William B. McGuire, founder of the Newark firm that eventually came to be known as Tompkins, McGuire, Wachenfeld & Barry, died May 13. He was 86.
A Seton Hall Law School graduate, McGuire worked as an assistant prosecutor in Essex County under then-Prosecutor Brendan T. Byrne and went on to become a senior partner at Lum, Biunno & Tompkins, the successor firm to Lum, Fairlie & Foster. In 1984, he and other attorneys formed Tompkins, McGuire & Wachenfeld, which changed its name to Tompkins, McGuire, Wachenfeld & Barry in 1998. He focused his practice on complex insurance coverage, professional liability defense, directors and officers lawsuits, class actions, securities law, financial institutions and general commercial litigation.
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