William D. Stempel

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W. D. Stempel LLC

Experience: 44 years

Arbitration & Mediation, Business Law, Health Care Law and Intellectual Property

California, Connecticut and New York

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Bill Stempel's long career as a lawyer and mediator has centered on clarifying options, solving problems, and getting things done in a variety of large and small organizations and in many areas of law and business, including health care, life sciences, intellectual property licensing, and employment matters. He brings to mediation decades of experience helping clients who face difficult problems--in litigation, in business affairs or in personal matters--understand where they are, what risks they face, and what options are available to them, and guiding them to successful resolutions. He has negotiated hundreds of complex and high-stakes business agreements that depended on his communicating effectively, sometimes to people who don't want to hear. In advising on critical and stressful business decisions, he has had to help clients discern what their interests and priorities are. He knows what it is like to make difficult decisions about litigation and other disputes, because as general counsel of both large and small businesses he has done it himself.

Jurisdictions Admitted to Practice

California

Since 1999

Connecticut

Since 1981

New York

Since 1979

Professional Experience

2007 - Current

W. D. Stempel LLC

Principal

Private law and mediation practice focusing on health care, life sciences, intellectual property licensing, employment and business matters.

2005 - 2007

William D. Stempel Law and Mediation Offices

Principal

Private law and mediation practice focusing on health care, life sciences, intellectual property licensing, employment and business matters.

2001 - 2004

Geron Corporation

Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary

Responsible for all legal affairs other than patent matters for the company (a publicly-traded biopharmaceutical company), including: securities and compliance matters; intellectual property licensing; financing, strategic partnership, and commercial transactions; human resources; board and governance matters; insurance and risk management; real estate; and management of litigation.

1998 - 2000

UCSF Stanford Health Care

General Counsel

Responsible for all the legal affairs of the organization (consisting of four hospitals and the professional practices of 2,000 faculty physicians, with 10,000 employees and an annual budget of $1.5 billion), including: governance matters; billing, reimbursement, and other financial matters; managed care contracting; acquisitions, affiliations, and other transactions; hospital licensing and accreditation; labor and employment; compliance; facilities, real estate, and construction; medical staff matters; and government affairs.

1981 - 1998

Yale University

Deputy General Counsel

Responsibilities included substantial work in the following areas: Medical affairs--principal lawyer for Yale School of Medicine (include clinical practice of more than 500 faculty physicians) and Yale Health Plan (staff model HMO for Yale employees, students, and dependents); research administration and policy; intellectual property and technology transfer; facilities and environmental and occupational health and safety; human resources; insurance, risk management and litigation; student affairs; and business affairs. Assistant General Counsel 1981-82, Associate General Counsel 1982-87.

1978 - 1981

Debevoise & Plimpton

Associate

Worked on securities and commercial litigation (including an SEC investigation and private securities fraud litigation) and corporate transactions (including private placements of securities).

Education

1975 - 1978

Yale Law School

J.D. (1978)

1971 - 1975

Yale University

B.A. | History, the Arts and Letters

Honors: Summa cum laude; Phi Beta Kappa; honors in History, the Arts and Letters

Awards

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Presidential Award

Association for Conflict Resolution

Contacts

191 Glen Pkwy 191 Glen Pkwy Hamden CT 06517 Toll-Free: (203) 772-0199

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Experience: 44 years

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Phone: (203) 772-0199

Location: USA

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Practice Areas

Arbitration & Mediation

Business Arbitration, Consumer Arbitration, Family Arbitration

Business Law

Business Contracts, Business Dissolution, Business Finance, Business Formation, Business Litigation, Franchising, Mergers & Acquisitions, Partnership & Shareholder Disputes

Health Care Law

Intellectual Property

Languages

English: Spoken, Written

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