William Sheehan

Who is William Sheehan?

William Bishop Sheehan is a partner at Goodwin Procter LLP. He is Chair of the Appellate Practice Groups at the Firm and maintains a wide-ranging litigation and counseling practice. Recently he has represented a major accounting firm in a class action securities fraud case; a coalition of former asbestos producers in nationwide state and federal court litigation; one of the largest mortgage companies in the country in class action litigation in California and Georgia; and a Fortune 50 company in a case brought under the Alien Tort Claims Statute. He has recently filed amicus curiae briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of General Electric Co., the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the American Council of Life Insurers, the Center For Claims Resolution, the Air Transport Association of America, the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, The International Chamber of Shipping, and the Lawyers Committee For Civil Rights Under Law. Mr. Sheehan has argued several cases in the U.S. Supreme Court, in five federal Courts of Appeals, 11 federal District Courts, four Bankruptcy Courts, sixteen state courts, and before arbitration panels. He was Deputy General Counsel (Legal Counsel) at the Department of Defense from 1995 to 1997. From 1975 to 1978, Mr. Sheehan was an Assistant to the Solicitor General of the United States. Mr. Sheehan received his BA from Yale College in 1968, and his JD from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1971.