Background
Gants, Ralph D. was born in 1954 in New Rochelle, New York, United States.
Gants, Ralph D. was born in 1954 in New Rochelle, New York, United States.
Bachelor summa cum laude, Harvard College, Boston, 1976. Diploma in Criminology, Cambridge University, England, 1977. Juris Doctor magna cum laude, Harvard College, 1980.
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, 1981, New New York
1987, Massachusetts. Note Editor, Harvard Law Review.
Phi Beta Kappa. Law Clerk to Honorary Eugene H. Nickerson, United States. District Court, Eastern District of New York, 1980-1981.
Special Assistant to Director William H. Webster, 1981-1983.
Assistant United States. Attorney, District of Massachusetts, 1983-1991. Chief, Public Corruption Division, United States.
Attorney" General’ s Office, District of Massachusetts, 1988-1991.
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.
Member of Massachusetts Bar Association.
Married; 2 children.