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The Clients' Security Board consists of seven members of the bar of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts who are appointed by the Supreme Judicial Court to serve as public trustees of the Clients' Security Fund. A portion of the annual fees paid by each member of the bar is allocated to the Fund. Board members manage and distribute the monies in the Fund to members of the public who have sustained a financial loss caused by the dishonest conduct of a member of the bar acting as an attorney or a fiduciary. Board members receive no financial compensation for their time and efforts in performing their duties as Board members.
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Board Members and Staff
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Peter G. DeGelleke, Esq., Chair of the Board effective January 1, 2007, and a Board member since December 2003 is a sole practitioner who specializes in criminal and civil litigation and corporate risk management. His office is in Concord, Massachusetts, where he is of counsel to the firm of McWalter, Barron & Boisvert. Admitted to the Bar in 1977 after graduating from Georgetown Law School, Mr. DeGelleke served two terms as a Hearing Officer for the Board of Bar Overseers, serves as an arbitrator for the Massachusetts Bar Association Fee Arbitration Board, and teaches trial advocacy in the Harvard Law School Trial Advocacy Workshop. A member of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA), he provided pro bono representation to the family of a September 11 victim in making a claim with the Victim Compensation Fund as part of the Trial Lawyers Care program.
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Kathryn A. O'Leary, Esq., Vice Chair effective December 17, 2007, and a Board Member since December 2004, is a trial attorney with the Worcester law firm of Gould & Ettenberg, P.C. since 1997. After graduating from Suffolk University Law School, she worked with Madan and Madan and the Boston office of Day, Berry & Howard. She is a member of the Worcester County Bar Association, Senior Women's Practice Group, and the Concord Attorney Round Table and has participated as a volunteer in the Suffolk and Middlesex County Bench/Bar Committees and the First Circuit Gender and Ethnic Bias Study. Ms. O'Leary is the president of Women's Hoop Dreams, Inc. and plays competitive women's basketball.
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Pamela Jeanne Koehr, Esq., appointed to the Board effective December 1, 2004, serves as the Attorney General's designee on the Board of Appeal on Motor Vehicle Liability Policies and Bonds. Prior to her present position, she managed a general law practice in Lexington for fifteen years. From 1997 until 2004, she served as a hearing officer for the Board of Bar Overseers. Ms. Koehr received her undergraduate degree from Chaminade University (Hawaii) and her J.D. from New England School of Law. She is a member of the Massachusetts Bar Association, the Middlesex County Bar Advocates and also serves as a trial advisor to the Trial Advocacy Workshop at Harvard Law School.
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Thomas O. Bean, Esq., a Board member since November 1, 2005, is a partner in the law firm of McDermott, Will & Emery LLP where he focuses his practice on bankruptcy and commercial litigation. From 1992 through 1998, he served as a Massachusetts Assistant Attorney General in the Government Bureau. He co-chaired the Bankruptcy Section of the Boston Bar Association from 2002 to 2004. He is a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute and a frequent lecturer on bankruptcy topics. Prior to his present position, he was a partner in the law firm of Nutter, McClennen & Fish, LLP in Boston for seven years. He began his legal career at Brown, Rudnick, Freed & Gesmer in 1986.
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Charles W. Goddard, Esq., a Board member since January 1, 2007, has been a partner in the law firm of Goddard, Scuteri & Delaney in Salem, MA, since 1991 where his practice concentrates on civil litigation. Mr. Goddard was a member of the Civil Litigation section of the Massachusetts Bar Association from 1990-1992, and an Essex County Delegate to the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys (1988-1992). He has served as President of the Essex County Bar Association (1990-1992); as Conciliator in the Superior Court since 1988; as a member of the Joint Bar Committee on Judicial Nominations (1989-1991); and on the Judicial Nominating Council (1991-1993). He has served as Chairman of the Board of Selectman of the Town of Manchester (1970-1972) and as Town Council, Manchester, MA (1976-1988). He began his legal career at Avery, Dooley, Post & Avery in 1964 before going into private practice (1970-1988). He was a partner in the law firm of Costello, Frattaroli, Barrett, Gonthier & Goddard, P.C. from 1988-1991. Mr. Goddard is a graduate of Boston College (A.B., 1960) and Boston University School of Law (1963) and was admitted in 1964 to both the Massachusetts Bar and the Federal Bar.
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John J. Egan, appointed to the Board on December 17, 2007, is a partner in the Springfield law firm of Egan, Flanagan and Cohen, P.C. He concentrates his practice in civil litigation. A graduate of the College of the Holy Cross and Boston College Law School, he was admitted to the Bar in 1969. He served as a trial attorney for the Massachusetts Defenders Committee, as an Assistant District Attorney, and as an Assistant Attorney General. He has taught at Western New England Law School and served as an associate editor of the Massachusetts Law Review. He has lectured and written for numerous continuing legal education programs on trial practice in the Massachusetts State and Federal Courts. In 1995, Jack was invited to Fellowship in the American College of Trial Lawyers and for five years served as a member of its State Committee
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Denzil D. McKenzie, a Board member since December 17, 2007, is the managing director/founder of McKenzie & Associates, specialists in civil litigation, estate planning, probate, business law and non-profits. He was a member of the Chapter 180 Task Force of the Boston Bar Association reviewing Mass General Laws relating to non-profit organizations, and a former Massachusetts Assistant Attorney General. He is active on the boards of the Community Impact Committee of the United Way of Massachusetts Bay, the Center for Urban Ministerial Education of Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary, the Massachusetts Family and Probate American Inn of Court, and serves on the Executive Council of Boston University Law School Alumni Association. He lectures for MCLE and Suffolk University's Advanced Legal Studies program. He is a graduate of BU School of Law and studied tax law in the Boston University Graduate Tax Program.
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Michael Fredrickson, Esq., is counsel to the Clients' Security Board. He received his bachelor's degree in English from Macalester College, attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, and did graduate work in English literature at the University of Toronto. After receiving his law degree from Harvard Law School, he worked for over five years as an associate at the Boston law firm of Hill & Barlow before taking his present position with the Clients' Security Board. He also serves as general counsel to the Board of Bar Overseers, the state's lawyer disciplinary agency.
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Karen D. O'Toole, Esq., has been the assistant board counsel to the Clients' Security Board and the associate general counsel to the Board of Bar Overseers since 1989. From 1986 until 1989, Ms. O'Toole was an associate at the Boston firm of Hoch & McHugh practicing maritime law. She received her B.A. from Carnegie-Mellon University, her M.S.W. from the University of Michigan, and her J.D. from Northeastern University.
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Adam M. Lutynski, Esq. became assistant board counsel in 2002 after fourteen years as general counsel and secretary to an NYSE-listed technology solutions company. He is also a former public defender, legal aid lawyer and law school instructor. B.S., Loyola University (Chicago) - J.D., University of Chicago Law School.
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