Barash, Mark
Barnico, Thomas
Bazarian, Stephen C.
Bennett, Cathleen
Brassard, Raymond J.
Breda, Karen
Brown, Christopher
Carey, Thomas Jr.
Chernoff, Paul A.
Connor, Jennifer
Connors, John
Connors, Thomas
Cratsley, John C.
Curtin, John J.
Curtin, Kevin
DiDonato, Eugene
Doliner, Harlan
Dowden, James
Gennari, Lawrence
Ginsburg, Edward
Gray, Ericka
Holleman, Pamela
Hurwitz, Stuart
Jaffe, David
Juel, Edward J.
Kafker, Scott
Kass, Rudolph
Levine, Howard
Lord, Charles
Lykes, M. Brinton
Maffei, Thomas
Margetta-Morgan, Julie
Marr, Jeremy
Martin, Peter
Mason, David
Massing, Gregory
McEvoy, Christine M.
McManus, Paul
Merryman, Mithra
Mokriski, J. Charles
Muse, Christopher
Ramrath, Joseph
Rao, John
Reck, Joel
Richard, Loretta
Roiter, Eric
Ryan, Allan A.
Spencer, Shaun
Stein, Jeff
Stowe, Matthew
Wax, Amy
Wethly, Kimberly B.
White, Frank
White, J. Phillip
Whiting, Richard
Witten, Jonathan
Wolfman, Bernard
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 as well as serving as a member of its Advisory Board. 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.
Barash, Mark
Adjunct Faculty
Mark Barash is a senior attorney with the United States Department of the Interior in DOI's Northeast Regional Office. He has been instrumental at the national level in developing and implementing Departmental approaches to streamlining assessment and restoration practices, encouraging and implementing cooperative assessment, and incorporating natural resource restoration into remedial activities. He has spearheaded the refinement of techniques for establishing claims for complex damages such as those arising from Tribal religious/cultural losses, and has led regional initiatives to integrate more closely the efforts of Federal, State, and Tribal natural resource trustees.
In his regional capacity, Mr. Barash oversees Departmental legal efforts for natural resource damage claims from oil spills, hazardous substance releases, and National Park Service 19jj claims in a 13 State region from Maine to Virginia. In addition, he manages and directs some of the most significant NRD claims nationwide, including Hudson River/GE PCB, Passaic River/Newark Bar Complex, St. Lawrence River/Massena Environment, and the Palmerton Zine Site, Pa., along with oil spills such as BT 120 Bouchard in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, and numerous other hazardous susbstance cases, oil spills and National Park Service 19jj claims. Mr. Barash also provides legal support to ongoing restoration activities for matters including the Housatonic River Site and North Cape Oil Spill.
Mr. Barash has significant teaching and lecturing experience, including multiple presentations domestically at ABA and SETAC conferences, as a guest lecturer at Columbia University and Boston College Law School, developing and providing NRD training both within DOI and to Federal, State, and Tribal trustees, and for the UNEP on wetland restoration strategies.
Mr. Barash's two children, Talia and Josh, generally support his professional activities but believe he should focus more time and effort on amphibian issues.
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.
Breda, Karen
Teaching Librarian
Karen Breda holds a juris doctor degree from University of Oregon School of Law and a masters degree in library science from Simmons College. She is a member of the bars of Oregon, Massachusetts, the United States District Court of Oregon, the United States District Court of Massachusetts, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court. She practiced law for twelve years and spent ten years as an insurance defense attorney, specializing in professional liability defense and liquor liability defense. She joined Boston College Law School part-time in 2005 and has been a full-time legal information librarian since 2007.
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.
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
Connors, Thomas
Adjunct Faculty
Cratsley, John C.
Adjunct Faculty
Judge Cratsley is an Associate Justice of the Superior Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 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,
Judge Cratsley received his LLM from the Georgetown University Law Center in 1968, his JD from the University of Chicago Law School in 1966, and his BA from Swarthmore College in 1963.
Curtin, John J.
Adjunct Faculty
John J. Curtin is of Counsel, and former Chairman of the Litigation Department at the law firm of 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 convenants 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; Member, House of Delegates of the American Bar Association; and Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers.
Education: Boston College Law School, J.D., 1957; Georgetown University Law Center, LL.M., 1959; Boston College, A.B., magna cum laude, 1954.
