William Jentes

Mr. Jentes has devoted his career as litigator, ADR neutral, corporate counselor and academic to the effective and efficient resolution of complex business and governmental disputes. 

For close to forty years, Mr. Jentes was a principal litigating partner at Kirkland & Ellis, LLP, acting as lead trial and appellate counsel in many of the firm’s most significant cases.  Mr. Jentes specialized in complex U.S. and international disputes raising corporate, competition, securities, intellectual property, contract, construction, mass tort and insurance issues.   His work in the landmark Westinghouse Uranium Litigation, which involved litigation in the U.S., England, Canada, Sweden, and Australia, is featured in The Partners by Pulitzer Prize-winning author James B. Stewart.

Beginning in 1998 Mr. Jentes turned increasingly to serving as an independent arbitrator and mediator on major domestic and international commercial disputes.  He left the Kirkland firm at the beginning of 2004 to concentrate on his ADR practice.  Widely recognized for his extensive experience as arbitrator and mediator of important domestic and international disputes, he is a Fellow of the College of Commercial Arbitrators and the American College of Trial Lawyers.