Past Events

Tuesday, February 19, 2019, 12:30pm–2pm

Todd & Weld, LLP, One Federal Street, Boston

Dear MACDL Members,

Please join us for MACDL’s next informal brown bag lunch!

Janice Bassil of Bassil & Budreau and Lissa McKinney will lead a conversation about about defending against domestic violence cases. Bring your lunch and your questions, comments and stories! For building security, please RSVP by clicking the button below.
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Questions? email Laura Mannion […]

Thursday, October 25, 2018, 2:30–5:30pm

DOCKIT!, 75 Market St., 3rd Floor, Springfield, MA

Dear MACDL Members,

The Massachusetts Sentencing Commission, which is authorized under G.L. c.211E to formulate uniform sentencing policies and develop systematic sentencing guidelines, recently approved a series of changes to the Massachusetts Sentencing Guidelines. The use of the guidelines in sentencing advocacy often is effective in providing the judge with a reason for a shorter sentence than […]

Tuesday, October 23, 2018, 12:30–1:30pm

Todd & Weld, LLP, One Federal Street, Boston

Dear MACDL Members,

Please join us for the next in our series of informal brown bag lunches!

Wendy Wayne, Director of the CPCS Immigration Impact Unit, will lead a conversation about what’s new in immigration that should concern the criminal defense bar, addressing issues including:

• Current immigration enforcement priorities and trends, and […]
  

Thursday, October 18, 4–6pm

Todd & Weld, LLP, One Federal Street, Boston, MA
9th Floor Conference Center

Join MACDL for a discussion about how jury selection is changing in Massachusetts, and the best ways to obtain a jury that will be fair to our ethnically and racially diverse clients. We will discuss implicit racial bias, jury questionnaires, and how to talk to potential jurors during panel voir dire. […]

Compassionate Release and Medical Parole in Massachusetts

Wednesday, July 18, 2018, 12:30–2:30pm

Todd & Weld, LLP, One Federal Street, Boston

Dear MACDL Members,

Please join us for the fourth in our series of informal brown bag lunches!

THE COSTS OF CARE FOR DYING PRISONERS HAS SKYROCKETED as the […]

Tuesday, June 26, 2018, 5:30pm – 9:30pm

Marriott Hotel, Newton, MA

Featuring keynote speaker, Andrea Lyon, author of The Feminine Sixth: Women for the Defense, accomplished death-penalty lawyer, and Dean of Valparaiso University Law School. Ms. Lyon is a nationally recognized expert in the field of death penalty defense, and, in her decades-long […]

Thursday, June 7, 2018, 6–8pm

Wistariahurst Museum
238 Cabot Street, Holyoke, MA

MACDL presents an evening with New York Times bestselling author, Judge Michael Ponsor, who will talk about his career on the bench and read a selection from his new novel, The One-Eyed Judge.

The program is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served and books will […]

Tuesday, April 3, 2018, 5:30pm – 9:30pm

Marriott Hotel, Newton, Mass

Registration begins 4pm

Keynote Speaker — Carol Rose

Executive Director, ACLU of Massachusetts
“Law, Resistance and A Freedom Agenda” […]