马萨诸塞州律师协会荣誉波士顿大学法学院，校友，学生
詹姆斯·范布伦（75届）、弗朗西斯·莫里西（94届）和马里奥·帕雷德斯（18届）被选为MBA年度晚宴的获奖者。
4月24日，马萨诸塞州律师协会（MBA）在其年度晚宴上表彰了波士顿大学法学院的三位成员。 弗朗西斯·莫 (’94), a lecturer in BU Law’s 银行与金融法法学硕士, was presented with the 2018 President’s Award; 马里奥·帕雷德斯（18届）被选为奥利弗·温德尔·霍姆斯奖学金获得者； 詹姆斯·范布伦（James Van Buren， 1975年毕业）被授予公益律师奖，这是该组织颁发的“诉诸司法奖”之一。
弗朗西斯·莫 他是Morrissey， Wilson， & Zafiropoulos LLP的合伙人，在那里他专注于商业诉讼，破产和不良收购和资产剥离领域的业务。 他在银行与金融法项目的法学硕士课程中教授破产法和债权人权利课程。 The MBA President’s Award honors “individuals who have made a significant contribution to the work of the MBA, to the preservation of MBA values, to the success of MBA initiatives, and to the promotion of the MBA leadership role within the legal community of Massachusetts,” 根据该组织的公告. Morrissey was recognized for his work with the MBA’s recently launched Student Loan Bankruptcy Assistance Project, which connects borrowers in distress with attorneys and law firms that will provide 公益性服务 representation in bankruptcy proceedings.
根据MBA在美国，奥利弗·温德尔·霍姆斯奖学金的获得者是从马萨诸塞州法学院三年级的学生中挑选出来的，这些学生“毕业后致力于为弱势个人/社区提供法律援助”。” 马里奥裴瑞兹 has advocated for immigrants’ rights and criminal justice reform since before joining the BU Law community. 作为一名学生，他参加了移民权利和人口贩运项目，专注于移民权利的实地工作，并帮助洛根机场受特朗普总统禁止大多数穆斯林国家旅行者的行政命令影响的人们。 He 获得奖学金 from the Rappaport Center for Law and Public Policy to support a summer position with the Office of Massachusetts State Senator Will Brownsberger and has volunteered for Spring Break 公益性服务 Service Trips with the South Texas 公益性服务 Asylum Representation Project in Harlingen, Texas, and the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Southeast Immigrant Freedom Initiative in Jena, Louisiana. He serves on the board of Centro Presente, a nonprofit group that advocates for Latin American immigrant communities in Massachusetts, and was named to 世界报》‘s “Latino 30 under 30” list in 2016.
MBA指出，司法公正奖颁发给“致力于帮助他人和提高法律职业水平的律师和律师事务所”。 詹姆斯·t·范布伦他在马萨诸塞州的菲奇堡拥有并管理着自己的公司，是获得这些奖项的六名律师和一家律师事务所之一。 The MBA 指出, Van Buren has dedicated “thousands of 公益性服务 hours to individual clients and community groups, and to advance systemic change as a member of the MBA’s Access to Justice Section Council and the SJC’s Access to Justice Commission.”
波士顿大学法学院祝贺范布伦、莫里西和帕雷德斯获得这一当之无愧的认可！
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