Aronson, Martin
Barnico, Thomas
Bennett, Cathleen
Brassard, Raymond J.
Brown, Christopher
Brunell, Richard
Carey, Thomas Jr.
Cavell, Cathleen
Chernoff, Paul A.
Connor, Jennifer
Connors, John
Cratsley, John C.
Curtin, John J.
Dolan, Joan C.
Doliner, Harlan
Donovan, Ann
Gennari, Lawrence
Ginsburg, Edward
Gray, Ericka
Green, Allan
Harrington, Peter
Heifetz, Milton
Holper, Mary
Hurowitz, Stuart
Jaffe, David
Juel, Edward
Kafker, Scott
Kass, Rudolph
Keeley, Elizabeth
Kelly, Anne
Levine, Howard
Lord, Charles
Maffei, Thomas
Marcellino, James J.
Martin, Peter
Mason, David
Massing, Gregory
McCormack, William A.
McEvoy, Christine M.
McManus, Paul
Merryman, Mithra
Minehan, Rosemary
Mokriski, J. Charles
Mueller, Joseph
Muse, Christopher
O'Neill, Philip
Orenstein-Cardona, Aida
Reck, Joel
Rice, James
Roiter, Eric
Russell, Robert H.
Ryan, Allan A.
Spencer, Shaun
Stein, Jeff
Steinfield, Joseph
Stowe, Matthew
Takacs, James
Toffler, Aaron
Vandepuye, Kweku
Wax, Amy
White, Frank
White, J. Phillip
Whiting, Richard
Wiley, Richard A.
Witten, Jonathan
Aronson, Martin
Adjunct Faculty
Martin L. Aronson is a trial lawyer specializing in civil litigation. He has served on the Boston College Law School Adjunct Faculty for thirty years, teaching Trial Practice-Evidence and Dispute Negotiations, the latter being a course he originated. Mr. Aronson is past president of the Massachusetts chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates, past president of the Boston College Law School Alumni Council, and served a member of the Board of Directors and as a National Delegate of the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys. In 2005, he was named by the publishers of Boston Magazine and the publishers of Law & Politics as one of Massachusetts' Super Lawyers.
Mr. Aronson served as a pro bono Mediator at the Middlesex Superior Court with respect to its Automobile Case Intervention Program, and presently works as a Mediator and Arbitrator in the private sector and handles cases on a pro bono basis for the Volunteer Lawyers Project. For approximately ten years, he was a participating faculty member of the Harvard Law School Trial Advocacy program. He is presently a member of the National institute of Trial Advocates, the Massachusetts Council on Family Mediation, the American Trial lawyers Association, the American, Massachusetts and Boston Bar Associations. Mr. Aronson was a principal in the Boston firm, White, Inker, Aronson, P.C. for 37 years. He lives in Brookline with his wife, Ellen Sax, and is the father of two daughters and the grandfather of four children.
Barnico, Thomas
Adjunct Faculty
Thomas A. Barnico has served as an Assistant Attorney General in Massachusetts since 1981. He represents the Commonwealth and its officers in civil cases involving constitutional law, administrative law, and business regulation. He has argued three cases in the United States Supreme Court and sixty-five cases in the Supreme Judicial Court for the Commonwealth.
Mr. Barnico has been Lecturer and Director of the Attorney General Clinical Program at Boston College Law School since 1989. He has been the faculty coach for the Braxton Craven Moot Court Team at Boston College Law School since 2001. He received his A.B. degree, cum laude, from Dartmouth College in 1977. He received his J.D. degree, cum laude, from Boston College Law School in 1980. Mr. Barnico was an assistant district attorney in Essex County (MA) from 1980 to 1981.
Bennett, Cathleen
Adjunct Faculty
Brassard, Raymond J.
Adjunct Faculty
The Hon. Raymond Brassard is Associate Justice, Massachusetts Superior Court. Prior to his appointment to the Superior Court in 1995, Judge Brassard practiced civil litigation for nineteen years at Rackemann, Sawyer & Brewster in Boston. He is an adjunct professor at Suffolk University Law School and New England School of Law. Judge Brassard will teach Civil Motion Practice in the fall and American Jury in the spring.
Brown, Christopher
Adjunct Faculty
Chris Brown is a graduate of Colgate University and Boston College Law School. While at BC Law, Mr. Brown was a member of the Boston College Third World Law Journal and participated in the Moot Court and Mock Trial Competitions. He also served as a Student Law Clerk for the Hon. Jonathan Brant in the Middlesex County District Court and was a Student Prosecutor in the Middlesex County District Attorney's Office, Appellate Division.
Mr. Brown also serves as an Adjunct Professor of Entertainment Law and Sports Law at Boston College Law School and is a Certified Players Representative with the National Basketball Association Players Union. Mr. Brown has represented various artists, producers and entertainment personalities. Some of Mr. Brown's present and former clients include Octagon Sports, Major League Baseball pitcher David Wells and R&B Singer Freddie Jackson.
Mr. Brown concentrates his practice in Intellectual Property, Corporate Litigation, Product Liability, Negligence Defense, Construction Law, Election Law and Sports and Entertainment Law at Brown & Rosen LLC. He will teach Entertainment Law in the Fall.
Brunell, Richard
Adjunct Faculty
Richard Brunell, a graduate of Harvard Law School and Swarthmore College, is currently a visiting professor at Roger Williams School of Law. Most recently was counsel at Foley Hoag LLP, where he specialized in litigation and antitrust. He is co-chair of the Antitrust Committee of the Boston Bar Association and Senior Editor of the Antitrust Law Journal. He has taught antitrust law at Northeastern University Law School and internet and software law at Boston College Law School. Previously, he was an attorney in the Antitrust Division of the Justice Department and an assistant attorney general in the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office. His current research interests are in issues at the intersection of antitrust and intellectual property law.
Carey, Thomas J. Jr.
