C. Clifford Allen

C. Clifford Allen was appointed as the seventeenth Reporter of Decisions of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court on April 15, 1994. Mr. Allen has been employed in the field of legal publishing for thirty years. He was first employed as an Associate Editor with the Lawyers Cooperative Publishing Company in Rochester, New York, in 1976, where he wrote annotations that were published in American Law Reports. In 1978, Mr. Allen joined the Equity Publishing Corporation (Equity) in Orford, New Hampshire, where, in 1979, he became Managing Editor. While employed at Equity he edited and headnoted court decisions published in the Vermont Reports, the New Hampshire Reports, and the reports of the Virgin Islands, America Samoa, Guam, and the Trust Territories. While serving as Managing Editor, Mr. Allen began the New Hampshire Practice Series and edited titles covering Criminal and Civil Practice and Procedure. In 1981, he became a staff attorney in the editorial department of the Massachusetts Appeals Court. In 1982, Mr. Allen was appointed Assistant Reporter of Decisions of the Supreme Judicial Court and, in 1987, he was appointed Deputy Reporter of Decisions.

Mr. Allen is a member of the Massachusetts Bar. In 1998-1999, he served as President of the Association of Reporters of Judicial Decisions (ARJD), an international professional organization. For the past three years, he has been the chairperson of the organization's Education Committee. Mr. Allen also serves as co-editor of the Catchline, the newsletter of the ARJD. During the renovation and restoration of the Historic Suffolk County Courthouse, since re-named the John Adams Courthouse, Mr. Allen served as the Supreme Judicial Court's Facilitator on the project, and as a member of the Executive Committee, which was charged with the responsibility of overseeing the progress of the renovation and of developing plans to move into the building.

Mr. Allen is a graduate of Muhlenberg College, in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and of Capital University Law School, in Columbus, Ohio, where he served as Articles Editor of the Capital University Law Review.