"e-Pals" Program with Monument High School in South Boston
Robinson & Cole's Boston office has an ongoing partnership with Monument High School in South Boston. Lawyers and staff participate in a wide variety of programs to benefit the students, including an "e-Pals" program, mock trial, career fairs, and classroom events. The e-Pals program matches students in a 9th grade honors English class with R&C lawyers and staff. Everyone in the program reads Of Mice and Men and Romeo & Juliet then each pair of e-Pals exchanges emails about the books, discussing the topics covered in the classroom. Both students and R&C participants enjoy the program, and the classroom teacher reported that it increased the students' enthusiasm for writing, helped students become more comfortable expressing their thoughts about the book, and raised the students' awareness that there is often more than one legitimate point of view on an issue.

Robinson & Cole won two awards from the New England Chapter of the Legal Marketing Association for its participation in the e-Pal Program. Competing against all other law firms in New England, R&C received a first place Community Relations award for e-Pals and an overall Best in Show award for this program.

Mock Trial is part of educational training for Boston High School Students
Robinson & Cole attorneys coach Boston high school students from Monument High School throughout the year on many aspects of getting the most out of a higher education and developing career skills. One of the highlights for students and our lawyers is the Mock Trial where everyone enters the court room, in this case at Suffolk Law School.
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The Massachusetts Horticultural Society
Robinson & Cole has sponsored the Massachusetts Horticultural Society's New England Spring Flower Show Preview Party for the last several years. The annual flower show attracts over 150,000 attendees. Other distinguished event sponsors have included Mercedes-Benz and The Boston Globe. Billed as the "hottest ticket in town," the private viewing of the flower show lets Robinson & Cole's attorneys and clients, along with other prominent Boston philanthropists, politicians and members of the business community, enjoy an evening of mingling. Eric Daniels, managing partner of Robinson & Cole, officially opened a recent show along with Boston's Mayor Thomas Menino, who proclaimed the beginning of Spring in New England.

Walk for Hunger
Since 1989, employees at our firm have walked to raise money to stock 400 food pantries, school breakfast programs, food shelters and kitchens in Massachusetts.

Pan Mass Challenge
For more than 10 years, Robinson & Cole lawyers have participated in this annual 192-mile bicycle ride from Sturbridge to Provincetown, Massachusetts, to raise funds for the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and the Jimmy Fund. Our efforts have raised more than $50,000.

The Dana-Farber Marathon Challenge
Dana-Farber Marathon Challenge (DFMC) members run the 26.2-mile Boston Marathon while helping to raise funds for cancer research. A DFMC member for eight years, one Robinson & Cole attorney has raised more than $25,000 for cancer research.

Boston Marathon© Jimmy Fund Walk
Robinson & Cole employees have participated in the Jimmy Fund Walk, which since 1989 has raised more than $18 million for cancer research and treatment for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Boston Cares Corporate Volunteer Day
Robinson & Cole employees have raised money and helped clean and repair our community, most recently at a homeless shelter for the elderly in Boston's South End.

Boston Bar Foundation
Robinson & Cole lawyers have volunteered for the BBF's summer jobs and classroom programs, teaching school children about the law through mock trials and talking to them about civil rights.

Boston Private Industry Council
As career day participants, Robinson & Cole lawyers talk with schoolchildren about the legal profession and being a lawyer.