Bill Narwold has advocated for corporate accountability and fiduciary responsibility for nearly 30 years, representing consumers, governmental entities, unions and institutional investors. He litigates complex securities fraud, shareholder rights and consumer fraud lawsuits as well as matters involving unfair trade practices, antitrust violations, whistleblower/qui tam claims and accounting or tax issues. Bill is the practice group leader of Motley Rice’s Securities and Consumer Fraud practice group.
Additionally, Bill manages the firm’s appellate group. His experience includes more than 200 appeals before the U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Courts of Appeal and multiple state courts.
Bill joined Motley Rice in 2004, after directing corporate, financial, real estate, and trust and estate litigation on behalf of private and commercial clients for 25 years at Cummings & Lockwood in Hartford, Connecticut, including 10 years as managing partner. Prior to his work in private practice, he served as a law clerk for the Honorable Warren W. Eginton of the U.S. District Court, District of Connecticut from 1979-1981.
Bill frequently acts as an arbitrator and mediator both privately and through the American Arbitration Association. He is a frequent speaker on legal matters including class actions.
Named one of 11 lawyers "who made a difference" by The Connecticut Law Tribune, Bill serves the Hartford professional community as the past President of the Connecticut Bar Foundation and past member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Connecticut Law School Foundation. He was selected for inclusion in the 2010 edition of Connecticut Superlawyers and the 2005, 2010 and 2011 editions of The Best Lawyers in America for his work in commercial litigation. New England Superlawyers listed him as a Superlawyer in the area of securities litigation in 2009, and he was also named to the 2008 The Best of the U.S. list.
He has also been involved with the Greater Hartford Legal Assistance Foundation and Lawyers for Children America. He is a member of the American Bar Association and the National Association of Consumer Advocates. Bill currently serves as Director and past Chairman of Protein Sciences Corporation, a biopharmaceutical company in Meriden, Connecticut. In 2008, Bill received the Connecticut Bar Foundation’s Legal Services Leadership Award.