SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT STANDING COMMITTEE
 ON PRO BONO LEGAL SERVICES PRESENTS 
ADAMS PRO BONO PUBLICO AWARDS

Boston, MA— On behalf of the Supreme Judicial Court Standing Committee on Pro Bono Legal Services, SJC Justice Francis X. Spina presented Adams Pro Bono Publico Awards to Newton Attorney Michael G. Paris, the New Bedford law firm of Stanford & Schall, and the Women's Bar Foundation at a ceremony in the SJC Courtroom on June 4. The second annual presentation of the Awards, named in honor of John Adams and John Quincy Adams, was made in recognition of the recipients' outstanding commitment to providing volunteer legal assistance to the poor and disadvantaged. SJC Chief Justice Margaret H. Marshall, Lieutenant Governor Kerry Healey, and Committee Chair Mary K. Ryan, a partner in the Boston law firm of Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP, also spoke during the ceremony. In the photo, from left, are Attorney Antoinette E.M. Leoney, President of the Women's Bar Foundation; Attorney Paris, a partner in the Boston law firm of Brown Rudnick Berlack Israels LLP; Attorney Elisabeth J. Medvedow, Executive Director of the Women's Bar Foundation; Chief Justice Marshall; Lieutenant Governor Healey; Attorney Irene Schall; Attorney Roger Stanford; and Justice Spina.