Paul Finn, J.D., A. L.M. ’71

President and Chief Executive Officer
Commonwealth Mediation and Conciliation, Inc. (CMCI)
Brockton, Massachusetts

The President and CEO of CMCI, Finn is a full-time mediator and arbitrator who specializes in civil claims, including cleric sexual abuse, medical malpractice, auto tort, general liability, and business disputes. 

Since he established CMCI in 1990, Finn has mediated and/or arbitrated more than 5,000 claims. He also serves as the chief administrator and marketing executive for the company, which employs four full-time employees and has 25 independent mediators/arbitrators. While based in Brockton, CMCI offers services in Boston, Worcester, Springfield, and Hyannis as well as in Connecticut and in Rhode Island.

In 2003, the Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly named Finn as its Lawyer of the Year. Over several editions, the Massachusetts Practice Series has published Finn’s insights on the subject of Mediation and Arbitration.

Prior to CMCI, Finn was a co-founder and partner in Berks and Finn, a Brockton-based five-lawyer general practice firm, from 1977 to 1992.

Long active in Stonehill affairs, Finn is a member of the President’s Council, a supporter of the Joseph Francis Finn Sr. Memorial Scholarship and a former member of the Executive Committee of Development. In his family’s name, he underwrote a room in the MacPhaidin Library as part of the Securing the Vision capital campaign in 1992 to 1997.

In May 2006, the student Saint Thomas More Law Society at Stonehill presented Finn with its annual award in recognition of the positive example that he sets for lawyers and in tribute to his fairness.

Finn graduated from Stonehill in 1971 with a bachelor’s degree in history. He received a J.D. from New England School of Law in 1976 and a master’s degree in government from Harvard University in 1990.

A frequent guest lecturer on legal issues, he is or has been a member of the Plymouth County Bar Association, Boston Bar Association, Massachusetts Bar Association, Massachusetts Academy of Trial Lawyers, Association of Conflict Resolution, Scribes, Massachusetts Bar (1977), Federal District Court (1977), Supreme Court of the United States of America (1988).