Ober | Kaler
Washington, DC
(202) 326-5011
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Bill is a principal in the Washington, D.C., office where he devotes his practice to antitrust litigation and counseling, representing hospitals, health systems, health insurance plans, physicians, and other healthcare entities. His practice focuses primarily on representing clients in private treble‐damage litigation and also in United States Department of Justice Antitrust Division, Federal Trade Commission and state antitrust enforcement agency actions involving exclusionary conduct by dominant firms, mergers, and contracting provisions or other collaborative activity between hospitals, physicians and health plans. Billʹs private and government agency litigation frequently requires managing complex procedural issues, including large‐scale electronic document discovery. In addition, Bill serves as an arbitrator or mediator in antitrust and other disputes between healthcare entities.
Formerly a Trial Attorney with the Health Care Task Force and later the Litigation I Section of the Antitrust Division, Bill has extensive experience leading investigations and litigation of both merger and non‐merger civil antitrust cases in healthcare and other market sectors including the Antitrust Division’s successful five‐year litigation and trial in U.S. v. Dentsply International, Inc. He also managed the Joint DOJ/FTC Hearings on Healthcare and Competition Law and Policy in 2003 on behalf of the Department of Justice and was a moderator for several sessions during the Hearings.
Bill was selected by Nightingale’s Healthcare News as one of ten “Outstanding Healthcare Antitrust Lawyers” for 2008. He is a frequent guest speaker at health care association conferences and meetings.
Education
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University of Virginia School of Law, J.D., 1988
Lile Moot Court Board, 1987‐1988
Criminal Practice Clinic, 1988
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Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, B.A., cum laude, 1985
Phi Alpha Theta
Legal Aid Society of the New River Valley, Inc., Intern, 1984‐1985