Massachusetts Appleseed Center for Law and Justice presents

Massachusetts Appleseed Center for
Law and Justice presents
march 19
2009
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The Hamilton-Garrett
Music and Arts Academy
The Hamilton-Garrett Music and Arts Academy (HGMAA) is
The Good Apple Reception
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Co-Chairs
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Boston Harbor Hotel
part of the Charles Street AME Roxbury Renaissance Center,
which is committed to building a better community. It is an after-school music academy serving children grades 3-12. While
HGMAA teaches students music theory, music history, and
appreciation of Black cultural music, it is primarily a cultural
development program that challenges and equips young people to use the powerful medium of music to transform lives,
redefine ethnic identity, and build community cohesion.
Koriana Lewis is the HGMAA Program Director. She is a recent
graduate of Berklee College of Music where she received a full
four-year scholarship as a vocal principal, and majored in Music Education and Music Business Management. In addition to
her position as the Program Director of HGMAA, Koriana was
a teacher in the Boston Public Schools and she is currently the
Director of Music for the Historic Charles Street AME Church.
John J. Curtin
Bingham McCutchen LLP
Regina M. Pisa
Goodwin Procter LLP
Thomas J. Dougherty
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher
& Flom LLP
R. Robert Popeo
Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris,
Glovsky & Popeo PC
Peter Gelhaar
Donnelly, Conroy &
Gelhaar LLP
A. Hugh Scott
Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP
Daniel W. Halston
WilmerHale
Michael B. Keating
Foley Hoag LLP
William Lee
WilmerHale
Michael J. Tuteur
Foley & Lardner LLP
William F. Weld
McDermott Will & Emery LLP
Master of Ceremonies
Honoree
President, Massachusetts Appleseed
Coast and Harbor Associates, Inc.
Senior Vice-President and General Counsel
General Electric Company
Claude G. Lancome
Brackett B. Denniston III
Award Presentation
Closing Remarks
McDermott Will & Emery LLP
Executive Director
Massachusetts Appleseed
William F. Weld
A. Hugh Scott
Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP
Joan Meschino
Entertainment
The Hamilton-Garrett
Music and Arts Academy
Sponsors
Biographies
Event Underwriter
General Electric Company
Platinum Level
Bingham McCutchen LLP
Donnelly, Conroy & Gelhaar LLP
Foley & Lardner LLP
Goodwin Procter LLP
Hogan & Hartson LLP
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
WilmerHale
Gold Level
Chadbourne & Parke LLP
Silver Level
Dwyer & Collora LLP
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
GTC Law Group
Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky
& Popeo PC
Silver Level
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Robinson & Cole LLP
Rubin and Rudman LLP
Sidley Austin Foundation
Bronze Level
Arnold & Porter LLP
Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP
Coast and Harbor Associates, Inc.
Foley Hoag LLP
King & Spalding LLP
Liberty Mutual Group
Sullivan & Worcester LLP
Wainwright Bank & Trust Company
Donations
New England School of Law
Master of Ceremonies
Claude G. Lancome
Executive Director of Massachusetts Appleseed
Joan Meschino
Claude Lancome is Executive Vice President, Principal and Corporate
Joan Meschino is the Executive Director for the Massachusetts
Counsel of Coast and Harbor Associates, a firm specializing in design and
Appleseed Center for Law and Justice. Ms. Meschino is an experi-
construction management for public, private, and non-profit owners.
enced health law attorney who is licensed to practice law in
Mr. Lancome has over thirty years experience in managing design and
Massachusetts and Texas. Ms. Meschino is a leader in the legal com-
construction projects with an aggregate of $5,000,000,000 in value. He is
munity as well as in her local community. She has served with both
an expert on Massachusetts construction law and has authored numerous
the Massachusetts Bar Association and the Women’s Bar Association.
manuals for the Massachusetts Inspector General’s Office.
She is currently serving her second term on the Board of Selectman in
Mr. Lancome is certified as a Construction Arbitrator and Construction
the Town of Hull. Ms. Meschino received her JD from Pierce Law in
Mediator for the American Arbitration Association. He is active in the
Concord, New Hampshire, and her undergraduate degree from
Massachusetts legal community, serves on the boards of numerous volun-
Harvard University.
teer organizations and is the President of Massachusetts Appleseed. Mr.
Lancome is a graduate of Earlham College and Harvard Law School.
Biographies
Brackett B. Denniston III is senior vice president and general counsel of GE, a role he has held since 2004.
William F. Weld is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP based in the Firm’s New
York office. He focuses his practice in the areas of government strategies,
corporate investigations and compliance and general business advice, particularly in the
financial area.
Mr. Weld joined McDermott in 1997 after serving as governor of Massachusetts, where he was elected in
1990 and re-elected in 1994. In office he was credited with improving the business climate in the state by
reducing taxes and regulations on businesses. He served as national co-chair of the Privatization Council
and led business and trade missions to many countries in Asia, Europe and Latin America.
