Past Events

Online 4:30–6pm, Thursday, February 25, 2021

Public records are everywhere! Documents, records, correspondence, data and more, kept by any government agency may be considered a record that the public is entitled to see. Public records can be valuable tools for organizing and government accountability.

Please join the Community Engagement Racial Justice Committee of MACDL for a public records training designed for non-lawyer community organizations.

We will demystify the process and teach […]

2pm, Friday, February 5, 2021

Interested in applying to be a judge? Or just generally curious about how these important decisions get made? Join us for a discussion with Jay Carney, a member of the Judicial Nominating Commission. He will demystify the process and discuss tips for your application. MACDL is committed to helping more defense attorneys be appointed to the bench and encourages everyone to consider if […]

Monday, December 21, 2020, 2–3:15pm

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IN THIS FREE WEBINAR EVENT criminal defense attorney and licensed certified social worker, Lisa Newman-Polk, who worked as mental health clinician in the Department of Corrections (DOC) from 2013 to 2014, will update us on the current state of affairs inside DOC facilities as the number of positive cases, hospitalizations, and prisoner deaths from the COVID pandemic continue to rise. The […]

JOIN MACDL MEMBERS in the ABA’s 21 Day Racial Equity Habit Building Challenge. We will read the materials, split up into four separate sections, and meet weekly to discuss. Discussion dates are: July 8th, July 15th, July 22nd, July 29th (Wednesdays from 4–5pm). Please register in advance for this meeting:

ZOOM Link to Register for the Challenge

After registering, you will receive a confirmation […]

NOW at 3pm on TUESDAY, JUNE 30, 2020

March 13, 12:30 to 1:30pm

Todd & Weld, LLP, One Federal Street, Boston

JOIN US for an informal brown bag lunch with Jane Peachy of the Federal Defenders, who will lead a conversation about strategies for excellent sentencing advocacy applicable in both state and federal court. Our discussion will cover both the underlying principles and purposes of sentencing and the nuts and bolts […]

Tuesday, December 10, 2019, 5:30 – 9pm

Good Life, 28 Kingston Street, Boston, MA 02111

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Friday, November 22, 2019, 12pm – 1:30pm

Todd & Weld, LLP, One Federal Street, Boston

Dear MACDL Members,

Please join us for MACDL’s next informal brown bag lunch where we will be joined by Lee Gartenberg, Director of Inmate Services at the Middlesex Sheriff’s Office. Attorney Gartenberg will help us understand the new policies concerning earned good time, completion credits, and other sentencing computation […]