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DENIS MAGUIRE; LAWYER GAVE HIS ALL TO PRO BONO WORK
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Real estate work was Denis Maguire's bread and butter, but pro
bono work was his passion.
"A lot of lawyers devote some part of their time to pro bono work,
but he devoted much of his life to it," Alex H. MacDonald, a member
of the board of directors of Greater Boston Legal Services, said
yesterday.
Mr. Maguire, a former partner of the Boston law firm of Harrison &
Maguire and secretary of Boston Five Cents Savings Bank, died of a
stroke Nov. 14 in Maine General Medical Center in...
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