William C. Jackson

Partner
Washington, DC

t: 202 237 5677
f: 202 237 6131

wjackson@bsfllp.com

Area of Practice

Education

Columbia Law School, J.D., 1997; Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar; Parker School of Foreign and Comparatiive Law Certificate of Achievement with Honors

Harvard University, B.A., cum laude, Government, 1991

Clerkships

Hon. Frank Coffin, United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, 1998-1999

Hon. Norma L. Shapiro in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1997-1998

Admissions

District of Columbia, Massachusetts, and New York

United States Courts of Appeals: Tenth Circuit

United States District Courts: District of Columbia

William Jackson's main practice areas include complex commercial litigation and international arbitration.

Since joining Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP in 1999, Mr. Jackson has represented clients in a wide range of complex commercial matters. Representative work includes: the successful representation of an international trading company in a dispute with a major international oil and gas corporation over an oil project valued at several billion dollars; the defense of a client in both civil and criminal antitrust actions involving the construction and installation of deepwater offshore oil and gas platforms; and the defense of a telecommunications corporation in an investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission and concurrent private class and individual opt out actions alleging securities fraud.

He was part of the team that successfully represented Genesco in its litigation against Finish Line seeking specific performance of a merger agreement between Finish Line and Genesco. He has represented plaintiffs against a pharmaceutical concern over an improper attempt to monopolize the production of certain drugs and led the firm's representation of an engineering company in a dispute involving a pipeline from the United States to the Bahamas. With others at the firm, he filed an amicus brief to the United States Supreme Court on behalf of faculty members of Columbia Law School regarding the Solomon Amendment, a federal statute involving military recruiting on law school campuses. He has also successfully represented a company providing advertising in supermarket chains and other retailers in an arbitration against a major grocery retailer in a breach of contract action.

Mr. Jackson taught negotiation and alternative dispute resolution at Harvard Law School and was a Lecturer on Law at Stanford Law School. In addition, Mr. Jackson worked as a Special Assistant to Roger Fisher, the author of Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In.

While in law school, Mr. Jackson was the Writing and Research Editor for the Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems and was a Moot Court Editor and Moot Court Student Judge.

Selected Publications

Teaching the Skills of Settlement, 46 SMU L. Rev. 1985 (1993)

Managing Editor of Beyond Machiavelli: Tools for Coping with Conflict (paperback edition) (Penguin 1994)