Practice:

• Intellectual Property

Bar Admissions:

Massachusetts

Experience:

William Simmons advises clients in matters of high-technology, research and development, computer, software, services, supplies, shipbuilding, and construction. His practice focuses in the area of Government Contracts where he guides individuals, companies and organizations through the maze of processes governing bids, proposal and contract negotiations, including litigation involving bid, award and other protests, and through performance issues, including site conditions, specification compliance, subcontract disputes, claim preparation and defaults and terminations. He has extensive experience in federal courts and has tried contract disputes before the Armed Services, General Services, Postal Service and Corps of Engineers Boards of Contract Appeals and has argued appeals before the First, Federal, and District of Columbia Circuit Courts of Appeal. Before joining Burns & Levinson LLP in April 2006, he was Of Counsel to the firm Perkins Smith & Cohen LLP.

Memberships:

• American Bar Association
• Boston Bar Association
• Massachusetts Bar Association
• Massachusetts Bar Foundation, lifetime member
• National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA), member of the Legal and Procurement Committees

Additional Information:

• Prior to attending law school, Mr. Simmons served as a Captain in the United States Air Force.

Education:

• L.L.B. degree, Harvard Law School, 1960
• B.A., magna cum laude, Harvard College, 1952

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