THE JOHN & ABIGAIL ADAMS BENEFIT BALL 2009

2009 Public Service Award Honorees

James G. Keefe and Patrick A.T. Lee
Trinity Financial

Boston-based real estate developers James G. Keefe and Patrick A.T. Lee have been instrumental in revitalizing local neighborhoods and building a more livable city through creative concepts for affordable housing. This year’s honorees help highlight the BBF trustees’ goal of raising funds that will in part be directed to programs that address issues relating to housing and homelessness.

James G. Keefe
Patrick A.T. Lee

About the Boston Bar Foundation

The Boston Bar Foundation (BBF) is at the forefront of efforts to promote public understanding of the law and improve the delivery of justice in Massachusetts. The charitable affiliate of the Boston Bar Association, the BBF is a stalwart supporter of core legal services and an incubator for innovative strategies to engage lawyers in serving the community. 

2009 John & Abigail Adams Ball Sponsors

Platinum Sponsors
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP
Ropes & Gray LLP

Gold Sponsors
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of MA, Inc.
Choate Hall & Stewart LLP
Goodwin Procter LLP
Brown Rudnick LLP

Silver Sponsors
Holland & Knight LLP
Raytheon Company
Citizens Bank

Bronze Sponsors
McDermott Will & Emery
Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP
Fidelity Investments
K & L Gates LLP
Foley Hoag LLP
Bank of America
Goulston & Storrs - A Professional Corporation
Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi L.L.P.

Participating Sponsors
Partners HealthCare
Liberty Mutual Group
Sugarman, Rogers, Barshak & Cohen, P.C.
Nixon Peabody LLP
Chu, Ring & Hazel LLP
Bromberg & Sunstein LLP
Burns & Levinson LLP
Verrill Dana LLP
Foley & Lardner LLP
Kenney & Sams, P.C.
Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Inc.
Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Dwyer & Collora, LLP
Adorno & Yoss
Sovereign Bank
Hinckley, Allen & Snyder LLP
Suffolk University Law School
Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo P.C.
GT Solar International, Inc.
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Todd & Weld LLP
Day Pitney LLP
Sullivan & Worcester LLP
EMC Corporation
Shapiro, Haber & Urmy, LLP
John Hancock
Sloane and Walsh, LLP

Donors
Boston College Law School ($500)
Conn Kavanaugh Rosenthal Peisch & Ford, LLP ($2,500)

Advertisers
Hemenway & Barnes LLP
Icon Architecture, Inc.
Stone, Stone & Creem


2009 Adams Ball Steering Committee

Chair

Steven Wright
Holland & Knight LLP

Committee Members

Ferdinand Alvaro
Adorno & Yoss

Paula Andrews
Hinckley, Allen & Snyder LLP

Jonathan Chiel
John Hancock Insurance&Financial Service

Sarah Columbia
McDermott Will & Emery

Anthony Doniger
Sugarman, Rogers, Barshak & Cohen, P.C.

Donna Evans
Greenberg Traurig, LLP

George Field
Verrill Dana LLP

Anthony Froio
Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi, L.L.P.

Marc Gary
Fidelity Investments

Merrily Gerrish
Bank of America - O.F.S. Offices

Brent Henry
Partners HealthCare System, Inc.

Sandra Jesse
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of MA, Inc.

Rebecca Ransom
Raytheon Company-Waltham

John Regan
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP

David Rosenblatt
Burns & Levinson LLP

David Rountree
Citizens Bank

Mary Ryan
Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP

Thomas Shapiro
Shapiro, Haber & Urmy, LLP

Joel Sherman
Goulston & Storrs - A Professional Corporation

Andrew Strehle
Brown Rudnick LLP

Phoebe Winder
K & L Gates LLP

Lisa Wood
Foley Hoag LLP