Adjunct Faculty
Mr. Carey has been on the Adjunct Faculty for more than a decade, teaching a seminar in Appellate Advocacy and working with various moot court programs. He has had a long association with the school as a student, faculty member, and active alumnus. After earning an AB in government, Mr. Carey took his LLB (J.D.) from Boston College Law School in 1965, receiving several academic awards. He also holds an LLM degree from Harvard Law School. Following clerkships with Judge Caffrey and Judge Murray in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, he spent a decade in full-time law teaching at Suffolk and Boston College Law Schools, teaching a wide variety of courses and working with the advocacy programs. He has coached BC national championship teams in the National Moot Court Competition and the National Constitutional Law Moot Court Competition.
Mr. Carey is in private practice specializing in civil and criminal appeals, state or federal, with offices in Brookline and Hingham. In government service, Mr. Carey was the Appellate Attorney for the Major Violators Division of the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office from 1976 to 1979, responsible for all briefs in the Appeals Court and the Supreme Judicial Court.
A Fellow of the Massachusetts Bar Foundation, he has long been active in the Massachusetts Bar Association. He was the founding chair and continues as a member of the MBA's current Appellate Courts Bench-Bar Committee. He also serves on the Appellate Courts Information Technology Committee of the Massachusetts Courts.
Mr. Carey lives in the Town of Hingham where he is active in civic affairs and was named citizen of the year by the Hingham Journal in 1998. Additional information about Mr. Carey and his seminar, in which students write briefs and orally argue cases in the Massachusetts Appeals Court, is available on his web site at <http://www2.bc.edu/~careyt>.
Cavell, Cathleen
Adjunct Faculty
Cathleen Cavell, a graduate of Radcliffe College and Boston University School of Law, has spent most of her legal career in the public sector. From 1977 to 1989, she was municipal counsel for the Town of Brookline. Since 1990, she has focused on professional ethics and misconduct by professionals. For eleven years, she was an Assistant Bar Counsel at the Board of Bar Overseers of the Supreme Judicial Court, investigating and prosecuting ethical violations by lawyers. Since 2003, she has advised the Massachusetts Department of Education on issues of misconduct by licensed educators as a consulting lawyer. From 1995 to 2004, she was a member of the Board of Editors of Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly. She maintains a private practice in Wakefield, Massachusetts, and serves as a volunteer mediator and case conferencer in civil cases at the Boston Municipal Court. She has written and lectured on legal ethics, and, in 2004, taught Professional Responsibility at the Massachusetts School of Law. In 2002, 2003 and 2005, she taught Introduction to Lawyering and Professional Responsibility at Boston College Law School.
Chernoff, Paul A.
Adjunct Faculty
The Honorable Paul A. Chernoff has been on the BC Law School Adjunct Faculty teaching Trial Practice since 1990. He received a BSME (mechanical engineering) degree, from Tufts University in 1961 and a JD from George Washington University Law School (with honors) in 1967. Judge Chernoff has been a Justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court since 1985. He was Justice of the Newton District Court from 1976-1985, and Chairman of the Massachusetts Parole Board from 1972-1976. He served as a Staff Attorney in the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia from 1965 to 1968, and was a Commissioned officer in the U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey.
Teaching positions include 1990 to present Boston College Law School adjunct faculty; 1986-present MCLE trial advocacy program; 1986 - present National Judicial College faculty teaching criminal procedure, sentencing, search and seizure and scientific and expert evidence.
Judge Chernoff is the Chairperson of the Superior Court Judicial Education Committee and the Massachusetts Representative and vice-president of the Russian American Rule of Law Consortium (RAROLC). He was recently awarded the 2004 Tufts University Career Achievement Award.
Recent Publication include" Judges and the Media: Communication, Communication, Communication" Sept.-Oct. 2004 Boston Bar Journal.
Connor, Jennifer
Adjunct Faculty
Cratsley, John C.
Adjunct Faculty
Associate Justice, Superior Court, 1987 to present Chief, Public Protection Bureau, Department of the Attorney General 1983-1987 Judge of Roxbury District Court, 1973-1983 Member, Massachusetts Parole Board, 1972-1973 Staff Attorney, Cambridge and Somerville Legal Services and its predecessor, the Community Legal Assistance Office, 1968-1972 LLM, Georgetown University Law Center, 1968 JD, University of Chicago Law School, 1966 BA, Swarthmore College, 1963.
Curtin, John J.
Adjunct Faculty
John J. Curtin is a Partner, and former Chairman of the Litigation Department at the law firm of Bingham McCutchen, LLP, formerly Bingham Dana LLP. He has served as trial counsel in many complex commercial and criminal jury and non-jury trials and appeals in state and federal courts. He has tried to conclusion and/or argued injunctions in cases involving patents, trade secrets, copyright, trademark and covenants not to compete.
Professional Affiliations include: Former President, American Bar Association; Former President, Boston Bar Association; Former Chairman, Section of Litigation of the ABA; Chairman, New England Antitrust Conference; Lifetime Member, House of Delegates of the American Bar Association; and Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers.
Mr. Curtin was selected to be included in The Best Lawyers in America, and on March 30, 2005, he was the recipient of The American Lawyer's Lifetime Achievement Award.
Education: Boston College Law School, J.D., 1957; Georgetown University Law Center, LL.M., 1959; Boston College, A.B., magna cum laude, 1954 and has many honorary degrees.
Doliner, Harlan
Adjunct Faculty
Harlan Doliner is a partner in the Environmental Group at the Boston law firm of Keegan Werlin LLP. He has over twenty-nine years experience in environmental law and policy, regulatory compliance, land use and litigation. Mr. Doliner has participated in major appellate and other cases which helped shape the law of environmental impact reporting, coastal project development, water quality, and wetlands protection. His diverse practice currently focuses on providing leading-edge advice in strategic environmental management, maritime security/environmental, complex facility siting, regulatory compliance, transaction risk evaluation and support, and the full spectrum of land use and conservation issues.
From 1983-1998, Mr. Doliner was a lead counsel in the federal, state and administrative matters dealing with the clean up of Boston Harbor. From 1986-1993, he was a lead counsel in the legislative, judicial and administrative matters relating to the proposed co-generation facility of Quonset Point, Rhode Island.
