Career
In 1972, William J. Casey, chairman of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, appointed him to an Securities and Exchange Commission committee to review and evaluate the commission"s enforcement policies and practices. Casey appointed him because he was not a securities lawyer and asked him to be the chairman of the committee, and thus began what we now know as the "Wells Committee". In 1977, Wells represented the airline Air France in its lawsuit against the Portuguese Authority of New York and New Jersey in trying to get the rights for Concorde flights into New York City"s John F. Kennedy International Airport.
