Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Lawyer Overview

Ted Bilich has extensive experience litigating class actions and other multiparty, multijurisdictional civil cases in jurisdictions around the United States and across a broad range of substantive areas, including consumer fraud, consumer finance, mass tort, antitrust, securities, and employment law. He also has substantial experience in corporate internal investigations and white-collar criminal cases. In addition, he counsels clients about how to reduce or avoid litigation risks.

Ted's recent engagements have included representation of Constellation Energy in a class action alleging fly ash contamination, Computer Sciences Corporation in a class action involving computer software and the insurance market, Experian Information Solutions in class actions involving the Fair Credit Reporting Act and Driver's Privacy Protection Act, numerous hospital systems in mass qui tam actions relating to the Medicare Secondary Payer Statute, and United Auto Group in class actions involving consumer financing of automobile sales.

Ted teaches a seminar on class actions and other multiparty litigation as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center. He has written widely on class actions and other topics and is coauthor of a casebook for Thomson*West entitled Class Actions and Other Multiparty Litigation (2d ed. 2006). Ted is a consulting editor for BNA's Class Action Litigation Report. He also has been a contributing editor for the American Bar Association Class Action & Derivative Suits Magazine.

Ted is an elected member of The American Law Institute, a member of the Connecticut and District of Columbia bars, and a past member of the D.C. Bar's Litigation Section Steering Committee. He is admitted to practice before numerous trial and appellate courts around the nation.

Ted is also actively involved in the broader Washington, D.C. community. He currently serves as a member of the board of directors of the Northern Virginia Conservation Trust. Ted previously served as the president and a member of the board of directors of the Latino Student Fund and served on the board of directors of the Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs and the Washington Humane Society.

Ted has engaged in numerous pro bono activities, including representations of Native American villages in Alaska, Latino community organizations, and immigrants involved in proceedings involving detention and deportation.

Areas of Practice

• Trial Practice
• Class Action Litigation
• Consumer Fraud & Warranty Litigation

Representative Cases

• Breed Technologies, Inc. v. AlliedSignal, Inc., No. G-99-2478 (Polk Co., Fla., Cir. Ct.)
• Brooks v. Auto Data Direct, et al.
• Byerson v. Experian Informations Solutions, Inc.
• Fanelli v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
• Giral v. Phone Poulenc
• Harris v. Experian Information Solutions, Inc.
• In re Bridgestone/Firestone, Inc. ATX, ATX II, and Wilderness Tires Products Liability Litigation, 288 F.3d 1012 (7th Cir. 2002), cert. denied, 123 S. Ct. 870 (2003)
• James v. UAG, Inc.
• Joher v. UAG Inc., et al.
• Kalodner, et al. v. Michaels Stores, Inc., et al., No. 3-95CV1903-BD (N.D. Tex.)
• Lemmer v. Nu-kote Holding, Inc.
• Queen v. Constellation Power Source Generation, Inc., Case No. 24-C-7009389 (Cir. Ct., Baltimore City, MD).
• Smith v. Westinghouse
• State of Alaska et al. v. Native Village of Curyung, et al.
• Watkins v. Cleveland Clinic Foundation (Cuyahoga Cty., OH Ct. App.)
• Weaver v. Westinghouse
• Williamson v. UAG, Inc., et al.
• Zielinski v. UAG, Inc., et al.
• Zishka v. American Pad & Paper Company, No. 3:98-CV-0660-M, 2001 WL 1645500 (N.D. Tex. Dec. 20, 2001)
• ATX Class Actions
• Litigation

West Practice Categories

Bankruptcy Litigation, Business & Commercial Law, Class Actions, Complex Litigation, Consumer Protection, Federal Appellate Practice, Federal Claims Court, Federal Trial Practice, International Trade Litigation, Litigation & Appeals, Military & Veterans Appeals, Multidistrict Litigation, Patent Litigation, State Appellate Practice, State Trial Practice, Tax Litigation, US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, US Supreme Court, Warranties

Bar Admissions

• Connecticut
• District of Columbia

Education

• Harvard University

Published Works

• Class Actions and Other Multi-Party Litigation: Cases and Materials, American Casebook Series, Thomson West, 2d ed, 2006
• Consumer Arbitration: A Class Action Panacea? 7 BNA Class Action Litigation Report Report 768, 2006
• 20th Anniversary of Shutts: Class Actions in the New Millennium, BNA Class Action Litigation Report, 2006
• Class Actions And Other Multi-Party Litigation: Cases and Materials, co-author, West Group, 2000
• Class Action Rules -- Are They Driven By Substance?, coauthor, 1 BNA Class Action Litig. Report 504, 2000
• A Look at Interlocutory Appeals of Class Certification Decisions Under Rule 23(f), coauthor, 1 BNA Class Action Litig. Report 69, 2000
• The Civil Rights Act of 1991 Going Forward, co-author, 20 Employee Relations Law Journal 237, 1994
• Allied Signal and the Unitary Business Principle: Little Guidance, Many Questions, co-author, Jour. Multistate Tax. 154, 1992
• No Monopoly Game, co-author, Legal Times Special Supplement 17, 1991

Address

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Washington, DC 20001-2113

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