Bilich, Edward K.M.

Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Lawyer Overview

Ted Bilich practices complex litigation, helping clients to win, resolve, and avoid business disputes. Ted focuses on class actions and other multiparty, multijurisdictional civil cases in jurisdictions around the United States 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.

Ted recently represented Constellation Energy in settlement of 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, and numerous hospital systems in proposed mass qui tam actions relating to the Medicare Secondary Payer Statute.

Ted teaches class actions and other multiparty litigation as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center. He coauthored the Thomson*West casebook Class Actions and Other Multiparty Litigation (2d ed. 2006). Ted is the board chair of Creative Arlington (a business and community innovation group), a commissioner on the Arlington (Virginia) Economic Development Commission, and a member of the board of directors of the Northern Virginia Conservation Trust.

Areas of Practice

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

Representative Cases

• American Pad & Paper Company obtains dismissal of Rule 10b-5 consolidated class action , (2009)
• Aventis and other methionine producers successfully challenge class certification in antitrust litigation
• Breed Technologies settles multi-million dollar accounting fraud litigation in Florida
• Bridgestone/Firestone defends against ATX, ATX II, and Wilderness tire product liability class actions , (2009)
• CBS Corporation defends against charges of age discrimination in Pennsylvania state court
• Cleveland Clinic Foundation successfully prosecutes appeal of largest medical malpractice verdict in Ohio , (2009)
• Constellation Power defends against putative class action claiming water, soil and air contamination from coal combustion by-products reclamation site
• Experian defends nationwide class action involving credit reporting , (2009)
• Experian defends putative class action in South Carolina involving Fair Credit Reporting Act claims
• Experian defends putative class action under the Driver's Privacy Protection Act in Florida
• Experian resolves proposed Florida class action alleging violations of Driver's Privacy Protection Act
• Indian tribes win interlocutory appeal before Alaska Supreme Court in case involving adoption violations , (2009)
• Mexican applicant achieves cancellation of removal grant
• Michaels Stores resolves class action related to inventory write-downs
• Nu-Kote Holdings obtains dismissal of securities fraud action
• UAG defends against Tennessee and Mississippi class action involving "dealer reserve" revenues relating to automobile financing
• UAG wins dismissal of New Jersey federal court class action involving "dealer reserve" revenues related to automobile financing
• UAG wins dismissal of putative consumer protection class action in New Jersey state court involving "dealer reserve" revenues
• United Auto Group defends against consumer protection class action relating to dealer-assisted financing
• Wal-Mart defends against multijurisdictional class action involving watch sales

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

• District of Columbia
• Connecticut

Education

• Harvard University
• Wake Forest 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

51 Louisiana Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC 20001-2113

Phones

1.202.879.4274 (Business Phone)

Faxes

1.202.626.1700 (Business Fax)

Emails

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Websites

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