William F. Weld, Esq.
William F. Weld, Esq. is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP, based in its New York office. He focuses his practice in the areas of government strategies, corporate investigations and compliance and general business advice, particularly in the financial area.
Mr. Weld joined McDermott in 1997 after serving as governor of Massachusetts, where he was elected in 1990 and re-elected in 1994. Prior to his election as governor, he was a federal prosecutor for seven years, serving as the Assistant U.S. Attorney General in charge of the Criminal Division of the Justice Department in Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts during the Reagan administration. He was also a commercial litigator in Boston for a dozen years, and earlier in his career, he served in Washington as a staff member for both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. Mr. Weld is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and serves by appointment of the President as a member of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council.