William Zucker a trial attorney and business adviser for more than 30 years, in national and international disputes. He has served in a number of special capacities including being a special assistant attorney general for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to investigate the construction and design issues arising from the construction of the Central Artery/Tunnel known as the Big Dig. William has litigated a number of leading cases in the areas of intellectual property, data privacy and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, construction, foreign sovereign immunity, corporate management, the investigation of the largest corporate fraud pre-Enron, and anti-trust claims in the biotech area arising after the Actavis decision of the Supreme Court. Starting in 1998, William has led teams of intellectual property lawyers who partnered with various information technology service partners to develop wrap around solutions for technology and outsourcing problems. This representation has included all aspects of technology licensing, vendor relationships, protection of intellectual property and outsourcing. William’s outsourcing work stemmed in part from his acting for a series of clients in mergers and acquisition transactions and led to his becoming a senior risk and outsourcing advisor for the Cutter Consortium. More recently, because of his work in international arbitration, William was asked to chair the committee of the International Institute of Conflict Prevention and Resolutions charged with developing “think tank” proposals for accelerated commercial arbitration to address the interplay between domestic U.S. law and the global community. William currently serves as a neutral in arbitration matters. As a neutral and as an advocate, he has also tried cases in the areas of intellectual property (i.e. trade secret, computer security and internet matters, licensing, patent, trademark, copyright), franchising, construction and a wide variety of business disputes and torts involving, for example, fiduciary obligations, lending disputes, partnerships and joint venture disagreements, breach of confidentiality agreements, real estate disputes, and employment disputes.
William has authored a number of publications, including one of the chapters in the Handbook of Information Security published by John Wiley and the chapter on business litigation for the guide for Massachusetts lawyers published by MCLE. He serves on the arbitration panels for the American Arbitration Association, the International Center for Dispute Resolution and the International Institute of Conflict Prevention and Resolution. He is an elected member of the College of Investment Arbitrators and a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He has lectured on trial practice and has received recognition for his trial practice record in Martindale-Hubbell. William formerly chaired the Technology and Litigation Groups at Gadsby Hannah LLP before joining McCarter & English LLP.
