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Law and Politics

2010

Bowdoin College

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Interview With Paul Brountas (2) By Andrea L’Hommedieu, Paul P. Brountas Apr 2010

Interview With Paul Brountas (2) By Andrea L’Hommedieu, Paul P. Brountas

George J. Mitchell Oral History Project

Biographical Note
Paul Peter Brountas was born on March 19, 1932, in Bangor, Maine. He and George Mitchell were classmates at Bowdoin College, where he was graduated with a bachelor’s degree in 1954; he took bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Oxford in 1956 and his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1960. That same year, he joined Hale and Dorr, the predecessor of WilmerHale. He became a partner in 1968 and served as senior counsel to the firm from 2003 until his retirement in 2005. In 1987 and 1988, he served as national chairman of the …


Interview With George And Margaret Isaacson By Andrea L’Hommedieu, George S. Isaacson, Margaret M. Isaacson Mar 2010

Interview With George And Margaret Isaacson By Andrea L’Hommedieu, George S. Isaacson, Margaret M. Isaacson

George J. Mitchell Oral History Project

Biographical Note
George Steven Isaacson was born in New York on October 20, 1948, and grew up in Auburn, Maine. His father worked in a lumber business in Livermore Falls with his uncles. George was graduated from Bowdoin College and attended law school at the University of Pennsylvania, where he met his future wife, Margaret. After graduating, he clerked for Judge Thomas E. Delahanty and then went to work for a law firm in Portland, Maine. George Mitchell interviewed him for an attorney’s position with Jensen Baird law firm. At the time of this interview, he was a senior partner …