Annual Events
The Boston Bar Association's two largest annual events are its Annual Meeting Luncheon in September, and its Law Day Dinner in May, both of which typically draw up to 1,500 lawyers and judges and feature prominent keynote speakers.
Annual Meeting Luncheon keynote speakers have included:
- John Mortimer (1991)
- William Safire (1992)
- Mort Zuckerman (1993)
- Carl Rowan (1994)
- Warren Rudman (1995)
- Jonathan Kozol (1996)
- James P. Carroll (1997)
- David Halberstam (1998)
- Eileen McNamara (2000)
- Joe Klein (2002)
- Linda Greenhouse (2003)
- Emily Rooney (2004)
- Rosabeth Moss Kanter (2006)
- Neal Katyal (2007)
- Jeffrey Sachs (2008)
- John Payton (2009)
- Michael C. Dorf (2010)
- Charles Ogletree (2011)
Law Day Dinner keynote speakers have included:
- Arthur R. Miller (1991)
- Justice Harry Blackmun (1992)
- John le Carré (1993)
- Matthew V. Storin (1994)
- Judge A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. (1995)
- Justice Stephen Breyer (1996)
- Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist (1997)
- Judge Patricia McGowan Wald (1998)
- Judge Constance Baker Motley (1999)
- Marvin Kalb (2000)
- Susan Estrich (2001)
- Justice Anthony Kennedy (2002)
- Judge Guido Calabresi (2003)
- Judge Barrington Daniels Parker, Jr. (2004)
- Jamie Gorelick (2005)
- Harold Koh (2006)
- Deval Patrick (2007)
- Cass Sunstein (2008)
- Congressman Barney Frank (2009)
- Dr. Carol Johnson (2010)
- Martha Minow (2011)
- Michael Sandel (2012)
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