Damian Wilmot is a partner in the firm’s Litigation Department. Mr. Wilmot concentrates his practice on general commercial litigation, white collar criminal defense, and governmental and internal investigations. He also represents employers in all phases of employment-related litigation. Mr. Wilmot joined Goodwin Procter in 2006.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
In 2009, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick appointed Mr. Wilmot to the Judicial Nominating Commission, which recommends judicial appointments at all levels throughout the Commonwealth. He is a Trustee of Suffolk University in Boston, Massachusetts and serves on the Middlesex County District Attorney’s Office's External Diversity Committee and the Public Policy Sub-Committee for the Criminal Section Steering Committee of the Boston Bar Association. Mr. Wilmot is a Past-President and Lifetime Member of the Massachusetts Black Lawyers Association. He has held director positions with the Suffolk University Law School Alumni Association, the Leadership Development Foundation, and the Boston Center for Community and Justice and was an Editor for the Boston Bar Journal. Among various other leadership positions, Mr. Wilmot was formerly the Chair of the Board of Directors for the YMCA in Dorchester, Massachusetts and the President of the Trinity College Black Alumni Organization.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Before joining Goodwin Procter, Mr. Wilmot was an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts. As an AUSA, he represented the federal government in civil and criminal actions and investigations brought to enforce federal regulatory requirements and to recover damages against companies or individuals (e.g., independent clinical laboratories, pharmaceutical manufacturers, hospitals, ambulance service providers, doctors, and other medical providers) who submitted false claims to or committed fraud against the government.
Mr. Wilmot also represented the federal government and its agencies in all phases of litigation in the U.S. District Court of the District of Massachusetts and the U.S. First and Second Circuit Courts of Appeals in various civil suits brought against the government, including employment discrimination and wrongful discharge litigation, suits asserted under the Federal Tort Claims Act, challenges to agency actions under the Administrative Procedure Act, and the defense of government officials sued in their individual capacities. Prior to serving as an AUSA, he was an associate with Seyfarth Shaw LLP in Boston. Before that, Mr. Wilmot clerked for Justice Christine Vertefeuille on the State of Connecticut Supreme Court.
BAR AND COURT ADMISSIONS
Mr. Wilmot is admitted to practice in Massachusetts and Connecticut, and before the U.S. District Court for the Districts of Massachusetts and Connecticut.
RECOGNITION
In 2010, Mr. Wilmot was selected by the Boston Business Journal as one of the top 40 business leaders in Massachusetts under the age of 40. He is also the recipient of the 2005 Outstanding BLSA Alumnus Award from the Black Law Student Association, Suffolk University Law School Chapter. While in law school, Mr. Wilmot received the Book Award for Outstanding Scholarship and Leadership Ability from the Massachusetts Black Judges Conference, and was a staff member and Productions Editor of the Suffolk Transnational Law Review.