Hispanic Bar Assoc. honors Román
Eneida Román, founder and principal of the Law Office of Eneida
Román in Boston, was recently honored with a "Top Lawyers Under
Forty" Award by the Hispanic National Bar Association. The award
recognizes HNBA members under 40 who have distinguished themselves
as young Hispanic lawyers in the upper echelon of the legal
profession nationwide.
HNBA honored Román and four other national recipients at its
Mid-Year Conference on March 12 in New Orleans.
Her practice is focused in the areas of immigration, family, real
estate, business law, and alternative dispute resolution. Román
serves on the Family Law Section Council and its Education Sub
Committee. She serves on HNBA's Commission on Latinas in the Legal
Profession and was recently recognized by El Planeta, the
largest Hispanic newspaper in Massachusetts, as one of the Top 100
Individuals who have influenced the Hispanic community in
Massachusetts.
Boston, Salem and Haverhill attorneys honored with
Centennial Awards
The Massachusetts Bar Association presented three attorneys with
the MBA Centennial Award, an honor created to celebrate local
attorneys' service to the profession and their community, at its
March 10 House of Delegates meeting at the Hilton Dedham.
The awards, the latest bestowed throughout the MBA's
100th anniversary commemoration year, honored Salem
attorney Walter A. Costello Jr., Boston attorney Denise I. Murphy
and Haverhill attorney Paul Kazarosian, who passed away in February
2010.
"These honorees have given of themselves to both their profession
and their communities," MBA President Denise Squillante said. "They
exemplify the spirit of public service on which the Massachusetts
Bar Association was founded a century ago."
Costello, a civil litigator in practice since 1973, was praised
for his honesty, integrity and reputation as a staunch advocate for
his clients. An MBA member for decades, Costello currently sits on
the MBA Executive Management Board and House of Delegates. Costello
is a past president of the Essex County Bar Association and
currently serves on MATA's and Essex County Bar Association's
boards of directors.
Kazarosian was a longtime Haverhill attorney who established the
"work-free lunch" for local schoolteachers in the 1960s and
successfully fought an injunction that caused a two-year suspension
of the construction of Merrimack Valley Hospital. He served as
chairman of the Massachusetts Heart Association and the Friends of
the Haverhill Public Library, was director of the Northern Essex
County Association for Retarded Citizens, and a member of the
Armenian, Haverhill, Massachusetts and Essex County bar
associations and the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys. He
served in the U.S. Army during World War II.
Murphy practices employment law at Rubin and Rudman LLP, where she
counsels businesses, drafts employment agreements and litigates
employment claims. An active MBA member, Murphy currently sits on
the MBA Executive Management Board, House of Delegates and the
Social Media Policy Sub-Committee, among other groups. Murphy is
also a member of the Women's Bar Association of Massachusetts and
serves on the Finance Commission for the Town of Westwood.
The awards will continue to be given throughout 2011 to persons of
extraordinary achievement who materially advanced the rule of law,
enhanced the integrity of lawyers, judges or the legal profession,
engaged or is engaging in important legal scholarship, or protected
the democratic principles upon which our country is
founded.
Ingle named Marlborough Chamber's Business Person of
the Year
Attorney Tracey A. L. Ingle, of Ingle Law PC in Southborough,
was honored as the 2010 Business Person of the Year by the
Marlborough Regional Chamber of Commerce (MRCC) at its Annual
Business Awards Dinner on March 3.
Ingle was commended for high business standards, active
participation and support of chamber programs, and dedication to
improving the quality of life in the greater Marlborough
area.
"Both the chamber and the region have benefited from Tracey's
energy and commitment to the business community as much as seniors
and families benefit from her focus on providing superior legal
services to her clients," said MRCC President and CEO Susanne
Morreale-Leeber.
Ingle has practiced law since 1995 and opened Ingle Law in 2002,
and has served on the board of directors of the Marlborough
Regional Chamber of Commerce since 2005. She is currently president
of the Massachusetts Chapter of the National Academy of Elder Law
Attorneys (MassNAELA).
MBA Secretary Kazarosian named MCLE trustee
Massachusetts Bar Association Secretary Marsha V. Kazarosian, a
Haverhill resident, has joined Massachusetts Continuing Legal
Education's Board of Trustees. Kazarosian is managing partner of
Kazarosian Law Offices in Haverhill, where she concentrates in
civil litigation, family law and discrimination.
Kazarosian was elected to join MCLE's Board at its annual meeting
on Jan. 27. She has served on more than 15 program faculties at
MCLE during the past 15 years. She is co-chair of the MBA's
Education and Technology committees, is a Life Fellow of the
Massachusetts Bar Foundation and a past president of both the Essex
County Bar Association and the Massachusetts Academy of Trial
Attorneys.
She 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. She has
been identified as one of the top woman lawyers in New
England.
Kazarosian also 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. In 2005,
Kazarosian debuted as the host of her own Internet radio program on
the Legal Talk Network, in which she discusses relevant legal
issues.