Podell, Herbert S

Bill Plesec has extensive experience in complex civil litigation of all kinds in federal and state courts throughout the United States. He has been involved in matters concerning antitrust, civil RICO, class actions, consumer fraud, corporate takeovers, government regulation, patent infringement, product liability, trade secrets, and a wide variety of other types of business and commercial litigation.

Bill also has significant experience in representing corporations and individuals in grand jury and other types of government criminal investigations. He has successfully defended numerous corporate and individual clients (i.e., no criminal charges brought against his clients) who were targets of government and grand jury investigations into a vast array of suspected criminal activities, including antitrust violations, customs violations, export violations, false statements and perjury, fraud against the United States, mail fraud, money laundering, RICO, tax evasion, and wire fraud. In addition, Bill has extensive experience in conducting and supervising internal investigations into possible criminal conduct on the part of officers, directors, and employees of corporate clients.

Bill is a member of the American Bar Association (Litigation, Criminal Justice, and Antitrust Law Sections), the Cleveland Bar Association (Litigation Section), the Bar Association of the District of Columbia, the Federal Bar Association, and the Judge Anthony J. Celebrezze Inn of Court. He has co-authored several articles and other legal publications and has been a speaker at seminars and programs on such topics as trial techniques, antitrust compliance, advocacy, and practice before grand juries. He is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court and various U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals and District Courts.