Background
Whelan, William T. was born in 1957.
Whelan, William T. was born in 1957.
Middlebury College (Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, 1979). Boston University (Juris Doctor, 1983).
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, 1983, Massachusetts. Editor-in-Chief, Boston University Law Review, 1982-1983. Law Clerk, Honorary Spottswood W. Robinson III, Chief Judge, United States.
Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 1983-1984. 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.