DiDonato, Eugene
Adjunct Faculty
Doliner, Harlan
Adjunct Faculty
Harlan Doliner (BC Law '77) is a partner in the environmental group at the Boston office of the law firm of Pepe & Hazard LLP, and an adjunct faculty member of the Law Schools at Boston College and Roger Williams University. His practice focuses on providing advice in real estate and corporate transaction risk evaluation and support; hazardous waste site reuse; waterfront re-development; complex facility siting; the full spectrum of land use issues and permitting; strategic environmental risk-assessment, management and regulatory compliance and on maritime security/environment/technology issues;. In 2006, publisher ReedLogic released the DVD Coastal & Maritime Security and Environmental Compliance in the Post 9/11 World featuring Mr. Doliner. His peers elected him a Massachusetts SuperLawyer in 2004, 2005 and 2006, and a New England SuperLawyer in 2007.
Mr. Doliner has participated in major appellate and other court cases which helped shape the law of water and air quality, coastal development, environmental impact reporting and wetlands protection. From 1983-1998, Mr. Doliner was a lead counsel in the federal, state and administrative matters dealing with the clean up of Boston Harbor. Successfully completing the course and examination administered by the British Standards Institution, He is certified in the implementation of ISO-14000 series environmental management systems.
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 was the founding Chair of the Environmental Section of the Boston Bar Association. He served four terms as a Conservation Commissioner for the Town of Holliston. Mr. Doliner serves or has served 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 League of Massachusetts. An officer in the US Coast Guard Auxiliary, he currently oversees Auxiliary marine safety and environmental protection programs for Sector Boston.
Dowden, James
Adjunct Faculty
James P. Dowden received his Bachelor of Arts degree magna cum laude from Boston College where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He received his J.D. from Boston College Law School summa cum laude, was Articles Editor of the Boston College Law Review, and won the James W. Smith Award for the highest academic achievement in his class. Following law school, Mr. Dowden clerked for the Hon. Anthony Scirca, now Chief Judge of the Third Circuit in Philadelphia Pennsylvania as well as Associate Justice Stephen Breyer during the OT 04-05 term. Following his clerkships, Mr. Dowden was an Associate in the Litigation Department at Ropes & Gray. He is currently an Assistant United States Attorney with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts.
Ebel, Martin
Adjunct Faculty
Martin Ebel is a Commissioner and the former General Counsel of the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD), where he runs the Commission's Springfield office. Mr. Ebel authored the Commission's February 2007 Standing Order, and heads the agency's testing project.
Prior to joining the MCAD, he practiced discrimination law for more than ten years. Mr. Ebel's private practice included employment law for both management and employee clients, as well as handling public accommodation lawsuits. He has appeared before state and federal trial and appellate courts and has written, argued, and won two cases that were included in Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly's list of "The Most Important Opinions of 2001."
Mr. Ebel has lectured and conducted seminars before numerous businesses and organizations. He is a regular member of the faculty of the Massachusetts Bar Association's annual employment and labor conference, was a featured speaker on two panels for the EEOC's recent annual conference, and was a panelist at the National Golf Course Owners Association's "Solutions Summit."
Mr. Ebel is a 1994 graduate of Boston College Law School and was honored witht he St. Thomas More Award at Graduation. He has served on the BCLS Alumni Council since 2003.
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 Gray has been a full-time dispute resolution professional since 1987 and has been providing conflict management, mediation, training and consulting services since 1985. In addition to providing mediation services, she consults to a number of corporations, employee assistance programs, government and non-profit organizations to provide management consulting, conflict intervention, training, and dispute resolution systems design services relating to communication, interpersonal, and workplace issues. Ericka is the founder and President of DisputEd and is one of three principals of OptionBridge, LLC, which has offices in New Hampshire, Boston, Hartford, and Chicago. Ericka served on the Massachusetts Trial Court Standing Committee on Dispute Resolution and was a convener of the MassUMA Working Group to review mediation legislation in the Commonwealth.
She previously served as the director of two multi-door courthouses, in Cambridge, MA and in Burlington County, NJ, was a senior mediator, directory of professionals services, and regional training manager for Endispute/JAMS Boston. She also was the executive director of the Academy of Family Mediators, and has maintained a full-time private practice since 1998. She has mediated a range of disputes from commercial to family, with a concentration in employment and complex family issues. She is a licensed psychologist.
Holleman, Pamela
Adjunct Faculty
Pamela Smith Holleman is a partner in the Bankruptcy Practice Group and Litigation Department of Sullivan & Worcester LLP in Boston. Ms. Holleman's practice is focused in the areas of business bankruptcy and commercial litigation. She holds a J.D. from Boston College Law School, a Masters in Business Administration from New York University, Stern School of Business, and a Master of Arts in Political Science from the University of Chicago. Previously, Ms. Holleman served as Group Manager, Contract Administration, Ingersoll-Rand Company, managing the contracting activities of the Company's Process Systems Group worldwide.
