John Taylor “Ike” Williams, a founder of Kneerim, Williams & Bloom, specializes in biography, history, politics, natural science, and anthropology. He represents Howard Gardner, Joseph J. Ellis, E.O. Wilson, Tim Berners-Lee, Charles Ogletree, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, James MacGregor Burns, Frances Fitzgerald, Richard Wilbur, Drew Gilpin Faust, and Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, among others. He was a member of the NEA Literary Panel, chair of the Boston Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights, co-chair of the Fine Arts Work Center, and is a director of the Boston Book Festival. He also places dramatic rights, such as the feature film Public Enemies, from Vendetta by Alston Purvis, and a History Channel series based on Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States.

As a lawyer, Ike specializes in intellectual property and First Amendment litigation, particularly in publishing, film, television, and new media, and is co-author of the widely used Perle & Williams on Publishing Law. His legal clients include Michael Porter, Muhammad Yunnus, Jeff Kinney, and the Estates of John Hersey, Howard Zinn, and Norman Mailer. Ike is listed in The Best Lawyers in America and the Top 100 Massachusetts Super Lawyers for entertainment, First Amendment, and media law.

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