Social Law Closing at 6PM on Friday, October 9th - Closed Monday, October 12th

Social Law will be closing at 6PM on Friday, October 9th and will be closed on Monday, October 12th. We will reopen at 8AM on Tuesday, October 13th. Read Full Article

Supreme Judicial Court Announces Uniform Bar Examination Advisory Committee

The Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court have appointed eighteen members and two co-chairs from the Court to the newly created Committee to Examine the Uniform Bar Examination, whose charge will be to make recommendations to the Court as to whether Massachusetts should consider joining the group of states that has adopted the Uniform Bar Examination (UBE). . . Read Full Article

Governor Charles D. Baker Administers Ceremonial Oath of Office to The Honorable Scott L. Kafker of the Massachusetts Appeals Court

On October 5th Governor Charles D. Baker administered the ceremonial Oath of Office to the Honorable Scott L. Kafker, the sixth Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Appeals Court, before an assembly of several hundred people in the Great Hall of the John Adams Courthouse. Read Full Article

On 10/22 - Old Whiskey and Young Women: American True Crime Tales of Murder, Sex and Scandal

Hon. R. Marc Kantrowitz’s riveting book retells some of the most notorious court cases in American history—cases that titillated, if not repulsed, the entire nation when they first occurred but are today nearly totally forgotten. . . Read Full Article

Honorable Scott L. Kafker to be Sworn In as Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Appeals Court

On October 5, Governor Charles D. Baker will deliver a ceremonial administration of the Oath of Office swearing in the Honorable Scott L. Kafker as the sixth Chief Justice of theMassachusetts Appeals Court. The ceremony will be held in the Great Hall of the John Adams Courthouse. Read Full Article