William G. Ballaine New York, New York
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Bill Ballaine has over 30 years of experience handling a wide range of civil disputes at the trial and appellate levels in federal and state courts over much of the country. He has successfully handled appeals in seven U.S. Courts of Appeals and the highest courts in New York, Florida, Delaware and the District of Columbia. His diverse practice includes mass and toxic torts, commercial, consumer and insurance coverage disputes, employment discrimination and civil rights actions, environmental litigation, and professional liability. Early in his career, Bill served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York and Chief of the office's Tax Unit. He later served as Consulting Attorney for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's investigation into the Three Mile Island disaster and then as Counsel to the U.S. Senate Sub-Committee responsible for investigating and reporting to the full Senate on that same disaster.
- New York, 1972
- U.S. District Court Western District of New York
- U.S. District Court Northern District of New York
- U.S. District Court Eastern District of New York
- U.S. District Court Southern District of New York
- U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia
- U.S. District Court District of Connecticut
- U.S. Court of Appeals 1st Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals 2nd Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals 3rd Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals 4th Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals 6th Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals 11th Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit
- New York University School of Law, New York, New York,
1971
J.D. Honors: Cum Laude
Honors: Order of the Coif Honors: John Norton Pomeroy Scholar
- Brown University,
1967
B.A.
- Editor, New York University Law Review,
1970
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1971
- New York County Lawyers' Association
- Member
- National Association of Railroad Trial Counsel
- Member
- Federal Bar Council
- Member
- Three Mile Island Special Investigation Staff, U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, Counsel,
1980
- Southern District of New York, Assistant U.S. Attorney,
1973
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1980
- N.R.C. Special Inquiry Group Investigating Three Mile Island, Consulting Attorney,
1979
- Southern District of New York, Chief, Tax Unit, Civil Division,
1975
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1978
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