Wilbert Benjamin Markovits

Bill Markovits practices in the area of complex civil litigation, with an emphasis on securities, antitrust, RICO, and False Claims Act cases. Bill began his career as a trial lawyer at the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division in Washington, D.C. He continued a focus on antitrust after moving to Cincinnati, where he became an adjunct professor of antitrust law at the University of Cincinnati Law School.

Bill has been involved in the past in a number of notable cases, including: the Choice Care securities, antitrust and RICO class action in which the jury awarded over $100 million to a class of physicians; a fraud/RICO case on behalf of The Procter & Gamble Company, which resulted in a settlement of $165 million; an eleven year antitrust and RICO class action against Humana, including appeals that reached the United States Supreme Court, which culminated in a multi-million 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 was: 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; 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 upon the result in Collins, Bill was a 2015 finalist in the American Antitrust Institute’s Antitrust Enforcement Awards under the category “Outstanding Antitrust Litigation Achievement in Private Law Practice.”