W. D. STEMPEL LLC
LAW AND MEDIATION
About Bill Stempel
Bill Stempel's long career as a lawyer and mediator 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 four hospitals and
several thousand physician practices. From 2001 to 2004, he was Vice
President, General Counsel and Secretary of Geron Corporation, a
publicly-traded biopharmaceutical company in Menlo Park, California
that is developing therapeutics for cancer and other diseases. From
2005 to 2007 he practiced law and mediation in Palo Alto, California,
and in August of 2007 moved his practice to Connecticut.
His mediation training includes programs at Harvard Law School, the
Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at Pepperdine University, the
U.S. Postal Service REDRESS mediation program, the San Francisco Bar
Association, and the American Health Lawyers Association. From 2005 to
2007 he was co-chair of the Palo Alto Mediation Program, a community
mediation organization. He is currently a member of the Board of
Directors of Community Mediation, Inc. in New Haven.