Mr. Doliner is the author of the Massachusetts Fisheries and Wildlife Law chapter in the MCLE Massachusetts Environmental Law treaties. Successfully completing the course and examination administration by the British Standards Institution, Mr. Doliner is certified in the implementation of ISO-14000 series environmental management systems.
Mr. Doliner is admitted to practice in Massachusetts state and federal courts, and before the US Supreme Court. In addition to serving on the boards of several environmental and wildlife organizations, including The Environmental Business Council of New England, inc., and the Lawyers Committee of the Environmental Law Section of the Boston Bar Association. He served four terms as a Conservation Commissioner for the Town of Holliston.
Mr. Doliner currently serves as an officer in the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary, where he is responsible for oversight of Auxiliary Marine safety and environmental protection programs carried out with Sector Boston. He holds the Coast Guard Auxiliary qualifications of Instructor, Harbor Patrol Observer, Surface Operations crew and in Incident Command Systems Risk Management Levels 100, 200, 700 and 800. He has a direct operations security clearance. Mr. Doliner has served on harbor Security, Unified Command, safety and training patrols, including Operation patriot Resolve, providing maritime security for the 2004 Democratic National Convention. He was a member of one of six 4-person teams representing the United States in the 2004 International Search and Rescue Competition.
Boston College Law School, J.D., 1977
The Johns Hopkins University, B.A. & M.A., (concurrent) 1974
Donovan, Ann M.
Adjunct Faculty
Ellison, Susan
Adjunct Faculty
Susan C. Ellison is a senior attorney with the Boston, Massachusetts office of Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy LLP. She received her B.A. degree from Ursinus College and her law degree from Boston College Law School. She is a member of the bar in Massachusetts, New Jersey and New York, and is a member of the New England Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. Susan has been practicing corporate immigration law since 1995, and is a frequent speaker and presenter on business immigration issues.
Gennari, Lawrence
Adjunct Faculty
Larry Gennari is a partner at Choate, Hall & Stewart, LLP, where he is a member of the Business and Technology Group. His work forcuses on mergers and acquisitions, venture and public financings, and general corporate and securities law for technology and emerging growth company clients. Mr. Gennari received a B.S. (Accounting) from North Adams State College (summa cum laude) and a J.D. from College of William and Mary, where he served as editor-in-chief of the William & Mary Law Review. A frequent lecturer and contributor, he is the editor of the treatise Starting Up and Advising an Emerging Massachusetts Business, published by Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education (2001).
Mr. Gennari serves on the Advisory Board for Program in Afterschool Education and Research at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and as a member of the Advisory Board for the College of management at UMass-Boston. In 2001, he was named one of Greater Boston's Top 40 Business Leaders under 40 by the Boston Business Journal.
Ginsburg, Edward
Adjunct Faculty
Judge Ginsburg is a graduate of Harvard College, and Harvard Law School. He was an Associate Justice of the Probate and Family Court from 1977 until 2002. He is the founder and director of Senior Partners for Justice and is a supervising attorny at Legal Assistance Corporation of Central Massachusetts.
Gray, Ericka
Adjunct Faculty
Ericka B. Gray, President of DisputEd, has been a dispute resolver and trainer since 1985. She serves on a number of mediation panels including Insight Partners LP, the National Association of Securities Dealers, U.S. Department of Justice's ADA Mediation Program, Mediation Works, Inc. and the U.S. EEOC. Ericka was the founding Executive Director of the Middlesex Multidoor Courthouse, Cambridge, MA, and directed the Burlington County, NJ Court's Comprehensive Justice Center dispute resolution program. She was the Director of Professional Services and Regional Training Coordinator for JAMS's (formerly Endispute) Boston Office and served as the Executive Director of the Academy of Family Mediators. Her mediation practice has spanned the range from intellectual property disputes to interpersonal issues with a current focus on workplace, employment and complex family and business issues. She currently provides dispute resolution, consulting, and systems design services, as well as training to a variety or corporations, government and non-profit organizations, courts, lawyers, human resource professionals, and others. In addition to teaching mediation at Boston College Law School since 1992, Ericka teaches at Suffolk University School of Law. Some of her clients have included Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Marriott International, Massachusetts General Hospital, Polaroid Corporation, Northwestern University, National Judicial College, among others.
Green, Allan
Adjunct Faculty
Hamilton, Stuart
Adjunct Faculty
Stuart J. Hamilton, is a member of the Hamilton Law Office, P.C. His practice focuses on estate planning, probate and estate administration. Previously, Mr. Hamilton was with the law firm of Hill & Barlow from 1998-2003 and with Ropes & Gray LLP from 2003-2004.
Mr. Hamilton served as a law clerk for the Hon. Roderick L. Ireland, Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, 1997-1998. He is the author of "Looking at Gift Horses: Transferee Liability and the Baptiste Cases", and was a member of the Boston College Law Review.
Education: Boston College Law School, J.D., 1997; Hamilton College, B.A., 1973; University of St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland; Dartmouth College Ames Tuck School of Business Administration, M.B.A., 1976.
Mr. Hamilton will teach Estate Planning in the spring.
Harrington, Peter
Adjunct Faculty
Heifetz, Milton, M.D.
Adjunct Faculty
Hurowitz, Stuart
Adjunct Faculty
Stuart Hurowitz began his legal career in 1992 at the New Hampshire Public Defender's Office, after having graduated from Boston University School of Law. He spent the next seven and one-half years as a New Hampshire Public Defender, the last spent three and one-half of which were as the Managing Attorney of the Nashua Branch Office. Leaving NHPD in December 1999, Professor Hurowitz went to Montenegro (then, still a part of Yugoslavia), to work on a wide range of legal reform projects as an American Bar Association's Central and East European Law Initiative's (ABA-CEELI) Criminal Law Liaison.
