Bowditch & Dewey launches blog serving LGBTQ community
Bowditch & Dewey has a launched a blog —which it believes to be the first from a major U.S. law firm —focused on legal issues concerning the LGBTQ community.
The law firm, with offices in Worcester, Framingham and Boston, announced the launch Tuesday. The website already has several articles, including "New challenges for same sex marriage in North Carolina” and “How will the law protect Caitlyn Jenner from discrimination?” Among other pieces is one about alleged discrimination against gays by Zara, a Spanish clothing retailer, among others.
Bowditch & Dewey, in its statement about the blog, noted that “diversity and inclusion are hallmarks of the firm culture.” It said the blog will cover legal issues involving same-sex marriage and divorce, insurance, employment discrimination, and estate and tax planning.
The blog arose from a “spirited internal discussion about rapidly evolving legal issues” pertaining to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community, the statement said. Bowditch & Dewey produced an April 2014 college roundtable seminar called “Diversity on Campus: Transgender Students.”
Bowditch & Dewey Associate Jennifer L. Garner will be the principal contributor. Garner, a civil litigation attorney, has a long-time interest in the LGBTQ community. A graduate of Suffolk University Law School, she was co-president of the Queer Law Alliance in law school and is a member of the Massachusetts LGBTQ Bar Association.
“Even as members of the LGBTQ community become more assimilated, the law is still catching up, “ said Maria Rockwell, a partner whose practice focuses on probate and domestic relations cases, and who will be a contributing editor to the blog. “We hope to inform blog readers about issues such as division of assets when a same-sex marriage dissolves, or what happens when same-sex spouses seek a divorce in a state that does not recognize such unions.”
Other firm members who will be contributing editors include partners Ariel G. Sullivan, Audrey O’Shaughnessy and Terrence Briggs, and associates AiVi Nguyen, Richard P. Breed IV and Timothy Powell.
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