William J. Hunt is a founder of Clark, Hunt and Embry and heads the firm’s litigation department. Mr. Hunt concentrates his practice in business litigation, high value tort cases, employment law, and cases involving the Americans with Disabilities Act and related state and federal statutes and regulations. Admitted to practice in Massachusetts and Rhode Island; Mr. Hunt has tried cases throughout both states and has also tried and arbitrated cases in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and New Hampshire.
Included in his trial experience, early in his career, he won the first case that went to trial in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania after the state legislature waived sovereign immunity. He was also responsible for the first reported appellate decision involving that waiver. Mr. Hunt tried the first case in New Jersey involving the application of social host liability to businesses, which settled after a week of trial. In the area of disability law, he was one of two lead trial counsels in the case of Guckenberger v. Boston University which dealt with the application of the ADA to private universities.
Mr. Hunt has taught trial advocacy on a national and international level since the mid-1980’s. He is a highly rated faculty member of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy serving as a team leader in NITA’s National, Northeast, New England and Pacific programs. Mr. Hunt is currently the Program Director for NITA’s New England Deposition program. He is an adjunct faculty member for the trial advocacy programs of the Emory University Law School, Hofstra University Law School, and the University of San Francisco School of Law. He is also a member of the Executive Committee of USF Intensive Advocacy Program.
On an international level, Mr. Hunt has taught trial advocacy on behalf of NITA in England, Ireland, and the Republic of Palau. He has also designed a week long trial advocacy program for the American Bar Association Central Europe and Eurasia Law Initiative (ABA-CEELI) and personally led two such programs in the Republic of Moldova. He was also the creator and program director for ABA-CELLI’s Trial Skills Teacher Training Program in Istanbul, Turkey, a program that involved advocates from more than ten countries.
Mr. Hunt has written articles on the Americans with Disabilities Act and co-authored a book on Rhode Island Evidence. He is also a Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriter (CPCU). Mr. Hunt is the current Chairman of the Town of Topsfield Board of Health. |
