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JEANMARIE CARROLL
Canton
Carroll has been an assistant district attorney in Norfolk County for the past 14 years. Currently, she serves as second assistant district attorney and chief of the Norfolk County Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Unit. Carroll supervises a unit that prosecutes cases of domestic violence, adult sexual assault and the physical and sexual abuse of children. She has presented at trainings for law enforcement, medical personnel and community agencies. Carroll is a graduate of the College of the Holy Cross and Northeastern University School of Law.

RANDY S. CHAPMAN
Chelsea
Chapman is the president and CEO of the law firm of Chapman & Chapman, which concentrates in criminal defense work. He is currently on the Board of Directors for the Massachusetts Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers as well as the Superior Court/Massachusetts Bar Association Bench/Bar Committee. Recently, the Supreme Judicial Court at the request of Bar Counsel appointed him a Commissioner. A former prosecutor in Essex County, he is currently legal analyst for New England Cable News. Chapman is a graduate of U. Mass Amherst and Suffolk University Law School.

LISA M. CUKIER
Boston
HON. SUZANNE D. DELVECCHIO
Brockton
EDWARD M. GINSBURG
Newton
Ginsburg was named a Probate & Family Court judge in 1977 and served on the bench until 2002. An alumnus of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, he teaches family law at Suffolk University and Boston College law schools. After his retirement, Ginsburg founded the Senior Partners for Justice, a pro bono organization of seasoned attorneys. He was also named the Team Leader for Cost Recovery at the Big Dig.

SCOTT HARSHBARGER
Boston
Harshbarger is senior counsel at Proskauer Rose LLP. He joined the firm after serving as national president and CEO of Common Cause. Harshbarger served two terms as attorney general for Massachusetts from 1991 to 1999. He also was Middlesex County district attorney for eight years and in 1998 was the Democratic nominee for governor. A graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, Harshbarger taught legal ethics at Boston University Law School and was a visiting professor at Harvard Law School and Northeastern University School of Law.

MARTIN W. HEALY
Boston
Healy has been the general counsel to the Massachusetts Bar Association since 1997. Healy has also served the MBA as interim executive director and assistant general counsel. As general counsel Healy is the MBA's chief legal counselor and legislative and court liaison. Healy is also a hearing committee member with the Board of Bar Overseers for the Suffolk County region and is the Secretary of the Joint Bar Committee on Judicial Appointments. He is a graduate of Suffolk University and a cum laude graduate of Suffolk University Law School.

RUDOLPH KASS
Boston
Kass served as an Appeals Court judge from 1979 through 2003. Prior to his elevation to the bench, Kass was a real-estate attorney with the Boston firm of Brown, Rudnick, Freed & Gesmer. His career as a judge was prolific. He authored 614 opinions and participated in 267 rescript decisions and 673 unpublished rulings. Kass became known for his keen intellect, his worldly knowledge and his sharp wit. The judge, who recently published a book called "Legal Chowder," is a member of the Supreme Judicial Court Media Response Team. He is a graduate Harvard College and Harvard Law School.

CHRISTOPHER P. LITTERIO
Boston
Christopher P. Litterio is managing shareholder of the Boston business law firm of Ruberto, Israel & Weiner. He concentrates his practice in litigation, including securities, banking, corporate, employment, international arbitration and intellectual property. Litterio is a frequent lecturer on litigation and employment issues for Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education and the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys. A 1987 cum laude graduate of Suffolk University Law School, Litterio served as a law clerk to the judges of the Superior Court in Massachusetts following graduation. He is admitted to practice in Massachusetts, the 1st U.S. Court of Appeals and the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Litterio is also a member of the American, Boston and Massachusetts Bar Associations.
MICHAEL MALAMUT
Boston
Malamut is a staff attorney with the New England Legal Foundation. He currently serves as an adjunct profession at Suffolk Law School. Formerly assistant general counsel to the Boston Housing Authority, Malamut also lists on his resume stints as a sole practitioner and with the Boston law firms of Kirkpatrick & Lockhart and Foley, Hoag & Eliot. A graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School, Malamut has written articles on topics including land-use, employment, and eminent domain.

FRANCIS S. MORAN JR.
Framingham
Moran served as the executive director of the Boston Bar Association from 1990 until 2003. Prior to working at the BBA, Moran was a judge advocate in the U.S. Air Force from 1969 to 1989; he retired in the grade of colonel. Moran also once worked as an associate in the Worcester law firm of Bowditch & Dewey. He is a member of the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Public Education and was chairman of the Flaschner Judicial Award Board from 1987 to 1994. He is a graduate of the College of the Holy Cross and Suffolk University Law School.

