Experienced, Highly Qualified Trial
and Appellate Attorneys
We are a law firm of highly regarded trial and appellate attorneys located in San Diego, California. Our attorneys are graduates of the nation’s leading law schools (Harvard Law School and the University of Chicago Law School) and alumni of leading global law firms. Two of us held federal clerkships and one served as a prosecutor in the United States Attorney’s Office.
We conduct trials and appeals as well as provide strategic and ongoing advice only in our core areas of expertise, and we accept only a few matters at a time to ensure that we can devote sufficient, undivided attention to each engagement that we accept.
Antitrust Litigation
William A. Markham, who leads our antitrust practice, has extensively litigated a wide range of complex antitrust cases in federal and state court in CA since 1988.
Business Litigation
Mr. Markham and Mr. Bishop both have substantial, successful experience litigating a broad array of commercial disputes.
Real Estate Litigation
We litigate and try substantial disputes that concern the ownership, development, sale and possession of interests in real properties.
William Markham’s Articles on the Law
Amazon’s Merger With Whole Foods Market (By William Markham, © 2017)
Amazon has announced that it plans to acquire all of the stock of Whole Foods Market, the nation's largest retailer of high end, organic groceries. Amazon already sells groceries at retail, filling online orders and making home deliveries, and it likely seeks to use...
read more“The Border-Adjustment Tax Is a Bad Idea Whose Time Has Not Come” (By William Markham, San Diego © 2017)
The Trump Administration, working with a coalition in Congress, apparently intends to propose a border-adjustment tax or “BAT.” Under this tax, a company subject to US tax law will no longer be permitted to deduct the cost of any good or service that it imports, and...
read more“A Major Decision on Defining Relevant Geographic Markets in Hospital Cases” By William Markham, © 2016
The Third Circuit recently issued a brilliant decision on the issue of determining the relevant geographic market in hospital cases (FTC v. Penn State Hershey Medical Center (3rd Cir. 2016, Case No. 16-2365). Hershey specifically concerns the antitrust challenge...
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