California Supreme Court Chief Justice Ronald M. George delivers keynote address.

From left, Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice Margaret H. Marshall with Appeals Court Justice James F. McHugh, recipient of the first J. Donald Monan Award for Leadership in Judicial Administration; Father J. Donald Monan, chair of the Visiting Committee on Management in the Courts; and Michael B. Keating.

From left, Linda Holt of the Massachusetts Sentencing Commission, Joanne Hoey of the Boston Municipal Court, and Ilene Mitchell of the Probate and Family Court represent the 19-member Court Metrics Working Group, as Chief Justice Marshall presents the group with a Special Award for Excellence in Judicial Administration.

Panel discussion on Transforming Organizations and Managing Change in the Courts included from left:  Court Management Advisory Board Members Robert P. Gittens and Gene D. Dahmen, Beth Israel Deaconess CEO Paul F. Levy, Chief Justice for Administration & Management Robert A. Mulligan, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care CEO Charles D. Baker and moderator Supreme Court Justice Robert J. Cordy.

Harvard Pilgrim CEO Charles Baker listens as Chief Justice Mulligan responds to other panelists and reviews initiatives planned for 2008.

In foreground from left, Fr. J. Donald Monan, chair of the Visiting Committee on Management in the Courts; Retired Supreme Judicial Court Justice Neil I. Lynch, a member of the Court Management Advisory Board; Boston Municipal Court Chief Justice Charles R. Johnson and Juvenile Court Chief Justice Martha P. Grace

Chief Justice Margaret H. Marshall with keynote speaker California Supreme Court Chief Justice Ronald M. George

From left, Chief Justice Mulligan, California Chief Justice Ronald George, Supreme Court Justice Judith A. Cowin, Chief Justice Marshall, and Supreme Court Justice Francis X. Spina.

From left, Donald D. Goodnow, Director of the New Hampshire Administrative Office of the Courts, with Paul Burke, Director of Court Operations for the Housing Court, and Trial Court Chief Information Officer Craig Burlingame

From left, Symposium Planning Committee member Francis Ford of the Worcester law firm of Fletcher, Tilton and Whipple; former Mass. Bar Association president Warren Fitzgerald of Fitzgerald Dispute Resolution; and Daniel Winslow of the law firm of Duane, Morris.

Symposium audience in the Great Hall at the John Adams Courthouse