Norwood resident named Executive Director of the Massachusetts School Building Authority

Treasurer Steven Grossman has named Norwood resident Jack McCarthy as Executive Director of the Massachusetts School Building Authority, appointing a seasoned senior manager to the agency that helps fund capital improvement projects for the Commonwealth’s public schools.

High-profile alumni return to help celebrate Abington parochial school’s 50th anniversary

Alumni help St. Bridget celebrate 50 years Two alumni who have been highly successful in their careers returned to their alma mater in Abington to help celebrate St. Bridget’s 50th anniversary last week, reminiscing about long-ago days spent at the parochial school and fielding some tough questions from seventh- and eighth-graders there now. Massachusetts Democratic Party chairman John Walsh, a ...

UMass School of Law hosts forum for hard-hit former industrial cities

Legal professionals, politicians and community leaders gathered at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth School of Law on Thursday for a Gateway Cities Forum sponsored by the Massachusetts Bar Association.

Mass. AG Coakley to make case for health care law

BOSTON (AP) — Attorney General Martha Coakley is heading to Washington to make a legal case for the national health care law that was modeled after Massachusetts' own landmark 2006 health care law.

Class Action Lawsuits Now Target More Than a Dozen Law Schools

NEWARK, N.J., Feb. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- A threatened wave of class actions against American law schools became a reality last week after plaintiffs' lawyers sued a dozen more schools over their allegedly ...