Boston College and Boston University graduates who both later passed through Suffolk University Law School are poised to join the bench after they were nominated for judgeships Wednesday by Gov. Charlie Baker.
Brian Walsh, senior legal counsel at Arbella Insurance Group, was nominated for a District Court judgeship. Maureen Flaherty, a criminal defense attorney, was selected by Baker to join the Boston Municipal Court.
Walsh, who graduated from Boston University in 1990 and Suffolk Law in 1995, has worked at Arbella since 2005. After starting his career at Gallagher and Gallagher, and then at Burns and Levenson, Walsh became an assistant district attorney in Suffolk County for a short stint in 1999. Between 2000 and 2005, he worked at Zevnik Horton and then at Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo.
Flaherty graduated from Boston College in 1988 and from Suffolk Law in 1995. For the past eight years, she has practiced law in Boston Municipal Court and the Appeals Court, focusing on criminal defense, as well as estate planning, real estate conveyancing, and reviewing contracts.
Flaherty spent five years in the Suffolk County sheriff’s office as director of inmate legal services and then as assistant general counsel. She worked as a solo practitioner from 2001 to 2012, before joining the Massachusetts Committee for Public Counsel Services (CPCS) as a staff attorney, where she represented indigent defendants in the Roxbury and West Roxbury municipal courts.