DENISE I. MURPHY
Boston
A partner at the law firm of Rubin & Rudman, Murphy counsels regional and national businesses on a broad variety of employment law-related issues, ranging from individual terminations to mass reductions in force. She has litigated sexual harassment claims and discrimination cases in both the federal and state courts. Murphy chairs the Massachusetts Bar Association's Employment Law section, and is a member of the Women's Bar Association. She is a graduate of Suffolk University Law School and the University of Massachusetts.

LYNN S. MUSTER
Boston
Muster is a staff attorney at the Appeals Court. Prior to this position, she served for three years as the law clerk to Judge Kent B. Smith. Muster also clerked in the Superior Court for two years and practiced privately for four years in civil and criminal litigation firms. She has published several articles, most recently on the topic of searches and seizures of electronically stored information. She is a graduate of Tufts University, and of Boston University School of Law.

ERIC NEYMAN
Boston
Neyman is a partner in the law firm of Gadsby Hannah, where he practices civil and criminal litigation. Prior to joining the firm, he served as deputy legal counsel to governors Jane Swift and Paul Cellucci. Neyman's experience also includes stints as a prosecutor in Suffolk and Berkshire counties, where he handled trials and argued on many occasions before the Supreme Judicial Court and the Appeals Court. A graduate of Cornell University and Boston University School of Law, Neyman also serves on the editorial board of the Massachusetts Law Review.

ERIC J. PARKER
Boston
Parker is a partner and co-founder of the Boston firm of Parker|Scheer. With over 19 years of experience in complex personal injury trial work, he serves as director of the firm's Complex Personal Injury Practice Group. In addition to his law firm work, Parker is an FAA licensed Private Pilot and serves as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Media and Technology Charter High School of Boston. He also is a frequent guest lecturer at Boston College Law School and has served as a trial-practice adviser to student participants in the Harvard Law School Trial Practice program. Parker is a graduate of Suffolk University Law School and Vassar College.

MICHELLE R. PEIRCE
Boston
Peirce, a litigation associate at Donoghue Barrett & Singal, focuses on complex civil litigation and white-collar criminal defense. Prior to joining the firm she was the vice president of circulation and marketing at Lawyers Weekly Inc. in Boston. Earlier in her career she worked at Goodwin Procter in Boston, where she handled all stages of complex civil litigation and was a member of the Insurance Practice Group. Peirce is co-chair of the Women's Bar Association Media Committee. She is a graduate of Boston College Law School and Georgetown University.

PATRICIA M. RAPINCHUK
Springfield
Rapinchuk is a partner with the firm of Robinson Donovan Madden & Barry, where she has practiced since 1990. Her areas of practice include the litigation of employment and tort cases. She also advises companies on employment issues and frequently participates in seminars and training sessions on employment law. Rapinchuk is currently the president of the Women’s Bar Association and a member of the Supreme Judicial Court’s Standing Committee on Pro Bono Services. She is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College and the University of Connecticut School of Law.

MARTIN R. ROSENTHAL
Boston
Currently a sole practitioner, Rosenthal was managing attorney of Harvard Law School's Criminal Justice Institute, and worked for 17 years with the Committee for Public Counsel and its predecessor. A cum laude graduate of Harvard College, he received both a law degree and master's in political science from Stanford University. Rosenthal is a member of the Board of directors of the Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, co-chair of the Massachusetts Citizens Against the Death Penalty and past council member of the Boston Bar Association. He served on the Supreme Judicial Court committee that updated the canons of judicial ethics, the Governor's Commission on Corrections Reform and is a past chairman of the Brookline Board of Selectmen.

EDWARD P. RYAN JR.
Fitchburg
Ryan, a partner in the Fitchburg firm of O'Connor and Ryan, is the immediate past president of the Massachusetts Bar Association and a past president of the Worcester County Bar Association. A graduate of Wheeling College and Suffolk University Law School, Ryan has worked as an assistant district attorney for Worcester County and as labor counsel to the cities of Fitchburg and Gardner. He concentrates his practice in personal injury law, criminal law, civil trials and divorce law.

STEVEN H. SCHAFER
Needham
STEVEN C. SHARAF
Newton
HENRY P. SORETT
Boston
Sorett is senior litigation counsel to the Boston firm of Brickley, Sears & Sorett. He had previously been a partner of Raney, Sorett & Gideonse and Sorett, Margolis & Friedman, both Cambridge firms. A graduate of Dickinson College and Boston University School of Law, where he was editor of the law review, Sorett began his legal career as a trial attorney for the Massachusetts Public Defenders Committee.

