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Day Pitney LLP recently announced that it has named partner Ann Hetherwick "Hether" Cahill a co-chair of the firm's Fiduciary and Probate Litigation practice group. 

Cahill represents individual beneficiaries and individual and corporate fiduciaries in fiduciary, probate and trust disputes. Her practice specializes in a wide range of probate, trust, equity, fiduciary, guardianship and conservatorship litigation, including trust and will contests; breach of fiduciary duty and removal actions; trust interpretation, modification and termination actions; contested accountings; declaratory judgment actions; complaints for instructions; conservatorships, including with expanded powers for estate planning; and guardianships.

Cahill is the current editor-in-chief for the Massachusetts Law Review and former co-chair of the Boston Bar Association's Fiduciary Litigation Section. She is a member of the Massachusetts Bar Association, the Boston Probate and Estate Planning Forum and the Boston Estate Planning Council.

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Suffolk County

Massachusetts Bar Association member Bill Braunlin, special counsel, has joined Barclay Damon’s Patents & Prosecution Practice Area. His primary office location is Boston.

Braunlin has nearly a decade of patent prosecution experience and a distinguished background as a physical chemist. His career spans academia, industry and entrepreneurship, with significant accomplishments in nucleic acid biophysics, drug development and advanced materials. Prior to joining Barclay Damon, Braunlin held patent attorney and patent agent roles at law firms in Boston, where he advised clients on patent drafting, prosecution and portfolio development.

Braunlin’s academic and industrial achievements include leading research programs in molecular biophysics, co-founding Rational Affinity Devices to develop diagnostic technologies, and heading physical chemistry and biophysics groups at pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies.  

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Suffolk County

Massachusetts Bar Association Complex Commercial Litigation Section Council member Mariem Marquetti, an associate at Sherin and Lodgen LLP in Boston, presented the webinar, “Generative AI in the Law: To Use or Not To Use Or, To Use But With Extreme Caution Lessons From The ABA,” to the Massachusetts Chapter of the National Employment Lawyers Association on Nov. 4.

Marquetti is an associate in the firm’s Litigation Department. Her practice focuses primarily on civil litigation, representing clients in complex employment matters, commercial disputes, real estate litigation and professional liability matters before state and federal courts, as well as before state agencies such as the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination.