10/15/04—Boston College Law School is pleased to welcome back Rick Mann, BC Law class of 1977, on Wednesday, October 20. Mann will give a talk called "Balancing a Corporate Job with Community Service and Activism: One Attorney's Experience." The discussion will be held at 3:30 pm in East Wing room 120.

Mann is currently senior counsel at Holland & Knight. He has played pivotal roles as an activist involved in issues of importance to both the Jewish and the general community. He is the current President of the Friends of the New England Holocaust Memorial, Inc., which built and maintains the nationally acclaimed Memorial to the Holocaust along Boston's Freedom Trail.

Mann has also served as the statewide Chairman of the Committee to Encourage Charitable Giving, which led a successful effort to adopt a state income tax charitable deduction in Massachusetts in 2000. Most recently, Mann has been involved in a pro bono effort to obtain increased allocations of Holocaust restitution payments to meet the needs of impoverished survivors of the Holocaust both in the United States and beyond. He also recently settled a case for an Indian woman allegedly held as a slave in Brookline, MA.

Mann is brought to the Law School by the Jewish Law Students Association (JLSA) as their Fall Speaker. The event is co-sponsored by the Owen M. Kupferschmid Holocaust/Human Rights Project (HHRP), Public Interest Law Foundation (PILF), Diversity Committee of the Law Students Association (LSA), Coalition For Equality (CFE). Light refreshments will be provided.