Susan M. Finegan
Member
Sue is a nationally recognized pro bono pioneer, currently serving as chair of Mintz’s Pro Bono Committee, and the first-ever pro bono partner at the firm, appointed in 2007. As a partner in the firm’s litigation section, she, Sue serves as lead counsel on numerous high profile pro bono litigation matters. She also manages the firm’s pro bono efforts, consisting of over 300 varied cases annually throughout all of the firm’s offices. From 2004 to 2007, Sue was legal director of the Victim Rights Law Center, overseeing free statewide civil legal services to sexual assault survivors and providing training to legal aid attorneys nationally. She previously worked at Mintz, as an associate and a partner, after clerking in the US District Court and Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. She is an accomplished nonprofit Board member, serving currently as the Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees of Dartmouth College. Sue previously served as Chair of the Commission on Judicial Conduct, Chair of the Supreme Judicial Court’s Standing Committee on Pro Bono Legal Services, Co-Chair of the Access to Justice Commission, and a member of the Judicial Nominating Commission. . Sue is a co-founder of the Access to Justice Fellows Program, in which over 200 retired lawyers and judges have performed over 200,000 pro bono hours at legal aid organizations and the courts. At the BBA, Sue is a former member of the BBA Council, a former member of the Delivery of Legal Services Section Committee, and a former member of the Civil Right to Counsel Task Force Sue is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Boston College Law School.