WilmerHale Partner David W. Bowker, a member of the Litigation/Controversy Department, was recently elected as a member of the American Law Institute (ALI). Bowker joins a long legacy of WilmerHale attorneys, former and current, to be elected to the ALI.

ALI is the leading independent organization in the United States producing scholarly work to clarify, modernize and otherwise improve the law. The institute drafts, discusses, revises and publishes Restatements of the Law, model statutes and principles of law that are influential in the courts and legislatures, as well as in legal scholarship and education.

The elected membership of ALI consists of judges, lawyers and law teachers from all areas of the United States and from many foreign countries, selected on the basis of professional achievement and demonstrated interest in improving the law. The total membership is 2,761 including the 46 newly-elected members.

Bowker joins 16 other former and current WilmerHale attorneys who are ALI members, including; current Partners Molly S. Boast, Gary Born, Russell J. Bruemmer, Mark Fleming, Jamie Gorelick, William F. Lee, Lori A. Martin, William J. Perlstein, James L. Quarles, III and Seth P. Waxman; and Senior Counsel James H. Carter and Louis R. Cohen. Retired Partners John C. Christie, Jr., and A. Stephen Hut, Jr., along with former Partners Paul A. Engelmayer and Martin E. Lybecker are also ALI members.