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SJC REAPPOINTS MEMBERS
TO THE IOLTA COMMITTEE
Boston, MA --- The Justices
of the Supreme Judicial Court today announced the reappointments
of attorneys John W. Delaney of Dedham, Anthony M. Doniger
of Boston, and Elaine M. Epstein of Sharon to the Massachusetts
IOLTA (Interest on Lawyers' Trust Accounts) Committee for
three-year terms, expiring on December 31, 2007.
The
nine-member IOLTA Committee oversees the operation of the
IOLTA program, which requires lawyers and law firms to
establish interest-bearing accounts for nominal, short-term
client funds. Established by the Supreme Judicial Court
in 1992, the IOLTA Committee supervises the receipt of
all IOLTA funds and their disbursement to several charitable
entities designed to improve the administration of justice
and support the delivery of civil legal services to the
poor.
John
W. Delaney was originally appointed to the Committee in
February 2004 to serve the remainder of an unexpired term.
Attorney Delaney is a partner in the Boston office of Wilmer
Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, and serves as chair
of the Government Relations practice. His professional
affiliations include the Boston Bar Association Council,
the Board of Directors of the New England Legal Foundation,
the Executive Committee of the Massachusetts Taxpayers
Foundation, the Board of Trustees of the Boston Municipal
Research Bureau, and the Government Affairs Committee of
the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, where he serves
as co-chair and sits on the Board of Directors. He is also
a member of the Advisory Council of The Trustees Of Reservations
and chairs the Public Issues Committee. Attorney Delaney
received an A.B. degree, magna cum laude, from Harvard
College and a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School.
Anthony
M. Doniger is a senior partner at Sugarman, Rogers, Barshak & Cohen,
P.C. First appointed to the Committee in 1995, he currently
serves as chair. A Fellow of the American College of Trial
Lawyers, he has held leadership positions in numerous professional
and civic organizations, including the Boston Bar Association,
the Legal Advocacy and Resource Center, and the American
Civil Liberties Union, where he served as both General
Counsel and President. He has served as treasurer of the
Boston Bar Association and was the founding chair of the
BBA's Individual Rights and Responsibilities Section and
the Access to Justice Standing Committee of the Boston
Bar Association Council. Attorney Doniger served as Trustee
of the Boston Bar Foundation from 1997 to 1999 and was
a member of the Board of Bar Overseers Hearing Committee
for six years. He has taught in the Harvard Law School
Trial Advocacy Program and lectured in Law at Babson College
Graduate School of Business Administration. Attorney Doniger
received his bachelor's degree from Oxford University and
his law degree from Harvard Law School.
A
partner at the Boston law firm of Todd & Weld LLP,
Elaine M. Epstein was appointed to the IOLTA Committee
in 1999 to complete an unexpired term and was reappointed
in 2001 to a full term. Attorney Epstein focuses her practice
on family law and probate litigation. She is a member and
past president of the Massachusetts Bar Association and
a member and past president of the Women's Bar Association.
She also served on the Board of Bar Overseers for four
years, and currently sits on the Supreme Judicial Court
Advisory Committee on Rules of Professional Conduct. She
is a member of the American Bar Association, the Boston
Bar Association, the Bar Association of Norfolk County,
and the Plymouth County Bar Association. For four years,
she served as a Trustee of the Massachusetts Bar Foundation
where she was an Oliver Wendell Holmes Fellow. A sustaining
member of the Women's Bar Foundation and a Fellow of the
American Bar Foundation, Attorney Epstein is a recipient
of the Leila Robinson Award of the Women's Bar Association
and a recipient of Distinguished Service and Gold Medal
Awards from the Plymouth County Bar Association. She holds
a B.A. degree from the University of Pennsylvania, an M.A.
degree from Yale University, and a J.D. degree from Northeastern
University School of Law.
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