Currently the incoming Secretary of the Massachusetts Bar Association (MBA), Marsha Kazarosian was named by Massachusetts Super Lawyers Magazine as one of the top Lawyers in Massachusetts for the fourth consecutive year.  She has been identified as one of the top 50 Women Lawyers in MA, one of the top 100 Lawyers in MA, and of the top attorneys in Family Law and Personal Injury Litigation.  In 2006, she was Massachusetts Super Lawyers Magazine’s cover story, featuring her career biography and her climb to national recognition. Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly also named Marsha as one of Massachusetts' Top 10 Lawyers, also noting that she obtained one of the 10 highest jury verdicts in the Commonwealth in 1999. Over the past two decades she has built a national practice representing clients in high profile media cases, setting precedent on issues such as gender and disability discrimination.  Attorney Kazarosian is a past President of the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys (MATA).  Prior to being nominated as Secretary of the MBA for the 2010-2011 year, she served Vice President in 2008-2009 and currently sits on the Joint Bar Committee for Judicial Appointments, the Nominating Committee, the Executive Management Board, and the Family Law Section Council.  In June, 2002, she became the second female President in the history of the Essex County Bar Association; the oldest bar association in the nation.  In 1999, Attorney Kazarosian and her associate, Janet E. Dutcher, Esquire, successfully sued the Haverhill Golf and Country Club for gender discrimination, the first case of its kind to go to trial in the country, winning a multi-million dollar verdict.  Due to its national impact on women's rights and women in sports, particularly in golf, the case has been covered in print by the NY Times, the Boston Globe, the Boston Herald, Sports Illustrated, Business Week, and Golf Digest, among many other national publications.  It has also received widespread coverage in broadcast and cable media. In 1990, she represented Vance Lattime, Jr., one of the three young defendants in what was the first fully televised trial on broadcast television, the Pamela Smart murder case. Thereafter, she represented all three defendants in an innovative civil action against the Winnacunnet High School, the school that employed Pame Smart at the time of the murder, for negligent supervision of their employee.  The case was covered in an episode of the Oxygen Network series Snapped, in which Attorney Kazarosian provided commentary as trial counsel. The national attention of the murder case inspired tremendous media coverage, including two movies; one with Helen Hunt entitled "Murder in New Hampshire, The Pamela Smart Case", and one with Nicole Kidman entitled "To Die For".  It has also been the subject of an episode of American Justice.In April 2005, Marsha debuted as the host of her own weekly internet radio program called The Power of Attorney with Marsha Kazarosian on the Legal Talk Network, in which she and her guests discuss relevant legal issues as they unfold in our everyday lives. The shows are available for listening and downloading at http://www.legaltalknetwork.com.Having tried cases since 1983, Attorney Kazarosian has developed a wide range of expertise in the areas of discrimination and harassment, divorce and family law, and criminal and civil litigation. Although she is admitted in both MA and NH, she has also litigated cases in West Virginia and Maine.