About Timothy J.
Timothy J. Langella began his academic path at Williams College, where he earned a B.A. in English and political science in 1980. He went on to Boston University School of Law and received his J.D. in 1983. Those years set the stage for a career that has moved between private practice, in-house counsel roles and public service.
After law school, Langella joined Goodwin Procter & Hoar as an associate in 1983. He moved into corporate practice in the late 1980s, taking the role of general counsel at Healthco International in 1988. In the early 1990s he was affiliated with Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo, PC, an association that reflected his ongoing work on transactional and corporate matters.
His career took a turn toward public service in the 2010s. In 2013 he served as chief of the Business, Technology & Economic Development Division at the Office of the Massachusetts Attorney General. In that position he oversaw matters at the intersection of business law and policy, and he managed team work on regulatory and economic-development issues.
In 2015 Langella founded Langella Dispute Resolution Services. He has built a second chapter of his career as a neutral. He completed mediation training through Metropolitan Mediation Services and now serves as a mediator and arbitrator. He is admitted to practice in Massachusetts and in the federal appellate courts for the First and Seventh Circuits. He maintains memberships in the Massachusetts Bar Association and the Boston Bar Association.
Colleagues describe Langella’s work as pragmatic. His background spans transactional practice, corporate counsel responsibilities and government litigation oversight. That mix informs how he conducts mediations and arbitrations. He brings familiarity with business disputes, technology-related matters and economic development issues, and he draws on experience handling both client-side and regulatory problems.
Today Langella operates Langella Dispute Resolution Services, offering neutral services to businesses, law firms and public entities. He maintains an active caseload as a mediator and arbitrator and continues to draw on his prior roles in private practice, in-house counsel and the Attorney General’s Office in his current dispute-resolution work.
