Nearly 100 practitioners attended the Massachusetts Bar
Association's inaugural Complex Commercial Litigation Conference on
April 14 at the Hyatt Regency Boston. Sponsored by the MBA's
Complex Commercial Litigation Section, the conference featured
three panels covering intellectual property, bankruptcy and
business litigation. The program was bookended by a keynote address
from Supreme Judicial Court Justice Robert J. Cordy at the
beginning and a cocktail reception at the end.
Thank you to the judges and lawyers who served on the
conference's panels:
- Hon. Brian Davis (Suffolk Superior Court, Boston)
- Hon. Mitchell Kaplan (Suffolk Superior Court, Boston)
- Hon. Janet Sanders (Massachusetts Superior Court, Business
Litigation Session)
- Hon. F. Dennis Saylor, IV (United States District Court -
District of Massachusetts, Boston)
- Hon. Allan van Gestel, ret. (JAMS)
- Charles R. Bennett, Jr. (Murphy & King PC, Boston)
- Jerry Cohen (Burns & Levinson LLP, Boston)
- Lee Gesmer (Gesmer & Updegrove LLP, Boston)
- Lee Harrington (Nixon Peabody LLP, Boston)
- Francis C. Morrissey (Morrissey, Wilson & Zafiropoulos LLP,
Braintree)
Special thanks to the program co-chairs for putting together
this successful first conference: Lindsay M. Burke (Kenney &
Sams PC, Boston), John O. Mirick (Mirick, O'Connell, DeMallie &
Lougee LLP, Worcester), Laurence A. Schoen (Mintz, Levin, Cohn,
Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo PC, Boston) and Paul E. White,
(Sugarman Rogers Barshak & Cohen PC, Boston).