RELEASE: IMMEDIATE
CONTACT: Peter Bennett
PHONE: 207-773-4775
DATE: October 4, 2004

PORTLAND ATTORNEY PETER BENNETT TO BE FALL LEADERSHIP MEETING ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR FOR AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION’S TORT TRIAL AND INSURANCE PRACTICE SECTION FALL LEADERSHIP MEETING IN MAINE FROM OCTOBER 6 TO 10, 2004

ROCKPORT, MAINE -- Portland attorney, Peter Bennett, President of The Bennett Law Firm, P.A., is the Fall Meeting Arrangements Chair of the Fall Leadership Meeting being held by the American Bar Association’s Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section from October 6 to 10 at the Samoset in Rockport, Maine. This meeting, which will include approximately two hundred attorneys from across the United States, will be the largest meeting of its kind ever held in Maine by an American Bar Association entity. During this meeting, the group will be presenting its Pursuit of Justice Award to Portland Attorney Daniel G. Lilley on October 8 at 5:30 p.m. In addition, the group's Task Force on the Contingent Fee and Task Force on Asbestos will be meeting. These task forces include the country’s leading authorities on their subject matters and have been established to analyze and report on issues of growing national concern and debate.
The Trial and Insurance Practice Section of the American Bar Association is the only national bar association dedicated to the balanced representation of plaintiff’s attorneys, defense attorneys, insurance and corporate counsel. The Trial and Insurance Practice Section has over 35,000 members and is actively involved in legal education and initiatives to improve public access to equal justice. The Trial Section is also one of the American Bar Association’s oldest and largest sections. Bennett is very active in the Association’s activities having just finished a three year term on the Section’s Board and speaking on Association national legal education programs approximately twenty times in the past twelve years.
Bennett is President of The Bennett Law Firm, a Portland, Maine firm which specializes in representing management throughout the Northeast on matters of labor and employment law. He has written and lectured extensively on employment law issues, and was the lead defense counsel in several ground breaking cases dealing with employee disability triggered misconduct. He is also a Vice President and Director of the International Society of Primerus Law Firms and Immediate Past President of the Boston University School of Law Alumni Association.