Harvey Weiner

Harvey Weiner was the Chairman of the Litigation Department at Peabody & Arnold LLP, where he practiced civil litigation for over 47 years. He concentrated his practice in the defense of lawyers, of credit unions, and of insurers in complex insurance coverage litigation around the country. He was Best Lawyers Boston Insurance Law Lawyer of the Year in 2012. He is now Senior Counsel at the firm.

Harvey is President of both the Massachusetts Chapter of the Federal Bar Association and of the Massachusetts Bar Foundation and has served two terms on the Massachusetts IOLTA Committee. He is Past Co-President of the Boston Inn of Court and Past President of the Massachusetts Municipal Lawyers Association. He served as Millis Town Counsel for over a decade. He is a Life Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and Oliver Wendell Holmes Fellow of the MBF. He is a member of the American Law Institute, where he has served on the Members Consultative Group for four different Restatements and/or Principals of Law. He has been arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association. He has written and spoken on various law topics around the country for over forty years and has been a trial advisor for the Harvard Law School Advocacy Course for thirty years.

Harvey served in a combat role as a U.S. Army Captain in the Vietnam War, where he was awarded the Bronze Star (m). He is a U.S. Department of Veterans Accredited Attorney and is admitted to the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims and the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces. He is the National Judge Advocate for the Jewish War Veterans of the United States, the nation’s oldest veteran’s organization. He was a frequent participant in the MBA’s Veterans’ Dial-a-Lawyer program. He is a certified mediator, particularly for veterans’ issues, and assists in the mediation training of other veterans, soldiers and those who work with veterans. He initiated the “Wills for Veterans” program at the Mass. Chapter of FBA.

A Boston native, he is a graduate of Boston Latin School, Harvard College cum laude, Columbia Law School, and the London School of Economics.

As an Access to Justice Fellow, Harvey will work with the Massachusetts Bar Foundation to enhance its relationship with the sixty legal services providers to which it awards grants, and to enhance the visibility and number of Fellows of the Foundation through publicity and meeting with other bar associations, MBA sections, and potential Fellows. The Massachusetts Bar Foundation represents the commitment of the lawyers and judges of Massachusetts to improve the administration of justice, to promote an understanding of the law, and to ensure equal access to the legal system for all residents of the Commonwealth, particularly those most vulnerable.