In January 2001, Professor Hurowitz returned to the United States as a Visiting Professor to Boston University Law School's Criminal Defense Clinical Program, supervising third-year law students as they took cases out of the Boston Municipal Court. At the close of the Spring Semester, the Committee for Public Counsel Services (Massachusetts equivalent of a Public Defender Office) hired Professor Hurowitz as a full time staff attorney in their Boston Trial Unit, where he handled serious felony cases.
From 2002-Summer 2003, Professor Hurowitz was Director of the Criminal Practice Clinic at Franklin Pierce Law Center in Concord, New Hampshire. He closely supervised students representing indigent criminal defendants from arraignment to trial in state courts. In addition to working closely with the students on their cases in individual setting, he also taught them advanced advocacy skills in a classroom setting.
He joined the Adjunct Faculty at BC Law in 2003 when he visited with the Criminal Practice Clinic through 2004. In the Spring of 2005, he began teaching ILPR. He also continues to practice in both Massachusetts and New Hampshire with his firm, Masferrer & Hurowitz, PC.
Jaffe, David
Adjunct Faculty
Juel, Edward
Adjunct Faculty
Edward Juel is a 1989 cum laude graduate of Southern Methodist University, obtaining degrees in History and Business Administration. He is a 1993 graduate of Boston College Law School, where he served as Topics Editor of the Third World Law Journal. After completing a judicial clerkship in the federal district court, Ed worked as a staff attorney in the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans for several years before returning to Boston in 2001. He served as staff counsel at the United States First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston from 2001 until 2004, before opening a law firm in Boston concentrating on Federal Practice, Motions Practice, and Appeals.
Kafker, Scott
Adjunct Faculty
Kass, Rudolph
Adjunct Faculty
For 22 years (until the age of retirement mandated for judges by the Massachusetts Constitution) and two years thereafter, Rudolph Kass served as a justice of the Massachusetts Appeals Court. Before his appointment to the court in 1979, he practiced law in Boston for 22 years, most of that time with Brown, Rudnick, Freed & Gesmer (now Brown Rudnick Berlack Israels , LLP). Judge Kass' practice concentrated in real estate transactions, government assisted housing, and land use planning. He received the LL.B from Harvard Law School in 1956. Kass has been a member of the adjunct faculty for some ten years. He will be co-teaching the course in The Commercial Lease (a study in convergence) with Joel M. Reck and Carl E. Axelrod, both partners at Brown Rudnick and both highly experienced in commercial leasing, as well as real estate transactions generally.
Keeley, Elizabeth
Adjunct Faculty
Kelly, Anne
Adjunct Faculty
Levine, Howard
Adjunct Faculty
Mr. Levine's practice includes representation of commercial and not for profit real estate developers, retailers, and educational institutions. His work is focused in Land Use Planning, Zoning, Municipal Law, and the acquisition and sale of real estate, and it's financing. Mr. Levine has extensive experience with local and state relationships and numerous governmental affairs matters such as special legislation initiatives and participation on task forces reviewing legislative reforms.
He served as an attorney in the City of Newton Law Department from 1970-1978. He was the Assistant City Solicitor (1970 to 1973), and the City Solicitor, responsible for all legal matters for all City Departments, Agencies and Officials, from 1973-1978. While City Solicitor, Mr. Levine was an active member and regional officer of the National Institute of Municipal Law Offices (NIMLO), Chairman of several of its Committees, and a contributor and participant in its national seminars and publications.
From 1966-1968 Mr. Levine served as an officer in the United States Army. He served in the Republic of South Vietnam from August, 1967 through August, 1968 for which he was awarded the Bronze Star Medal.
Mr. Levine is one of the four founders and original Directors of the New England Shelter for Homeless Veterans (The Vietnam Veterans Workshop, Inc.), a non-profit charitable corporation. Located in a nine-story building at 17 Court Street in Boston, the former V.A. Outpatient Clinic, the Shelter houses 150 homeless veterans each evening and counsels, feeds and help to rehabilitate up to 500 veterans each day. The Shelter is recognized as a national model and was awarded President Bush's 142nd Point of Light.
Mr. Levine served as Director of the Newton Community Service Center, is a Trustee of the Newton Cemetery Corporation, an overseer of the Newton-Wellesley Hospital, and served as a member and chairman of the Community Advisory Board of WGBH. He is a graduate of Bowdoin College and Boston University School of Law.
Lord, Charles
Adjunct Faculty
Charlie Lord is a graduate of Yale University and the University of Virginia School of Law, where he was the Editor-in-Chief of the Law Review. After clerking on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, he founded Alternatives for Community & Environment (ACE), an environmental justice center based in Roxbury and served on ACE's Board until 2004. Charlie is now the Director of the Urban Ecology Institute at Boston College. He taught environmental law and policy and environmental legal history at Boston College Law School from 1993-1998 and is now a lecturer in the Environmental Studies Program at Boston College. He is also on the boards of directors for the Charles River Watershed Association and the Community Rights Council in Washington, D.C. He has published numerous articles on environmental law, environmental justice and environmental policy.
Maffei, Thomas F.
Adjunct Faculty
Thomas F. Maffei is a partner in the Boston law firm of Griesinger, Walsh and Maffei, LLP, which was started in March 2000. The firm concentrates in handling business and other complex litigation matters. Mr. Maffei had been a partner at Choate, Hall & Stewart, where he practiced law for almost thirty years. Mr. Maffei’s practice is concentrated in representing clients in complex business and other litigation matters. He also represents lawyers in disciplinary proceedings before the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers and he frequently serves as a mediator and arbitrator in litigation matters of all types. He has been appointed by the Superior Court of Massachusetts as a Special Master and as Discovery Master in complex multi-party litigation matters. Mr. Maffei is admitted to practice before the courts of the Commonwealth and has handled cases in the federal court in Massachusetts as well as in other federal and state courts.
