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BBA Announces New President
Anthony M. Doniger, a trial lawyer who chairs the Business Litigation department at the Boston law firm of Sugarman, Rogers, Barshak & Cohen, will take office as President of the Boston Bar Association on September 1, 2007. He will become the 86th President of the BBA, succeeding Jack Cinquegrana of Choate, Hall & Stewart. Doniger holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School, where he was a member of the Harvard Civil Rights Civil Liberties Law Review, and a B.A. from Oxford University. During his more than 30 years in practice, he has honed a reputation as the ultimate citizen lawyer, and for years has taken a leadership role in advancing access to justice and civil rights and civil liberties. As incoming BBA President, one of Doniger’s first acts has been to constitute a Task Force on Civil Right to Counsel. Because the BBA's governing Council has already endorsed the American Bar Association’s resolution on a right to counsel for low income persons in civil proceedings where basic human needs are at stake, and because Massachusetts already has a number of areas in which there is such a civil right to counsel, the Task Force’s role will be to develop a game plan for expanding and making comprehensive the right in certain critical areas. Doniger has also pledged his unwavering support for a multi-year initiative launched by his predecessor in 2006 to address the need for greater ethnic and racial diversity in the legal profession. The BBA Diversity Leadership Task Force, consisting of highly respected leaders coming from all segments of the legal profession, will continue its work in determining what role the BBA can play in facilitating progress. Doniger chairs the Massachusetts IOLTA Committee, the body appointed by the Supreme Judicial Court to supervise the collection of all IOLTA funds and their disbursement to several charitable entities designed to improve the administration of justice and support the delivery of legal services to the poor. The founding Chair of the BBA's Individual Rights and Responsibilities Section, Doniger served on the Board of Directors of the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts for nearly two decades, and has also served as the organization’s President and General Counsel. Doniger is an elected fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, and also of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers. He is Co-Author of Massachusetts Litigation Forms and Analysis (3 volumes) (Thomson/West, 1995 and 2006). The Boston Bar Association has 9,000 members and is driven by its mission of promoting the highest standards of excellence for the legal profession, facilitating access to justice, and serving the community at large. |
