FEDERAL COURT BENCH/BAR FORUM October 24, 2001
Drawing a large audience, the BBA Litigation Section and the Administration of Justice Section co-sponsored a Federal Court Bench/Bar Forum on October 24, 2001. The Judges reported to and received comments from the Bar on a number of ongoing and upcoming projects and issues.
(Caption)Pictured at the event are: (L-R, front row) Magistrate Judge Robert B. Collings; District Judge George A. O'Toole, Jr.; Chief Judge William G. Young; District Judge Mark L. Wolf (seated); District Judge Reginald C. Lindsay (seated); (L-R, back row) Magistrate Judge Lawrence P. Cohen; BBA Administration of Justice Section Co-chair Richard M. Zielinski, Esq. of Hill & Barlow, P.C.; District Judge Douglas P. Woodlock; Senior District Judge A. David Mazzone; Magistrate Judge Judith G. Dein and BBA Litigation Section Co-chair Deborah S. Birnbach, Esq. of Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault, LLP.
There she is folks - the short swarthy one second from the right. A picture is worth a thousand words, but here's a few more words, from an April 2000 press release by the law firm Kirkpatrick & Lockhart LLP, announcing the departure of Judith Gail Dein, who is leaving the practice for a position on the bench.
Boston - Judith Gail Dein, a partner in the litigation department of the Boston office of Kirkpatrick & Lockhart LLP ("K&L") has been appointed a U.S. magistrate judge in the District of Massachusetts, Chief U.S. District Judge William G. Young announced. Dein, 44, fills a vacancy left by the death of U.S. Magistrate Judge Zachary R. Karol in September. It is expected that the approval process will take two to three months and that Dein will be sworn into her new post promptly after the process is completed.Dein concentrates her practice in general commercial and employment litigation. She has extensive experience in managing and litigating complex civil matters in state and federal trial and appellate courts, as well as before agencies and arbitrators.
Dein serves as a lecturer for Continuing Legal Education seminars, principally in the areas of trial practice and employment law. She also serves as a faculty member for trial practice courses given both to practicing attorneys as well as law students.
Dein graduated from Union College summa cum laude and Boston College Law School cum laude, where she was editor-in-chief of the Environmental Affairs Law Review. She was admitted to the Massachusetts bar in December of 1979. Dein served as Law Clerk to the Honorable Robert Braucher, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, and as a Law Clerk to the Justices of the Massachusetts Supreme Court before joining Hale and Dorr's litigation department. In 1989, Dein joined Warner & Stackpole LLP, which recently merged with K&L.
Dein is a member of American, Massachusetts, and Boston Bar Associations as well as the Women's Bar Association and the Massachusetts Association of Women Lawyers. She is a Fellow of the Massachusetts Bar Foundation and a member of the Supreme Judicial Court Clerk's Committee on Professional Responsibility. Dein also serves on the Board of Directors of the Children's Law Center of Massachusetts, Inc.
There's the capsule bio. May I note a few relevant points? A not-particularly-successful lawyer leaves for a magistrate position. The salary, while generously funded by the taxpayers, is low by the standards of northeastern legal hotshots. While a law student, she edited the Environmental Affairs Law Review. The translation, as a previous poster noted: enviro-nazi. She is also a member of the Massachusetts Association of Women Lawyers. Translation: feminist and pro-lesbian, if not necessarily actively so. She is also a director of the Children's Law Center of Massachusetts. Translation: anti-family, anti-parent, anti-religious, working steadily to reduce the authority of parents and make children available for exploitation.
In other circumstances, I might have sympathy for the wife of one of these perverts. Not this time.