Our Mission

We're the Clients' Security Board of the Supreme Judicial Court

The Court created us in 1974 to do only one thing:

Reimburse law clients whose lawyers have stolen from them

We do it to preserve trust in the legal profession

Every dollar we use to reimburse law clients comes from only one source: the lawyers of Massachusetts.

We've been reimbursing law clients for more than 40 years

Since 1974 the Board has reimbursed more than $50 million to over 2,250 law clients

Each reimbursement we make is a matter of grace not right

Each Board member serves for a term of five years

The Board has no statute of limitations

The Board has no caps on reimbursements to an individual claimant

Since 1974 the Board has reimbursed more than $2 million for the thefts of one disciplined lawyer

Since 1974 the Board has reimbursed more than $1 million each for the thefts of six different disciplined lawyers

The Clients' Security Fund is audited annually by independent auditors

The Board's claim form is available in both English and Spanish

Lawyers helping claimants before the Board must do so without compensation

In 2017 only 26 out more than 59,000 Massachusetts lawyers (0.04%) were responsible for the thefts reimbursed by the Board