Mintz Levin Attorney Susan M. Finegan Elected Boston Bar Association Council Member
8/8/2011
Boston, MA – 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 elected a member of the Boston Bar Association (BBA) Council. Ms. Finegan’s three year term will begin on September 1, 2011.
The Boston Bar Association Council is in essence the board of directors of the BBA. As of September 1, the council will consist of 34 members: five officers, the immediate past-president of the BBA, the President of the Bar Foundation, and 27 members at large. The council’s charge is to ensure that the BBA does the best work possible in pursuit of its goals, to act as a responsible steward of the mission and purpose of the BBA, and to work in good faith with staff and other Council members as partners toward achievement of the association’s goals.
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 a member of the Massachusetts Judicial Nominating Commission, the Massachusetts Access to Justice Commission, the Commission on Judicial Conduct, and is an ex officio member of the Supreme Judicial Court’s Standing Committee on Pro Bono Legal Services. She is a member of the Boston Bar Associations’ Task Force on Expanding the Civil Right to Counsel and formerly served as co-Chair to the Boston Bar Association’s Delivery of Legal Services Section. 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.
