5/08/02—Boston College Law School is pleased to announce the hiring of Maris Abbene to the position of Director of Career Services, effective June 28, 2002. She will replace current Director of Career Services Jean French, who is retiring after twenty years of exemplary service to the Law School.

"Maris Abbene comes to us with over nine years of leadership experience in legal recruiting at a premier Boston law firm," said BC Law Dean John H. Garvey. "I am delighted that someone of her caliber and with her level of experience in the field has accepted this important role. As an alumna, an accomplished lawyer, and a tremendously energetic individual, I expect that Ms. Abbene will continue Jean French’s fine tradition of making broad contributions to the Law School community."

Maris Abbene worked previously as the director of legal recruitment at Bingham Dana LLP in Boston, where she developed and administered the firm’s attorney recruitment activities and supervised recruitment staff. From 1987 to 1993, she was an associate in the litigation department at the firm, where she practiced commercial litigation with a concentration in toxic torts, products liability, and environmental law.

Ms. Abbene is an active member of the National Association for Law Placement (NALP). She is a 1982 cum laude graduate of Boston College and a 1987 magna cum laude graduate of Boston College Law School.

Ms. Abbene’s duties will include student counseling, developing and implementing programs to provide career information to law students and alumni, scheduling and hosting employer visits and interviews, creating office publications, and managing personnel in a department of six staff members.