William F. Kuntz II
Dr. William F. Kuntz II is one of the leading commercial litigation lawyers in the City of New York. He has recently become a partner in Baker Hostetler’s New York office, focusing in commercial civil litigation.
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, 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.
Dr. Kuntz has handled or supervised a broad spectrum of cases involving such subjects as lender liability, Civil RICO, letter of credit cases, bill of lading fraud cases for a major New York City bank growing out of activities of coffee exporters in Colombia, asset forfeiture, money laundering, fines and penalties, fraud, employment and civil rights.
Dr. Kuntz has served as an Arbitrator appointed by the Southern District of New York in complex commercial and insurance actions. He is the longest standing member of the Civilian Complaint Review Board which annually reviews 5,000 allegations of misconduct filed against members of the New York City Police Department. He has also taught as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School and has taught trial advocacy courses at the Practising Law Institute where he also serves as a member of the Board of Directors. Dr. Kuntz is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.
Upon completion of his one-year term as Chairman of the Executive Committee of The Association of the Bar of the City of New York, Dr. Kuntz was elected Vice President of The Association.