Overview
Bill Andrichik counsels clients through a wide variety of complex commercial challenges, helping navigate potential disputes and litigating active matters. He litigates in federal and state courts across the country, handling breach of contract, toxic tort and product liability claims, mass torts, and class actions. He also handles internal corporate investigations.
Bill has served as first chair in trials in federal court, arbitrations, and in front of administrative review panels, and has extensive experience handling all aspects of litigation, including motion practice, fact and expert discovery, transmittal and use of HIPAA-protected and FERPA-protected information, depositions, trials, and appeals.
- Illinois
- US District Court, Northern District of Illinois
- US District Court, District of Colorado
- US Court of Appeals, First Circuit
- US Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit
- J.D., University of Michigan Law School, 2010, cum laude
- B.A., University of Notre Dame, 2007, Dean's List, Political Science and English
Representative Matters
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Representing national and international provider of for-profit higher education in series of class actions, mass actions, and arbitrations involving allegations of consumer fraud.
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Argued in front of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in a claim involving allegations of Title 28 U.S.C. § 1983 and the Fourteenth Amendment of the US Constitution.
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First-chaired arbitration in state court action in Illinois in a claim between a retailer and its former vendor for a breach of the vendor agreement.
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First-chaired bench trial in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado in a commercial dispute regarding claims for breach of a shareholder agreement.
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Represented Toys "R" Us in litigation under Chapter 15 of the Bankruptcy Code over recognition of foreign proceedings invoked to avoid pending litigation obligations in the United States.
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Represented past and present owners of a chemical treatment facility in a class action pending in the Northern District of Florida where plaintiffs have alleged diminished use and enjoyment of properties surrounding the facility due to air emissions and groundwater contamination.
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Achieved dismissal of more than 80 claims as part of an interstate mass tort claim currently pending in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
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Represented petroleum transporting and marketing entities in multidistrict mass tort wrongful death action relating to a petroleum train derailment in Canada.
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Briefed and won an appeal in the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals affirming, with costs, the trial court’s dismissal of a claim for breach of an international telecommunications contract.
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Briefed and won an appeal in the Illinois Appellate Court, First District, on behalf of an international financial services company; the appellate court affirmed the trial court’s dismissal of a claim for improper disbursement of segregated funds.
News & Publications
Press Releases
Steptoe Receives 25 Practice, 72 Individual Mentions in Chambers USA 2023
June 1, 2023
Press Releases
Steptoe Receives 27 Practice, 72 Individual Mentions in Chambers USA 2022
June 3, 2022
Press Releases
Steptoe Volunteers Honor Local Firefighters to Pay it Forward 9/11
September 10, 2021
Press Releases
Steptoe Receives 24 Practice, 71 Individual Mentions in Chambers USA 2021
May 20, 2021
Press Releases
Steptoe Receives 125 Individual Mentions in Best Lawyers in America 2021
August 20, 2020
Publications
Defense Counsel Journal
August 7, 2019
Noteworthy
- Best Lawyers in America, "One to Watch," Commercial Litigation (2021-2022)
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Chambers USA, Litigation: General Commercial, Illinois (2021-2023)
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Super Lawyers, Illinois, "Rising Star," Business Litigation (2020)
Professional Affiliations
- American Bar Association
- Board of Trustees, National Multiple Sclerosis Society - Greater Illinois Chapter