Edward W. McIntyre and the Honorable Geoffrey A. Wilson (ret.) have been appointed by the Supreme Judicial Court to serve initial three-year terms on the Massachusetts Interest on Lawyers’ Trust Accounts (IOLTA) Committee as representatives of the Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corporation (MLAC).
The SJC also re-appointed Lauren Barnes for a second three-year term representing the Boston Bar Foundation and Margaret J. Hurley for a second three-year term representing that Massachustts Bar Foundation.
The IOLTA Committee uses the interest generated on attorneys’ bank accounts holding client funds to provide funding for civil legal aid programs and access to justice initiatives throughout the Commonwealth.
Edward W. McIntyre is the Mediator-Arbitrator of McIntyre Mediation, where he has focused on alternative dispute resolution since 2008. He is also a solo practitioner with decades of experience in civil litigation, specifically cases involving serious and life-altering injuries. He is a current member of the Massachusetts Trial Court Department’s Standing Committee on Alternative Dispute Resolution and of the MLAC board, and a former President of the Massachusetts Bar Association. He served as an officer in the US Army and is a Vietnam combat veteran.
Geoffrey A. Wilson retired in 2014 as the Presiding Justice from the Franklin County Probate and Family Court, where he served on the Pro Se Committee. Before his appointment to the bench, he was a legal services lawyer for two years in Alaska and Western Massachusetts and worked in private practice in Greenfield for many years. He is a member of the MLAC board. He previously served on the board, including as chair, of Western Massachusetts Legal Services (WMLS), which was later consolidated into Community Legal Aid.