The Massachusetts Bar Association's Annual Dinner on Thursday, May 2, at the Westin Boston Seaport District is now officially sold out.
Thank you to the members of the MBA Annual Dinner Committee and our many sponsoring firms and organization's for making this year's event possible:
Champions of Justice Sponsors:
MBA Insurance Agency
Turco Legal
Gold Sponsors:
CNA Insurance
Justia
Kenney & Sams, P.C.
Meehan, Boyle, Black & Bogdanow, P.C.
Morrison Mahoney LLP
Nifty Marketing
Peabody & Arnold LLP
Rockland Trust
Rubin & Rudman LLP
Santoro & Gray*
(Launching May 10)Silver Sponsors:
Arrowood LLP
Association of Assistant Clerks and Magistrates
Boyle | Shaughnessy Law
Breakstone, White & Gluck, PC
Burns & Levinson
Conn Kavanaugh Rosenthal Peisch & Ford, LLP
Dempsey Associates
Diller Law
Eden Rafferty
FAZ Forensics
Freeman Mathis & Gary, LLP
Goodwin
Hirsch Roberts Weinstein LLP
Jones Kelleher LLP
Kazarosian Costello LLP
Keches Law Group, P.C.
Massachusetts Bar Foundation
McGrath & Kane
Milne Law PC
Ringler Associates
Robins Kaplan LLP
Sheff & Cook, LLC
Todd & Weld
University Of Massachusetts School of Law
Bronze Sponsors:
Board of Bar Overseers
Boston Bar Association
Boston University School of Law
Brick, Jones, McBrien & Hickey LLP
Bristol County Bar Association
Cetrulo LLP
Committee for Public Counsel Services
Denise Squillante, P.C.
Esdaile, Barrett, Jacobs & Mone
Floyd Advisory
FTI Consulting
Goulston & Storrs
JAMS
The Kaplan/Bond Group
Law Offices of Samuel A. Segal
Magna
Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys
Massachusetts Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
Massachusetts Association of Hispanic Attorneys
Massachusetts Black Lawyers Association
Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly
MDD Forensic Accountants
Michael I. Flores, PC
Sherin and Lodgen LLP
Suffolk University Law School
Superior Court Clerks Association
Keynote speaker and awards
The Annual Dinner will feature a keynote address by
Sean K. Ellis, director of the Exoneree Network of the New England Innocence Project, and the presentation of the following awards:
About Sean K. Ellis
Ellis is an exoneree, motivational speaker and fierce advocate for reforms to the criminal legal system. At the age of 19, Ellis was arrested for the murder of a police officer and was wrongfully convicted at his third trial, only after two juries could not reach a unanimous verdict. He was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole. Significant police corruption and misconduct, including witness coercion, evidence tampering and misleading forensic evidence, led to Ellis’ wrongful conviction.
He was fully exonerated in 2021 after spending nearly 22 years in prison for a crime he did not commit, and his story is now the subject of the Netflix docuseries
Trial 4. In 2020, he co-founded the Exoneree Network, a peer-led program funded by the New England Innocence Project, to support the practical, emotional and spiritual reentry needs of exonerees as they process the trauma of long-term incarceration and work to rebuild their lives in freedom.
Ellis is frequently invited to speak to help spread awareness about wrongful convictions throughout New England. He spoke at NEIP’s 2020
Voices of the Innocent: Power in Community virtual event and was an exoneree storyteller at the inaugural
Voices of the Innocent: Still We Rise in 2019.
Questions regarding this event can be directed to MBA Membership and Marketing Manager Heather Robertson by email at Hrobertson@massbar.org.