Jim McKenna, Author at Pioneer Institute

About Jim McKenna

Jim McKenna is Senior Fellow with PioneerLegal. He has been as Adjunct Teaching Professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute for more than 25 years, where he teaches courses on law and ethics. After serving as a prosecutor for a decade, which service included years in the Organized Crime Division of the Suffolk County (Boston) District Attorney’s Office, McKenna has been in private practice for more than two decades. McKenna is a graduate of the College of the Holy Cross and Boston College Law School.

Entries by Jim McKenna

A Rare Victory for Transparency. Massachusetts Could Use Many More.

May 20, 2021/by Jim McKenna

Massachusetts is in the midst of wrongdoing on an unprecedented scale. Thousands of convictions had to be vacated because of the corruption of state drug laboratory chemists. Thousands more convictions were vacated because of the combined misconduct of the chemists and prosecutors. And still more will be vacated because of the Commonwealth’s repeated and deliberate failures to investigate the extent to which its evidence was compromised.

The Legality of QALY under the ADA

February 10, 2020/by Jim McKenna

This new report outlines several potential legal violations and negative implications for disabled individuals related to the adoption of the quality adjusted life years (QALY) approach to drug value assessment, used most prominently by the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER).