Mass. court leaders to lead talk on budget cuts
Legal News Center
Suffolk University Law School plans to host a roundtable discussion on the effect of state budget cuts on the Massachusetts court system.
Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice Margaret Marshall will be among the panelists Monday at the law school in Boston.
Other participants include Robert Mulligan, who's chief justice of the administrative office of the trial court; and William Leahy, chief counsel for the Committee for Public Counsel Services.
The roundtable discussion is sponsored by the Rappaport Center for Law and Public Service, the New England Legal Foundation and the Boston Bar Association.
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