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.
Juel, Edward J.
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
The Honorable Scott L. Kafker is an Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Appeals Court. He is a graduate of Amherst College and the University of Chicago Law School, where he was an editor of the University of Chicago Law Review. After law school, he clerked for Justice Charles L. Levin of the Michigan Supreme Court and Judge Mark L. Wolf, of the United States District Court, District of Massachusetts. Judge Kafker practiced law at Foley, Hoag and Eliot before becoming Deputy Chief Legal Counsel for Governor William F. Weld and Chief Legal Counsel for the Massachusetts Port Authority. He is currently a trustee of the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, where he serves on the Governance Committee.
Kass, Rudolph
Adjunct Faculty
For 22 years (until the constitutional age of retirement for Massachusetts judges), Rudolph Kass served as a justice of the Massachusetts Appeals Court. For 22 years before that, he practiced law in Boston, most of that time with the firm of Brown, Rudnick, Freed & Gesmer. At the time of his appointment to the Appeals Court in 1976, he was a partner concentrating in real estate transactions and urban affairs (i.e., government assisted housing and land use planning matters). Lawrence J. Sperber, who is co-teaching with Professor Kass, has a boutique practice in retail leasing, representing some of New England's leading retailers. He has also been a shopping center developer and operator in his own right. Professors Kass and Sperber have been doing things together since they were freshmen at Harvard College in 1948. They practiced law in the same office in the late 1950's.
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. 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. He served as an attorney in the City of Newton Law Department from 1970 through 1978. He was 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 various of its Committees, and a contributor and participant in its national seminars and publications.
In 2002, Mr. Levine resigned as a K&L Gates Partner and he became Of Counsel so that he could accept an appointment as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Boston College Law School. Mr. Levine continues to teach Real Estate Development and Finance and Local Government Law at the Law School. He also supervises Independent Study Programs in Real Estate Development and Finance, and in Municipal and Local Government Law.
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, a past-chairman of the Community Advisory Board of PBS's WGBH, a member of the Board of the Newton Historical Society, and an overseer of PBS's WGBH.
Mr. Levine 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.
Lykes, M. Brinton
M. Brinton Lykes is Professor of Community/Social Psychology at the Lynch School of Education at
Professor Lykes is involved extensively in Boston-area communities and abroad. She is a founder and program committee member of the Ignacio Martín-Baró Fund for Mental Health and Human Rights, an Advisory Committee Member of Women’s Rights International, a former committee member and Chair of the American Psychological Association's Committee on International Relations and Psychology, and a volunteer consultant to the Association of Haitian Women in
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.
Margetta-Morgan, Julie
Adjunct Faculty
Mason, David W.
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.
McEvoy, Christine M.
Adjunct Faculty
The Hon. 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 at Greater Boston Legal Services, has spent her entire career working with low-income battered women. As a Georgetown Women & the Law Public Policy Fellow in Washington DC she started her career serving as a clinical instructor in the Georgetown University Law Center's Sex Discrimination Clinic and since then has combined advocacy and teaching. Currently, she directs the Latinas Know Your Rights Project, an innovative, multidiscipliniary partnership working with Latina immigrant women who have experienced domestic violence. She represents clients in family law, immigration, benefits and other civil cases. Ms. Merryman is a graduate of Barnard College and Harvard Law School.
Mokriski, J. Charles
Adjunct Faculty
J. Charles Mokriski is a partner in the Boston office of Day Pitney LLP (which was created by a merger of Day, Berry & Howard LLP and Pitney Hardin LLP on 1 January 2007). A member of the firm's Commercial Litigation Department, he counsels and represents clients with respect to business disputes, including IP issues, and also represents the news media. He has long served as chair of his firm's ethics committee, and is a member of the Ethics, Conflicts and Loss Prevention Committee of the merged firm. 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 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.
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.
Pellegrini, Nadine
Adjunct Faculty
Nadine Pellegrini is an Assistant United States Attorney with the District of Massachusetts and has been serving in that position since 1991. Her current position is Acting Chief of the Major Crimes Unit. In the field of wildlife protection, she has successfully prosecuted matters involving enforcement of the Lacey Act; the Endangered Species Act; the Marine Mammal Protection Act, the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act and argued before the First Circuit Court of Appeals on the application and interpretation of the Lacey Act and Migratory Bird Treaty Act. Ms. Pellegrini received her undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a Masters of Science from Tufts Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, Center for Animals and Public Policy, and her J.D. from Albany Law School.
