June 24, 2019

Community Legal Aid Attorney Dana Doyle Named President of Berkshire Bar Association

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 19, 2019

Contact: Thomas Navin, Development Director
Community Legal Aid 
Phone: (413) 727-7115
Email: tnavin@cla-ma.org

Community Legal Aid Attorney Dana Doyle Named President of Berkshire Bar Association

Community Legal Aid wishes to congratulate Staff Attorney Dana Doyle who was elected as the next President of the Berkshire County Bar Association at the Association’s annual meeting held on May 15, 2019. Doyle’s two-year term will begin on September 1, 2019.

Attorney Doyle, a Pittsfield resident, is a certified mediator, certified conciliator, collaborative law attorney, parenting coordinator, and guardian ad litem investigator, and has been a member of the Massachusetts Bar since 1998.

Prior to joining the family law unit at Community Legal Aid in 2017, she spent 15 years in private practice as a solo practitioner and an associate at several law firms in Berkshire County. Attorney Doyle began her law career at Community Legal Aid’s predecessor organization, Western Massachusetts Legal Services, where she was employed from 1998-2002.

Attorney Doyle has been actively involved in the Berkshire County Bar Association since she first moved to Pittsfield in 1998.  She has served on the executive committee of the bar association since 2009 and also serves on the Probate and Family Court Bench/Bar committee (chairperson from 2003-2011).

Of her plans as President, Attorney Doyle said “I am hoping to build on the work of past presidents, while offering increased opportunities for the current membership.  Presently our membership consists of approximately 150 attorneys and judges. I value the camaraderie and the opportunity to meet and work with lawyers from all walks of the profession that our Bar Association provides, as, well as the feeling that we do makes a difference.”

Attorney Doyle previously served as a member of the Pittsfield Licensing Board and served on the Board of Directors of the Elizabeth Freeman Center (president from ’06-’08) and the Massachusetts Justice Project.

Community Legal Aid (CLA) is the non-profit civil legal aid program providing free civil (non-criminal) legal help for the low-income and elderly residents of Central and Western Massachusetts. With full-time offices in Pittsfield, Fitchburg, Northampton, Springfield, and Worcester, CLA helps people access safe and stable housing; get unemployment, disability and other benefits to stabilize their income; break free from domestic violence; and obtain needed services in school.  Community Legal Aid works to assure fairness for all in the justice system, protecting homes, livelihoods, health and families.

For more information on Community Legal Aid, please visit www.communitylegal.org.