Mr. Maffei teaches a course on Professional Responsibility at Boston College Law School. He is a former President of the Massachusetts Bar Association and a past member of the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers. The Supreme Judicial Court recently appointed Mr. Maffei to the Massachusetts IOLTA Committee. Mr. Maffei has also chaired the Civil Litigation Section of the Massachusetts Bar Association and has been a member of the Chief Justice’s Commission on the Future of the Courts and of the Civil Trial Court Advisory Committee. Mr. Maffei is also a Life Fellow of the Massachusetts Bar Foundation and a former trustee of Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, Inc. Mr. Maffei also served as a member of the American Bar Association & House of Delegates.
Mr. Maffei graduated with honors from Boston College in 1968 and earned his law degree with honors from Boston College Law School in 1971. He is a frequent lecturer on civil litigation topics and on lawyers’ ethics issues. He has recently authored the chapter on Bad Faith Claims Handling in MCLE’s publication, Massachusetts Liability Insurance Manual. Following law school, Mr. Maffei served as a law clerk to Chief Justice Edward F. Hennessy of the Supreme Judicial Court. He is a past President of the Boston Latin School Association and has served as Chair of the Charter Advisory Committee for the City of Melrose.
Marcellino, James J.
Adjunct Faculty
James J. Marcellino is Of Counsel in the law firm of Hanify & King Professional Corporation in Boston. As a member of the Trial Department, he has extensive trial experience and focuses his practice primarily on business and intellectual property litigation. Jim is admitted to the Massachusetts Bar and various United States district and appeals courts and is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers.
While in law school, he was legislative assistant to the president of the Massachusetts Senate. Upon graduation, he served as a VISTA volunteer in Detroit with Community Legal Counsel, and thereafter as a deputy and then special assistant attorney general in Massachusetts. Before entering private practice, Jim worked for the Boston Redevelopment Authority as project director and attorney for the Downtown Waterfront--Faneuil Hall Urban Renewal Area.
Jim has been a visiting professor at Boston College Law School in high technology law, and currently teaches an Introduction to Lawyering and Professional Responsibility course. He lectures on litigation, with particular focus on computer and intellectual property matters, to client, industry and professional groups. Jim served on the High Technology Committee of the Center for Public Resources, which developed model procedures for the use of alternative dispute resolution in technology disputes. He is involved in ADR as an arbitrator and mediator. Presently, he is a member of a panel of mediators working on matters referred from the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts.
Jim as served as president of the Boston Bar Association (1993-94), and a trustee of the BBA's Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law, where he now is a trustee emeritus. He was president of the Boston College Law School Alumni Association. He also has been a trustee of Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, Inc. and president of the Boston Inn of Court. He formerly served as a member of the Business Litigation Session Lawyers' Committee appointed by the Chief Justice of the Superior Court of the Trial Court of Massachusetts. Recently, he served as a member of a select committee, appointed by the Chief Justice, to take a fresh look at how the Trial Court operates.
He also served as chair of City of Boston Department of Health and Hospitals and the Boston City Hospital, and as president of the Boston Medical Center's Fund for Excellence, a non-profit, fundraising entity. Jim has been a member of the Conservation Commission of the Town of Milton, where he lives with his wife, Stacey, and their two children.
Martin, Peter W.
Adjunct Faculty
Mason, David
Adjunct Faculty
David is an associate in the Mergers, Acquisitions and Securities group at Bingham McCutchen, LLP. Prior to starting at Bingham, David worked in Boston at KPMG, LLP as a Senior Consultant, Transaction Services, where he performed transaction due diligence for private equity and strategic buyers. David also worked at Arthur Andersen LLP as a Senior Financial Consultant, where he specialized in forensic accounting, business valuations and complex accounting matters. David received a J.D. degree, magna cum laude, from Boston College Law School, and a B.B.A., summa cum laude from the University of Massachusetts – Amherst where he majored in accounting. David is a Certified Public Accountant.
Massing, Gregory I.
Adjunct Faculty
Gregory Massing is General Counsel for the Executive Office of Public Safety and Security, the Massachusetts Cabinet department charged with oversight of matters of law enforcement, criminal justice, and public safety. From 1993 to 2005, as both an assistant district attorney and assistant attorney general specializing in appeals, Mr. Massing represented the Commonwealth in criminal justice matters at all levels of the federal and state courts. Prior to entering public service, Mr. Massing clerked for U.S. District Judge A. David Mazzone in the District of Massachusetts and was an associate at Ropes & Gray in Boston. Mr. Massing is a graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law, where he was an articles editor on the Virginia Law Review, and of the University of California at Berkeley.
McCormack, William A.
Adjunct Faculty
McEvoy, Christine M.
Adjunct Faculty
Christine M. McEvoy is a Justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court, having been appointed in 1994. Previously, Justice McEvoy served as the First Justice of the Concord Division of the District Court, having been appointed to that court in 1989. Justice McEvoy graduated from Regis College, A.B., and from Suffolk University Law School, J.D., cum laude, serving as a member of the Suffolk Law Review. Upon graduation, she served as a Law Clerk to the Justices of the Superior Court, and thereafter as an Assistant District Attorney for Middlesex County for twelve years, trying capital cases and major felonies. Justice McEvoy has served on the adjunct faculty at Boston College Law School since 1988. She has co-authored Suppression Matters under Massachusetts Law, Grasso & McEvoy, Lexis, 2006, Hearsay, Russell & McEvoy, MCLE, 2006. She has been chairperson for Search and Seizure for the Judicial Institute of the Trial Court and chairperson for Evidence and Search and Seizure for the Flaschner Judicial Institute. She has also been a frequent lecturer at numerous judicial and legal forums. She has also contributed pieces to various MCLE publications, including A Practical Guide to Introducing Evidence and Massachusetts Superior Court Criminal Practice Manual.
