W.D. STEMPEL LLC

Bill Stempel’s long career as a lawyer, mediator, and arbitrator has centered on clarifying options, solving problems, and getting things done in a variety of large and small organizations and in many areas of law and business, including health care, life sciences, intellectual property licensing, and employment matters. Bill Stempel graduated summa cum laude from Yale College in 1975 and from Yale Law School in 1978. After three years at the New York law firm of Debevoise, Plimpton, Lyons & Gates (now Debevoise & Plimpton), he moved to New Haven, Connecticut to join the Office of the General Counsel at Yale University in 1981. He worked at Yale until 1998, including 11 years as Deputy General Counsel of the University, on everything from intellectual property to real estate to employment matters to student grievances. From 1998 to 2000 he was General Counsel at UCSF Stanford Health Care in San Francisco, a large nonprofit health care provider organization that operated...