The Charlottesville Case

William ("Bill") Isaacson is a partner at Boies Schiller Flexner LLP. Since joining the firm at its inception in 1997, Bill’s main practice area has been complex commercial litigation, including both civil trials and arbitration. Bill is a 2015 American Lawyer Litigator of the Year, a three-time winner of The AmLaw Litigator of the Week, and a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. Global Competition Review writes, "Arguably no antitrust lawyer in recent memory has had as much success for both plaintiffs and defendants as Boies Schiller partner Bill Isaacson.”

In 2015, after a three-week jury trial in the District of Nevada, Bill–together with BSF co-counsel Karen Dunn–won a $50 million verdict, later increased to $124 million in a judgment, for Oracle for software copyright infringement and state law violations. In 2014, in O’Bannon v. NCAA, he won significant attention for his cross-examinations of NCAA witnesses, obtaining a historic victory for college athletes. In the same year, Bill served as trial counsel, with Karen Dunn, in a high-profile antitrust class action in the portable music industry, winning a complete defense verdict. In 2013, Bill was also trial counsel in the first antitrust action against Chinese companies for cartel conduct relating to products sold in the United States, winning a $162 million judgment, and $33 million from settling defendants.

Bill has been listed as one of the 500 leading lawyers in the U.S. by the publication Lawdragon. Bill was also named a Competition MVP and Titan of the Plaintiff Bar by Law360, and a Litigator of the Week by Global Competition Review. Legal 500 describes him as a “leader” at the firm “with many successes to his credit” who has a "brilliant knowledge of international arbitration."