Jack is a retired partner in the Litigation Department of the Boston office of WilmerHale, where he was a member of the Intellectual Property Litigation and Business Trial Practice Groups. He served for many years as co-chair of WilmerHale’s Pro Bono Committee, which manages the firm’s extensive pro bono legal services, inner city community services programs, and matters for international NGOs. He had an active pro bono practice, including the representation of veterans, extensive work in Haiti, and counseling nonprofits in many sectors.
Jack is a former President of the Boston Bar Association, and a former trustee, and a current member of the Grants Committee of the Boston Bar Foundation. Jack is also a former President of the Board of Trustees of the Catholic Schools Foundation of the Archdiocese of Boston, which raises scholarship funds for 4,000 students at 60 inner city parochial schools. He has served as the founding board chair of Discovering Justice (which provides educational programs about the Constitution and our democracy for inner city children), and board chair of LaSalle Academy (a 1,500-student middle and high school in Providence, RI), and as a trustee of the Roxbury Latin School in Boston. He currently is a trustee of Oxfam America, an international humanitarian and relief organization, and of the Lynch Foundation, a major charitable grant maker in Boston.
Jack is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and New York University School of Law, where he was a Root-Tilden Scholar. Jack served as a lieutenant in the US Navy, deploying to the Mediterranean and on a frigate to the Western Pacific, Gulf of Tonkin, Indian Ocean, and Persian Gulf areas.
Jack is a Senior Fellow at the WilmerHale Legal Services Center of Harvard Law School and works in its Veterans Legal Clinic.