Bethuel Matthew Webster, Jr. (June 13, 1900 – March 31, 1989) was a lawyer in New York City, a president of the New York City Bar Association, an adviser to Mayor John Lindsay, and founder of Webster & Sheffield.
With Webster & Sheffield, Webster represented a number of high-profile clients including Goldman Sachs, Consolidated Edison, the Ford Foundation, the New York City Public Library, and Carnegie Hall.
During this period he also defended William Remington, an economist and alleged Communist accused of espionage.
[citation needed] From 1959 to 1965, he served as a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, and from 1965 to 1968 he mediated the international territorial dispute between Great Britain and Guatemala over British Honduras, now Belize.
In The New York Times obituary of Webster, Lindsay recalled: "He was always my guiding light, beginning with the law.