Product Description

Judge Paul A. Chernoff valued his role as a teacher. Every year he would spend a week teaching new lawyers the skills they would need in the courtroom during MCLE’s Trial Advocacy Workshop. In his memory, we have put together a program that focuses on a part of that training: the opening and closing arguments.

Leaders in the field will demonstrate opening and closing arguments in a civil and criminal case, while our panel of experts critique their arguments and offer suggestions for everyone watching to improve their opening statements and closing arguments.

In-person attendees are invited to join us for a post-program reception to speak to our presenters and critiquers one-on-one and remember our friend, Judge Paul Chernoff. 

**All proceeds from this program will go to the Hon. Paul A. Chernoff Scholarship Fund.**

https://www.mcle.org/give/fund/bio/chernoff

Agenda & Materials

• 9:30am - 9:35am

  Welcome from Co-Chairs
• 3:40pm - 4:00pm

  Critique of the Statements

  Nicholas D. Stellakis, Esq., Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP , Boston
  Payal Salsburg, Esq., Laredo & Smith LLP , Boston
  
• 9:35am - 10:40am

  Civil Law Panel

  Hon. Gabrielle R. Wolohojian,
  Hon. Elizabeth N. Dewar, Supreme Judicial Court, Commonwealth of Massachusetts , Boston
  Jessica Early, Esq., Holland & Knight LLP , Boston
  
• 4:00pm - 5:00pm

  Reception for In-Person Attendees

  Hon. Gregory I. Massing, Appeals Court, Commonwealth of Massachusetts , Boston
  Hon. Kathryn E. Hand, Appeals Court, Commonwealth of Massachusetts , Boston
  Kevin J. Powers, Esq., Law Office of Kevin J. Powers , Mansfield
  Matthew A. Kane, Esq., Laredo & Smith LLP , Boston
  
• 10:40am - 11:50am

  Criminal Law Panel

  Hon. Marguerite T. Grant, Appeals Court, Commonwealth of Massachusetts , Boston
  Nancy A. Dolberg, Esq., Committee for Public Counsel Services , Boston
  Elisabeth Martino, Esq., Suffolk District Attorney's Office, Legal Counsel, Commonwealth of Massachusetts , Boston
  Gabriel Thornton, Esq., Office of the Attorney General, Criminal Bureau/Appeals Division , Boston
  Anastasia A. Dubrovsky, Esq., U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit , Boston
  Maura S. Doyle, Esq., Supreme Judicial Court, Commonwealth of Massachusetts , Boston
  Maura A. Looney, Esq. , Supreme Judicial Court , Boston
  Paul Tuttle, Esq., Appeals Court, Commonwealth of Massachusetts , Boston
  Nicholas D. Stellakis, Esq., Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP , Boston
  
• 11:50am - 12:35pm

  Lunch
• 11:50am - 12:35pm

  Lunch
• 12:35pm - 1:20pm

  Q&A with Massachusetts Newest Appellate Judges

  Hon. Seth Robert Aframe, , Boston
  Hon. Robert E. Toone, Jr., Appeals Court, Commonwealth of Massachusetts , Boston
  Payal Salsburg, Esq., Laredo & Smith LLP , Boston
  
• 1:20pm - 2:30pm

  Overview of Recent Appellate Rule Changes

  Hon. Gabrielle R. Wolohojian,
  Hon. Elizabeth N. Dewar, Supreme Judicial Court, Commonwealth of Massachusetts , Boston
  Jessica Early, Esq., Holland & Knight LLP , Boston
  
• 2:30pm - 3:30pm

  Catching up with the Clerks

  Anastasia A. Dubrovsky, Esq., U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit , Boston
  Maura S. Doyle, Esq., Supreme Judicial Court, Commonwealth of Massachusetts , Boston
  Maura A. Looney, Esq. , Supreme Judicial Court , Boston
  Paul Tuttle, Esq., Appeals Court, Commonwealth of Massachusetts , Boston
  Nicholas D. Stellakis, Esq., Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP , Boston
  

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