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Government Affairs Forum: Chief Justice Ralph Gants, Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts

September 20, 2018 7:45 am – 9:00 am Boston Marriott Long Wharf

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  • Chief Justice Ralph Gants and Paige Scott Reed, Of Counsel at Anderson & Kreiger LLP join us for a one-on-one conversation.

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  • Member:Individual $65, Table of 10 $650
  • Government:Individual $65, Table of 10 $650
  • Non-Member:Individual $110, Table of 10 $1,100
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Chief Justice Ralph Gants and Paige Scott Reed, Of Counsel at Anderson & Kreiger LLP join us for a one-on-one conversation.

Chief Justice Ralph Gants, the 37th Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, will be joining us for a one-on-one conversation with Paige Scott Reed, Of Counsel at Anderson & Kreiger LLP. Chief Justice Gants will discuss the importance of judicial independence. What is the value, in particular to businesses, to having judges who are not elected and therefore not swayed by popular opinion? As the co-chair to the Massachusetts Access to Justice Commission, Chief Justice Gants has prioritized providing leadership, vision and coordination in the search for equal justice for all persons in the Commonwealth. 

Ralph D. Gants became the 37th Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court in July 2014 when he was sworn in by Governor Deval Patrick. He was appointed as an Associate Justice on the Court in January 2009. Before joining the SJC, he served for more than eleven years as an Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court, and was Administrative Justice of the Superior Court’s Business Litigation Session in 2008.

To view a current list of attendees, click here.

Luz Arregoces

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The Honorable Ralph D. Gants

Chief Justice, Supreme Judicial Court of Masachusetts Featured Speaker

Ralph D. Gants became the 37th Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court in July 2014 when he was sworn in by Governor Deval Patrick. He was appointed as an Associate…Read more
Ralph D. Gants became the 37th Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court in July 2014 when he was sworn in by Governor Deval Patrick. He was appointed as an Associate Justice on the Court in January 2009. Before joining the SJC, he served for more than eleven years as an Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court, and was Administrative Justice of the Superior Court’s Business Litigation Session in 2008. Chief Justice Gants was born in New Rochelle, New York in 1954. He received his B.A. from Harvard College in 1976, graduating summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. The following year, he completed a Diploma in Criminology at Cambridge University in England. In 1980, he earned a J.D. degree, magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School where he was note editor of the Harvard Law Review. He began his legal career as a law clerk to United States District Court Judge Eugene H. Nickerson, and then served as a Special Assistant to FBI Director William H. Webster. He later was an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Massachusetts and Chief of the Public Corruption Unit before joining the Boston law firm formerly known as Palmer & Dodge LLP, where he practiced law until he was appointed to the Superior Court by Governor William Weld. He has taught at Harvard Law School, New England Law | Boston, and Northeastern University School of Law.    Chief Justice Gants is co-chair of the Massachusetts Access to Justice Commission and chair of the SJC’s Standing Committee on Model Jury Instructions on Homicide. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Conference of Chief Justices, and is chair of its Access and Fairness Committee. Among his awards and honors are the 2017 Massachusetts Bar Foundation Great Friend of Justice Award, the 2016 Haskell Cohn Award for Distinguished Judicial Service, the Boston Bar Association Citation of Judicial Excellence, and the Suffolk Law School Public Service Award. He was also awarded honorary Doctor of Law degrees from New England Law | Boston in 2015, and the University of Massachusetts School of Law – Dartmouth in 2016. Chief Justice Gants is married with two children.

Paige Scott Reed

Of Counsel, Anderson & Kreiger LLP Moderator

Paige Scott Reed is Of Counsel at Anderson & Kreiger, LLP, a vibrant public law boutique currently representing over 150 governmental and quasi-governmental…Read more
Paige Scott Reed is Of Counsel at Anderson & Kreiger, LLP, a vibrant public law boutique currently representing over 150 governmental and quasi-governmental entities across the United States. Anderson & Kreiger is widely recognized as one of the nation’s preeminent law firms for airports, with deep experience in litigation, real estate development, environmental permitting and compliance matters. Paige currently represents public and quasi-public entities, including airport sponsors, in litigation, procurement, regulatory, real estate and administrative matters. Paige advises the Massachusetts Aeronautics Administrator with respect to the regulation of unmanned aerial systems (UAS, more commonly known as drones), and has been instrumental in efforts to advance the integration of UAS into the National Air Space in Massachusetts. Paige’s practice concentrates on litigation, procurement, regulatory and administrative matters, particularly at the intersection between public and private. Paige joined Anderson & Kreiger after serving simultaneously as the General Counsel of both the Massachusetts Department of Transportation and the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. In that role, Paige gained considerable experience forming partnerships between the public and private sectors. Paige helped establish the Massachusetts first Public Private Partnership Commission and presided over all legal aspects of one of the largest public procurements ever in Massachusetts, which successfully transferred the state’s commuter rail operations from one private operator to another. Before entering public service, Paige practiced for many years at major law firms in Boston, litigating complex commercial and criminal matters for a broad range of clients. Paige graduated from Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges, and was trained as a trial lawyer at Harvard Law School, where she served as an Executive Editor of the Harvard Law Review. In addition to currently serving as the Executive Vice President of the MBLA, Paige serves as Vice President of the Harvard Law School Alumni Association of Massachusetts, a board member of the Harvard Law School Black Alumni Network, a member of the Boston Bar Association Council, and a trustee for both the Boston Bar Foundation and Boston Harbor Now.

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