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 to the Massachusetts
Commission on Judicial Conduct. Ms. Finegan, who was appointed by Chief
Judge Mulligan of the Administrative Trial Court, will be one of nine members of
the Commission, each of whom serves for six years.
The Commission on Judicial Conduct ("CJC") is the state agency responsible
for investigating complaints of judicial misconduct against state court judges
and for recommending, when necessary, discipline of judges to the Supreme
Judicial Court. All fifty states and the District of Columbia have judicial
conduct agencies to investigate allegations of judicial misconduct and
disability that prevent judges from properly performing their judicial
duties.
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 Judicial Nominating Commission, Co-Chair of
the Boston Bar Association's Delivery of Legal Services Section and a member of
the Boston Bar Associations' Task Force on Expanding the Civil Right to
Counsel. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Women's Bar
Foundation. In 2006, she was appointed to 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.
Ms. Finegan received her B.A. from Dartmouth College and her J.D. from Boston
College