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RICO Litigation & White-Collar Defense

RICO Litigation

We have superb experience handling cases that arise under the amorphously worded RICO Act. RICO stands for “Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations,” and the RICO Act as originally conceived by Congress was intended to ensnare all gangsters and the various companies and entities that they used to launder proceeds from their gangster activities. The RICO Act was therefore cast in very broad, open-ended but also incomprehensible language. Over time, many litigants learned to use this broadly worded statute in order to bring claims against all manner of businesses and people, many of whom never participated in any activity that even remotely resembled “gangster activity” even under the broadest possible definition of the term. The federal courts therefore devised a series of ever more restrictive doctrines to try to discourage these kinds of claims, but along the way they sometimes struggled to reconcile their doctrines with the express language and intended purpose of the RICO Act. It is now a very complex area of law in which we can capably analyze claims, bring claims on behalf of RICO victims, and provide sterling defenses of claims brought under the Act.

White-Collar Crimes

Dorn Bishop used to be a prosecutor in the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of California, and he tried many cases to juries and never lost a single one. He also has extensive experience litigating RICO matters on behalf of defendants during his long, successful career in private practice. William Markham also has substantial experience litigating RICO matters and can provide first-rate guidance and advocacy to plaintiffs and defendants in these complicated, difficult cases that arise under the RICO statutes.

MR. MARKHAM’S ARTICLES ON ANTITRUST LAW

AN OVERVIEW OF ANTITRUST LAW (By William Markham, © 2000)

“Antitrust law is the law of competition and is perhaps the least understood law of all. This article provides an overview and explanation of the essential principles of antitrust law.”
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ANTITRUST EXEMPTIONS AND IMMUNITIES (By William Markham, © 2022)

“Over the years, Congress and the federal courts have established various immunities from federal antitrust law, removing from its reach specified commercial activities and even entire lines of commerce.”
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HOW THE CONSUMER-WELFARE STANDARD TRANSFORMED CLASSICAL ANTITRUST LAW (William Markham, © 2021)

“Since the late 1970s, antitrust law in the United States has been transformed out of recognition and rendered largely toothless by consumer-welfare jurisprudence….,”
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MAKING SENSE OF THE RULES OF EVIDENCE AND PRESENTING YOUR EVIDENCE AT TRIAL (By William Markham, 2011)

“I try in this article simply to set forth a list of simple rules to explain the key points of the law of evidence. I also offer several pointers on organizing evidence in order to present it competently at trial.”
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ANATOMY OF A LAWSUIT (By William Markham, © 2007)

“This article is written for non-lawyers, young litigators, and non-litigator attorneys who wish to understand how a lawsuit works in practice from start to finish.”
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AN OVERVIEW OF CONTRACT LAW (By William Markham, 2002)

“Contract law lies at the heart of our system of laws and serves as the foundation of our entire society…. Our society depends upon free exchange in the marketplace at every level. Contract law makes this possible.”
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