Merryman, Mithra
Adjunct Faculty
Mithra Merryman, a legal services attorney, has spent her entire career working with low-income battered women. Her teaching credentials include a year as a Georgetown Women & the Law Public Policy Fellow in Washington DC where she served as a clinical instructor in the Georgetown University Law Center's Sex Discrimination Clinic. In addition, she has published an article urging law schools to include a domestic violence course in their curriculums. As a family law attorney at Greater Boston Legal Services, Ms. Merryman represents battered women in divorces, paternity, child support, custody and visitation disputes. She has also done extensive work with battered immigrant women under newly-enacted immigration provisions of the Federal Violence Against Women Act. She was the first in Boston to file and win cases under the new law for battered women both at the administrative and judicial levels. She is currently focusing on the impact of welfare reform in Massachusetts on low-income battered women. Ms. Merryman is a graduate of Barnard College and Harvard Law School.
Minehan, Rosemary
Adjunct Faculty
Mokriski, J., Charles
Adjunct Faculty
Charles Mokriski practices in the areas of commercial and intellectual property litigation and counseling. His practice has also included the representation of clients from diverse industries in administrative and regulatory proceedings, and the representation of the news media in regard to access, defamation, and other First Amendment issues.
Charles is active in the area of professional responsibility, and for many years was chair of the Ethics Committee of Day, Berry & Howard LLP, the predecessor of his current firm, DayPitney LLP, where is a partner. He serves as a member of the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers, appointed by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court to administer the lawyer disciplinary system throughout Massachusetts.
Chuck is admitted to practice before Supreme Courts of Connecticut and Massachusetts, the U.S. District Courts for the Districts of Connecticut and Massachusetts, and the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the First, Second, and Federal Circuits. His current professional activities and affiliations include service on the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers; Adjunct Professor of Professional Responsibility, Boston College Law School; Board of Directors, and President-elect of the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers (APRL); and Boston Bar Association Ethics Committee, of which he is a former chair. A magna cum laude graduate of Yale College, he also holds MA and MPhil degrees in history from Yale Graduate School and J.D. from Yale Law School.
Muse, Christopher
Adjunct Faculty
Judge Muse is a graduate of Georgetown University and Suffolk Law School. Before his appointment to the Massachusetts Superior Court in 2001, he was a trial attorney for more than twenty years, practicing in the Massachusetts State and Federal Courts. He was involved in the criminal defense of charges from misdomeanors up to and including first degree murder indictments. He also represented several labor unions, and litigated many labor and employment issues. Judge Muse will teach Trial Practice in the spring.
Nguyen, Hanh
Adjunct Faculty
Adjunct Faculty Hanh Nguyen is an Associate Legal Officer at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. She serves as one of seven attorneys on a team to prosecute seven defendants in the Popovic et al. case, the largest multi-defendant case at the ICTY. The case involves charges of genocide, crimes against humanity, and violations of the laws or customs of war that took place in Srebrencia, Bosnia.
White working afor the ICTY, she remains affiliated with the law firm of Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner, where she worked as an associate doing antitrust and white collar litigation. She also represented numerous clients in immigration and asylum proceedings on a pro bono basis. Prior to joining the firm, Hanh Nguyen held a judicial clerkship in the Massachusetts Court of Appeals for the Honorable Fernande R.V. Duffly.
Hanh Nguyen received her J.D. and M.S.W. at Boston College. This fall, she will return as Boston College Law School Adjunct Faculty to teach a seminar in The Hague to students doing their internships at the Tirbunal.
O'Neill, Philip
Adjunct Faculty
Philip D. O'Neill, Jr. has been a partner at Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge, LLP since 1987, and before that at Hale and Dorr. He has served as advocate in complex business and intellectual property disputes for over thirty years in international and domestic forums. He is a Fellow in England's Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, and currently is on the institutional arbitral panels or listing of the AAA, ICC, WIPO, CIETAC, and the centers in Hong Kong, Stockholm, Milan and Dubai. He has been selected as a neutral arbitrator in an array of over 70 large and complex cases, nearly evenly split between domestic and international. As arbitrator he has presided over 30 trials in recent years with several billion dollars in total either claimed as damages or at issue through declaratory judgment actions. He is listed in America's Best Lawyers in International Arbitration. He is fellow in the College of Commercial Arbitrators. As an international general counsel, Mr. O'Neill's experience includes matters in as many as 45-50 countries in a year, including guiding the Chairman of the world's largest Arab-owned bank on counter-terror finance issues after 9/11.
Mr. O'Neill is also an Adjunct Law Professor at several institutions. He has taught international arbitration at Boston College Law School since 1989. In 2005, he became the second person in Harvard Law School's history to teach international arbitration, when he served as Nomura Lecturer in Law. He has published numerous articles and book chapters on cross-border and domestic arbitration. His academic experience also includes teaching international business transactions at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (2007), and National Security Law at Boston University Law School (since 2001). His book, National Secuirty and the Legal Process, was recently published by Oxford University Press.
Orenstein-Cardona, Aida
Adjunct Faculty
Aida Orenstein-Cardona obtained a B.A. in English Literature from the University of Puerto Rico, an Ed.M. in Learning and Teaching from Harvard University, and a J.D. from Boston College Law School. She received the Harry S. Truman Scholarship for public service in 1993 and was a recipient of a public interest scholarship from BCLS. Prior to entering law school she was a high school teacher at Phillips Academy in Andover, MA and at the Cambridge School of Weston, MA. She has also been a consultant and legal intern for META (Multicultural, Education, Training, and Advocacy) a non-profit legal organization that represents and advocates for the legal rights of bilingual and immigrant children. Upon graduation from BCLS she clerked for Justice Robert G. Flanders, Jr. of the Rhode Island Supreme Court. After clerking she was accepted to the U.S. Department of Justice Attorney General's Honors Program and worked as a Judicial Law Clerk at the Executive Office for Immigration Review in Boston, MA. Currently, she works as an attorney for U.S. Customs and Border Protection Office of Assistant Chief Counsel under the Department of Homeland Security in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Pawa, Matthew
Adjunct Faculty
Matt Pawa is a sucessful environmental law practioner who has worked with the Natural Resources Defense Council and a variety of other national public interest groups, and in close cooperation with the Attorneys-General of New York, Connecticut, and Massachusetts. He has been deeply involved in several global warming related campaigns (with help from Boston College Law School interns and alumni), currently litigating a national-level public nuisance action against five major coal-fired utilities, a case that is likely to go to the U.S. Supreme Court in the not too distant future.
