Admitted
1949, New York and Massachusetts
Law School
Harvard, LL.B., 1949
Law School Graduation Year
1949
College
Harvard, A.B., 1945; Awarded LL.D., Hon. by Bates College, 1988
Memberships
The Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Chairman, Special Committee on: Federal Conflict of Interest Laws, 1958-1960; New York State Constitutional Convention, 1966-1967); New York State and American (Member, Section of Business Law) and International Bar Associations; American Law Institute (President, 1980-1993; Chairman of Council, 1993—)
Biographical
Editor, Harvard Law Review, 1948-1949. Debevoise & Plimpton (Associate, 1949-1956, and Partner, 1957-1996, except for periods of government service; Of Counsel, 1997—). Author: The New Federal Conflict of Interest Law, 76 Harvard Law Review 1113, 1963; The ALI Corporate Governance Project in Midstream, 41 Bus. Law 1195 (1986); The Genesis and Goals of the ALI Corporate Governance Project, 8 Cardozo Law Review 661, 1987; Corporate Governance in the New Russia, International Financial Law Review, June 1995. Assistant Counsel, Special Senate Subcommittee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, 1951. Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, 1954-56. Counsel to the Governor of the State of New York, 1959. Fellow, American Bar Foundation.