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January 10, 2008


Massachusetts adopts payee notification

Let's hope our column of a year ago did some good. Best snippet of Boston Globe story:

"We're certainly in favor of people not being cheated; we were only opposed to anything that leads to the perception that you can't trust your lawyer," said Stephen A. Lechter, an executive board member of the Bristol County Bar Association, which had fought the proposal.

A salute to attorney (and friend of this site) Peter Morin, who with other Bay State reformers had to push for years against entrenched local Bar resistance.

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