Dartmouth Events

Livestream Link: https://dartgo.org/legalcareers

Sue Finegan ’85
Pro Bono Partner, Mintz

Judge John Mott ’81
Mediator, Arbitrator, Title IX Adjudicator, & Special Master, JAMS
Ret. Judge, DC Superior Court

David Lieberman
Attorney, Dept. of Justice

Host: Herschel Nachlis
Asst. Director, Rockefeller Ctr.

Moderator: Julie Kalish ’91
Lecturer

A distinguished panel of Dartmouth alumni & legal practitioners share insights and answer questions. Julie Kalish & Herschel Nachlis will moderate, and much of the discussion will focus on student questions.  

Sue Finegan is a litigation partner, and Pro Bono Committee Chair, at the law firm Mintz. Sue has been a tireless and innovative advocate for low-income people in Mass. and nationally. Appointed the firm’s first pro bono partner, Sue serves as lead counsel on numerous high-profile pro bono litigation matters. She also manages the firm’s pro bono efforts. She has served as Co-Chair of the Mass. Access to Justice Comm., Chair of the Mass. Judicial Conduct Comm., Chair of the Mass. Supreme Judicial Court’s Pro Bono Committee, and a member of the Mass. Judicial Nominating Comm. Sue currently serves as Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees of Dartmouth. From 2004-07, Sue was the legal director of the Victim Rights Law Ctr, overseeing free civil legal services to sexual assault survivors and providing training to advocates nationally. While previously at Mintz, as an assoc. and then a partner, she handled complex commercial litigation in both state and federal trial and appellate courts.

Judge Mott has spent his career in public service and in the courtroom, working for individual liberty, civil rights, and justice. After graduation from Northeastern Law School, he represented indigent defendants as a staff attorney and supervisor at the Public Defender Service for DC, a national leader in indigent defense. From 1995–2000, Judge Mott investigated and prosecuted hate crime, police brutality, & involuntary servitude cases around the US as a Senior Trial Attorney & Dep. Chief for the Criminal Section of the Civil Rights Div. of the US Dept.of Justice. As Acting Chief, Judge Mott supervised the daily operations of the Section, approved all prosecutions, helped to create the Task Force on Violence Against Health Care Providers, & worked on legislative matters including the Hate Crime bill.

In 2000, Judge Mott was appointed to the Superior Court for DC by Pres. Clinton where he presided over hundreds of family, criminal, & civil cases, including dozens of jury trials. Judge Mott currently works at JAMS, an international ADR (alternative dispute resolution) firm, where he serves as a mediator, arbitrator, & Title IX adjudicator on cases from around the country and conducts neutral case analysis.

David Lieberman is an appellate attorney at the Dept. of Justice’s Criminal Div. in Washington, DC.  He has also served as Appellate Counsel to the US Attorney’s Office in Washington, DC; Deputy Counsel to the Vice Pres. at the White House; & Deputy Solicitor General for the State of Ohio.

Herschel Nachlis is Research Asst. Prof. in the Dept. of Govt. and Senior Policy Fellow and Asst. Dir. in the Rockefeller Ctr..

Julie Kalish '91 holds a Masters degree from University College, London & a JD from Vt Law School. She has taught at Vt Law School and Dartmouth, where she taught writing before moving over to the Rockefeller Ctr, where her courses focus on the intersections between communication, policy, law, and society building.