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01/07/2008
Awards, Recognitions, Appointments, Elections…
Congratulations to all on their achievements!
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Manisha Bhatt, Jason Corral, Maritza Gomez, Priscilla
Gomez, Monica Halas, Nancy Kelly, Anne Mackin, Maria
Mendonca-Constanzo, Mithra Merryman, Carla Moniz, Ingrid
Nava, Eleanor Newhoff, Anh Nguyen, Armando Ramos, Martha
Ramos, Marguerite Reczycki, Jane Rocamora, Hema
Sarangapani, Ilene Solomon, Jerry Tisme, Ellen VanScoyoc;
Jerry Wall; John Willshire-Carrera; Sandy Yeung (for work
on New Bedford immigrant worker cases): Daniel
Levy Award, National Immigration Project
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Manisha
Bhatt: Member of the Year 2007 and Board Member
of the Year 2007, South Asian Bar Association of Greater
Boston; appointed to Boston Bar Journal Board of
Editors for the next 3 years
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Manisha
Bhatt and Kelly Leighton: 2007 Family Law
“Rising Stars”, Boston Magazine and Super Lawyers Magazine
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Nadine
Cohen, Nancy Kelly, and Pauline Quirion: Super
Lawyers 2007, Law & Politics and Boston Magazine
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Sherley
Cruz: Public Interest Leader, Boston Bar Association
2007 Public Interest Leadership Program; Access to Justice
Fellow; elected Secretary of Massachusetts Association of
Hispanic Attorneys
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Joanne
Daniels-Finegold (GBLS Board member): Marie
Feltin Award, Boston Center for Independent Living
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Mercer
Edwards: GBLS Dow-Gardiner-Landrum Award
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GBLS: Honored by Organization Maya K’iche
(a New Bedford, MA community organization), for our
support of the Michael Bianco, Jr. factory workers
detained in the ICE raid in March 2007; Organization Advocacy Award, for our
“outstanding advocacy efforts in making the MBTA
accessible to all persons with disabilities within our
Commonwealth”, Massachusetts Statewide Independent Living
Council; Marie Siraco Community Activism Award along with
CLSACC, for our “tireless commitment to supporting
survivors of domestic violence by providing free, civil
legal services to low-income women, including many RESPOND
program participants and their children”, RESPOND
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Todd
Kaplan: Margot P. Kosberg award, Cambridge Human
Rights Commission
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Nancy
Kelly: Lelia J. Robinson Award, Women’s Bar
Association
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Nancy
Kelly and John Willshire-Carrera: 2007
Lawyers of the Year, Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly; Mangeca
Fanhangel Community Award, Brazilian Women’s Group award
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Zenobia
Lai: 2007 Community Unsung Heroine, Massachusetts
Commission on the Status of Women
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Kelly
Leighton: re-appointed as member of the Boston Bar
Association Family Law Section Steering Committee
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Melanie
Malherbe, Jay Rose, and Margaret Turner: received a
GBLS Milestone Award for their twenty years of service to
GBLS
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Dan
Manning: 2006 Lawyer of the Year, Massachusetts
Lawyers Weekly
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Cyndi
Mark: 2007 YMCA Academy of Women Achievers member;
Access to Justice Fellow
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Jeff
Purcell: GBLS Dow-Gardiner-Landrum Award
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Pauline
Quirion: Community Service Award, Massachusetts Bar
Association; appointed as commissioner by the Governor to
the Judicial Nominating Commission; re-appointed Delegate
in the Massachusetts Bar Association House of Delegates;
re-appointed Co-Chair of Women’s Bar Association Rosa
Parks Committee
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Audrey
Richardson: Outstanding Workers' Rights Lawyer award,
Brazilian Immigrant
Center
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Bob
Sable: Legal Services Award, Massachusetts Bar
Association
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Jane G.
Smith (GBLS volunteer): Southgate Volunteer
Award
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Elizabeth Toulan: Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Civic
Engagement, Survivors Inc
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Stephen
Young (GBLS Board member): GBLS
Dow-Gardiner-Landrum Award
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Barbara Zimbel:
Lawyer
Award for outstanding
achievement,
Massachusetts Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild;
re-appointed Co-Chair of Women’s Bar Association
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