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2011 Annual Meeting Our Guest of Honor: Neil Chayet, J.D.When: October 13, 2011
LOOKING BACK IN TIME: A CONVERSATION WITH PRESIDENT LINCOLN Neil Chayet, J.D. * Host of CBS/WBZ’s “Looking at the Law”
What would President Lincoln have to say about the events of our day? Join Neil Chayet as he talks with our 16th President in the year celebrating Mr. Lincoln’s 202nd birthday and the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the Civil War. Travel along with Neil as he goes from looking at the law to looking back in time ---for a conversation with Mr. Lincoln, and a riveting discussion of the issues of the day----his and ours.
About our Guest *Neil Chayet is best known for Looking at the Law™, a daily radio feature nationally syndicated by CBS and heard locally on WBZ News Radio 1030 AM. (The feature is in its 35th year and Neil has recently broadcast his 8,700th program). In addition, Neil has appeared on numerous television shows, including Oprah Winfrey, Montel Williams, Dick Cavett, House Party, Nightline, and WBZ-TV News. He is the author of four books and more than 60 articles and chapters.
Neil is a graduate of Tufts University and the Harvard Law School, and has been a member of the Massachusetts Bar since 1963. He is President of Chayet Communications Group, Inc. and a member of the faculty of the Harvard Medical School. He is also a member of the faculty of the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University, and serves on the Boards of the Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service at Tufts, the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research at MIT, and MassINC. He is a member of the Visiting Committee of the Phillips Library of the Peabody Essex Museum, the Board of Overseers of the U.S.S. Constitution Museum, the Massport Security Advisory Council, and is President of the Harvard Law School Association of Massachusetts.
Neil and his wife Martha live in the recently restored Joseph Story House on the Salem Common, built in 1811—the same year Joseph Story was appointed by President Madison to the U.S. Supreme Court. The house, which is heated and cooled by geothermal energy, is the first National Historic Landmark residence to be awarded LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Certification by the U.S. Green Building Council, and was also recently named to the National Park Service’s Underground Railroad Network to Freedom. Neil narrated Aaron Copeland’s Lincoln Portrait at Derby Wharf in Salem on July 4, 2011, and previously, at Symphony Hall with the Boston Pops.
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