Background
Perkins, James W. was born in 1924 in New Bedford, Massachusetts, United States.
Perkins, James W. was born in 1924 in New Bedford, Massachusetts, United States.
Harvard University (Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, 1945. Bachelor of Laws, cum laude, 1948. M.T.S., 1996).
Worked at Palmer & Dodge Limited Liability Partnership (Boston, Master of Arts) specializing in General Practice. Trials and Appeals in all Courts. Antitrust, Banking, Bankruptcy, Reorganization and Workout, Business Law, Commercial and Institutional Lending, Communications, Construction, Copyright, Corporate Finance, Creditors" Rights, Employee Benefits, Energy, Environment, Estate Planning and Trust and Estate Administration, Government Contracting, Immigration, Insurance, Intellectual Property, International, Labor and Employment, Nonprofit Corporations, Personal Injury/Products Liability, Probate, Public Utility, Publishing and Entertainment, Real Estate, Schools, Colleges and Universities, Securities, State and Municipal Bonds and Municipal Law, Tax, Technology, Transportation, Venture Capital.
Admitted to the bar, 1948, Massachusetts.
Palmer & Dodge Limited Liability Partnership, founded in 1887, is one of Boston"s largest law firms, with more than 150 attorneys providing a full range of corporate legal services to a broad mix of domestic and foreign clients. The firm serves clients in Boston, throughout New England, elsewhere in the United States and internationally.
Practice ranges from sophisticated corporate transactions and complex civil litigation to private client trust matters, with a number of focused specialties, including biotechnology, high technology, aviation, immigration, antitrust, banking and financial services, energy, publishing and entertainment, tax, environmental, and labor and employment law.