Baker Hostetler partner William F. Kuntz II received the Distinguished Service Award at the 21st Annual Program and Reception, hosted by the New York State Unified Court System’s Committee to Celebrate Black History Month, The Tribune Society, Inc. of the Courts in the State of New York and The Judicial Friends Association. The event was held on Thursday, February 24, 2011, at the Supreme Court, New York County Courthouse.
Dr. Kuntz, a partner in Baker Hostetler’s New York office, focuses his practice on commercial litigation. He was selected for this honor on the basis of his distinguished legal career and his role as a bar leader, educator, scholar and historian.
Dr. Kuntz, who holds four degrees from Harvard, including his law degree and a Ph.D. in American Legal History, has extensive litigation experience. He has conducted numerous trials in federal courts in the Second, Third and Tenth Federal Judicial Circuits. Dr. Kuntz has argued more than twenty appeals and has supervised hundreds of trials and appeals and investigations in his capacity as a Commissioner of the Civilian Complaint Review Board of the City of New York since 1987.