Wilkinson Stekloff

Bill is a first-chair trial lawyer with over 30 years of experience defending tobacco, pharmaceutical, medical device, automotive, and tech companies in complex civil litigation. Throughout his career, Bill has tried dozens of cases to verdict in jurisdictions across the country, consistently delivering outstanding results for his clients.

Bill has extensive experience serving as national trial counsel in class actions and multidistrict litigation in products liability, mass tort, and commercial disputes, including significant representations of Philip Morris, Medtronic, and Stryker Corp. With his deep understanding of jury trials from voir dire to closing, Bill is also a frequent speaker at corporate counsel events on issues such as jury selection and courtroom advocacy.

Bill is nationally ranked in “Product Liability & Mass Torts” by Chambers and Partners, which describes him as an “intellectual, client-friendly and a superb trial lawyer.” In addition, Bill is a Legal500 “Leading Partner,” one of Benchmark Litigation’s “Top 100 Trial Lawyers” and a “National Practice Area Star,” and has been named a “Product Liability MVP” by Law360. He has also received the BTI Client Service All-Star award four times.

Prior to joining Wilkinson Stekloff, Bill was a partner at Shook, Hardy & Bacon, where he served as Managing Partner of the Miami office and co-chaired the firm’s Product Liability Litigation Practice Group, earning national recognition as a “Litigation Department of the Year” from Benchmark and The American Lawyer. He received his J.D., cum laude, from Georgetown University Law Center, and his B.A., cum laude, from Duke University.