How to represent individuals in front of licensing
boards
All Massachusetts Bar Association members and their colleagues are
encouraged to attend these free monthly lunchtime programs. We gear these
programs toward civil litigators of all experience levels, providing an
opportunity to participate in a discussion of selected areas of law, or
practice, in a collegial setting where you can meet and exchange ideas with
other members of the profession.
Join Kevin Scanlon, chief legal counsel for the Division of Professional
Licensure, and Dorothy Anderson, first assistant bar counsel for the Board of
Bar Overseers, as they provide guidance and insight on representing individuals
before licensing boards.
Scanlon is chief legal counsel at the Division of Professional Licensure
where he oversees the Office of Legal Counsel. The division oversees 31 boards
of registration, which license and regulate more than 370,000 individuals and
businesses to practice some 50 trades and professions in Massachusetts. The
division also licenses and regulates occupational schools. Scanlon is also a
hearings officer for the Board of Bar Overseers. Prior to joining the division,
Scanlon was a shareholder at a Boston firm where he practiced civil
litigation.
Anderson serves as first assistant bar counsel at the Office of Bar Counsel
where she has worked since September 2001, investigating and prosecuting
allegations of attorney misconduct. Formerly, Anderson worked as a Massachusetts
Assistant Attorney General for 18 years, enforcing Massachusetts consumer
protection and environmental protection laws, and later as trial defense counsel
to Massachusetts state agencies. Prior to that she was an associate at Sherin
& Lodgen in Boston. Anderson taught legal ethics as an adjunct professor at
New England Law | Boston.
The lunch series, coordinated by the Civil Litigation Section and Young
Lawyers Division, will be moderated by Craig Levey, Esq. of Looney &
Grossman LLP and Courtney Shea, Esq. of Peabody & Arnold LLP.
Attendees are encouraged to bring their own lunch.