Jim Rehnquist, a partner in the firm's Litigation Department, is a former federal prosecutor who specializes in white collar criminal defense, including the representation of clients in SEC and other governmental and regulatory investigations. Mr. Rehnquist also handles complex civil litigation.
PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
Mr. Rehnquist was Editor-in-Chief of the Boston University Law Review at Boston University School of Law. His law review publications include "Taking Comity Seriously: How to Neutralize the Abstention Doctrine" 46 Stan. L. Rev. 1049 (1994), and "The Power that Shall be Vested in a Precedent: Stare Decisis, the Constitution and the Supreme Court" 66 B.U.L. Rev. 345 (1986).
Mr. Rehnquist has served as an adjunct professor at Boston University School of Law, where he designed and taught a full-credit seminar titled Federal Criminal Justice.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Mr. Rehnquist has been at Goodwin Procter since 1988, excluding four years (1994-1998) when he served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts. During his years as a federal prosecutor, working in both the Economic Crimes Unit and Organized Crime Strike Force Unit of the U.S. Attorney's Office in Boston, Mr. Rehnquist investigated and prosecuted a wide variety of complex business crimes, including fraud, tax, public corruption, trademark and racketeering cases. He had numerous jury trials and argued numerous appeals in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
Following law school, he served as law clerk to the Honorable Levin H. Campbell of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
BAR AND COURT ADMISSIONS
Mr. Rehnquist is admitted to practice in Massachusetts, and before the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First and Federal Circuits.