Press Release
January 4, 2007

Don Glazer and Beirne Lovely Panelists at BBA Event

Comments on the ABA’s October Legal Opinion Risk Seminar

Don Glazer and Beirne Lovely will be panelists at a Boston Bar Association event on January 10, 2007. They will be discussing the ABA’s October Legal Opinion Risk Seminar. Specifically, they will address:

  • responsibility and concerns of opinion recipients and their counsel
  • the gatekeeper role and transactional lawyers making third-party opinion letter
  • "customary practice" work for the recipient opinion letter
  • litigation - do's and don'ts managing large firm opinion practice
  • opinion hotspots
  • opinions and "side letters" dealing with demands for assignable opinions.

They will be joined by Stanley Keller of Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge, LLP and Michelle Basil of Nutter Mclennen & Fish LLP. This program is being sponsored by the BBA's Legal Opinions Committee and the Mergers & Acquisitions Committee.