RÉSUMÉ OF JEFFREY D. WOOLF

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1 RÉSUMÉ OF JEFFREY D. WOOLF Office: Board of Bar Overseers 99 High Street Boston, MA (617) EDUCATION: J.D. Boston University School of Law, Ph.D. Candidate, Boston University, in English, M.A. Boston University, in English, B.A. Yale University, 1968 (Dean s List). PRIMARY EMPLOYMENT: Jan present. Assistant General Counsel. Counsel to the Board of Bar Overseers and hearing committees. Assist hearing committees, draft hearing reports and board memos. Also on the website committee, the technology committee and the treatise committee. One of the lecturers for the mandatory Practicing with Professionalism CLE for new lawyers. Sept present. Adjunct professor, Boston University School of Law. Teach a weekly seminar on topics in legal ethics for students with externship placements Dec Assistant Bar Counsel, Office of the Bar Counsel. Investigate and prosecute complaints of attorney misconduct; maintain and update the What s New summary of recent cases on the website Jeffrey D. Woolf, Esq., P.C. Professional corporation concentrating in business litigation, stockholder disputes, contracts, corporate, business law and complex litigation Private practice of law (in various small firms or group practices) in most areas of civil litigation, including primarily personal injury, professional negligence, securities and business litigation, franchise litigation, U.C.C. and contracts Special Assistant Attorney General, represented the Commonwealth in the tobacco Medicaid reimbursement litigation, Commonwealth v. Philip Morris, Inc., et al., Middlesex Superior Court, civil action no: J. Co-drafted the Commonwealth s complaint. Primary architect of the case management order. Handled most discovery motions. Primarily responsible for de-privileging the two extensive collections of tobacco documents. See Commonwealth v. Philip Morris, 8 Mass.L.Rptr. 547 (1998) Adjunct Professor of Law, New England School of Law, Boston, MA.

2 Jan Dec Law clerk for Swartz & Swartz, Boston, MA. Drafted briefs and pleadings for firm concentrating in personal injury, products liability and medical malpractice litigation. Sept April Consultant for National Student Volunteers Program/Assistance Center, Boston, MA. (ACTION agency). Jan Recorder at the Advisory Committee Meeting, White House Conference on Children and Youth. Sept June Research Associate, Center for Criminal Justice, Boston University School of Law, Boston, MA. Feb Sept Research & editorial assistance for Edward M. Swartz, Esq., Boston, MA. Sept June Teaching Fellow in English, Boston University, Boston, MA. June 1968-Sept, National Science Foundation Grant in physiological psychology (recovery of function from brain damage), Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT. June 1967-June Research in cell physiology, tissue culture and time-lapse cinemicrography, Yale University, New Haven, CT. Jan.-June National Science Foundation Grant in physical chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT. OTHER ACTIVITIES: 2012-present. Jewish National Fund. Executive Board member for Boston area; member, Lawyers for Israel present. Planned Giving Committee, St. John s Preparatory School, Danvers, MA present. Member, Board of Directors and Governing Council, Temple Beth Shalom, Melrose, MA. VP of Finance, 2013-present; chair of the investment committee, 2012-present. Revised Temple by-laws; arranged financing for Temple renovations; co-vp of Education of the religious school, & Moot Court Judge, New England School of Law, Boston, MA to Conciliator, Boston Municipal Court (Boston Bar Ass n ADR Program) to Hearing Officer, Board of Bar Overseers. May Speaker, 13th Annual Tobacco Products Liability Conference, Northeastern University, Boston, MA.

3 1994. Faculty, "Engineering Made Easy for Lawyers" (PESI seminar, 1994) to present. Inns of Court, Boston chapter (invited founding and Master Bench member; Executive Committee, (sabbatical ); co-president, ) Adjunct Professor, Northeastern University, Boston, MA Trial Advocacy Coach, Boston University School of Law, Boston, MA Lawyer-Teacher Partnership program participant (Mass. Bar Association). March Faculty, MCLE-NELI seminar on consumer protection litigation Guest Lecturer, New England School of Law, Boston, MA Guest Lecturer, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA and Moot Court Judge, Boston University School of Law, Boston, MA Guest Lecturer, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. June 1973-June Editor-in-Chief, Commentaries Magazine, Boston University School of Law (student publication). Sept June Staff of the Yale Scientific Magazine. Assistant Editor, ; Managing Editor, BAR ADMISSIONS: Supreme Judicial Court U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts First Circuit Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals District of Columbia Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals U.S. Supreme Court. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS: American Bar Association. Massachusetts Bar Association. Boston Bar Association (chairman, section on consumer protection, ). National Organization of Bar Counsel District of Columbia Bar Association. American Arbitration Association ( ).

4 REPORTED CASES: Matter of Gargano, 460 Mass. 1022, 957 N.E.2d 235 (2011). P.S.P.S. Legal Support Serv., Inc. v. LeBlanc, 2005 WL (Mass.Super., Sept., 22, 2005). Architext, Inc. v. Kikuchi, 2005 WL (Mass.Super. May 19, 2005). Haser v. Wright, 15 Mass.L.Rptr. 248, 2002 WL (Mass.Super. Sept. 4, 2002), aff'd 64 Mass. App. Ct (2005), rev. den. 445 Mass (2005). Fox v. LaMotte, 18 Mass.L.Rptr. 2, 2004 WL (Mass.Super., April 14, 2004). Equipment & Systems For Industry, Inc. v. Northmeadows Construction Co., Inc., 59 Mass. App. Ct. 931 (2003) (wrote appellate brief; substitute appellate counsel did not argue). RSR Company, Inc. v. Union Grill, Inc., 17 Mass.L.Rptr. 739, 2003 WL (Mass.Super., Dec. 23, 2003). Grossman v. Wiseman, 12 Mass.L.Rptr. 319, 2000 WL (Mass.Super., Aug. 11, 2000). Commonwealth v. Philip Morris, 8 Mass.L.Rptr. 547, 1998 WL (Mass.Super., Sosman, J., July 30, 1998). Winglee International, Inc. v. Hung & Jing, Inc., 1996 WL (Mass.Super., Jan. 20, 1998). Landis v. Moon, 1996 Mass.App.Div. 118, 1996 WL (1996). Curry v. Steve s Franchise Co., Inc., Trade Cas. 66,877, 1985 U.S. Dist. Lexis 13534, 1985 WL 6277 (D. Mass. 1985). Curry v. Steve s Franchise Co., Inc., Trade Cas. 66,421, 1984 U.S. Dist. Lexis 21798, 1984 WL 1468 (D. Mass. 1984). Steve s Ice Cream v. Tyne & Tees, Inc., 1984 U.S. Dist. Lexis (D. Mass. 1984). Wheeler v. Springfield Sugar & Products Co., 15 Mass. App. Ct. 979 (1983). Henderson v. D Annolfo, 15 Mass.App.Ct. 413 (1983) (brief) Markline, Inc. v. Travelers Ins. Co., 384 Mass. 139 (1981) (brief) Larue v. National Union Electric Corp., 571 F.2d 51 (1 st Cir. 1978) (trial co-counsel). Ward v. Hercules, Inc., 75 F.R.D. 455 (D. Mass. 1977). Clark v. General Motors Corp., 20 Fed.R.Serv.2d 679 (D. Mass. 1975).

5 McLaughlin v. Drackett, Inc., 20 Fed.R.Serv.2d 1081, 1995 WL (D. Mass. 1975). RECENT PUBLICATIONS AND SEMINAR MATERIALS: Available upon request