Prior to his election as governor, Mr. Weld was a federal prosecutor for seven years, serving
as the Assistant U.S. Attorney General in charge of the Criminal Division of the Justice
Department in Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts during the Reagan administration. He was also a commercial litigator in Boston for a dozen years.
Special Guest
William F. Weld
Senior McDermott Will
& Emery LLP
Earlier in his career, Mr. Weld served in Washington as a staff member for both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate.
Mr. Weld is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and serves by appointment of the President as
a member of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council.
Mr. Weld is admitted to practice in Massachusetts and New York.
Responsible for the GE legal organization worldwide and for all GE legal operations, Mr. Denniston
reports directly to GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt. He is a member of GE’s Corporate Executive Council and GE
Capital’s Board of Directors. He is also chair of the company’s Policy Compliance Review Board.
Mr. Denniston joined GE as vice president and senior counsel for Litigation and Legal Policy
in September 1996.
From 1993 to 1996 Mr. Denniston served as chief legal counsel to Massachusetts Governor William F.
Weld. His responsibilities included judicial selection, litigation, criminal justice issues and legislation.
Mr. Denniston was an associate and later a partner at Goodwin, Procter and Hoar in Boston, where he specialized in complex civil litigation, securities matters and white-collar crime. He represented parties in
cases involving insider trading, pharmaceutical prosecutions, securities fraud and banking cases. He was a
member of the firm’s Executive Committee and numerous other firm committees.
From 1982 to 1986 Mr. Denniston served in the U.S. Attorney’s Office as Chief of the Major Frauds Unit,
where he was responsible for white-collar crime prosecutions. A member of the Attorney General’s White
Collar Crime Operations Committee, he was awarded the Director’s Award for Superior Performance by
the Department of Justice for his role in more than 100 successful prosecutions.
Mr. Denniston served as a law clerk to the Honorable Herbert Y. Choy of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in 1973-74. He is a summa cum laude graduate of Kenyon College and a magna
cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review.
Active in civic and charitable pursuits, Mr. Denniston is a trustee and secretary of Kenyon College, a
former chair of the Zoning Board of Appeals of Duxbury, Massachusetts, a chair and trustee of the New
England Legal Foundation, and a member of the Board of the American Arbitration Association and the
Pro Bono Partnership.
Mr. Denniston and his wife Kathleen have three children, Alexandra, Brackett and Elizabeth.
Honoree
Brackett B. Denniston III
Senior Vice President and
General Counsel of General Electric
Board of Directors
Board of Advisors
Claude G. Lancome, President
Coast and Harbor Associates, Inc.
Amy M. Karp
Committee for Public Counsel Services
Herbert P. Gleason, Chair
Law Office of Herbert P. Gleason
Carolyn Crowley, Vice President
Wainwright Bank & Trust Company
Mary Beth Keiller
Eduventures, Inc.
Daniel J. Gleason
Nutter, McClennen & Fish LLP
Lawrence Friedman, Vice President
New England School of Law
Mela Lew
Darlington Hicks
Martha Mazzone
Fidelity Investments
Patricia R. Hurley
Fidelity Investments
Allison K. Romantz
Morgan, Brown & Joy LLP
Paul Johan Jean
GTC Law Group LLP
A. Hugh Scott
Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP
Michael B. Keating
Foley Hoag LLP
Nancy Sterling
ML Strategies
Renee Landers
Suffolk University Law School
Sarah Wellings
Sullivan & Worcester LLP
Cheron P. Morris
Shaw’s Supermarkets, Inc.
James P. Whitters
John J. Roddy
Roddy, Klein & Ryan
Simon D. Platt, Treasurer
StoneTurn Group LLP
Carla Moynihan, Past President
Robinson & Cole LLP
Warren H. Bacon
The Initiative for a New Economy, Inc.
Pamela E. Berman
Adler, Pollock & Sheehan PC
Michael A. Collora
Dwyer & Collora LLP
John J. Curtin, Jr.
Bingham McCutchen LLP
Kristen Graves
Committee for Public Counsel Services
Daniel W. Halston
WilmerHale
Jane E. Willis
Ropes & Gray LLP
Robert S. Steinberg
Kronos Corp.
Massachusetts Appleseed in Action
The Massachusetts Appleseed Center for Law and Justice is one of sixteen public interest law centers
that educators face. Our hope is to identify those resources and frameworks which will support
nationwide in the Appleseed pro bono justice center network. Appleseed advocates for structural reform
a climate that engages students and teachers to foster learning and keep kids in class.
in such areas as education, immigrant rights and financial access. Working collaboratively, Massachusetts
Appleseed identifies significant local community issues and strives using its resources and expertise to develop long lasting solutions at the local level. Our multidisciplinary approach promotes consensus building
and community problem solving.
