3M Company
Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
Bill Childs is Assistant General Counsel in the Litigation group at 3M. He is involved in managing a range of litigation, including respirator/mask, medical devices, and fall protection matters. He also helped build and manage the effort to combat fraud and counterfeiting in the Covid-19 PPE marketplace. He was a recipient of Minnesota Lawyer's In-House Counsel honors for public companies for 2020.
Prior to joining 3M in 2019, he was a partner at Bowman and Brooke LLP in Austin, Texas, working primarily in products liability defense in pharmaceutical, medical device, highway safety, and other products. He was previously a law professor and associate dean at Western New England University School of Law for eight years, earning tenure. He practiced prior to that as a litigator at Williams & Connolly LLP and clerked for U.S. District Judge James M. Rosenbaum (D. Minn.).
Bill also produces a nationally syndicated radio show for kids and their grownups (sparetherock.com) and owns an associated record label that has generated over $200,000 in donations for non-profits.
J.D. with high honors, University of Texas School of Law
B.A., Political Science, Macalester College.
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Tuesday, February 21, 2023
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM CST