William Roll, a partner in the Litigation Group since 1987, represents clients in a variety of commercial and financial litigation. His practice includes bankruptcy and workout-related litigation, bank fraud and lender liability actions, private antitrust and securities actions, intellectual property litigation, litigations arising from contested corporate acquisitions, and real estate litigation. In addition to trial level work in the foregoing areas in many jurisdictions around the country, he has also handled appeals in both state and federal courts in New York, California, Florida, Ohio, Texas and elsewhere. Mr. Roll has also handled arbitrations conducted under the auspices of the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes, the American Arbitration Association, and the New York Stock Exchange. He joined the firm in 1980 following a judicial clerkship for the Hon. Thomas C. Platt, United States District Court, Eastern District of New York, from 1979 through 1980. He has been resident in the New York office from 1980 through 1987 and from 1992 through the present. Mr. Roll was resident in the Los Angeles office from 1988 through 1992. He served as the firm’s Hiring Partner from 1994 through 1996.