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Appeals Court Takes New En Banc Pilot Program for a Test Flight
By Nicholas D. Stellakis In late 2022, the Appeals Court instituted a pilot program for en banc review. This pilot program is the latest manifestation of the Court’s longstanding practice of “second...
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Chief Justice Stacey Fortes of the District Court
Interviewed by Judge Catherine Hyo-Kyung Ham Judge Ham: Thank you for taking the time to interview with me. Can you tell us about your upbringing, education, or experience that led you to first apply...
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What to Know About the Recent Change to the Massachusetts Estate Tax
By Cassandra L.M. Prince On October 4, 2023, Massachusetts Governor Maura Healy signed into law a $1 billion tax reform package (“tax package”). See H.R. 4104, 2023 Leg., 193rd Sess. (Mass. 2023). The...
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Investigating Allegations of Elder Abuse Can be Complicated
By Karen Greenberg and Daniel Pollack The Problem The National Center on Elder Abuse reports that “the population age 65 and older numbered 52.4 million in 2018” (the most recent year for which data...
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Recent Superior Court Rules Amendments
By Hon. Jackie A. Cowin Several changes to the Superior Court Rules governing civil motion practice took effect on September 1, 2023. These changes were jointly drafted by the Superior Court’s Civil...
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The Impact of the SJC’s Decisions in Commonwealth v. Guardado on Future...
By Elisabeth Martino The last two years have been notable ones for Second Amendment jurisprudence, both nationally and locally. The seeds of this dramatic transformation were planted when the United...
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Federal Judicial Roundtable: Getting to Know Judges Kelley, Guzman, and Joun
Interviewed by Elizabeth Gardon The Boston Bar Journal held a roundtable discussion with three recent additions to the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts: Judges Margaret R. Guzman, Angel Kelley, and...
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Lessons to be Learned from the First Cases of Discipline of Prosecutors for...
By David M. Siegel Systemic failures are opportunities to learn rather than anomalies to ignore. On August 31, 2023, the Supreme Judicial Court (“SJC”) upheld the first bar discipline ever imposed on...
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Supervisory Liability After Foster: Tips for Public and Private Lawyers
By Jessica Gray Kelly and Katherine Chenail In Matter of Foster, 492 Mass. 724 (2023), (“Foster”) the Supreme Judicial Court (“SJC”) imposed professional discipline on three Assistant Attorneys...
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From Lab Scandals to Police Scandals: Lessons in Resolving Government...
By Matthew Segal and Jessica Lewis Just over a decade ago, the arrests of two state chemists who helped prosecute thousands of people for drug crimes—Annie Dookhan and Sonja Farak—rocked the...
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