Position: Partner

Areas of Practice:
Commercial Litigation, Employment and Law Relations, Securities Litigation

Education:
B.A. Manhattan College, 1967; J.D. Columbus School of Law, Catholic University of America, 1971

Professional Affiliations:
Association of the Bar of the City of New York

Admissions:
1972, New York and U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York; 1975, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit; 1982 U.S. Supreme Court; 1987 New Jersey and U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit

Contact Information:
Secretary: Kathleen Deely
E-mail: wmarshall@zeklaw.com
Direct telephone number: (973) 618-9100

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William T. Marshall, Jr. became a partner at ZEK in 1999, after having spent 14 years as a partner in the law firm he founded, Sullivan & Marshall. The managing partner of ZEK's New Jersey office, Bill also practices in New York. He has had extensive experience in the field of commercial litigation, including such areas as banking, contracts, employment law, insurance, securities and commodity futures. His litigation experience includes reparations proceedings, and arbitrations in the securities and commodity futures industry, where he has also been an arbitrator.

During the period 1978 to 1985 he was employed as Vice President and Counsel in the Litigation Department of Merrill Lynch, Pierce Fenner & Smith Inc., where he served as Manager of New York Litigation and Co-manager of Special Litigation for the firm. Prior to that, he spent seven years as an associate in the Insurance and Banking Department at the law firm of Bigham Englar Jones & Houston. A graduate of Manhattan College, he is a former President of the Alumni Society and former ex-officio member of the College's Board of Trustees. From 1990 to 1996 he held public office as Councilman for the Borough of Morris Plains, New Jersey.