William H. Kettlewell

Bill Kettlewell has deep experience representing clients in both white collar criminal defense and complex civil litigation. He has worked with clients in responding to all types of government enforcement actions. In the course of his career he has tried numerous civil and criminal cases in both state and federal courts as well as before administrative and regulatory agencies and licensing boards. He has also handled numerous sensitive internal corporate investigations.

Throughout his career, Bill has represented companies, CEOs and other C-suite executives, as well as professionals in a wide variety of industries, including health care, pharmaceutical, medical devices, financial services, industrial materials, environmental services, defense procurement, and commercial fishing.

Bill has successfully dealt with government investigations and enforcement actions arising out of alleged kickbacks, antitrust violations, health care fraud, obstruction of justice, overbilling, false claims, and fraud. He has also dealt with complex environmental crimes as well as ERISA and bank fraud issues.

Bill's civil litigation experience includes the defense of clients involved in multidistrict, private antitrust actions, mass torts, and the defense of commercial disputes, false claim cases, qui tam, whistleblower actions, and fraud cases.

Bill served as a state and federal prosecutor for 12 years before joining the firm. As an Assistant U.S. Attorney, he was Chief of the President's Organized Crime and Drug Task Force for New England and later Chief of the Criminal Division for the District of Massachusetts.