Pullin, Diana
Adjunct Faculty
Diana C Pullin holds both a J.D. degree and a Ph.D. in Education from the University of Iowa. She is Professor in the Lynch School of Education and Affiliate Professor of Law at Boston College. She is also coordinates the Dual Degree Program in Law and Education at Boston College. Dr. Pullin has served as Dean of the School of Education at Boston College and as Associate Dean of the College of Education at Michigan State University. Dr. Pullin was staff attorney, co-director, and then President of the Center for Law and Education of Cambridge, Massachusetts and Washington, D.C. She has represented students, parents, teacher unions, school districts, state department of education employees, and colleges and universities in legal disputes concerning education in federal district and appellate courts and the U.S. Supreme Court.
She has served as an expert advisor to the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences on panels addressing issues concerning minority students in special education and gifted education, the impact of standards-based education reform on students with disabilities, and the pursuit of educational excellence and testing equity. She served as a member of the Committee on Educational and Psychological Testing of the American Educational Research Association, the American Psychological Association, and the National Council on Measurement in Education, which revised the primary standards of practice for the testing industry, a set of standards also widely used in resolving legal disputes over testing. In addition, she served as a member and co-chair of the Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation, which developed the professional standards of practice for program evaluation and personnel evaluation in education.
She is co-editor of the interdisciplinary scholarly journal Educational Policy and the author of numerous articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports on education law and public policy, educational testing, the rights of individuals with disabilities, education reform, and the preparation and licensing of educators.
Reck, Joel
Adjunct Faculty
Joel Reck has been practicing law for over 35 years and received his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1966. Most of Mr. Reck's time as an attorney has been as a member of the Boston law firm of Brown Rudnick Berlack Israels LLP (f/k/a Brown, Rudnick, Freed & Gesmer). Mr. Reck's practice consists of structuring, managing and closing sophisticated commercial real estate transactions throughout the United States. He is a past President of the Boston Bar Association and Boston Bar Foundation and is a member of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers (ACREL), and the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC), among other real estate organizations. Mr. Reck will be co-teaching with The Honorable Rudolph Kass (ret.) and his Brown Rudnick real estate partner, Carl E. Axelrod.
Rice, James
Adjunct Faculty
James Rice was an associate (1969-1976) and partner (1976-1994) at Bingham Dana LLP. He planned to be a litigator when he started at Bingham but got drafted to do (and later became interested in) bank regulatory matters and finance projects. When Mr. Rice left Bingham in 1994, he worked as an Assistant District Attorney in Middlesex County. He ended a five-year stay in that office in the child abuse division. Mr. Rice now represents defendants in criminal matters.
Roiter, Eric
Adjunct Faculty
Eric D. Roiter is Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Fidelity Management & Research Company, the investment advisor arm of Fidelity Investments. Mr. Roiter joined Fidelity in 1997 in his present position and is responsible for management and provision of legal advice and services to Fidelity, relating primarily to Fidelity's family of mutual funds.
Before joining Fidelity, Mr. Roiter was with the law firm of Debevoise & Plimpton for 16 years (13 years as a partner), resident in the firm's Washington office where he specialized in financial services, securities and banking law. He has been an adjunct professor of law at Columbia University Law School (1996-1997), Boston University Law School (2004) and Boston College Law School (2003 to present). Prior to Debevoise & Plimpton, Mr. Roiter served with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission from 1976 - 1981, serving as Assistant General Counsel in the Office of General Counsel from 1979-1981.
Mr. Roiter earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of Rhode Island in 1970. He received a Juris Doctor degree from Georgetown University Law Center in 1973 and a Masters of Law degree, with a concentration in Securities Law, from Georgetown in 1981.
Ryan, Allan A.
Adjunct Faculty
Allan A. Ryan, Jr. is a graduate of Dartmouth College and the University of Minnesota Law School magna cum laude, where he was President of the Minnesota Law Review. He served as a law clerk to Justice Byron R. White of the Supreme Court of the United States. After service in the United States Marine Corps, Mr. Ryan became Assistant to the Solicitor General of the United States, representing the U.S. government in the Supreme Court. In 1980, he was appointed the first Director of the Office of Special Investigations, U.S. Department of Justice. In this position, he was responsible for the investigation and prosecution of Nazi war criminals in the United States.
Since 1985, Mr. Ryan has been an attorney at Harvard University and Harvard Business School. In addition to teaching human rights law at Boston College Law School, he has served as a consultant on genocide prosecutions to the government of Rwanda and participated in several international conferences on how governments should face the crimes of predecessor regimes.
Spencer, Shaun
Adjunct Faculty
Shaun Spencer founded the Law Office of Shaun Spencer, P.C., which specializes in business and employment litigation and appellate practice. Before founding his own practice, Mr. Spencer spent five years teaching legal writing and oral argument at Harvard Law School. Before joining Harvard he practiced at Bingham Dana LLP, where he focused on commercial litigation, libel defense, and protection of journalists' confidential sources. He also served two pro bono rotations while at Bingham, one as a Special Assistant District Attorney, and the other as a Housing Attorney for Greater Boston Legal Services. Mr. Spencer obtained his J.D. from Boston College Law School and his LL.M. from Harvard Law School.
