John J. Regan
Senior Fellow, Legal Services Center, Veterans Legal Clinic, Harvard Law School
University of Notre Dame, B.A.
New York University School of Law, J.D.
Jack is a lawyer, and a Senior Fellow at the Legal Services Center of Harvard Law School, working in its Veterans Legal Clinic.
Jack is a retired partner in the Boston office of WilmerHale’s Litigation Department, where he was a member of its Intellectual Property Litigation and Business Trial Practice Groups. He served for many years as Co-chair of WilmerHale’s Pro Bono Committee, which manages the firm’s extensive pro bono legal services, inner city community services programs, and international cases for NGOs and disadvantaged peoples in Africa and Latin America.
Jack is a former President of the Boston Bar Association and trustee of its charitable-granting arm, the Boston Bar Foundation. Jack is also a former President of the Board of Trustees of the Catholic Schools Foundation of the Archdiocese of Boston, which raises scholarship funds for 4,000 students at 60 inner city parochial schools. He served as founding Board Chair of Discovering Justice (which provides programs about the Constitution and our democracy for inner city children), and as a trustee of the Roxbury Latin School in Boston, Young Audiences of Massachusetts (an arts organization), and Milton Residences for the Elderly (which provides low-income housing for elderly and handicapped persons).
In addition to LaSalle, Jack currently is a trustee of the Lynch Foundation, a major charitable grant maker in Boston, and Oxfam America, an international humanitarian and relief organization, and Chair of the Catholic Schools Council of the Archdiocese of Boston.
Jack was honored with the Thurgood Marshall Award from the Boston Bar Association the John Adams Award from the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court for his career-long commitment to pro bono work, his creation of legal services programs for veterans and their families, and his pro bono legal services to victims of the cholera outbreak in Haiti.
Jack is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and New York University School of Law, where he was a Root-Tilden Scholar. Between college and law school, Jack served as a lieutenant in the US Navy on a frigate, and has deployed to the Mediterranean, Western Pacific, Indian Ocean, Gulf of Tonkin, and Persian Gulf areas.