Walter B. Prince
Partner
Walter B. Prince is a former assistant United States attorney for the District of Massachusetts, with more than 30 years of experience in transportation, commercial law, and civil and white-collar criminal litigation. Walter's litigation practice includes business and commercial lawsuits and representation of corporations and individuals in complex federal and state investigations and cases, as well as related civil and regulatory matters.
Walter has represented witnesses who were called to testify before the United States House of Representatives, where the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct was investigating the conduct of a House member.
His experience extends to the investigation and defense of criminal allegations in the areas of accounting, health care, contracting, bank fraud, environmental, tax and other economic crimes. In addition, Walter has handled numerous product liability cases and has conducted internal investigations for Fortune 500 companies.
Walter has litigated and supervised the litigation of more than 60 employment cases for some of the largest employers in Massachusetts and the nation. Clients have included those in the health care, retail, transportation, financial, and technology industries.
From 1985-1988, Walter was general counsel to the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA), where he was responsible for managing all litigation brought by and against the MBTA. With a legal staff of nearly two dozen lawyers, he managed their tort litigation, commercial, real estate, environmental, contract, development, and personnel claims and cases. While an assistant United States attorney, Walter was chief of the Major Drug Traffickers Prosecution Unit. He was appointed by two governors to serve as a member of the Judicial Nominating Council.
Walter sat on the Board of Registration in Medicine for three years, and has represented doctors and lawyers in ethics and malpractice claims. He was appointed special counsel to the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD), and was chairman of the board of trustees of the Massachusetts Health and Education Tax-Exempt Trust, a closed-end, non-diversified management investment company.
In addition, Walter is a former president of the Massachusetts Black Lawyers Association, the former vice president of the Massachusetts chapter of the National Conference of Black Lawyers, and the current vice president of the Ford Hall Forum. He has also served as an adjunct professor of law at Boston College Law School for over two decades.
Walter is a fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers and serves on several boards, including One United Bank. Walter has recently been appointed to the Boston Bar Association Task Force on the Superior Court Circuit System to review the structure and management of the Massachusetts courts. He also serves on the Boston College Law School Board of Overseers, the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, and he is a member of Prince Lobel's management committee.
Since 2004, Walter has been named a Massachusetts “Super Lawyer,” and since 2009, has been named a "Top 100 Super Lawyer" by that publication. He has also been selected for inclusion in the 2009-2012 editions of The Best Lawyers in America, and Boston's Best Lawyers in the areas of Commercial Litigation, White-Collar and Non-White-Collar Criminal Defense, and Litigation - Banking & Finance. In 2004 and 2009, Walter was also named to "The Power List," a roster of the state's most influential attorneys as published in Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly.
In April 2010, Walter received the William J. Kenealy Alumnus of the Year Award at Boston College Law School’s Law Day celebration. According to Boston College, the William J. Kenealy Alumnus of the Year Award honors a member of the alumni community who has “given of him/herself to benefit the Law School, its students and alumni.” In April 2011, Walter was hand-selected by Senator John F.
Kerry (D-MA) to serve on a distinguished panel of attorneys who were asked to
recommend a new judge for the U.S. District Court in Springfield, Mass. This
10-member committee was also tasked with filling a vacancy in federal
court in Worcester, Mass.
Bar Admissions- United States Supreme Court
- United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
- United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
- United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts
- Massachusetts
Education- Boston College Law School, J.D., 1974
- Boston State College, B.S., 1971
- Tuskegee Institute, 1967-1970
Noteworthy- AV® Peer Review Rated
- 2009-2012: Selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America, and Boston's Best Lawyers (Woodward/White) in the areas of Commercial Litigation, White-Collar and Non-White-Collar Criminal Defense and Litigation - Banking & Finance
- 2009-2010: Named one of the “Top 100 Massachusetts Super Lawyers”
- 2009: Named one of Boston’s most influential lawyers in Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly
- 2009: Member, Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce Executive Leadership Program, MIT Sloan School of Management
- 2004-2011: Named a "Massachusetts Super Lawyer” in the area of General Litigation
- 2004: Named one of Boston’s top 100 most influential lawyers in Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly
Memberships- American Bar Association
- American College of Trial Lawyers
- Massachusetts Bar Association
- Massachusetts Black Lawyers Association
- National Bar Association
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