William Berlin Email & Phone Number

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Bill is a shareholder in the firm's Washington, D.C., office and concentrates his practice on counseling and defending hospitals, health systems, physicians and other health care providers in federal and state antitrust enforcement agency investigations, as well as litigation, involving mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and provider networks, exclusionary conduct by dominant firms and contracting provisions between hospitals, physicians and health plans. His litigation and government investigations frequently involve managing difficult procedural issues, including large-scale electronic discovery. Bill also serves as a monitor, arbitrator and mediator in antitrust disputes between health care entities. Prior to joining Hall Render, he was in private practice and served as a senior trial attorney with the Antitrust Division's Health Care Task Force of the U.S. Department of Justice where he led investigations and litigation of both merger and non-merger civil antitrust cases. Most recently, Bill was appointed Monitoring Trustee by the Department of Justice and approved by the court to oversee a multi-billion dollar merger divestiture.

Bill specializes in 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. Bill’s 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. 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.

While a Senior Trial Attorney with the Health Care Task Force and later the Litigation I Section of the Antitrust Division, Bill had 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

Juris Doctor, Law

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Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), History And Political Science

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