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Jonathan W. Fitch

Address: 

Fitch Law Partners LLP
One Beacon Street
Boston, MA 02108
USA

Phone Number: 
(617) 542-5542
Fax Number: 
(617) 542-1542
Email: 
jwf@fitchlp.com
Website: www.fitchlp.com
Born: 
Akron, Ohio, 1952
Languages: 
English
Nationalities: 
USA
Education: 
Williams College, B.A. cum laude, 1974
Yale University, M.P.P.M., 1978
Boston College Law School, J.D., 1982
Bar Admission or Professional License: 
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1982
USDC for District of Massachusetts, 1983
U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, 1993
U.S. Supreme Court, 1995
Present Position: 
Lawyer and Arbitrator
Managing Partner, Fitch Law Partners LLP
Professional Experience: 

Fitch Law Partners LLP (1984 to date); Bingham, Dana & Gould (1982-1984).

Professional Associations: 

Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators; International Bar Association, Arbitration Committee; American Bar Association, International Law Section; Boston Bar Association, International Section.

Panels of Arbitrators: 

International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR); Large and Complex Cases, American Arbitration Association (AAA); Appointee, Tech List of Silicon Valley Arbitration and Mediation Center; ICC Arbitration.

Arbitration Experience: 

Emergency Arbitrator, Sole Arbitrator, Panelist and Chair in a large number of international and domestic arbitrations. Also 35 years of experience as lead counsel in arbitrations.

Awards and Recognitions: A “Lawyer of the Year 2009" - Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Newspaper; "Top 100 Massachusetts Super Lawyers” - 2011 and 2012; regularly listed in The Best Lawyers in America (Arbitration and Commercial Litigation); regularly listed as one of “Boston’s Top Rated Lawyers,” as published in The Boston Globe; AV Preeminent Peer Rating - Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory, 1984 - present; Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers (Commercial Litigation), 1984 - present; AVVO Rating - “Superb Attorney”; listed as "Massachusetts Super Lawyer," 2004 - present.

Areas of Specialization: 
Technology
Intellectual and Industrial Property
Patents
International Arbitration
International Litigation
Civil & Commercial Law
Publications from JURIS: 
Publications: 

“Basic Planning for International Arbitration and Emerging Practices”, New England ADR & the Law,” (MCLE 2016); "Foreign Judgments Law Due for Update", Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, 41 MLW 159 (2012); and "The Enforcement of Foreign Money Judgments in Massachusetts," 81 Mass. Law Review 65 (1996).