SAVE THE DATE for our 2010 Gala on
June 9, 2010 at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel

We look forward to welcoming George Packer as this year's key note speaker.

Packer is a staff writer for the The New Yorker and is the author of the acclaimed book, “The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq.” He has also written about the atrocities committed in Sierra Leone, civil unrest in the Ivory Coast, the megacity of Lagos, and global counterinsurgency. Full biography available here.

More information about this year's gala coming soon!
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Thanks for Celebrating our 20th Anniversary at the PAIR Gala on June 9, 2009

We thank all our sponsors and donors for making our 20th Anniversary Celebration such an inspiring and successful evening. Special thanks as well go to our auction sponsors for their generous donations:

Patriots pre-season game and sideline experience
Red Sox tickets- right by the warm-up circle
Celtics tickets to fantastic seats
A summertime week away on the Cape
Night at the Boston Harbor Hotel
Consultation, cut, and finish at Plan B Salon in Cambridge
Day of golf at Wellesley Country Club
Insiders Tour of Chinatown & North End
Taranta Cooking Demonstration
Guided Bike Ride for Human Rights
Trivia Night with a Jeopardy Champion
$500 Whole Foods gift certificate and 12+ bottles of wine
...and much more!

We were proud to recognize our stellar 2009 awardees:

Elizabeth Akehurst-Moore of McDermott Will & Emery
Elaine Blais, Robert Carroll, Ken Parsigian, and Janet Taylor of Goodwin Procter LLP
Ana Francisco of Ropes & Gray LLP
Melissa Martinelli of Suffolk Law School
Michael Mullins of Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP
Anthony Tjan of Cue Ball Group
Peter Warwick of Thomson Reuters and West
WilmerHale LLP

Watch a clip from last year's Gala.

 

Special Thanks to last year's sponsors...

Platinum Sponsors
Ropes & Gray LLP
Thomson Reuters, Legal

Gold Sponsors
Gardiner Howland Shaw Foundation
The Kraft Group
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

Silver Sponsors
Fidelity Investments
Fish & Richardson PC
Foley Hoag LLP
Goodwin Procter LLP
McDermott Will & Emery
MintzLevin
Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP
Seyfarth Shaw LLP
WilmerHale LLP

Benefactors
Boston College Law School
Matthew Burkley
Chin & Curtis LLP
Choate Hall & Stewart LLP
Susan Cohen
Dwyer & Collora LLP
Eisai Research Institute of Boston
Fragomen Del Rey Bernsen & Loewy LLP
Glickman Turley LLP
John Hancock Financial Services
Steven & Janeen Hansen
Gay & Dick Harter
Jon Herzog
Holland & Knight LLP
Iandoli & Desai PC
Paul & Nancy Ignatius
George Lester
Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP
David McHaffey
Chalak Muhammad
Parthenon Group
Daniel Pawson & Andrea Saenz
Sherin & Lodgen LLP
Suffolk Law School
Wendy Zazik & Mark Gale

...and to all our wonderful volunteers whose dedicated work the past few months made the evening a beautiful success!