Jeffrey B. Storer is an American lawyer based in Boston, Massachusetts, known for a long career as a litigation partner at the law firm Ropes & Gray. He was admitted to the Massachusetts bar in 1976 and retired from the firm in 2008 after handling commercial, corporate, real estate, and environmental disputes.
Background
Storer's documented life is centered on Massachusetts. He pursued undergraduate studies at Harvard College in Cambridge and legal education at Boston College Law School before entering practice in the Boston area.
Boston has long been one of the leading centers in the United States for major law firms and corporations, as well as government agencies and nonprofit organizations. This setting provided the professional environment in which Storer built his legal career.
Education
Storer received his undergraduate degree from Harvard College, the institution founded in 1636 by vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. It was named Harvard College in 1639 after its first benefactor, and it became Harvard University in 1780. During Storer's undergraduate years it was the oldest institution of higher education in the United States, situated in Cambridge across the Charles River from Boston.
He then studied at Boston College Law School, a Jesuit law school founded in 1929 as the first graduate program of Boston College. The school held its first classes in downtown Boston and moved to Chestnut Hill in 1954. It received American Bar Association accreditation in 1932, and its degree designation changed from LL.B. to J.D. in 1969. The law school moved to its permanent campus in Newton in 1975, following Boston College's acquisition of Newton College of the Sacred Heart, so Storer completed his studies as the school was relocating.
Storer was admitted to the Massachusetts bar in 1976, the year he completed his Juris Doctor degree.
Career
Storer's professional career was built in Boston at Ropes & Gray. The firm was founded in Boston in 1865 by two Harvard Law School graduates, John Codman Ropes and John Chipman Gray, and it developed bankruptcy, labor, and securities practices during the twentieth century. In earlier decades it was known by several names, including Ropes, Gray & Loring and Ropes, Gray, Boyden & Perkins.
Storer joined the firm in 1976, the year he was admitted to the Massachusetts bar, and remained with it until his retirement in 2008. He served as a litigation partner from 1986. His practice centered on disputes involving commercial transactions, corporate finance and governance, real estate acquisition and development, and construction.
His litigation work also covered covenants not to compete and trade secrets, cost recovery under federal and state environmental laws, and federal and state environmental statutes. In these matters he appeared in federal and state courts, and he tried both jury and jury-waived cases.
