William C. Meyers

Bill Meyers is a Principal in the firm's Litigation Group. Throughout his career, he has handled a variety of complex commercial litigation matters in courts nationwide. He has extensive experience in bankruptcy and insolvency litigation, regularly protecting the rights of secured creditors in these proceedings. He litigates cash collateral/adequate protection disputes, plan confirmation issues, claims objections, valuation disputes, relief from stay motions, and receivership actions.

Of recent note, Mr. Meyers serves as lead counsel for the defendants in the multidistrict class action litigation captioned, In re Monat Hair Care Products Marketing, Sales Practices, and Products Liability Litigation, pending in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. He also represented settlement class counsel for a class of more than 1,300 insurance companies suing AIG for RICO, common law fraud and breach of contract, obtaining a $450 million class action settlement, despite strenuous objections.

Mr. Meyers regularly serves as counsel to the Secured Finance Network and filed an amicus curiae brief on its behalf in the Tousa bankruptcy pending in Florida. He subsequently spoke about the implications of the 11th Circuit's ruling in Tousa at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association.

Mr. Meyers has also litigated a number of intellectual property disputes, including numerous trademark infringement cases, domain name cyber-squatting disputes, and breach of contract actions relating to intellectual property license/franchise agreements. This includes, most recently, the successful prosecution of a trademark infringement matter on behalf of Guinness World in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Publications and Presentations
Mr. Meyers speaks extensively on electronic discovery issues and the impact of the amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and the Federal Rules of Evidence. He has presented at the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin's Annual Electronic Discovery Conference, the American Bankruptcy Institute's Leadership meetings, and the Taxpayers Against Fraud annual meetings. A sampling of his presentations and published articles include:

• "Predictive Coding – A Love Story" at the Tax Payers Against Fraud Education Fund's annual conference, Washington, D.C., Oct. 2018.
• "Impact of Recent Amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure on Electronic Discovery" at the Tax Payers Against Fraud Education Fund's annual conference, Washington, D.C., Sept. 2016.
• "Recent Tousa Development Reverses Bankruptcy Court," a Goldberg Kohn alert, Feb. 16, 2011.

Mr. Meyers is an instructor for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (Deposition Skills); a member of the Board of Directors of the Public Interest Law Initiative (PILI); and a volunteer with the CBA's Edward J. Lewis II Lawyers In the Classroom program in the Chicago Public Schools. In May 2018 he was honored with the Award for Excellence in Pro Bono Service by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois in conjunction with the Federal Bar Association's Chicago Chapter.

In 2021 and 2022, Mr. Meyers was recognized as a Leading Lawyer in Commercial Litigation by Illinois Leading Lawyers.

Mr. Meyers joined Goldberg Kohn in July 1990. He is a Member of the firm's Management and Recruiting committees. He received his law degree from the University of Michigan Law School in 1987, and his B.A. in Business Administration and Management, with honors, from Michigan State University in 1984.