Guild News

NLG ANNUAL MEETING
This year’s meeting will be held on Tuesday, March 15, 14 Beacon St., Conference Rm.  We will start with a reception at 5:30pm and continue with elections of Chapter Board and officers.  After the elections, we will welcome Patty Garin of Stern Shapriro Weinsberg & Garin who will talk about the crisis and future of parol in Massachusetts.

NOMINATIONS TO THE 2011 NLG BOARD
If you would like to serve on the Chapter’s Board of Directors, please consider nominating yourself.  The deadline for all nominations is Tuesday, March 8 (International Women’s Day!).  Please complete the form here or send us your name and contact information (nlgmass-director@igc.org or 617-227-7335).

NLG HAPPY HOUR
The Massachusetts Chapter’s NLG Presents… & Happy Hour takes place on the 2nd Wednesday of every month, 5:30 – 8:00pm, at Kennedy’s Mid-Town Pub (44 Province St., 2nd Fl., Boston, close to Suffolk Law School).  Next “NLG Presents…” & Happy Hour will be on February 9, 2011 (see below).

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NLG Presents…..

Michael Rodriguez
“Freedom for Oscar López Rivera, Puerto Rican Political Prisoner! ”

Wednesday, February 9, 2011
5:30 – 6:30 PM
Kennedy’s Midtown
44 Province St., 2nd Fl., Boston
(next to Suffolk Law School, off Bromfield St.)

Michael Rodriguez will speak about the campaign to free Oscar López Rivera. Oscar will appear before the U.S. Parole Commission the first week of January 2011. Oscar was not accused or convicted of causing harm or taking a life, yet he has become the longest held political prisoner in the history of Puerto Rico’s struggle against colonialism. He was arrested in 1981 and sentenced to 70 years for the crime of seditious conspiracy. For more information on this case, go to: http://boricuahumanrights.org.

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Street Law Clinic Report
The following Guild members conducted (or are scheduled to conduct) trainings for law students and/or clinics for members of Boston area community organizations and agencies:
December 9:   Stop & Search training for Harvard law students, by Carl Williams.
December 16:   Stop & Search clinic at Bridge Over Troubled Waters, by David Nathanson and NESL student Liz Funk.
December 16:   Immigration Law  clinic at The Kennedy Center in Charlestown, by Rosie Milano.
January 10:   Stop & Search clinic at Cambridge Cares about AIDS: Youth on Fire, by Carl Williams, NESL student Liz Funk and Harvard students Stephanie Dorenbosch and Diana Philip.
January 31:   Stop & Search training at Rodger Williams Univeristy Law School in Bristol, RI, by Benjamin Evans.

ARTICLES FOR MASS DISSENT
The March issue of Mass Dissent will focus on the women in law and politics.
If you are interested in submitting an article, essay, analysis, or art work (cartoons, pictures) related to the topic,
please e-mail the articles to nlgmass-director@igc.org.
The deadline for articles is February 15.