On December 30, 2014 the MBLA will host "A Kwanzaa Celebration: Check Your Purse". Our event will celebrate the principles of Kwanzaa and provide an opportunity to donate items for a great cause. Dress for Success is a non-profit organization that promotes economic independence by providing women with professional attire and career development strategies. In support of Dress for Success, we are asking attendees to donate a new or used women's handbag or a check made payable to Dress for Success. Where: Savvor Restaurant and Lounge 180 Lincoln Street, Boston, MA When: December 30, 2014

Collaborating With Clergy To Disseminate Information On Legal Issues Impacting Congregations of Color  Our session [...]

Please join us for the second session of this year's MBLA Rainmakers' Roundtables - Build Your Network: Mastering Strategic Networking. WHEN: January 10, 2015 9 am - 2 pm WHERE: Renaissance Boston Waterfront Hotel 606 Congress Street Boston, MA 02210

Please join us for the second session of this year's MBLA Rainmakers' Roundtables - Build Your Network: Mastering Strategic Networking. WHEN: January 10, 2015 9 am - 2 pm WHERE: Renaissance Boston Waterfront Hotel 606 Congress Street Boston, MA 02210

MBLA Academy: New Lawyer Training on Written and Oral Advocacy The MBLA academy invites new lawyers (in their first five years of practice) to participate in a training on written and oral advocacy. Thirty participants will draft a short motion based on a fact pattern presented by the MBLA. The participants will receive individual feedback on their motions, attend a panel discussion on oral advocacy and argue their motions before currently-sitting judges. Sign up soon in order to be included in the small group of thirty participants. Where: Wasserstein Hall Harvard Law School 1585 Massachusetts Ave Cambridge, MA 02138 When: January 24, 2015 9:30 am to 12:30 pm

On Thursday, January 29, 2015 the Massachusetts Black Lawyers Association [...]

Please join the Massachusetts Black Lawyers Association and Massachusetts Black Judges Conference as they present "A Celebration of Excellence" featuring honoree and keynote speaker Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice Roderick L. Ireland (retired). When: Thursday February 5, 2015 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM EST Where: John Adams Courthouse One Pemberton Square Mezzanine Level Boston, MA

Please join the Massachusetts Black Lawyers Association and Massachusetts Black Judges Conference as they present "A Celebration of Excellence" featuring honoree and keynote speaker Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice Roderick L. Ireland (retired). When: Thursday February 5, 2015 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM EST Where: John Adams Courthouse One Pemberton Square Mezzanine Level Boston, MA

On Saturday, July 19th, 2014, the MBLA hosted the Student Summer BBQ at [...]

On September 22nd the FBA Mass. Chapter will sponsor a Welcome Reception honoring the newly appointed judges of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts.