BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Susan M. Finegan, a member of the Litigation Practice and Chair of the Pro Bono Committee of Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C., has been appointed by the Supreme Judicial Court to the Massachusetts Access to Justice Commission and as the Commission liaison to the Supreme Judicial Court’s Standing Committee on Pro Bono Legal Services. Ms. Finegan, who was appointed by Chief Justice Ireland of the Supreme Judicial Court, will be one of twenty three members on the Access to Justice Commission, each of whom serves for three years.
The Massachusetts Access to Justice Commission was created in 2005 by an order of the Supreme Judicial court to provide leadership, vision and coordination to the multitude of organizations and interests involved in assuring access to civil justice for the low-income families and individuals in the Commonwealth. As the liaison to the SJC’s Standing Committee on Pro Bono Legal Services, Ms. Finegan will work with the group to promote volunteer legal work in Massachusetts to help people of limited means who are in need of legal representation, in accordance with the Massachusetts Rules of Professional Conduct.
Ms. Finegan, whose firm responsibilities now focus exclusively on managing the firm wide pro bono program, previously handled complex commercial, white collar, defamation, land use, and insurance defense matters in both state and federal trial and appellate courts.
Ms. Finegan is also a member of the Commission on Judicial Conduct, the Judicial Nominating Commission, co-Chair of the Boston Bar Association's Delivery of Legal Services Section, a member of the Boston Bar Association’s Task Force on Expanding the Civil Right to Counsel, and a member of the Massachusetts Trial Court's Gender Equality Advisory Board. In 2009 she received the Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly "Women of Justice" award.
In addition to her work on the Pro Bono Committee, Ms. Finegan is a member of the firm's Diversity Committee, a member of the Boston Office Hiring Committee, and the chair of the Litigation Section's Associate Development, Evaluation, and Advancement Committee.
She received her B.A. from Dartmouth College and her J.D. from Boston College.
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