Massachusetts Appleseed is collaborating with other thought-leaders and stakeholders in
the educational community to identify areas for systemic reform and to propose regulatory
initiatives. Most recently, we participated in drafting “An Act to Help Students Stay in School,”
which was just filed with the Massachusetts Legislature in January 2009. This Act creates fair
Keep Kids In Class: Breaking the School to Prison Pipeline
procedures and clear standards around school discipline, which we anticipate will reduce the
Massachusetts Appleseed is examining the intersection of school discipline, zero tolerance and youth
high rates of exclusions in public schools. In February 2009, Massachusetts Appleseed issued
entering the juvenile justice system. Through this signature project, Massachusetts Appleseed seeks to
an executive summary of its project entitled, “Who Let the Kids Out?” It is the first in a series of
mitigate the effects of elementary and secondary school disciplinary proceedings on the increasing rates of
white papers that will document the development and success of this long-term initiative. For
drop-outs and juvenile delinquency. School discipline issues occur across a continuum. Our project work is
the full text, please visit our website at www.massappleseed.org.
focused on the two ends of the School-to-Prison Pipeline spectrum: the educational community and
the juvenile justice system.
Massachusetts Appleseed’s mission is to use the law to bring about positive change,
Work with the Judiciary. Massachusetts Appleseed seeks to tap into the experience of the juvenile court
building a society that provides each individual access to justice and a genuine opportunity
judges to gain insight into potential strategies to address the needs of this population of students. Massachusetts Appleseed is currently developing a survey for juvenile court judges to better understand the
to lead a full and productive life. Appleseed’s name reflects the intent of its founders to “plant
a seed from which a public service activity involving lawyers, young and old, can grow and
dynamics and effects of school discipline policies on the juvenile justice system and vice versa.
develop across the country.” Massachusetts Appleseed admires and honors Brackett Denniston
Work with Educators and other Stakeholders. Ultimately, Massachusetts Appleseed intends to work with
the very best of our legal community and serves as an inspiration for us all. Brackett is,
educators and other stakeholders to identify educational approaches that will better address the challenges
for his constant commitment to public service, fairness and social justice. He represents
in short, a “Good Apple.”
Massachusetts
Appleseed Staff
Joan Meschino
Executive Director
Sandra M. Carter
Research & Policy Associate
Sridhar Prasad
Harvard Business School
Board Fellow
Tiera Brown
Harvard Business School
Board Fellow
Appleseed Foundation
National
Appleseed Staff
Betsy Cavendish
Executive Director
Jennifer Ching
Director, New York Office
Annette LoVoi
Field Director
Allison Berger Tiller
Gulf Coast Program Director
Edwin C. Darden
Director of Education Policy
Eric Gutierrez
Immigration Policy Director
Erica Henry
Development Director
Jeremy Cook
Communications Associate
Appleseed’s National Office supports and connects sixteen Appleseed Centers nationwide, providing
assistance and recruiting leadership to establish new Appleseed Centers. The National Office organizes Appleseed Centers around national collaborative projects in its core issue areas of education, financial access,
and immigrant rights. The National Appleseed Office helps promote Appleseed Center work; serves as a
clearinghouse for network projects; and provides training and technical assistance, particularly in the areas
of communications and development.
Appleseed in Action
Financial Access: National Appleseed is committed to helping underrepresented communities enter the
financial mainstream, pursuing both market-based and policy solutions. The National Office released two
comprehensive reports in early 2009. The first calls for improved pricing transparency by remittance
service providers. The second report identifies unfair, exclusionary practices that result from the use of
traditional credit histories in nontraditional areas (e.g. housing, utilities, insurance, and employment),
and proposes the adoption of alternative scoring models to help “thin credit” consumers build and protect
financial assets.
Immigrant Rights: Appleseed works to ensure that immigrants are well served by their communities and
afforded the rights and opportunities they need to become full and productive participants in American
society.
Education: Anchoring the No Child Left Behind Act is the simple premise that parent involvement in a
child’s education is vital to boosting academic achievement. As such, Appleseed has launched an ambitious
examination of parent involvement policies in public school systems across the country—in North Carolina
and New Mexico specifically—and has issued a number of recommendations to bolster the performance
both of schools and the students they serve.
Thank You Goodwin Procter
We extend our sincere gratitude to the attorneys at Goodwin Procter,
whose talents, commitment and dedication to pro bono work have greatly
increased Massachusetts Appleseed’s efficacy. You have enhanced the
“Keep Kids In Class” project in ways we never imagined. We appreciate
your willingness to accommodate our needs into your already busy
schedules with enthusiasm and grace.
To James W. McGarry, Don M. Kennedy, Beth A. Norton, Catalina E. Azuero,
and Goodwin Procter’s pro bono coordinator, Carolyn Rosenthal,
we say a heartfelt thank you!
We look forward to our continued collaboration in the future.
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Massachusetts Appleseed Center for Law & Justice
Joan Meschino
Executive Director
8 Winter Street, Ste. 402
Boston, MA 02108
tel. 617-482-8686 | fax. 617-482-9111
www.massappleseed.org