John F. Sherman, III

Current

• Senior Fellow, Corporate Social Responsibility Inititiative at Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Past

• Deputy General Counsel at National Grid
• Associate at Warner & Stackpole
• Law Clerk at U.S. District Court

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Education

• Harvard Law School
• Dartmouth College
• Newton High School

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Connections

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Industry

Law Practice

John F. Sherman, III’s Summary

I left National Grid in July 2008 after 29 year as its deputy general counsel. I'm now a Senior Fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government CSR Center. I'm working to help advance the UN mandate of Prof. John Ruggie, the Special Representative of the Secretary General of the UN on business and human rights.

Here are links on the Kennedy School website to two recent reports I wrote. The most recent report (June 2009) deals with human rights, nonjudicial remedies, and corporate culture: http://tinyurl.com/nsvfu4. The earlier report (December 2008) co-written with Chip Pitts of Stanford Law, addresses the integration of hard law and soft law norms on human rights into values that drive corporate behavior http://tinyurl.com/mepj67

In June 2009, I was elected as an Executive Fellow of the Center for Business Ethics at Bentley University in Waltham, Massachusetts.

I continue to serve as co-chair of the International Bar Association's corporate social responsibility committee.

Here's a blog written about the second act of my career from Huffington Post: http://tinyurl.com/mpqhf8

John F. Sherman, III’s Specialties:

Litigation, Compliance, Ethics, Mediation, Human Rights

John F. Sherman, III’s Experience

• Senior Fellow, Corporate Social Responsibility Inititiative

  Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

  (Higher Education industry)

  2008 — Present (1 year )

  Focusing on business, law, and human rights

• Deputy General Counsel

  National Grid

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; NGG; Utilities industry)

  1979 — 2008 (29 years )

• Associate

  Warner & Stackpole

  (Law Practice industry)

  1973 — 1979 (6 years )

• Law Clerk

  U.S. District Court

  (Government Agency; 1-10 employees; Judiciary industry)

  1972 — 1974 (2 years )

  US District Court, Northern District of Georgia (Atlanta)

John F. Sherman, III’s Education

• Harvard Law School

  1970 — 1972

• Dartmouth College

  AB , English , 1964 — 1968

• Newton High School

  HS Diploma , 1960 — 1963

Additional Information

John F. Sherman, III’s Groups:

•    Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government (HKS)
•    Corporate Social Responsibility
•    Harvard Law School Alumni Network
•    Dartmouth College Alumni
•    National Grid, past & present

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