Practice Areas
Biotech & Technology
Corporate & Business
Real Estate

Education

Harvard Law School, Master of Laws, 1959
Harvard Law School J.D., 1955
City College of New York, B.B.A., 1952

Bar Admissions
Massachusetts

Professional and Community Involvements

• In 1992 he founded and until 1998 was Editor of The Bordwin Letter (Preventive Law for Business), a plain-English monthly newsletter focusing on legal risks facing business and "Recommendations" for avoiding them. "How to Make the Other Side Perform the Contract-" . With subscribers in 35 states and four foreign countries in a broad variety of businesses and institutions, it became the nation's foremost preventive-law publication to business. TBL has been noted or received favorable mention or had its articles reprinted in many business publications, including The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, Inc. Magazine, IB, CFO, Success, HR Focus, Entrepreneur, Corporate Conduct Quarterly, Risk Management, Your Company, Midas [International] Matters, Industry Week, Aegis Quarterly Review, NewsTrack Executive Tape Service, Small Business Forum, Business 94, Small Business Reports, Management Review, both Indiana and Columbia Law Reviews and The Journal of Legal Studies Education and both the Minnesota and Oregon State Bar Journals.
• Bordwin served (1993-2000) as Legal Editor of the monthly magazine of the American Management Association International, Management Review, regularly contributing articles (+50) on the legal risks facing business and recommendations for avoiding them. Several articles are used as teaching materials in a number of schools including Harvard Business School, New York University, Brandeis Graduate School of International Finance and Economics and University of Kiev (Ukraine). Articles are also reprinted in business journals in China, Japan, Taiwan, Argentina, Spain and Portugal. Example:  "Is the Deal Done?"
• Bordwin's last published article appeared in the March 2005 issue of Medical Diagnostic & Device Industry magazine, entitled "Factoring the Law into Medical Device Design."  . The article proposed that, given the product-liability legal exposure faced by medical device manufacturers in the USA, a lawyer familiar with the applicable legal principles should be involved at the design phase of a medical device (as he, indeed, was called in to do after an "incident" involving a medical device). The same advice was echoed by Ferrari automobile lawyers who, as reported in the June 2006 Car and Driver magazine (p.43), advised against installing certain equipment on the cars going into the USA market: "Ferrari's legal department decided that the liability potential in the litigious U.S. market outweighed any benefit, and we [C&D editors] find it hard to disagree."
• He has served as Chair of the Massachusetts Bar Association's Preventive Law Committee for the Association's Business Law Council. He is a founding member of the American Bar Association's Task Force on Preventive Law (Sept.1995). He is also a member of the Boston Bar Association and the Computer Law Association.
• Bordwin was named as one of the "100 Massachusetts (Business) Super Lawyers" in the 2004 Survey of the Profession by Boston Magazine (November 2004).

Bordwin is former Chairman of his law firm's managing Executive Committee. He is a veteran of the U.S. Army, having risen to the rank of Private First Class. He lives in Newton with his wife, Henny, a musicologist and Founder/President of The American Schubert Institute. They have three grown children.