Finnegan named to MSIC, CSTCA boards
John D. Finnegan, of counsel at Tarlow, Breed, Hart &
Rodgers PC in Boston, was recently appointed to two statewide
boards.
Finnegan joins the Massachusetts Credit Union Share Insurance
Corp. (MSIC) board of directors and was re-elected to the executive
board of the City Solicitors and Town Counsel Association of
Massachusetts (CSTCA).
MSIC, which provides excess deposit insurance to credit unions
throughout Massachusetts, insures nearly $1 billion of credit union
members' deposits for 76 state-chartered and 22 federally chartered
credit unions in the state. As a director, Finnegan will assist in
setting the general direction and control of the affairs of the
corporation.
The CSTCA is the oldest and largest bar association in
Massachusetts dedicated to the practice of municipal law. CSTCA
members provide legal services to cities and towns or otherwise
devote a substantial portion of their practice to the advancement
of municipal law. The executive board of the CSTCA generally
controls the conduct of the association's affairs.
Finnegan, a member of his firm's litigation group, concentrates
his practice on creditors' rights in bankruptcy, business
litigation, tax lien foreclosures, construction litigation and real
estate litigation. He represents banking and financial services
companies, as well as individuals, and serves as special counsel to
a number of Massachusetts municipalities. Finnegan, who was named a
Massachusetts Rising Star for 2005 through 2010 by Boston
magazine, earned his bachelor's degree from the University of
Massachusetts and his J.D. from Suffolk University Law
School.
Past-President Budd appointed chairman of AAA
board
Wayne A. Budd, a past-president of the Massachusetts Bar
Association (1979-80), was elected to a two-year term as chairman
of motor club AAA's national board of directors in April.
Budd was first elected to the board of directors of AAA
Massachusetts in 1982, and has served on the regional board
(consolidated as AAA Southern New England in 1997) since. He joined
the national board in 2005 and became vice chairman in 2009.
The national board of directors is the governing body of the 48
AAA clubs in the United States and Canada, which totals more than
52 million members. The board meets a half-dozen times a year to
determine the direction of the 48-member federation.
Budd is a senior counsel in Goodwin Procter LLP's Litigation
Department, where he specializes in business and commercial
litigation. Previously, he was an associate attorney general of the
United States, and the U.S. attorney for the District of
Massachusetts, serving as the state's chief federal prosecutor and
representing the federal government in all matters involving civil
litigation.