Milton Bordwin

Professional and Community Involvements •In 1992 he founded and until 1998 was Editor of The Bordwin Letter (Preventive Law for Business), a plain-English monthly newsletter focusing on legal risks facing business and Recommendations for avoiding them

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How to Make the Other Side Perform the Contract-

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With subscribers in 35 states and four foreign countries in a broad variety of businesses and institutions, it became the nation's foremost plain-English preventive-law publication to business

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TBL has been noted or received favorable mention or had its articles reprinted in many business publications, including The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, INC

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His single issue article on employment law issues, AIDS - The Disease for Which You Call Your Lawyer was reprinted in both the Minnesota and Oregon State Bar Journals

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•Bordwin served (1993-2000) as Legal Editor of the monthly magazine of the American Management Association International, Management Review, regularly contributing articles (50+) on the legal risks facing business and recommendations for avoiding them

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Part 2: How are performance appraisals like time bombs? Part 3: How can the mere timing of a discharge land you in court? Part 4: Should you ask your employee to sign a release? Part 5: The ex-employer's tight-wire act: The request for a reference

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- Plus about 50 specific *Recommendations for employers

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•Several of his newsletter and magazine articles are used as teaching materials in a number of schools including Harvard Business School, New York University, Brandeis Graduate School of International Finance and Economics and University of Kiev

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Articles are also reprinted in business journals in China, Japan, Taiwan, Argentina, Spain and Portugal

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•Bordwin wrote a definitive article, Escalation and Commercial Leasing, in the early stages of the expense-escalation provisions in office leases for New England Real Estate Directory

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•In early days of Internet startups, he developed an experimental Website designed for serialized periodic updates with cases of interest and useful to business, The Lazy Judge who presided over The Virtual Courthouse

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(4 beta episodes) •Bordwin's last published article appeared in the March 2005 issue of Medical Diagnostic & Device Industry magazine, entitled Factoring the Law into Medical Device Design

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The article proposed that, given the product-liability legal exposure faced by medical device manufacturers in the USA, a lawyer familiar with the applicable legal principles should be involved at the design phase of a medical device

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market outweighed any benefit, and we [C&D editors] find it hard to disagree

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•He was a founding member and later served as Chair of the Massachusetts Bar Association's Preventive Law Committee for the Association's Business Law Council

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He is a founding member of the American Bar Association's Task Force on Preventive Law

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He is also a member of the Boston Bar Association and former member of the Computer Law Association

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•Bordwin has been named as one of the 100 Massachusetts (Business) Super Lawyers in past years by Boston Magazine's Survey of the Profession

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He was named a 2013 Top Rated Lawyer in Technology Law by The American Lawyer, Corporate Counsel and Corporate Counsel magazines

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•Bordwin has lectured on business law issues to a number of industry/trade organizations on Preventive Law for Business issues

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•He was interviewed on National Public Radio in connection with his Preventive Law work and publications

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•Bordwin participated and chaired continuing legal education seminars sponsored by Massachusetts Bar Association on leasing and other real estate topics

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•He was featured speaker to 300 Human Resource Executives at American Management Association International's publication, HR Review , annual program

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•Bordwin presented a Preventive Law Program ( Is There a Lawyer in the House? ) for INC

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magazine's annual program, Growing Your Company

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•Responding to request from Time-Life , he produced materials for a planned Law for Business People program/website, etc

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[T-L program was never produced]

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•He has participated as a panelist on several cable television programs on legal issues involved in sexual harassment preventive law practices preserving limited liability for the small/medium size-business legal owner etc

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•Bordwin co-wrote, produced and played the part of the advisor-lawyer in Commonwealth Films' training video, Copyrights and Copy Wrongs, focusing on the consequences of illegal copying of software

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•He organized an all-day firm seminar, Legal Issues for the Hospitality Industry and presented the keynote speech at that session

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•Bordwin spoke at a firm seminar on the newly adopted Americans With Disabilities Act with a keynote entitled Americans With and Without Disabilities Act - a Warning to Business

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•As firm managing partner, Bordwin organized a monthly series of mid-day client presentations on legal issues of concern to small/medium size businesses, called Lunch With The Lawyers with a major focus on the then newly developing employment-law problems

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Bordwin is former Chairman of his law firm's managing Executive Committee

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He is a veteran of the U

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Army, having served in Vienna, Austria and in Germany, where he rose to the rank of Private First Class

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He lives in Boston

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His late wife, Henny, was a pianist, teacher and musicologist and Founder/President of The American Schubert Institute

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They have three grown children

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