Two Boston University School of Law Alumni Elected Officers of the Massachusetts Bar Association
Christopher Kenney (’90) will serve as vice president and John Morrissey (’92) will serve as secretary for 2015–2016.
Boston University School of Law alumni Christopher A. Kenney (’90) and John J. Morrissey (’92) have been elected officers of the Massachusetts Bar Association (MBA) for its 2015–2016 year, beginning on September 1. Kenney, who served as president of the Boston University School of Law Alumni Association in 2010–2011, was re-elected vice president of the MBA. Morrissey was elected MBA secretary.
Christopher A. Kenney (’90), vice president, Massachusetts Bar Association
A founding member and managing shareholder of Kenney & Sams PC in Boston, Kenney has tried cases before every level of the state and federal trial court system in Massachusetts, and has served as an appellate advocate before the Massachusetts Appellate Division, Massachusetts Appeals Court, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
A past MBA secretary, Kenney chairs the MBA’s Consumer Advocacy Task Force and is a member of the MBA’s Executive Management Board and Membership Committee. He has also served in the association’s House of Delegates and is a former chair of the MBA’s Civil Litigation Section.
In addition to his work with the MBA, Kenney is a former president of the Massachusetts Defense Lawyers Association (MDLA), former president of the Massachusetts Chapter of the Federal Bar Association and former co-president of the Boston Inn of Court. The MDLA named Kenney the 2012 “Massachusetts Defense Lawyer of the Year.”
Kenney has served as adjunct faculty at Boston University School of Law and frequently writes and lectures for business groups, trade associations, and bar associations. Boston University School of Law honored Kenney in 2012 with the Silver Shingle Award for outstanding service to the School.
Kenney earned his BA from College of the Holy Cross in 1987 and lives in Sudbury.
John J. Morrissey (’92), secretary, Massachusetts Bar Association
Morrissey is a founding partner of Morrissey, Wilson & Zafiropoulos LLP in Braintree, where he has a trial practice handling personal injury claims, including wrongful death, catastrophic injury and workers’ compensation claims. He also represents individuals and businesses in commercial and real estate disputes.
Morrissey serves as a member of the MBA Executive Management Board, an arbitrator with the MBA Fee Arbitration Board and is a member of the Workplace Safety Task Force. A past MBA vice president, he has also served on the House of Delegates, and as chair of the MBA Judicial Administration Section Council. In 2013, Morrissey volunteered to participate in the MBA Marathon Bombing Victims’ Legal Assistance Program, where he provided free legal services to victims of the marathon bombings.
Morrissey was recently appointed to the Board of Bar Overseers by the Supreme Judicial Court. He is also a member of the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys’ Board of Governors. Morrissey is a life fellow and a member of the Grant Advisory Committee of the Massachusetts Bar Foundation.
Morrissey was appointed a commissioner of the Hingham Conservation Commission by the Board of Selectmen in 2014. Since 2012, Morrissey has served as a director of Independent Bank Corporation and Rockland Trust. Independent Bank Corp has approximately $7.2 billion in assets and is the holding company for Rockland Trust Company, a full service commercial bank headquartered in Massachusetts.
An accomplished lawyer, Morrissey has been named a New England “Super Lawyer” by Super Lawyers every year since 2005. Morrissey received his undergraduate degree from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in 1989.
