Background
Williams, John Taylor was born on June 19, 1938 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Paul Merchant Taylor and Audrey Arlene Dowling.
Williams, John Taylor was born on June 19, 1938 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Paul Merchant Taylor and Audrey Arlene Dowling.
Harvard University (Bachelor of Arts, 1960). University of Pennsylvania (Bachelor of Laws, 1965).
Worked at Palmer & Dodge LLP (Boston, MA) 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, 1965, Massachusetts. 1988, United States. Supreme Court. Contributing Editor, Small Voices and Great Trumpets: Minorities and the Media, Praeger, 1980.
Contributor, Legal Problems in Book Publishing Handbook, Practicing Law Institute, 1981-1986. Co-Author, Perle and Williams, The Publishing Law Handbook, Aspen Law & Business, 1991. Chairman, Committee on Authors, Section of Patent, Trademark and Copyright Law, American Bar Association, 1978-1981.
National Endowment for the Arts: Member, Literary Panel, 1988-1990, 1994. Chair and Preservation Panel, 1996. Member of the 1st Circuit United States.
Courthouse Arts Commission, 1994. Member, United States. State Department Publishing Delegation visit to China, 1993.
Fellow, American Bar Association. Palmer & Dodge LLP, 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.
Board of directors City of Cambridge Arts Council, 1973-1983, chairman, 1981-1983. Board directors Ploughshares Inc., 1988-1989. Trustee Arthur Fiedler Memorial Inc., since 1983, Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, 1983-1985, Petra Foundation, since 1988.
Trustee, general counsel Institute Contemporary Art, 1970-1992. Member corporation Massachusetts General Hospital, since 1985. Member Patent and Tech Conflicts Coms., 1985-1991.
Clerk John F. Kennedy Memorial Commission Inc., since 1986. Member of advisory board Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, since 1992. Mrm. American Bar Association (section patent, trademark, copyright law, Chairman of Commission on authors 1978-1981, communications and entertainment law forum committees), BostonBar Association (former Chairman of Commission on delivery of legal services to indigent), Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights under Law (chairman steering committee 1988-1991), Massachusetts Bar Association (business law and computer law sections), National Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights (board directors since 1989), Tavern Club (Boston).
Married Leonora Hall. Children: Caleb, Jared, Nathaniel.