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 The Ridgefield Mediation Center, llc

Bill Whittemore is a business lawyer professionally trained in mediation and negotiation at Harvard Law School and the Attorney-Mediators Institute.  Certified Mediator with the Westchester Mediation Center.  Member of the American Bar Association's Section on dispute Resolution.  Over 30 years of business law experience.

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WILLIAM ("BILL") C. WHITTEMORE is a lawyer and mediator whose practice is focused exclusively on preventive business law and commercial dispute resolution. Based in Ridgefield, Connecticut, his firm
  Whittemore Law Office, LLC  
provides general counsel services to entrepreneurs and privately held companies in Westchester and Fairfield Counties. From the start-up stage to mature organizational levels, his clients seek his help in designing legal strategies, policies and procedures which can achieve the business objective while staying out of the courtroom. He also serves as a professional neutral to help disputants, such as partners, shareholders, vendors and customers, preserve their valuable business relationships.

Mr. Whittemore holds a Juris Doctor degree from The George Washington University National Law Center in Washington, D.C., where he was an editor of the Journal of International Law and Economics, and clerked for the law firm of Covington & Burling. He received his basic and advanced mediation training at the Attorney-Mediators Institute in Houston in 1995, and at Harvard Law School where he participated in the Fall, 1995 Negotiation Workshop led by Professor Roger Fisher (co-author of the groundbreaking book Getting to Yes). Mr. Whittemore recently formed The Ridgefield Mediation Center, LLC to help broaden the alternative dispute resolution opportunities for businesses and communities in southern New England.

Prior to starting his own law and mediation practice in 1996, Mr. Whittemore spent over twenty years serving as in-house legal counsel to Fortune 500 companies. In that capacity, he lived all over the U.S., while structuring and negotiating joint venture, franchise and other commercial transactions both domestically and internationally. During the 1980’s he was Regional Attorney for Mobil Oil Corporation’s Eastern U.S. Marketing & Refining Division, and later for its U.S. Exploration & Producing Division’s Gulf of Mexico region. During the first half of the 1990’s, he served as Vice President and Assistant General Counsel for the global natural resource firm of Freeport-McMoRan Inc., based in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Mr. Whittemore is licensed to practice law in the states of New York, Connecticut and Louisiana. He is a member of the Dispute Resolution Sections of the American Bar Association and the Connecticut Bar Association. For the past five  years, he has served as a mediator in New York State’s Unified Court System, specifically for the Westchester Mediation Center of CLUSTER. He is also a member of the Association For Conflict Resolution (ACR).