The Massachusetts Bar Association and the MBA Insurance Agency
sponsored Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly's first-ever Leadership
Scholarship, which was given out during this year's Top Women of
Law luncheon. During the Oct. 31 event at the Boston Park Plaza,
MBA President Douglas K. Sheff presented a check for $3,000 to
Elizabeth McIntyre, an outstanding third-year student at Boston
University School of Law who has embraced public interest
work.
McIntyre has served on the executive board of the Public Interest
Project and volunteered with a range of service organizations,
including the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Michigan Legal
Services Foreclosure Project and Greater Boston Legal
Services.
In her application for this scholarship, McIntyre said, "[T]he
world can change. And if you recognize that the world can change,
you must likewise recognize that every time the world has changed,
it has done so because someone, somewhere, thought it could. That
someone was joined by another someone, and another, and another.
Together, they made the world a little more equal, a little more
free, a little more just. There is no reason I, and we, cannot do
the same."
In addition to Sheff, other MBA officers on hand to support
McIntyre and the other Top Women of Law honorees included Treasurer
Robert W. Harnais, Vice President Christopher P. Sullivan and
Secretary Christopher A. Kenney.