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Professional Liability Chair Erin Higgins Quoted in Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly About New ABA Guidance on Avoiding Firm-wide Conflicts

Among other useful and practical suggestions, Higgins suggests “If somebody calls you out of the blue and wants to talk about a particular case, then you do have to put up the stop signs and say, ‘I’d really like to talk to you about this case. It sounds like something that’s in my wheelhouse. But I do have to run a conflicts check before I can talk to you.’”

Tom Gallitano Advances Mission of The Brookline Center

In his role as President of the Board of Directors at The Brookline Center for Community Mental Health—a board he has served for nearly nine years—Partner Tom Gallitano is shown here at the March 5 kickoff of “Women at the Center.”

Carol Starkey Appointed to IOLTA Committee

In a letter dated March 13, 2024, Chief Justice Kimberly S. Budd informed White Collar/Regulatory Practice Chair Carol Starkey that she has been appointed to a three-year term on the IOLTA Committee as a representative of the Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corporation.