What Happened?
Framingham, -based Staples Retired Michael Williams as Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Secretary
About the Company
Staples is the world`s largest office products company and second largest internet retailer. For 26 years, Staples has served the needs of business customers and its vision is to provide every product businesses need to succeed. Through its world-class retail, online and delivery capabilities, Staples offers office supplies, technology products and services, facilities and breakroom supplies, furniture, copy and print services and a wide range of other product categories. With thousands of associates worldwide dedicated to making it easy for businesses of all sizes, Staples operates throughout North and South America, Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. The company is headquartered outside Boston.
About the Person
Mr. Michael T. Williams has been the Chief Legal Officer of Staples, Inc. since January 2017 and has been its Secretary since November 7, 2012. Mr. Williams serves as an Executive Vice President of Staples, Inc. He served as General Counsel of Staples, Inc. since November 7, 2012 until January 2017 and served as its Senior Vice President from November 7, 2012 to December 2014. Mr. Williams served as an Executive Vice President of Staples, Inc. since December 2014 until January 2017. Mr. Williams served as Secretary, General Counsel and Executive Vice President of Sony Electronics, Inc. and was responsible for its's legal, trade affairs, security and external affairs groups. He was responsible for legal operations of several professional and consumer electronics companies in the U.S., Central America and South America. As Sony's outside counsel for more than two decades, he has represented sony in a variety of litigation and business transactions, most notably working on Sony's successful defense in the Go Video dual deck VCR litigation. He has also successfully defended Sony in many class action suits. Mr. Williams was a senior partner in the law firm of Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe LLP. While in private practice, he handled a variety of business litigation matters for major American and International corporations. He was a Partner at the law firm of Andrews Kurth. He served as an Officer in the U.S. Marine Corps. Mr. Williams' professional appointments have included: Chair and Member, Executive Committee of the Provisional and Post-Judgment Remedies Section (Los Angeles County Bar Association); Chairman, City of Palos Verdes Estates Planning Commission; and Director, Palos Verdes Home Association. Mr. Williams is a member of several professional organizations including: the American Bar Association of Corporate Counsel; Star Bar of California; Association of Business Trial Lawyers; Los Angeles County Bar Association; the Antitrust and Business Law Sections of the American Bar Association; the Real Property Law Section of the State Bar of California; the United States District Courts in the State of California and the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth, Eighth, Ninth and Eleventh Circuits. Mr. Williams received a cum laude Juris Doctorate degree from University of San Diego and a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Ithaca College in New York, where he graduated magna cum laude.
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