Guild News

NLG Happy Hour: The Massachusetts Chapter’s first ever “NLG Mentorship Happy Hour”!!!  We are starting a new program for law students and new lawyers to meet with Guild attorneys and discuss legal topics of interest to those who plan to work in public interest law.  Wed., October 5, 2011, 5:30-7:30pm, at Kennedy’s Midtown Pub, 44 Province St., 2nd Fl., Boston.  Please join us!  (See below.) EDIT BY THE EDITOR: Happy Hour will be at Red Hat Cafe, 9 Bowdoin St., 2nd Fl., Boston.

Membership Meeting: This year’s NLG Membership Meeting will be held on Tuesday, October 4, 5:30pm, at 14 Beacon St., Conference Rm, 1st Fl., Boston.  After a cheese & wine reception, we will discuss resolutions and amendments submitted for voting at the NLG Convention.

National Convention: The 2011 NLG Convention will be in Philadelphia, October 12-16, at Crowne Plaza Hotel (1800 Market St., 215-561-7500).  The panels will range from The Liberation of Political Prisoners to Workers’ Rights to Grand Jury Raids, with keynote speech by Bhairavi Desai.  To register:  www.nlg.org/members/convention/registration/.

NLG Holiday Party: We invite you to our Holiday Party on Friday, December 9, 5:30pm.  We’ll be hosted again by Stern Shapiro Weissberg & Garin (90 Canal St., 5th Fl., Boston).  In addition to a very tasty spread and wine, the program will include a raffle drawing with exceptional prizes.  Raffle tickets are $10/ticket – to buy, call: 617-227-7335.

Street Law Clinic Report
The following clinics and trainings were conducted for members of Boston area community organizations and agencies:

• June 22: Civil Disobedience training for members of the Student Immigrant Movement in Boston, by Carl Williams and Urszula Masny-Latos.
• August 11: Know Your Rights workshop for Grassroots International, by Myong Joun.
• September 16 & 19: Legal Observer training for election watchers, by Urszula Masny-Latos.
• September 19: Legal Observer training for Northeastern law students, by Melinda Drew.
• September 20: Legal Observing at poll stations in Worcester County, by 11 NLG Legal Observers.
• September 25: Civil Disobedience training for housing activists, by Jeff Feuer & Lee Goldstein.
• September 29: Legal Observer training for housing activists, by Jeff Feuer & Lee Goldstein.
• September 30: Legal Observing at an anti-foreclosures and anti-evication rally, by 16 NLG Legal Observers.

Mentorship Happy Hour…
Want to follow a Labor/Employment Law Path?
An evening with
ANNE SILLS
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
5:30 -7:30 pm
Kennedy’s Midtown Pub
44 Province St., 2nd Fl., Boston

EDITED BY EDITOR: NEW LOCATION – Red Hat Cafe
9 Bowdoin St., 2nd Fl., Boston

We are beginning a new program – Mentorship Happy Hour – for law students and new lawyers.  The first event is designed for those interested in pursuing a legal career in labor and/or employment law.   It will be led by local Guild attorney Anne Sills from Segal Roitman who, since 1985, has been representing unions and workers.