Russell F. Conn was appointed to the Hingham Personnel Board, where he is responsible for the town's employee relations, union negotiations, and personnel policies.

Thomas E. Peisch has been elected chair of the Town of Wellesley Municipal Light Plant Board. The Light Plant provides electricity and other services to some ten thousand commercial and residential customers in the Town of Wellesley and is governed by a five-person Board. Mr. Peisch was appointed to the Board in 2004 and was chair from 2007-2008. His current term as chair begins on July 1.

Andrew R. Dennington was profiled in a Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly special section dedicated to its Excellence In The Law event that honored all of its 2011 Up & Coming Lawyers.  In Mr. Dennington's interview he discusses his pro bono work with the Volunteer Lawyers Project of the Boston Bar Association (BBA) in addition to his work as a litigator at Conn Kavanaugh. Also, as co-chair of the BBA’s Consumer Finance Working Group, Mr. Dennington played a significant role in drafting proposed amendments to the Massachusetts Attorney General’s consumer debt collection regulations, which have not  been updated since the 1970s. The Attorney General's Office held public hearings concerning the proposed amendments in May. 

Conn Kavanaugh attorneys and staff volunteered to serve dinner on three evenings in April and May at the New England Center for Homeless Veterans, an organization dedicated to providing homeless veterans with the tools for independent living.

Thomas E. Peisch and Andrew R. Dennington recently successfully defended an information technology professional charged with conspiracy and felony larceny as the result of a complaint by a disgruntled customer. At the conclusion of a hearing on the firm's dismissal motion, the judge ordered all charges dismissed.

Erin K. Higgins spoke about ethical and legal malpractice issues at a Boston Bar Association CLE directed to lawyers starting their own practices, titled "Start You Up: How To Establish Your New Law Practice."

An employer may be liable for employment discrimination even when the employee who makes the final adverse employment decision did not intend to discriminate. For more information, read the client advisory authored by Constance M. McGrane and Jan Kendrick.

Adopting 8 of 10 recommendations made in a report of the Boston Bar Association Consumer Finance Working Group co-chaired by Andrew R. Dennington, Attorney General Martha Coakley has filed amendments to the Attorney General's consumer debt collection regulations at 940 C.M.R. 7.00.  These regulations had not been updated since the 1970s.  The Attorney General's modernized rules address how creditors may contact consumers by cell phone and text messaging.  The regulations are expected to become effective later this year following a public hearing.  Andrew R. Dennington currently is Co-Chair of the Boston Bar Association's Consumer Finance Committee.

Erin K. Higgins has been appointed to serve a three-year term on the Supreme Judicial Court Standing Committee on Pro Bono Legal Services.  The Standing Committee works to promote volunteer legal work in Massachusetts for people of limited means, in accordance with Rule 6.1 of the Massachusetts Rules of Professional Conduct.