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Giving Back To Boston's Youth:
BBA Summer Jobs Program
As Co-Chair of the Boston Bar Association's Summer Jobs Program Committee, David Rosenblatt spoke at the recent kick off event. The event was also featured on Neighborhood Network News on June 28, 2010. The BBA Summer Jobs Program is a promising tool for introducing young people of color to the legal profession and has been in existence for 17 years.
Everybody Wins! Metro Boston Reading Program
Everybody Wins! Metro Boston is a mentoring program in which adults read to elementary school children for about 40 minutes during lunch once per week. The Firm's participation has been attorneys and staff volunteer to read to students once a week from approximately October through mid-May.
Internship Program
In conjunction with the Boston Bar Association (BBA) and the Boston Private Industry Council (PIC), Burns & Levinson created a partnership with Brighton High School in 1998, focusing on the school's Law, Government & Public Services Pathway. This partnership provides the school's teachers, students and Burns & Levinson attorneys and paralegals, with the opportunity to work together to supplement and enhance the educational experience and to offer motivation for students to pursue careers in legal services-related fields. This partnership serves as a model for other firms seeking to establish an ongoing positive presence at a school. The firm provides practical experience to Brighton High students by inviting the students into the Burns & Levinson offices for internships and summer employment. A unique aspect to the program is our commitment to students throughout their latter years of high school - we generally hire students at the end of their sophomore year and they grow and learn with us through graduation, occasionally staying on after.
Attorneys Tiffany Howard, Elizabeth Crowley and David Rosenblatt with the students from the Stand Up for Your Rights Program. Photo credit: Gaul Porat
Discovering Justice / Stand Up for Your Rights Program
Founded in 1998 with the support of the federal judiciary and the Boston Bar Foundation, Discovering Justice is a recognized leader in civic education. They are dedicated to preparing young people to value the justice system, realize the power of their own voices, and embrace civic responsibility by connecting classrooms and courtrooms. Specifically, Burns & Levinson attorneys volunteer for the "Stand Up for Your Rights" program where they work with students and a teacher after school for approximately seven weeks, teaching them about the Bill of Rights and related Supreme Court cases. Over the course of the program, students prepare a mock appellate argument involving the Fourth Amendment to be presented in a real courtroom at the culmination of the program in the eighth week.
Burns & Levinson attorneys and City Year participants at the breakfast
City Year Legal Community Leadership Breakfast
On January 27, 2010, several Burns & Levinson LLP lawyers and staff attended the first-annual City Year Legal Community Leadership Breakfast. Burns and Levinson was also represented in the lawyers' committee involved in organizing this new event. City Year is an international organization with a strong reputation and the important mission of addressing the high school drop-out crisis. City Year's strategy involves engaging diverse young leaders as tutors, mentors and role models to work with the students to help them stay in school and on track. The breakfast was the first in a series of new City Year initiatives intended to involve the legal community in City Year activities, including programs being planned for lawyers to participate as mentors for the high-school students. City Year is setting up mentoring and training programs to further these efforts, and Burns & Levinson looks forward to continuing involvement with this organization.
Giving Back to the Community:
The Burns & Levinson 2010 Team
Lawyers Have Heart Road Race
On June 17, 2010 a team of Burns & Levinson attorneys and staff ran the Lawyers Have Heart road race to support the American Heart Association. Howard Susser was the lead fundraiser for the event.
The 2010 Burns & Levinson Walk to the Hill Team
Walk to the Hill for Civil Legal Aid
The fundraiser organized by the Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corporation assists in the longstanding and worsening shortage of civil legal aid in the Commonwealth. A group from Burns & Levinson LLP participated in the Walk to the Hill in support of Civil Legal Aid in February 2010. This year marks Burns & Levinson's eighth year of participation and support in the Walk to the Hill.
In 2006, the firm received an award from the Equal Justice Coalition for our participation 2006 Walk to the Hill for Civil Legal Aid.
Greater Boston Legal Services' Associates Drive
Every year Burns & Levinson LLP participates in the Greater Boston Legal Service's Associates Drive to raise money for the GBLS' Family Law Project. The GBLS Family Law Project helps over 2,700 clients from Boston and 31 surrounding towns by providing high quality legal services to clients to help them "achieve safety, stability and financial support, and through community work to empower clients and communities to have safe environments in which to live and raise children, free of poverty, violence and discrimination." (Quote taken from GBLS website)
Awards:
Massachusetts Bar Association President, Edward W. McIntyre; Brian D. Bixby, Partner, Burns & Levinson LLP; Stephen Y. Chow, Partner, Burns & Levinson LLP.
Burns & Levinson LLP Receives "Green" Award from the Massachusetts Bar Association Lawyers Eco-Challenge
On May 21, 2009, Burns & Levinson LLP was recognized as a leader in greening the practice of law by the Massachusetts Bar Association Lawyers Eco-Challenge. The firm was selected as an honoree by the MBA Energy and Environment Task Force for expanding its historical green practices by implementing green design elements in its recent office reconstruction project, which also promotes awareness of environmentally preferable practices.
BBA Children and Youth Outreach Volunteer Leadership Award
On May 24, 2005 Burns & Levinson LLP was honored for its seven years of hardwork with Brighton High School at the Boston Bar Association's Annual Dinner.
Cambridge Chamber of Commerce - New Member of the Year Award
On May 24, 2005 Burns & Levinson LLP received the CCC's New Member of the Year Award in recognition of its involvement in and commitment to CCC's programs and activities. The Award was given out at the CCC's Excellence in Business Awards Dinner.
Clients in the Community:
Doug Reffue, Blazers Team President and GM; Joseph B. Volman, Burns & Levinson; Dan Dawson, National Lacrosse League MVP; Stephen D. Brook, Burns & Levinson.
Boston Blazers
Burns & Levinson proudly supports client, Boston Blazers, at last game of season on April 10, 2010
