Willie Bodrick II ’20 was selected as one of Northeastern University’s 2020 Huntington 100 Award recipients. The Huntington 100 honors outstanding students for achievements that are consistent with the university’s mission, ideals, values and academic plan.
Karen Kithan Yau ’96, of counsel at Kakalec Law, has been selected to receive a Pro Bono Award from the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA) at the organization’s annual ceremony in December. Yau is co-chair of the Pro Bono and Community Service (PBCS) Committee of the Asian American Bar Association of New York (AABANY).
“There are people who simply do not have connection to health services, for many reasons, mainly poverty related, but also some historic mistreatment and distrust,” Professor Brook Baker ’76, senior policy analyst for Health GAP tells Bloomberg Law. “Extra work has to be done to overcome that history of inferior service and inferior service access.”
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The major questions doctrine has gone from something the Supreme Court used once every five years to a “Swiss Army knife” for courts to limit agency power, Professor Wendy Parmet, director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law, tells Bloomberg Law.
Michael Licker ’10, head of litigation and investigations for Boston-based Wayfair, is profiled by Modern Counsel.
“This is not something progressive Democrats together with progressive allies are going to significantly achieve,” Professor Emeritus Peter Enrich, chair of the Progressive Democrats of Massachusetts, tells CommonWealth. “If we’re going to make a difference here, it’s going to require a far broader coalition that reaches out across the political spectrum, to groups engaged with various issues.”
Congratulations to Barbara Buell ’71, Angela Carr ’04, Taramattie Doucette ’88, Ellen Gallagher ’91,
Jacklyn Gurany ’10 and Elizabeth Rodgers ’76 who will be honored as trailblazers and role models by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly at a virtual event on Wednesday, November 17.
“We’re putting our heads in the sand if we ignore the way partisanship has come to impact how judges see issues,” Professor Wendy Parmet, faculty director of Northeastern Law's Center for Health Policy and Law, tells Bloomberg Law.
“What happened in all three cases—in Aziz and Islam’s, Broadwater’s, and Strickland’s—amount to travesties of justice,” Professor Rose Zoltek-Jick tells news@Northeastern. But she adds: “It’s never too late to tell the truth.”