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Transform Connect Achieve WelcomeEngage Lead Educate Communicate Motivate Support Inspire Dream Explore Create Refl ect BOSTON COLLEGE LAW Welcome to Your New Alumni Association Henry Ford said “Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” Last year our alumni came together to reorganize their Association to better serve the needs of our growing and diversifying alumni body. The structure is in place. Now we need your help to make it a success. The Alumni Board is working tirelessly to refi ne old programs and develop new ones that will make your experience as alumni more rewarding. I encourage each of you to get involved as a volunteer by contacting the board member assigned to any area that interests you. BC LawNet, our new online community designed exclusively for BC Law alumni, is central to our efforts. But its success is contingent upon everyone registering and completing the Alumni Directory listing. The punch-out card and instructions on the back of this brochure provide you with all the informa- Christine A. Kelly tion you need to do so. Class of ’97 Welcome to your new Alumni Association! Please consider Assistant Dean Alumni Relations becoming more involved in any way you can. As Mr. Ford said, we need to work together to make it a success. Email: [email protected] 617-552-4703 Best wishes, BOSTON COLLEGE LAW PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE: Coming Home Transform • Connect • Achieve • Engage • Lead • Educate • Communicate I recently attended several BC Law alumni events. Conversations were vibrant and full. Friends, new and old, listened with pride and concern about others’ situations. Cards and emails were exchanged, senior memories shared, youthful ambitions offered. The experiences felt like coming home. There’s something special about these exchanges that transcend simply the shared experience of having attend- ed BC Law. It is the type of people our School attracts that makes reconnection among us so full of meaning. No matter the topic discussed or the situation, there is no pretense or pretext. It is something of a renewal, an opportunity to recapture community and be comfortable with members of our extended family. Our new Board structure, and our online commu- nity BC LawNet, will allow us to reach out like never before to all who have passed through BC Law’s doors. John D. Hanify I’m proud to lead this effort. Come home to BC Law Class of ’74 through our alumni activities. This is a good time to be in a place with old friends, or, even better, new friends President Alumni Board who feel like old ones. Sincerely, BC LAWNET Motivate • SupportConnect • Inspire • Dream • Explore • Create • Refl ect Make The Connection Want a paperless way to stay connected? BC Law’s new alumni online community allows our graduates to connect like never before. But please, don’t take our word for it. Join now and experience some of the exciting features for yourself! Check the back cover for your ID card, Eagle ID number and instructions on how to register. Alumni Directory Career Resources My Profile Event Registration Class Notes www.bc.edu/lawnet REGISTER FOR BC LAWNET BY FEBRUARY 28, 2009 Chapter Webpages and you’ll be eligible to win an iPod Touch! Yellow Pages BOSTON COLLEGE LAW ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Transform • Connect • Achieve • Engage • Lead • Educate • Communicate Alumni Association groups and is charged with managing volunteers and working in partnership with the Law School staff. Every one of our nearly 12,000 alumni are members of our Alumni Association, and we welcome students into the Association during their second Departments year in order to smooth their transition from A meaningful volunteer effort can be achieved when students to alumni. the interests of our alumni intersect with the needs of the Law School. Each member of the new Board is Board of Directors paired with a School administrator, so they can ensure that the Association and the School are working in The Board of Directors is the executive body of the concert. Association. The Board is empowered to play an active role in alumni programs and activities as well as at the Law School. Its job is to plan and manage Assembly the volunteer activity of the Association. The new Association will have an Assembly made up of active alumni from all sectors. The Assembly meets Successful organizations reach out to all different once a year at the Law School and will elect the new groups of alumni, including classmates, groups liv- members of the Board. The Assembly will provide ing in the same city, groups with common interests, many opportunities for alumni to reconnect with the and affi nity groups. They also include alumni community and get involved again with the School. interested in various aspects of the School’s Membership will include the School’s Board of business, such as admissions, career services, annual Overseers and Business Advisory Council, Class giving, and student programs. Agents, reunion committees, chapter leaders, shared interest groups, and the volunteers who work on the The Board includes an executive committee and 10 Board committees. It will also include student leaders board members, each of whom heads one of these and members of the administration of the Law School. Motivate • Support • Inspire Create• Dream • Explore • Create • Refl ect BOSTON COLLEGE LAW EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Transform • Connect • Achieve • Engage • Lead • Educate • Communicate Raising The Bar The Alumni Board is structured with a six-member Executive Committee (EC), which directs the activities of the Alumni Association. The EC helps set the agenda for the Alumni Board, the Assembly, and the entire Alumni Association. It includes the President, immediate Past President, John D. Hanify Hon. Denis P. Cohen President-elect, Vice-President, Secretary and President President-Elect Class of ’74 Class of ’76 Treasurer and is elected each year by a majority Boston, MA Philadelphia, PA vote of the Board. John D. Hanify is the Denis P. Cohen has The President is the chief executive offi cer of the co-founder of Hanify been a judge in the Alumni Association and presides over all meetings & King and currently Court of Common of the Assembly and the Board. The Secretary is directs the fi rm’s litiga- Pleas, First Judicial Dis- responsible for the minutes of the Assembly and tion practice. For over 35 trict of Pennsylvania, for Board meetings, while the Treasurer oversees the years, he has tried cases nearly a decade. Prior fi nancial aspects of the Alumni Association, and represented business to that he spent 25 years including its annual budgets. clients in state and fed- in the Philadelphia Dis- eral courts, before federal trict Attorney’s Offi ce In the next few pages, we’ll explain how the rest of and state agencies, and working as an Assistant the Board works, including interactions with Law in arbitration. District Attorney. School departments. Motivate • Support • Inspire • Dream • ExploreLead • Create • Refl ect H. Lamar Willis Martin S. Ebel Christopher D. Dillon Brian E. Falvey Vice-President Secretary Treasurer Past President Class of ’99 Class of ’94 Class of ’88 Class of ’97 Atlanta, GA Springfield, MA San Francisco, CA Boston, MA H. Lamar Willis was Marty Ebel has been a Chris Dillon is a Partner Brian Falvey works on elected in 2001 as Post 3 Commissioner at the at Union Square Advisors large business develop- At-Large Council Member Massachusetts Commis- LLC, a fi nancial and stra- ment deals in the Federal for the City of Atlanta, sion Against Discrimina- tegic advisory fi rm focusing Strategic Programs and is currently in his tion (MCAD) since 2006. on the technology sector. department at Dell Com- second term. He serves on Prior to joining the Prior to joining Union puter. After graduating the Public Safety Commit- MCAD, Marty worked Square Advisors, Chris led from BC Law, Brian was tee, Transportation Com- in private practice at sev- the Mergers & Acquisi- an associate at Sullivan mittee and the Commu- eral law fi rms while tions practice of Gunder- & Worcester, and also nity Development/Human specializing in the fi eld son Dettmer, a leading held several non-legal Resources Committee. of employment law. Silicon Valley law fi rm. corporate positions. BOSTON COLLEGE LAW STUDENT PROGRAMS Transform • Connect • Achieve • Engage • Lead • Educate • Communicate Our research tells us that if our Alumni Association forms a strong relationship with students early on, those students will be more likely to remain involved throughout their careers. The goal of the new structure is to help solidify those relationships from the fi rst day students walk through the Law School’s front doors. We strive to make all our alumni feel a connection with the Law School that will endure. The board member responsible for Student Programs connects students to the Association and its leaders, in order to help develop their awareness of alumni life after graduation. He works closely with the Law Student Association (LSA) and other student groups to identify different student needs and interests, which can then be fulfi lled by alumni involvement and personal contact.