DA’s Office welcomes new employees
LANCIANI
Modified: 3/4/2021 2:40:56 PM
NORTHAMPTON Two new assistant district attorneys, Emaan Syed and Aidan Lanciani, have been hired by the Northwestern District Attorney’s Office.
Syed, a District Court prosecutor in Northampton, was sworn in to the Massachusetts State Bar in January. According to a press release from Northwestern District Attorney’s Office spokesperson Mary Carey, Syed studied economics and history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. After graduating in 2015, she enrolled at Suffolk University Law School. During her final year at Suffolk Law in 2020, she was a certified student attorney working in the university’s Juvenile Defenders Clinic, where she represented juvenile clients in criminal cases in Boston Municipal Court.
DA’s Office welcomes new employees
LANCIANI
Published: 3/4/2021 2:40:45 PM
NORTHAMPTON Two new assistant district attorneys, Emaan Syed and Aidan Lanciani, have been hired by the Northwestern District Attorney’s Office.
Syed, a District Court prosecutor in Northampton, was sworn in to the Massachusetts State Bar in January. According to a press release from Northwestern District Attorney’s Office spokesperson Mary Carey, Syed studied economics and history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. After graduating in 2015, she enrolled at Suffolk University Law School. During her final year at Suffolk Law in 2020, she was a certified student attorney working in the university’s Juvenile Defenders Clinic, where she represented juvenile clients in criminal cases in Boston Municipal Court.
The low down
Any government will focus on its legacy as it heads towards dissolution and the possibility of a lost election. For Gordon Brown’s administration, the Equality Act was part of that legacy – an ambitious 11th-hour addition to the statute book that replaced nine pieces of legislation, including groundbreaking and iconic laws on race and equal pay. The act was preceded by the creation of a new watchdog, the Equality and Human Rights Commission, which absorbed the discrete equality remits of its predecessors. But does an ‘umbrella’ approach to equality work? The act is often misunderstood by the public bodies that should enforce and reinforce it. And with poor access to justice, people with the protected characteristics listed in the act find that making their rights justiciable is a struggle.