BILL chairs the Environmental Group and also heads the firm’s Environmental Litigation practice.  For 23 years, Bill has represented business and public sector clients involved in litigation and administrative enforcement proceedings under Superfund, RCRA, the Clean Water Act, the Clear Air Act, and corresponding state laws and regulations.  His notable environmental cases include the successful defense of a major Ohio municipality against federal and state Clean Water Act enforcement claims and the recovery by a publicly-traded metals manufacturer of $20 million from its seller to pay for plant site remediation.

Bill’s business litigation experience includes winning multi-million dollar jury verdicts and judgments in tortious interference, breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, and fraud trials; and winning defense jury verdicts and judgments in breach of contract, minority shareholder oppression, fraud, and licensing trials.  He has also obtained millions of dollars in settlements for claims involving the purchase and sale of businesses, breach of representations and warranties, and shareholder redemption rights. 

Bill has served as a member of several charitable, civic, and educational boards and committees, including as a Trustee and Executive Committee member of the Catholic Charities Services Corporation and as chairman of its Government Relations Committee.  He currently chairs Georgetown University’s Northeast Ohio Undergraduate Alumni Admissions Committee and is a founding member of the Loyola Club, Greater Cleveland’s Jesuit Alumni Network. 

An experienced author and speaker, Bill has addressed the Cleveland Bar Association’s Annual Environmental Law Symposium and its Business Litigation Institute on several occasions.  His published works include “Ohio’s Environmental Audit, Qualified Privilege, and Limited Immunity Act,” published in the Cleveland Bar Journal.  Bill is a member of the Cleveland and Ohio State Bar Associations.

Bill served as a judicial clerk with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit from 1983 to 1984.  He began his tenure with Calfee in 1984, becoming a partner in 1991.

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