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"Join Senior Partners For Justice and help low-income clients navigate the legal system and protect their rights."  

Hon. Edward M. Ginsburg, Retired Family Court Judge and founder of SPJ

 

 

Senior Partners for Justice is a pro bono partnership with the Volunteer Lawyers Project of the Boston Bar Association

 

SPECIAL PROJECTSof

 

In addition to represention in pro bono cases through the Volunteer Lawyers Project, Senior Partners for Justice offers the following pro bono projects:

Guardianship Report Monitoring/Judicial Designee Project (statewide)

Suffolk Probate & Family Court Courtroom Lawyer for the Day (Limited Assistance Representation)

Guardianship Clinics in Suffolk, Middlesex and Norfolk Probate & Family Courts

Fair Debt Collection Lawyer for the Day in the Boston Municial Court (Limited Assistance Representation)

Senior Partners - West Projects in the Hampden & Hampshire County Probate & Family Courts

Law Student Public Service Internship in the Probate and Family Court

THANK YOU

 

Senior Partners Who Handled Pro Bono Cases through the Volunteer Lawyers Project

Suffolk Probate & Family Courtroom Lawyer for the Day Volunteers

Senior Partners Mentors

Judicial Designee/Guardianship Report Review Volunteers

Guardian Ad Litem Volunteers

Senior Partners - West Volunteers

CONGRATULATIONS

 

Gideon's Trumpet Award

Meg Connolly MVP Award

 

 

Upcoming Senior Partners for Justice

Luncheons in Boston

Mark Brodin

Professor, Boston College Law School

will speak about his new book:

"William P. Homans Jr.: A Life In Court" (Vandeplas Press), which recounts the remarkable legal career and troubled personal life of the prominent Boston lawyer William P. Homans Jr.

 

Wednesday June 23, 2010

12 p.m. to 2 p.m.

MCLE Conference Center

10 Winter Place, Boston

Directions to MCLE


RSVP to: Kenny Sambour at 617-423-0648 x 129 or ksambour@vlpnet.org

See past luncheon topics


Upcoming Senior Partners - West

Luncheons in Springfield

Hon. David Fuller

Hampden Probate and Family Court

An Open Discussion about the Court's

Case Management Guidelines

Tuesday July 6, 2010

1 p.m. to 2 p.m.

Western Massachusetts Legal Services

One Monarch Place, 4th Floor

Springfield, MA

Directions to WMLS

RSVP to Juliet Hansen at 413-781-7814 ext. 119 or jhansen@wmls.org.

See past luncheon topics.

Find out more about Senior Partners for Justice - West


Analyses of Recent Cases

by Anita Robboy, Esq.

Observations Regarding R.D. vs. A.H

Lawyers from Senior Partners for Justice were key players in the recent case of R.D. vs. A.H., which was argued at the trial level by Richard Clarey and at the appellate level by Samuel Adams, both active members of Senior Partners. The case is significant because it reinforces the immutable pre-eminence of biology over care-giving in the context of custodial litigation. MORE...

Child Support Award and Inclusion of S Corporation “Pass Through” Earnings in J.S. v. C.C.

The recent decision of J.S vs. C.C. by the Supreme Judicial Court is noteworthy because of its discussion of the inclusion of S corporation “pass-through” earnings in the context of an award of child support. MORE...

CASE ANALYSIS ARCHIVES

 

 

Upcoming Attorney Trainings at VLP

Please check the VLP website for more information about these trainings and a listing of continuing legal education opportunities at VLP and other CLE venues. 

All VLP trainings are free to active Senior Partners. Free or discounted registration to many continuing legal education seminars at MCLE, BBA, MBA, and the Suffolk University Center for Advanced Legal Studies is available to active Senior Partners volunteers.  Read more about our training policy

For information about training vouchers, contact Kenny Sambour at 617-423-0648 x129 or e-mail: ksambour@vlpnet.org.


Link to Limited Assistance Representation (LAR) Certification Training Materials


Family Law & Guardianship Listservs

Pro bono members of Senior Partners and the Volunteer Lawyers Project are invited to join our new Family Law and Guardianship listservs.  These listservs are email discussion groups in which you can ask questions, and share information, ideas and practice materials and tips.  

To sign up, go to the VLP website and click on the listservs link.  If you have not already registered for the VLP website, you will need to do so before joining a listserv.  Click here to register for the VLP website.


Practice Tip

The guardianship rules in Massachusetts changed dramatically in July, 2009 under the recently adopted Massachusetts Uniform Probate Code. There are many new forms that practitioners must use.  View the new forms online

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