Lawyers e-Journal
Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010
Photograph by
Tracy Powell
MBA President Denise Squillante, MBA President-elect Richard P. Campbell, MBA Treasurer Robert L. Holloway Jr., MBA Vice President Jeffrey N. Catalano, MBA Secretary Marsha V. Kazarosian, MBA Acting Executive Director and General Counsel Martin W. Healy, MBA Vice President Douglas K. Sheff.
Seasoned officer slate set to lead MBA through centennial year
The Massachusetts Bar Association
slate of officers for the 2010-11 centennial year term has
officially been set. Denise Squillante, the 2009-10
president-elect, automatically succeeds to the office of the
president on Sept. 1.
In honor of its 100th
anniversary, the MBA will be celebrating a century of service to
the public, the profession and the rule of law throughout its
2010-11 association year.
Here is the list of the officers and
some of their achievements.
Denise Squillante
President
Squillante began as a solo practitioner in Fall
River more than 30 years ago. Squillante's practice has grown into
a small firm concentrating in family law, corporate law, injury and
estates and providing business and legal consulting services to
corporations. Long active in the MBA's Family Law Section and its
associated committees, she has lent her energy to the MBA's
Presidential Task Force on Terrorism, and the Amicus and the Joint
Bar committees. A former recipient of the MBA's Pro Bono Publico
Award, Squillante is a longtime member of the House of Delegates
and a Massachusetts Bar Foundation Fellow. Instrumental in
establishing the MBA's General Practice, Solo & Small-Firm
Section, she led the MBA's efforts to assist lawyers who are
transitioning in or out of practice. A Massachusetts delegate to
the American Bar Association's House of Delegates and co-chair of
the joint MBA/Boston Bar Association Alimony Task Force, Squillante
is also a member of the Probate Court Scheduling Task Force and the
MBA representative on the Equality Commission. A former president
of the Fall River Bar Association, she will become president of the
New England Bar Association in October and is a member of the
Bristol County Bar Association Executive Board. Highly involved
with efforts to address domestic violence in Fall River, Squillante
was awarded the John S. Brayton Jr. Memorial Community Service
Award by the Fall River Chamber of Commerce in June 2010.
Richard P. Campbell
President-elect
Campbell is the founder and chairman of Campbell,
Campbell, Edwards & Conroy PC, which specializes in trial
practice, with offices in Boston and Philadelphia. He represents
Fortune 100 corporations and individuals in multi-district
litigation, class actions, aviation disasters, mass tort, toxic
tort, product liability, commercial disputes and other serious
personal injury matters. In addition, Campbell organizes and leads
his firm's pro bono project, educating parents, students and school
administrators about civil and criminal social host liability laws.
He has served on the MBA's House of Delegates for more than six
years, the Criminal Justice Section Council for four years and
currently serves as a trustee for the Massachusetts Bar Foundation.
Campbell is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and a
past chair of the 34,000-member Tort Trial & Insurance Practice
Section of the American Bar Association. He also served for seven
years as the chair of the board of overseers for Boston College Law
School. Campbell was honored by Boston College Law School with its
highest award for dedication to the law - the Founder's Medal. He
was also the 2009 recipient of the ABA Tort Trial & Insurance
Practice Section Andrew C. Hecker Memorial Award, in recognition
for his leadership, outreach, enthusiasm, professionalism and
pride. Campbell lives in Cohasset.
Douglas K. Sheff
Vice President
Sheff is senior partner at Sheff Law Offices in
Boston, where he specializes in all aspects of personal injury law
and is considered an expert in brain injury law. A past president
of the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys, he has been
appointed trustee of the National College of Advocacy, which
provides superior education and training for trial lawyers across
the United States. Sheff is also a director of the Belli Society,
an international group of distinguished trial attorneys, and he has
been awarded the ORT Award for integrity in the law. A seven-time
recipient of the American Association for Justice's prestigious
Wiedemann-Wysocki Award, he serves on the AAJ's Board of Governors,
its Leaders Forum and its Traumatic Brain Injury Litigation Group.
In addition, Sheff has been awarded the AAJ's New Generation Award
and is a past chair of the AAJ's 100 State Delegates. He also
served as chair to the AAJ's Council of Presidents, representing
50,000 attorneys nationwide. A Boston magazine "Super
Lawyer," Sheff has also been recognized in Lifesavers for
preventing injury through aggressive representation of victims of
defective products. He resides in Boston.
Jeffrey N. Catalano
Vice President
Catalano is a partner at Todd & Weld LLP in
Boston, where he specializes in representing victims of
catastrophic injuries in the areas of medical negligence, product
liability, auto accident, class action and other personal injury
cases. A chair of the MBA's Volunteer, Recognition, Recruitment
& Retention Task Force and a member of its Executive Management
Board, he is a past chair of the MBA's Civil Litigation Section and
has served on the MBA's governing board, the House of Delegates,
since 2006. A Massachusetts Bar Foundation Fellow, Catalano is also
a member of the executive committee for the Massachusetts Academy
of Trial Attorneys. He is also on the board of directors for the
non-profit law firm Health Law Advocates Inc., where his pro bono
work includes patient advocacy and representing chronically ill and
impoverished people who are denied access to health care services.
In 2009, Catalano received a "Hero from the Field" award for his
efforts in improving health care quality and patient rights. He was
selected as a New England "Super Lawyer" in 2009 and a "Rising
Star" by Boston magazine in 2005. Catalano lives in West
Roxbury.
Robert L. Holloway Jr.
Treasurer
Holloway
is a shareholder and president of MacLean, Holloway, Doherty,
Ardiff & Morse PC in Peabody. He is a long-term member of the
MBA's Ethics Committee, a member and past chair of the MBA's Civil
Litigation Section Council and a former regional delegate to the
MBA House of Delegates. Holloway received the MBA's Community
Service Award in 1993 and served on the Joint Bar Committee on
Judicial Nominations for six years. In August 2009, he began a
three-year appointment to the Supreme Judicial Court's Standing
Committee on Pro Bono Legal Services, and is a regular panelist for
continuing legal education programs. An emeritus member of the
Board of Editors of Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, Holloway
has served on that board since 1981. Recognized by Boston magazine
as a "Super Lawyer" in the area of business litigation, he is also
a past president of the Essex County Bar Association. A Topsfield
resident, Holloway has served as a member of the town's Board of
Health and as an elected representative to the Masconomet Regional
School Committee from 1990 to 1999. In addition, he was a founding
member of Hospice of the North Shore and served for many years as a
corporator of Beverly Hospital.
Marsha V. Kazarosian
Secretary
Kazarosian is managing partner of Kazarosian Law
Offices in Haverhill, where she concentrates in civil litigation,
family law and discrimination. Long active in bar associations, she
is a past president of the Essex County Bar Association and the
Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys. A co-chair of the MBA's
Education Committee and an MBA vice president from 2008 to 2009,
Kazarosian has also served on the MBA's Executive Management Board,
House of Delegates, Joint Bar Committee on Judicial Nominations,
Nominating Committee and Gala Dinner Committee. In addition, she is
a life Fellow of the Massachusetts Bar Foundation. An accomplished
trial lawyer, Kazarosian was named one of the top 10 lawyers in the
state in 1999 by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly after
successfully suing the Haverhill Golf and Country Club for gender
discrimination. Kazarosian served a two-year term as one of 25
lawyers in the commonwealth appointed to the Massachusetts Supreme
Judicial Court's Pro Bono Panel, and a six-year term as a Hearings
Committee officer for the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers. She
hosts an Internet radio program on Legal Talk Network. Kazarosian
lives in Haverhill.