Bill Markovits

Founding partner Bill Markovits focuses his expertise on complex civil litigation, including securities, antitrust, RICO, False Claims Act, and consumer class actions.

Bill began his career as a trial lawyer at the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division in Washington, D.C. After moving to Cincinnati his antitrust focus continued, including acting as an adjunct professor of antitrust at the University of Cincinnati Law School.

Bill’s notable case list includes the Choice Care securities, antitrust and RICO class action, in which the jury awarded more than $100 million to a class of physicians; a fraud/RICO case on behalf of The Procter & Gamble Co., which resulted in a settlement of $165 million; an 11-year antitrust and RICO class action against Humana, including appeals that reached the United States Supreme Court and that culminated in a multimillion-dollar settlement; and a national class action against Microsoft, in which he was chosen from among dozens of plaintiffs’ attorneys to depose Bill Gates.

More recently, Bill served as a lead counsel for plaintiffs in the Fannie Mae Securities Litigation that settled for $153 million; a lead counsel for plaintiffs in a class action against Duke Energy that settled for $80.75 million; a lead counsel for plaintiffs in a class action against Navistar that settled for benefits valued at $742 million; and lead counsel for plaintiff in Collins v. Eastman Kodak, where he successfully obtained a preliminary injunction against Kodak on an antitrust tying claim. Based on the result in Collins, Bill was named a 2015 finalist in the American Antitrust Institute’s Antitrust Enforcement Awards under the category “Outstanding Antitrust Litigation Achievement in Private Law Practice.”