Ramrath, Joseph
Adjunct Faculty
Rao, John
Adjunct Faculty
John Rao is an attorney with the National Consumer Law Center, Inc. Mr. Rao focuses on consumer credit and bankruptcy issues and has served as a panelist and instructor at numerous bankruptcy and consumer law trainings and conferences. He is a contributing author and editor of NCLC's Consumer Bankrutpcy Law and Practice; co-author of NCLC's Foreclosures; Bankruptcy Basics; Guide to Surviving Debt; and NCLC Reports: Bankruptcy and Foreclosures Edition, and contributing author to NCLC's Student Loan Law. He is also a contributing author to Collier on Bankruptcy and the Collier Bankruptcy Practice Guide. Mr. Rao serves as member of the federal Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Bankruptcy Rules, appointed by Chief Justice Joah Roberts in 2006. He is a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy, secretary for the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys, and former board member for the American Bankruptcy Institute. Mr. Rao is a graduate of Boston University and received his J.D. in 1982 from the University of California (Hastings).
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.
Richard, Loretta
Adjunct Faculty
Loretta R. Richard is a partner in the Tax and Benefits Department at Ropes & Gray, where she specializes in general federal income tax matters. Ms. Richard received her undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan. She earned her J.D. from Boston College Law School, where she was an Executive Editor of the Boston College Law Review and awarded Order of the Coif. Ms. Richard received an LLM in Taxation from the Boston Univeristy School of Law. She regularly represents corporations, partnerships,states and state agencies, and individuals in connection with tax planning, particularly in the areas of personal income tax planning, tax-exempt financing, private equity investments, employee benefits and executive compensation. Ms. Richard is an active member of the ABA Section of Taxation. Prior to her appointment at the Boston College Law School in 1998, Ms. Richard held an appointment as an Adjunct Professor a t the Boston University School of Law in the Graduate Tax Program, where she taught Federal Income Tax II.
Roiter, Eric
Adjunct Faculty
Mr. Roiter has taught as an adjunct professor at Columbia Law School, Boston University School of Law and Harvard Law School.
From 1997 to June 2008, Mr. Roiter served as Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Fidelity Mangement & Research Company (FMR Co.), headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, the investment advisor arm of Fidelity Investments, the nation's largest mutual fund group. As General Counsel, Mr. Roiter was responsible for supervising and providing legal advice and representation for all aspects of Fidelity's mutual fund business.
From 1985 to 1997, Mr. Roiter was a corporate partner with Debevoise & Plimpton, resident in its Washington, D.C. office, specializing in securities and financial services law. Prior to joining Debevoise & Plimpton as an associate in 1981, Mr. Roiter was with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C., serving in various legal positions, including Assistant General Counsel from 1979 to 1981.
Mr. Roiter received a J.D. degree in 1973 and an LLM (specializing in securities laws) in 1981 from Georgetown University Law Center. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Rhode Island (1970) where he was elected to the Phi Kappa Phi honor society. He will teach Mutual Fund Regulation in the spring.
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. He received his JD degree from Harvard Law School in 1983 and graduated summa cum laude in economics from Amherst College in 1980. His practice includes the representation of public and private companies in matters of corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions and corporate governance. He has been designated 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. At Boston College Law School, he will teach Corporate Finance.
Stowe, Matthew
Adjunct Faculty
Matthew Stowe is Vice President and Senior 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 and taught this seminar at Boston College Law School in spring 2008.
Wax, Amy
Adjunct Faculty
Amy M. Wax has been an adjunct clinical faculty for the Immigration Clinic at Boston College Law School since September 2005. She is a partner in the law firm of Wax & Kenney, P.C. and has been exclusively practicing immigration law since 2000. Ms. Wax handles all types of immigration cases, including family-based, deportation, NACARA, asylum, and applications for relief for victims of domestic violence. She volunteers with the Office of New Bostonians, and frequently gives presentations to the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking communities. She also has taught several years for Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education. She holds a J.D. from Boston College Law School and a B.A. in psychology and Spanish from Tufts University. She has been a member of the American Immigration Lawyers’ Association since 2001.
Wethly, Kimberly B.
