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Lawyers Weekly's second annual Battle of the Lawyers event includes closing arguments from top trial attorneys in some of the most famous cases in recent state history. A panel of celebrity jurors renders a verdict at the end of the evening. A portion of the proceeds from the event go to the Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education's campaign for endowed scholarship.

2006 Battle of the Lawyers features Mary Bonauto, who re-creates the oral argument in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health, the historic case that made Massachusetts the first state to recognize same-sex marriage; Richard Grundy, who prosecuted the murder case against Dr. Dirk Greineder, a physician found to have killed his wife after leading a double life involving secret relationships over the Internet; Joan Lukey, who re-creates her closing in the startling Ayash v. The Boston Globe case, where The Globe, refusing to reveal its source, was found to have libeled a doctor by suggesting that she was responsible for a fatal drug overdose; Raymond Veary, who prosecuted the case involving an infamous 1983 gang rape at Big Dan's in New Bedford. This was the case that inspired the Jodie Foster film The Accused. Judges include football great Darren Flutie, Greater Boston host Emily Rooney, Sen. Jarrett T. Barrios, former Superior Court Chief Justice Suzanne V. DelVecchio, 2005 Battle of the Lawyers champion J.W. Carney, former television anchor Brian Leary, political radio personality Marjorie Clapprood, and Former Lt. Gov. Tom O'Neill.