstresser & Pollock PC
Boston Bar Association
Boston College Law School
Boston University School of Law
Boyle | Shaughnessy Law PC
Brick, Jones, McBrien & Hickey LLP
Chartwell Law
Exponent
FAZ Forensics
Floyd Advisory
FTI Consulting
Haverhill Bank
Hinckley Allen
JAMS
Kazarosian Costello LLP
Krasnoo, Klehm & Falkner
The Kaplan/Bond Group
Law Offices of Samuel A. Segal
Magna
Massachusetts Judges Conference
Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly
Massachusetts LGBTQ Bar Association
Massachusetts Defense Lawyers Association
MDD Forensic Accountants
Mirick
Robins Kaplan
Sherin and Lodgen LLP
UMass Law School