Adjunct Faculty
Kimberly Wethly is a partner in Tax Practice Group at Wilmer Hale in Boston. She joined the firm in 1997. Ms. Wethly has extensive experience in executive compensation, including applicable tax, securities and accounting issues. She has drafted equity compensation plans for both public and private companies and has participated in the negotiation of many executive employment agreements, retention agreements and other compensation related agreements. She also focuses on corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, spin-offs, dispositions and cross-border transactions. Ms. Wthly is a member of the American Bar Association, the Boston Bar Association and the National Association of Stock Plan Professions. She was recognized as a leader in her field in the 2007 edition of Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business. Education: JD, magna cum laude, Boston College Law School; BA, Philosophy, magna cum laude, Boston College.
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.
Whiting, Richard
Adjunct Faculty
Richard M. Whiting is Executive Director and General Counsel of The Financial Services Roundtable, a national association of the nation's largest integrated financial services companies active in federal legislative, judicial and regulatory affairs in Washington, D.C.
In addition to prior positions within the Roundtable and one of its predecessor organizations (the Association of Bank Holding Companies), he previously served as Senior Attorney in the Office of the General Counsel of the Federal Reserve Board, Washington, D.C., General Counsel to the Mortgage Insurance Companies of America, and Law Clerk to the Honorable Albert V. Bryan, Sr., U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
Mr. Whiting graduated from: Boston College Law School where he was Articles Editor for the Boston College Law Review; the Stonier Graduate School of Banking at Rutgers University; and, Binghamton University, New York.
He currently is Chair of the Law School Teaching Subcommittee of the Banking Law Committee of the American Bar Association (ABA) and a member of the Board of Advisors to the Morin Center for Banking and Financial Services, Boston University Law School. In addition, he has held many leadership positions in professional organizations, including; Chair of the Legislative & Regulatory Subcommittee of the Banking Law Committee of the ABA; Chair of the Banking & Currency Subcommittee of the Administrative Law Section of the ABA; Chair of the Banking Holding Company Subcommittee of the ABA's Banking Law Committee; Board member & General Counsel of Women in Housing and Finance, Inc. and the WHF Foundation; Chairman of the Financial Institutions Committee of the D.C. Bar; Chancellor of the Exchequer Club; Chair of the Financial Institutions Section of the Federal Bar Association; and Chair of the Banking Committee of the Federal Bar Association.
Mr. Whiting is a member of the Advisory Board of the Banking Policy Report, the Electronic Banking Law and Commerce Report and the Banking Law Institute. Also, he has served since 1989 on the adjunct faculty (Federal Law of Financial Institutions) at Georgetown University Law Center. Mr. Whiting has authored several articles and books, and speaks frequently on legal and policy issues affecting the financial services industry.
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.
Wolfman, Bernard
Adjunct Faculty
Bernard Wolfman is the Fessenden Professor of Law Emeritus at Harvard Law School. His principal teaching and scholarly interests have been in the field of federal income taxation and the professional responsibility of tax practitioners. Before joining the Harvard faculty in 1976 he served as the Dean and Gemmill Professor Tax Law and Tax Policy at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Professor Wolfman received his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Pennsylvania. From 1948 to 1963 he practiced law in Philadelphia in the firm of Wolf, Block, Schorr and Solis-Cohen, serving as the firm's Managing Partner from 1961. In 1963 he joined the Pennsylvania Law School faculty. Professor Wolfman's bibliography includes articles in law reviews and professional journals; his books are Dissent Without Opinion: The Behavior of Justice William O. Douglas in Federal Tax Cases (senior author), 1975; Federal Income Taxation of Corporate Enterprise (with Diane Ring, Fifth Edition, 2008); Ethical Problems in Federal Tax Practice (with Deborah Schenk and Diane Ring, Fourth Edition, 2008), and Standards of Tax Practice (with J. Holden and K. Harris, Sixth Edition, 2004). During the fall of 2003 he served as Senior Adviser to the Assistant Attorney General for the Tax Division, U.S. Department of Justice. From 1963 to 1968 and from 1977 to 1980 Professor Wolfman was a consultant on tax policy to the U.S. Treasury Department. He has served as a member of the Council of the A.B.A. Section of Taxation and as Council Director of its Committees on Corporate Taxation, Standars of Tax Practice, and Tax Policy and Simplification. He has also served on the Council of the A.B.A. Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities. From 1974 to 1994 he served as a consultant to the American Law Institute's Federal Income Tax Project, and from mid-1987 he served for two years as special consultant to the Iran/Contra Independent Counsel, Lawrence Walsh. Professor Wolfman is President of the Federal Tax Institute of New England and a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. He is also a Fellow of the American College of Tax Counsel, having served for six years as its Regent from the First Circuit. Professor Wolfman will teach Ethical Issues in Federal Tax Practice.