Background
Nathaniel Dexter was born in 1928.
Nathaniel Dexter was born in 1928.
Dexter studied at Harvard University, where he received a Bachelor of Arts in 1950 and a Bachelor of Laws in 1954. Harvard, founded in 1636, is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States, and its main campus is in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Harvard Law School, the university's law school, was founded in 1817 and was one of the earliest law schools in the United States. In the 1950s it trained students for the American legal profession, which combined academic instruction with preparation for admission to the bar.
Dexter was admitted to the bar in Massachusetts in 1955, the year after he received his law degree from Harvard. Admission to practice in Massachusetts is granted by the Supreme Judicial Court, the Commonwealth's highest court.
He was a partner of FAITUOA. In a law practice, a partner is a senior position that traditionally carries shared responsibility for the firm's clients and management.