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  • Business Law
  • Massachusetts, Mr. Fischer is admitted to practice in Massachusetts and New York.
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Practice Area
Business Law
Business Contracts, Business Dissolution, Business Finance, Business Formation, Business Litigation, Franchising, Mergers & Acquisitions, Partnership & Shareholder Disputes
Additional Practice Areas
  • Banking
  • Financial Services
Jurisdictions Admitted to Practice
Massachusetts
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Mr. Fischer is admitted to practice in Massachusetts and New York.
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Professional Experience
Partner
Goodwin Procter LLP
Current
Current
Before joining Goodwin Procter in 2000, Mr. Fischer served as executive vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary of UST Corp., a Boston-based bank holding company, and its banking subsidiaries, USTrust of Boston and United States Trust Company of Boston. He was an associate at the law firm of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver Jacobson in New York from 1971-1975 and served as assistant general counsel and assistant secretary of the board of directors at Bank of Boston Corporation from 1976 until he joined UST Corp. in 1986.From 1984 until 2005, Mr. Fischer taught a course concerning the duties and liabilities of directors and officers and the corporate governance of financial institutions for Boston University School of Law's LL.M. Program.
Education
Boston University School of Law
LL.M.
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Stanford Law School
J.D.
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Stanford University
M.B.A.
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University of Pennsylvania
B.A.
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Websites & Blogs
Website
Website
Contact & Map
Exchange Place
Boston, MA 02109
Telephone: (617) 570-1522
Fax: (617) 523-1231