A partner in the Antitrust Group, Joseph Bial regularly represents clients in high-profile antitrust and commercial litigation in federal district and appellate courts, as well as before state and federal regulatory agencies. Joe also has extensive experience handling antitrust, international cartel and anti-monopoly cases in the United States and Asia.
Most recently, Joe has played a leading role in several high-profile monopolization cases on behalf of entrepreneurs in high-tech industries. He also regularly defends clients in cases alleging violations of federal and state antitrust laws across a wide range of industries. These cases include defending clients against antitrust class actions in the steel, municipal derivatives, sorbates, auction rate securities and oriented strand board industries. He has particular expertise defending clients against alleged participation in international cartels, as well as defending civil actions following grand jury and other government investigations.
Joe has been recognized as a leading antitrust lawyer. He has been identified in the 2012 edition of The Legal 500, where clients noted that his "depth of expertise and passion for antitrust is unmatched," and in the 2013 edition, where he was recognized for his "very smart" work involving antitrust and competition-related issues in Asia. He is also named in Who's Who in Asia (2007 and 2012), and has been recognized as a top antitrust lawyer in Washington, D.C. by Super Lawyers magazine (2013-2015). Joe frequently writes and speaks on economic, competition and financial issues and has made numerous broadcast appearances, including on Bloomberg, FUJI TV (Japan) and international news channel NTN24.
Joe has been an Adjunct Professor at George Mason School of Law, teaching Advanced Antitrust, and at the University of Alaska College of Business and Public Policy, teaching Business Law. Earlier in his career, Joe worked as an economist at the White House Office of Management and Budget and has also testified as an economic expert and consulted as an economist.