G. EMIL WARD
Boston
Ward is the senior partner at Ward & Associates in Boston, a firm he founded in 1986. His practice areas include real estate, insurance, personal injury and legal malpractice. Ward, formerly a partner at Fitzhugh & Ward, has written treatises on the topic of landlord/tenant law. He is a graduate of Dickinson College and Northeastern University School of Law.

ROBERT V. WARD JR.
South Dartmouth
A law school teacher since 1978, Ward has held the post of dean of Southern New England School of Law since 1999. Ward presently co-chairs the Trial Court Department's Access and Fairness Advisory Board. He is also a trustee of the Massachusetts Bar Foundation. A former member of the Judicial Nominating Council, Ward was a prosecutor in Suffolk County from 1979 to 1982. He has been published on topics including hate crimes and criminal procedure. Ward is a graduate of Northeastern University and Suffolk University Law School.

PETER WITTENBORG
Boston
Wittenborg is executive director of the Real Estate Bar Association for Massachusetts. As a practicing lawyer, he co-chaired the real-estate practice group at the Boston law firm of Kaye Fialkow and the Boston office of New York City-based Stroock & Stroock & Lavan. Before joining REBA in 2002 he was Massachusetts branch manager of CATIC title insurer. He is co-editor of MCLE's two-volume treatise, Real Estate Title Practice in Massachusetts. Wittenborg is a graduate of Lawrence University and Vanderbilt University Law School.

THOMAS E. WORKMAN JR.
Taunton
JOHN P. ZANINI
Boston
ELLEN J. ZUCKER
Boston
Zucker practices employment law and criminal defense at the law firm of Dwyer & Collora. She represents a range of plaintiffs in discrimination cases and has been part of criminal defense teams representing individuals accused of white-collar crime, arson and homicide. Zucker, who once clerked for U.S. District Court Judge Nancy Gertner, serves on Board of Directors of the Women's Bar Association. She also serves on the screening committee for the Massachusetts Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union and was once local president of the National Organization for Women. She is a graduate of Wesleyan University and Boston College Law School.


Emeritus Board Members
LOUIS BARSKY
Boston
Barsky maintained a private trial practice in Boston for decades concentrating in tort litigation representing liability insurance carriers. An alumnus of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and Boston University School of Law, Barsky has taught law courses at the former Boston State College. A World War II veteran and former major in the judge advocate general's corps, he was honored as a "distinguished graduate" upon completion of his 10th resident military justice course.

HENRY C. DINGER
Boston
Dinger has spent his entire legal career at the Boston firm of Goodwin Procter. An intellectual property litigator, Dinger is a graduate of Williams College and holds a master's in mathematics from Boston University. An alumnus of Harvard Law School, he served as managing editor of the law review while a student at the school. He is a contributing author to a series on education law published by Matthew Bender.

ROBERT L. HOLLOWAY
Danvers
Holloway is a shareholder in MacLean Holloway Doherty Ardiff & Morse, P.C., where he serves as the firm's chairman and heads the litigation practice group. He concentrates in general civil, business, commercial, banking and real estate litigation. Holloway serves as vice president of the Essex County Bar Association, chair of the Massachusetts Bar Association Civil Litigation Council, and on the MBA Ethics Committee. He is a graduate of Amherst College and Boston University School of Law.

RICHARD M. HOWLAND
Amherst
Howland practices in a family and real estate law litigation firm. He served as the first attorney for students at the University of Massachusetts prior to starting the Amherst firm in which he practices. He is a former associate of the Boston firms Nutter, McClennen & Fish and Dimento & Sullivan. A graduate of Amherst College and Columbia Law School, Howland has served as the chairman of the American Bar Association's professional liability committee's general practice section.

EDWARD RABINOVITZ
Boston
Rabinovitz is an attorney with the firm Shadrawy & Rabinovitz, where he concentrates on civil litigation and appellate advocacy in state and federal courts. He is a graduate of Syracuse University and Boston University School of Law. Before entering private practice, he served with the U.S. Army's Advocate General Corps. He is a member of the American Trial Lawyers Association.

DONALD G. TYE
Boston
A trial attorney and partner of the Boston firm Prince, Lobel, Glovsky & Tye since 1985, Tye has co-written "Summary of Basic Law: Domestic Relations in Massachusetts" with Edward J. Ginsburg and attorney Anita W. Robboy. Prior to joining Prince, Lobel, he was a partner of the firm White, Inker, Aronson, Connelly & Norton. A graduate of Tufts University and Washington University Law School, Tye also holds a master's degree in social work. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers and a frequent lecturer and author on domestic relations issues.


 

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