John Taylor “Ike” Williams
Ike is listed in The Best Lawyers in America (in every edition since 1991); the Top 100 Massachusetts Super lawyers from 2004 – 2016 for either entertainment, First Amendment, or media law; Fortune Magazine’s Top-Rated Lawyer in Intellectual Property Law (2010-2016); a “2016 Top Rated Lawyer in Intellectual Property Law” by American Lawyer Media, and has been a Martindale-Hubbell® AV Preeminent™ rated attorney for over 35 years.
John Taylor “Ike” Williams’s practice emphasizes intellectual property and media and entertainment law including the creation, production, and licensing of intellectual property, particularly in the areas of publishing, film, television, music, and new media. He is the co-author with E. Gabriel Perle and Mark Fischer of the widely used Perle, Williams & Fischer on Publishing Law (2 Vol. Aspen Law and Business), has served as chair of the National Endowment for the Arts Awards Panel, a former Trustee and counsel of the Institute of Contemporary Art and The Huntington Theatre, Chair of the Boston Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights, Co-Chair of the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, Trustee of the Massachusetts School of Art and Design and the Chair of the City of Cambridge Arts Council.
Mr. Williams is a Trustee of The Edward O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation and The Charleston Literary Festival (SC). He has lectured on intellectual property and media law at the law schools of Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania, Northeastern University, Boston University, Boston College, the New England School of Law and Wilkes University.
Mr. Williams is listed in The Best Lawyers in America (in every edition since 1991); the Top 100 Massachusetts Super lawyers since 2004 for either entertainment, First Amendment or media law; Fortune Magazine’s Top-Rated Lawyer in Intellectual Property Law (2010-2022); a “2016 Top Rated Lawyer in Intellectual Property Law” by American Lawyer Media, and a Martindale-Hubbell® AV Preeminent™ rated attorney for over 38 years. He is the recipient of the American Jewish Committee’s 2005 Judge Learned Hand Award and Middlesex School’s 2011 Henry Cabot Lodge Award for public service. He is the author of The Shores of Bohemia: A Cape Code Story 1910 – 1960 (Farrar Straus & Giroux 2022).
Mr. Williams is admitted to the federal and state bars in Massachusetts and the United States Supreme Court and is a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He is also a founding partner of the Boston literary agency, Kneerim & Williams, LLC.
E-mail: ike@sennottwilliams.com
Ike’s long-awaited book, The Shores of Bohemia!
Please join us as we congratulate our friend and founding partner, Ike Williams on the publication of his long-awaited book, The Shores of Bohemia! Published by Farrar Strauss & Giroux, the book hit the stands on May 17th and has already garnered rave reviews. Here’s just one of too many to list:
“No more out-of-the-way place ever exerted such a powerful influence on American art, literature, politics, and intellectual life as outer Cape Cod in the mid–20th century. Williams shows with brisk authority how and why, but most absorbingly who. He can sketch a whole life in a sentence. The resulting portrait is like a Bruegel painting, thick with personalities and incident—with marriages, affairs, skinny-dipping parties, architectural movements, political arguments, addictions, recoveries, plays, spies, revolutions, elections, deaths, and rebirths.” — Salvatore Scibona
Below are two buttons in case you’d like to take a peek at it. Books (printed, electronic and audio) are now available for purchase if that is your wish. A national publicity endeavor is under way so keep an eye out for a talk, lunch or dinner near you in the coming months.
Congratulations, Ike on this major accomplishment!