Contact:
Phone: 215-665-3222
Fax: 215-665-3165
Email: wkp@obermayer.com
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Office:
Philadelphia, PA
One Penn Center, 19th Floor
1617 John F. Kennedy Boulevard
Philadelphia, PA 19103-1895

Practice Areas:
Commercial Litigation

General Corporate
Litigation
Intellectual Property

Education:
Drew University (BA '81)
Michigan University Law School (JD '93)

Professional/Civic Activities:

Professional Activities: 
American Bar Association
Central Bucks Chamber of Commerce
Pennsylvania Bar Association
Philadelphia Bar Association

Civic Activities: 
Boy Scouts of America
Pennsbury Citizens Advisory Committee
Rotary Club of Central Bucks

Blogs:
The Attorney Fee Recovery Blog

Bill Pelosi is a partner with Obermayer, where he has practiced law since 1994.  Bill helps his clients achieve their objectives using a straight-forward, cost effective approach.

Prior to attending University of Michigan Law School, Bill spent ten years at IBM, helping his clients find new ways to apply technology to achieve their goals.  Bill assisted his clients with respect to every aspect of their operations, from improving processes on the plant floor and in the development labs, to creating formal assessments of how new systems would impact financial ratios and other business metrics.

Bill’s pre-law experience keeps him focused on his client’s business objectives.  Bill provides outside general counsel support to smaller companies with an eye on controlling their costs.  He helps them limit the legal services they consume to those that are truly essential, and provides those services with great efficiency.
 
When litigation becomes necessary, Bill keeps it fast and efficient.  For example, he combines a knowledge of computers with legal skills to drive a cost effective approach in electronic document discovery.  He does this both in his own cases and in cases across the office.  This, critically, is where a large portion of the dollars are spent in most mid-to-large size cases.  It is also where Bill’s extra measure of expertise can be leveraged into a considerable advantage. 

Bill has represented businesses in a broad range of industries and has successfully prosecuted/defended cases based on contract violations, theft of intellectual property and anti-trust violations, fraud and conspiracy, civil RICO, and other statutory and regulatory violations.  He has engineered international settlements in large commercial cases involving more than 20 parties.

A representative sample of Bill’s cases includes:

• Defending a municipality against charges of racial discrimination leveled against it by an internationally recognized art institution.
  
• Defending a major health insurance carrier against breach of contract / bad faith allegations based on it’s determination that a surgical procedure was experimental and, therefore, not covered.
  
• Defending the manufacturer of flight instrument systems against product defect claims in an aircraft death case.  
  
• Defending a major health insurance company against antitrust monopsony claims brought against it by multiple hospitals.
  
• Defending construction managers and general contractors in complicated construction injury cases.
  
• Obtaining a seven figure recovery from insurers and brokers following a large, underinsured, commercial loss.
  
• Enforcing a post closing adjustment to the sale price of a radio news company.
  
• Protecting the buyer of commercial real estate from a quiet title action, with an eight figure transaction on the line.