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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
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Kathryn A. O'Leary, Esq.,
Chair effective November 12,
2008, 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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Charles W. Goddard,
Esq., Vice Chair effective November 12, 2008, and 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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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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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
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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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Edward S. Cheng, a Board Member since December 1, 2008, is a partner in the law firm of Sherin and Lodgen LLP where he is co-chair of the Professional Liability Group. He specializes in complex commercial disputes, professional malpractice cases, insurance coverage disputes and real estate litigation. Mr. Cheng serves on the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Lawyers' Professional Liability, as a Hearing Officer for the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers, as Co-chair of the Administration of Justice Section of the Boston bar Association and as treasurer of the Asian-American Lawyers Association of Massachusetts. Mr. Cheng frequently writes and speaks on legal malpractice law for many organizations, including the Boston, Massachusetts and American Bar Associations. Prior to his present position, he was with the law firm of Hill & Barlow. Mr. Cheng is a graduate of Princeton University and Boston college Law School, magna cum laude.
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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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