Stein, Jeff
Adjunct Faculty
Jeff Stein is a partner in the Corporate Department of WilmerHale in Boston. He joined the firm in 1983. Professor Stein concentrates his practice primarily in the areas of corporate finance, acquisitions and joint ventures. He has represented companies in a wide wariety of public and private financing transactions, including venture capital preferred stock financings, PIPE tranactions, initial public offerings and convertible and senior debt transactions. In addition, he regularly advised boards of directors on issues relating to corporate governance, fiduciary duties and public disclosure obligations. Professor Stein's clients include WebMD Corporation, Analog Devices, Ocean Spray Cranberries, Perini Corporation, Philips Electronics and Casella Waste Systems. He also repreents a number of venture-backed and other privately-held companies in a wide variety of industries. His publications include an article entitled "Providing Undersecured Creditors with Postconfirmation Appreciation in the Value of the Collateral" in American Bankruptcy Law Journal, and a chapter on securiteis law issues invilved in asset-backed Bankruptcy Law Journal, and a chapter on securities law issues involved in asset-backed securitization transactions published by Butterwork Legal Publishers. Professor Stein has been designed by Boston Magazine as a "Massachusetts Super Lawyer" in mergers and acquisitions and was named to the "Lawdragon 500 New Stars" list for his work for biotechnology companies. he earned a J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School (1983) and a B.A. in Economics, summa cum laude, from Amherst College (1980), where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. At Boston College Law School, he will teach Corporate Finance.
Stowe, Matthew
Adjunct Faculty
Matthew Stowe is Assistant Vice President and Counsel at MFS Investment Management in Boston, MA, specializing in litigation and regulatory matters. He graduated magna cum laude from Duke University School of Law, where he was Executive Editor for the Duke Law Journal. Mr. Stowe subsequently served as a law clerk to Hon. Paul V. Niemeyer of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Mr. Stowe also served in the litigation departments of Hogan & Hartson L.L.P in Washington, DC and WilmerHale in Boston, MA.
Mr. Stowe has substantial experience litigating matters affecting gays and lesbians. He represented plaintiffs in Cook v. Rumsfeld, a recent case challenging the constitutionality
of 10 U.S.C. § 654, the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” statute. He has also represented a dismissed
gay servicemember in a case challenging the constitutionality of a military separation pay regulation. Mr. Stowe has also been involved in briefing issues related to marriage and family
and has made presentations to academic audiences on the Solomon Amendment and the
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” statute. In the Spring 2006 semester, Mr. Stowe taught “Sexual
Orientation and the Law” at Duke University School of Law.
White, Frank
Adjunct Faculty
Frank White is a graduate of Boston College Law School and currently is a corporate associate at Weil, Gotshal & Manges. Prior to working at Weil, Gotshal & Manges, Frank was an Audit Manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers, from 1996 until 2003, working in Washington DC and Zurich, Switzerland. Frank graduated from Georgetown University in 1996 with a double major in accounting and finance. Frank is a Certified Public Accountant and a Chartered Financial Analyst.
White, J. Phillip
Adjunct Faculty
John Philip White, Jr. is a graduate of Boston Latin School, Harvard College, and Boston College Law School. In addition to teaching trial advocacy and dispute negotiation at BCLS, Professor White has been a faculty member for MCLE programs in trial advocacy and evidence has taught in the Harvard Law School Intensive Trial Advocacy Program and the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys. He has written and lectured on the use of expert witnesses. He is a charter member of the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers, and has served as a Massachusetts Bar Association Panelist on Professional responsibility issues. He is a member of the Boston Bar Association, the Massachusetts Bar Association, the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys (Board of Governors 1989-1995), the Massachusetts Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the American Trial Lawyers Association, and the American Bar Association. His professional experience includes service as an assistant clerk of the Suffolk County Superior Criminal Court, civil and criminal trials in the District and Superior Courts of Commonwealth and the Probate and Family Court; trials in the United States District Court, and Appeals in the Supreme Judicial Court, the Appeals Court, and the Circuit Court of Appeals of the First and Second Circuits. Mr. White also serves on the Board of Directors of the Catholic Lawyers Guild of the Archdiocese of Boston.
Wiley, Richard A.
Adjunct Faculty
Richard A. Wiley is Of Counsel to the Boston law firm of Foley Hoag, LLP. He practices principally in the fields of corporate, business, financing, intellectual property and international business law, with emphasis on emerging companies and venture capital financing. He has served for more than 40 years as a partner, managing partner, chairman, and of counsel to several major Boston law firms. Mr. Wiley’s principal clients are engaged in software, technology products, manufacturing and education finance. He is, and has been, a senior officer, and director of a wide variety of publicly and privately held financial, business and non-profit organizations, including BankBoston, where he was Executive Vice President and a director of both of the Bank’s venture capital corporations. He was the General Counsel (Assistant Secretary) of the U.S. Department of Defense in the Ford Administration and served for more than four years on active duty, as an enlisted infantryman in the Marine Corps Reserve, and as a legal officer in the Air Force before and during the Korean War. From 1995-2002, Mr. Wiley was an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Government and Legal Studies at Bowdoin College where he taught a seminar on National Security Law and Policy. As a Lecturer on Law at the Boston University School of Law, Mr. Wiley has previously taught Public International Law and Organization, Law of International Trade and Investment and Government Regulation of Business (Antitrust) Law. A former Chairman of the World Peace Foundation and the Boston Committee on Foreign Relations, and an active member of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, Mr. Wiley chaired the Boston group of a nation-wide Council project on redefining “U.S. National Interests after the Cold War.” He is the author of Cases and Materials on Law of International Trade and Investment and numerous law review articles on tax, antitrust, international business and finance, laws of war, government ethics and bankruptcy matters, which have appeared in Taxes, the Villanova Law Review, the Business Lawyer, the Boston University Law Review, the International Lawyer, the Army Lawyer and the Student Aid Transcript. Mr. Wiley graduated from Bowdoin College, and received a B.C.L. from Oxford, an LL.M. from Harvard and an LL.D. from Bowdoin.
Witten, Jonathan
Adjunct Faculty
Jonathan Witten has twenty years of professional experience in the fields of land use planning, land use law and environmental resource management. He has worked with numerous cities, towns and Tribal governments throughout the country and has developed hundreds of regulatory and non-regulatory techniques for controlling and guiding growth and development. He has lectured nationally on appropriate strategies to mitigate the effects of land development on natural systems. He represents public, private and non-profit clients in a variety of land use law issues. He has taught at the Boston College Law School since 1998 and Tufts University's Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning since 1987.