John joined the firm as a litigation advisor in 1993 after twenty years as a Justice of the Superior Court in Massachusetts. Prior to assuming his judicial responsibilities, he had been an active trial lawyer in both Massachusetts and the District of Columbia. John concentrated in corporate and commercial litigation including matters involving antitrust, intellectual property, and securities law issues. As a former state and federal prosecutor, he also represented clients charged with so-called white collar crimes.
Several years after his graduation from law school in 1958, he joined the full time faculty at George Washington University Law Center where he ultimately became a tenured professor. His courses included evidence, equity, civil and criminal procedure, property, and criminal law. In 1964, he left Washington, D.C. to join the U.S. Attorney's Office in Massachusetts, and subsequently entered private practice in Massachusetts.
In 1969, he became a lecturer-in-law at Harvard Law School where he taught until 1989. Over the last twenty- five years he has also taught as an adjunct professor at Boston College, Boston University, Suffolk, and Northeastern University Law Schools. His courses included evidence, employment discrimination, and trial practice.
John has always found it important to be involved in civic and bar activities. He is a former Chairman of the Board of Selectman of the Town of Weston, as well as a past member of that town's Finance Committee. He was Co-Chair of the Judicial Liaison Subcommittee of the American Bar Association Litigation Section and is also a past Chairman of the Roxbury Weston Programs.
John is admitted to practice in Massachusetts and the District of Columbia, and is a member of The American, Massachusetts, District of Columbia and Boston Bar Associations. He received his A.B. from Boston College (1952), where he was valedictorian of his class. He received a J.D. from Georgetown University (1958), where he was on the Law Review and was admitted to the Order of the Coif.