Timothy L. Porter was elected to Life Insurance Company of Boston & New York’s Board of Directors in February 2000 and to Boston Mutual Life Insurance Company’s Board of Directors in April 2018. Mr. Porter served as Senior Counsel at Proskauer Rose LLP and also served as its Chief Client Relationship Counsel.
Prior to Proskauer Rose LLP, Mr. Porter served as Vice President-law at AT&T, and chief counsel for labor, employment and environment, where he worked as an attorney for over 20 years. At AT&T, he was responsible for all of the AT&T’s domestic and international labor relations, employment, employee benefits, executive compensation and environmental law matters as well as collective bargaining negotiations, appearances before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and labor arbitrations. Prior to serving as chief employment law counsel, a position he held for 10 years, he also led regional and national organizations of AT&T’s Government Affairs Department, where he interfaced with numerous state and federal officials and regulatory agencies overseeing public utilities.
Mr. Porter served as a director of ATTIMCO, AT&T’s employee benefit plan asset management branch, which manages billions of dollars in assets attributable to the company’s retirement and health plans. He joined AT&T in 1974 as an attorney and also served as its Southern Region Vice President of Government Affairs from 1993 to 1996 and thereafter chief employment law counsel. He has been an adjunct law professor of employment law, a frequent lecturer and speaker on domestic and international law topics. He also serves as an associate trustee at the College of the Holy Cross.
Mr. Porter serves on the board of trustees of New School University, and formerly served on the board of trustees of the College of the Holy Cross, where he is now an associate trustee, member of the executive committee of the board of advisors, and member of the mission and identity committee. He serves on the board of directors of the National Jazz Museum in Harlem, where he has been board chairman since 2016, and previously served on the board of the YMCA of Greater New York where he is an emeritus board member. He serves also as a Board of Governors member at the New School for Jazz & Contemporary Music. He was the U.S. Executive Committee chairman of the British American Project, and is a member of its advisory board. He also served as a member of the board of the directors of Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago, and the board of trustees of Newark Public Radio, Inc., where for five years he was its board chairman.
He holds a bachelor’s degree from the College of the Holy Cross and received a juris doctor degree from New York University School of Law.