John J. Curtin, Jr., of Massachusetts is a partner in the Boston firm of Bingham, Dana LLP and was Chairman of its Litigation Area. He received his A.B. from Boston College magna cum laude in 1954, his LL.B. from Boston College Law School in 1957 (the year of his admission to the bar), and his LL.M. from Georgetown University Law School in 1959. At Boston College Law School he was the winner of the Outstanding Student Award, Chairman of the Board of Student Editors of the then only law review, and a member of the two-person championship moot court team. In 1967 he was one of two members of his class awarded the Order of the Coif retroactively. In 1980 he received one of the Law School's fiftieth anniversary awards.

Mr. Curtin was President of the American Bar Association from 1990-1991. He has been a member of the House of Delegates since 1981. He is a member of the Council of Individual Rights and Responsibilities and was a member of the Special Committee on Governance. He was formerly Chairman of the Section of Litigation of the Association. He was formerly Chairman of the Standing Committee on Legal Aid and Indigent Defendants, and has been a member of the Standing Committee on Clients' Security Funds.

His government service includes tours as Trial Attorney in the Antitrust Division and as Assistant U.S. Attorney, and Chief of the Civil Division of the U.S. Attorney's office. He was also Special Assistant to the Attorney General of Massachusetts in charge of the "Small Loans" Appeals arising from the two longest trials in the history of that state's courts. He has been Special Counsel to the House Rules Committee of Massachusetts to advise concerning the legislation creating a commission to investigate corruption in state building contracts, and represented the Massachusetts House of Representatives in the case before the Supreme Judicial Court involving the constitutional powers of the House.

At Boston College Law School he has taught trial practice for more than thirty years and also has taught Federal Courts and Antitrust Law. He has participated in the Introduction to Advocacy course at Harvard Law School, and lectures and gives trial demonstrations in Continuing Legal Education seminars in antitrust law and intellectual property law, trial practice, litigation management, and civil procedure for many groups including judicial conferences, ABA sections and committees, ALI-ABA, PLI, and Legal Times. In recent years he has been on the faculty of advanced advocacy programs at several universities including Virginia, Florida, and Oxford, England.

He is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, and a member of the American Law Institute. He was formerly a member of the Board of Directors of the American Judicature Society.

Mr. Curtin has held many positions in the Boston Bar Association serving as its President from 1979 through 1981. He has been a trustee of the Boston Bar Foundation, and Treasurer of Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, the legal education arm of the Massachusetts and Boston Bar Association. He also has served on the Board of Delegates of the Massachusetts Bar Association.

He was a member and Chairman of the Joint Bar Committee on Judicial Appointments and a member of the state Judicial Nominating Council. He was Chairman of the Commission on Federal Appointments appointed by Senator Kennedy to recommend federal judicial and prosecutorial appointments. He has been a Corporate Member of the Greater Boston Legal Services since 1992.

Mr. Curtin was Vice President and a Director of Greater Boston Legal Services, and was formerly Chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee for Access to Justice.

After holding many positions in the Town of Wellesley, he was elected Moderator and served from 1979-1984. He was President of the Massachusetts Association of Town Finance Committees, and was a member of the governor's Local Government Advisory Council.

Mr. Curtin is a former President of the Boston College Alumni Association, was a trustee of Boston College High School, and a former trustee of several colleges. He has received honorary degrees from Boston College and Suffolk University, as well as several other colleges.

In 1990 he was the recipient of the Fourth William M. Brennan, Jr., Advocacy Award at the University of Virginia School of Law. In September of 1990 he received the St. Ignatius of Loyola Award from Boston College High School. In April of 1991, he received the Thomas More Award from Boston College Law School. In April of 1993, he received the McKenney Award as the Outstanding Alumnus of Boston College and in May of 1993, he was the first recipient of the Boston College/Lambda Alumni/ae Association Award for his efforts against discrimination. He has received awards from the Individual Rights and Responsibilities Section of the American Bar Association for outstanding contributions to the cause of civil liberties, civil rights and human rights and from the Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corporation for outstanding service to equal justice under law. He was the recipient of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. 1991 Pro Bono Award for outstanding contribution to enforcement of the civil rights laws. He was the recipient of the 1994 Learned Hand Human Relations Award.