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  • Lawyers Assemble To Discuss TelexFree Case; Session Sponsored By Boston Bar Association And Led By Jonathan M. Horne And Timothy J. Durken Of Jager Smith PC

    newtelexfreelogoEDITOR’S NOTE: It is hard to contemplate the rich history of the United States without at once contemplating the rich history of the Boston Bar Association. They shall forever be intertwined . . .

    One could imagine that, 241 years ago, a contemplative session of the Boston Bar Association (BBA) might have been advertised with paper handbills and titled, “The Law as It Pertains to Taxation without Representation and the Destruction of Certain Aromatic Tea in Boston Harbor on December 16, 1773.”

    Although yesterday’s noontime session at the BBA appears to have eschewed handbills in favor of Twitter and such, it nevertheless addressed the past and the future. Its simple title: “TelexFree[:] How We Got Here and Where We Are Going.”

    Jonathan M. Horne and Timothy J. Durken of Jager Smith PC were instrumental in putting it together. A PDF of what was covered at the session is available today.

    Other information on the session is available at the website of the BBA.

    The venerable Boston Bar traces its roots to the 18th century. In the 1760s, a local young fellow by the name of John Adams was speaking on important things (such as justice) in and around the coffeehouses and taverns on Beacon Hill. He later helped organize the greatest beacon of freedom the world had ever known: the United States of America. In ways large and small, Massachusetts continues to be a preeminent source of light from this beacon.

    Later yet, Adams would become the second President of the United States, succeeding George Washington.

    President Adams, the father of John Quincy Adams, America’s sixth President, knew towns TelexFree members later would know. (Among them are Quincy and Worcester.)

    Read the bio of President John Adams at WhiteHouse.gov.

  • BULLETIN: Stephen B. Darr Appointed TelexFree Trustee

    Stephen B. Darr, senior managing director of Mesirow Financial Consulting LLC of Boston, has been appointed trustee in the TelexFree bankruptcy case.

    The appointment was made by William K. Harrington, the United States’ Trustee, based on the order of U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Melvin S. Hoffman. The office of the U.S. Trustee is the bankruptcy watchdog arm of the U.S. Department of Justice.

    News of Darr’s appointment first was Tweeted by Timothy J. Durken, an attorney writing about the TelexFree case.

    Here is a link to a Darr bio brief.

    Here is a link to a website of Cornell University Law School that includes information on the duties of trustees.