Samuel B. Moskowitz Appointed to Greater Boston Legal Services Executive Committee

July 01, 2011 - Boston, MA
For more information contact: Joanne Thorud
(617) 589-3894; jthorud@davismalm.com

Davis Malm attorney Samuel B. (Sandy) Moskowitz has been elected to the Executive Committee of Greater Boston Legal Services (GBLS). Mr. Moskowitz was also re-elected to a new three-year term as a Director on the organization’s Board of Directors, on which he has served since first being elected in 2008. The Executive Committee is responsible for the general oversight of the organization between Board meetings. Its members are elected by the Board. Mr. Moskowitz had previously served on the Board’s Program Priorities Committee, which reviews and sets the substantive priorities of each of GBLS’s legal work areas.

Since originally being founded in 1900 as the Boston Legal Aid Society, GBLS’s mission has been to provide high-quality legal representation in civil (noncriminal) matters to low-income individuals and families in the Greater Boston area and to advocate for systemic change to alleviate the conditions of poverty. Among other responsibilities, board members determine organizational goals and policies and oversee the overall financial management of the organization. For more information about GBLS, please visit GBLS.org.

Mr. Moskowitz is a Real Estate, Business, and Litigation attorney with over thirty years of experience. He started practice as a legal services attorney with the then Birmingham Area Legal Services Corp. in Birmingham, Alabama (where he is still licensed). Since then, Mr. Moskowitz has continued his pro bono commitment and serves in numerous capacities for different organizations. In addition to his involvement with Greater Boston Legal Services, he is currently the Chair of the Equal Justice Coalition of Massachusetts. He is a past member of the Boston Bar Association Council and the BBA’s Public Service Committee. He is past Chair of the BBA Real Estate Section (1993-1995) and its Condominium and Cooperative Committee (1991-1993). He has also served on the Section’s Steering Committee, as the BBA’s appointee on the Land Court Committee on Registered Land Guidelines and for ten years served as Co-chair of the BBA’s Real Estate Pro Bono Committee, which created and operates the Lawyer for the Day Program at the Boston Housing Court. In recognition of this work, in 2000, Mr. Moskowitz received the Denis Maguire Pro Bono Award and in 2006, the Adams Pro Bono Publico Award from the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.