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Margaret H. Myer was born in New Haven, Connecticut, and graduated from Wellesley College in 1950. She received her master's degree in social work and worked in child psychiatry at Tufts New England Medical Center, where she was Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry. She became a lecturer on psychology at Harvard Medical School while working at Cambridge Hospital and developing a private practice.

Fred Marchant is the author of four poetry collections. His most recent book, *The Looking House*, was selected by the Barnes and Noble Review as one of the five best books of poetry in 2009. He is also the editor of *Another World Instead: The Early Poems of William Stafford 1937-1947*, and the co-translator, with Nguyen Ba Chung, of *From a Corner of My Yard* by Vietnamese poet Tran Dang Khoa. A 2009 co-recipient of the May Sarton Award from the NEPC, he is the director of the Creative Writing Program and the Poetry Center at Suffolk University. Photo credit to Michelle DeBakey.

Marshall Moriarty became a partner in 1977, concentrating his practice in civil litigation. He retired on December 31, 2007, although he continues to do some client work. Marshall joined the firm in 1972 after having worked for two years as special assistant, and later executive assistant, to the Honorable Elliot L. Richardson, Secretary of Health, Education & Welfare.

After her graduation from New York University of Law, Walz moved to Boston, Massachusetts where she worked at the law firm of Palmer & Dodge until 1992. Later that year, Walz worked for Harcourt General, Inc., where she managed the company's global labor and employment law practice for a period of seven years. Prior to her run for office, Walz was the Vice President of Development at Jumpstart for Young Children, a national nonprofit based in Boston that pairs college students with preschool children who are at risk of entering school unprepared for success. In 2004 Walz announced that she was running in the Democratic State Primary to be a candidate for election to the Eighth Suffolk District of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. On September 14, 2004, in her first bid for elective office, Walz won the Democratic nomination for the Massachusetts House of Representatives, winning every precinct in the district. On November, 2nd of 2004, Walz was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives defeating her opponent, Republican Richard L. Babson.

The author of *Lawyers and Fundamental Moral Responsibility*, *The Anglo-American Legal Heritage*,* Francis Bacon*, and *The Civilian Jurists of Doctor's Commons *and editor of *Law in Colonial Massachusetts* and* Moore's Federal Practice*, J. Donald Monan Professor of Law Daniel R. Coquillette teaches and writes in the areas of legal history and professional responsibility. Professor Coquillette was a law clerk for justice Robert Braucher of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts and Chief Justice Warren E. Burger of the Supreme Court of the United States. He taught legal ethics on the faculty of the Boston University Law School, taught as a Visiting Professor at Cornell Law School and Harvard Law School, and became a partner for six years at the Boston law firm of Palmer & Dodge, where he specialized in complex litigation. He served as Dean of Boston College Law School from 1985-1993, and was named J. Donald Monan, S.J. University Professor in 1996. For five years, he was Chairman of the Massachusetts Bar Association Committee on Professional Ethics and Chairman of the Task Force on Unauthorized Practice of Law. He also served on the American Bar Association Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility, the Board of the American Society of Legal History, the Massachusetts Task Force on Model Rules of Professional Conduct and the Massachusetts Task Force on Professionalism. He was also a member of the Special Committee on Model Rules of Attorney Conduct of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts.

Fred W. Friendly, a pioneering CBS News producer and distinguished media scholar, enjoyed a sixty-year career as remarkable for its longevity as for its accomplishments. As the technically creative and dramatically inspired producer for CBS correspondent Edward R. Murrow, Friendly helped enliven and popularize television news documentary in the decade after World War II, when television news was still in its infancy. After resigning from CBS as its News Division president in 1966, Friendly found a second career as an author and as creator of a series of moderated seminars on media and society. Friendly, in his post-CBS years, turned his interests to writing and teaching about media and law. In a span of twenty years, Friendly authored several books that traced the history of people involved in landmark Supreme Court cases, including *Minnesota Rag*,* The Good Guys*, T*he Bad Guys and the First Amendment*, and *The Constitution: That Delicate Balance. At the Ford Foundation*

Alan believes strongly in an interdisciplinary approach to academia and has undergraduate degrees in both Religion and Music Education. After his undergraduate training, Alan taught music in an Ozark Mountain public school system. He then spent several years performing nationally in theatre, opera, and musical comedy. Alan returned to school at the University of Michigan and obtained both an MS in Natural Resource Policy and a law degree. Following a six-month stint studying endangered species law and policy in New Zealand and Australia, Alan joined a major Northwest law firm and began a land conservation law practice. In addition, to his land conservation law practice, Alan has worked as a legal intern for both Environmental Defense and the National Wildlife Federation, as a research fellow for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and as a visiting legal research fellow at the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society of New Zealand.

Morning producer/announcer Elaine Kennedy grew up in a musical family in Waterloo, Iowa and began piano lessons at age 5. Later, she studied clarinet, oboe and voice. She graduated from Luther College in Decorah, Iowa with a fine arts degree in music/vocal performance. Since college, Elaine has held full-time announcing positions at WKYU in Bowling Green Kentucky; WBJC in Baltimore, Maryland and WGUC in Cincinnati, Ohio. Elaine has sung in the alto section of several professional choruses around the country. She has served on the Boards of Directors for the Association of Music Personnel in Public Radio, Doctor's Orchestra of Houston, Houston's Orchestra X and the Italy in America Association.

Meizhu Lui is the Executive Director of United for a Fair Economy, a national non-profit organization that helps build social movements for greater equality. Her articles have appeared in the Wealth Inequality Reader, Inequality Matters, and in Yes!, Orion, and Social Policy magazines, as well as in Black Commentator. Meizhu Lui was a hospital food service worker and AFSCME activist for 20 years, and became the first Asian President of a local union in Massachusetts. Meizhu Lui serves on the Center for American Progress National Initiative to End Poverty. She is a Trustee of the Hyams Foundation in Boston, Massachusetts and a long-time member of Freedom Road Socialist Organization. Her work in Boston has been honored by the YWCA, the Immigrant Workers' Resource Center, Mass Senior Action Council, the Boston Women's Fund, the Big Sisters Association, and Labor Studies Program at the University of Massachusetts-Boston.