William A. Eklund

Senior Counsel

Bill Eklund first joined the University's Office of Laboratory Counsel at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1981. He served as Senior Counsel of the LANL Office of Business and Patent Law from 1993 and has served as University Counsel with the Office of General Counsel since 2001.

Prior to joining the University, Mr. Eklund was with the firm of Christensen, O'Connor, Johnson and Kindness in Seattle. His practice is directed to federal contract law, risk management, transactional law involving the DOE National Laboratories, regulatory law applicable to R&D operations and nuclear facilities, and intellectual property law.

Mr. Eklund is a graduate of the University of California, Riverside (B.S. 1969), Oregon State University (M.S. 1973) and the University of Oregon (J.D. 1978). He is a registered patent attorney and an active member of the California and New Mexico Bar Associations.