William Friedman is of counsel in Cohen Milstein’s Antitrust practice, where he represents individuals and businesses in antitrust and class action litigation.
Prior to joining Cohen Milstein, Will worked as trial attorney for the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, where he led investigations and helped oversee precedent-setting disputes involving collusion in the meat industry, including United States v. Agri Stats, Inc. (D. Minn.) and United States v. Cargill Meat Solutions Corp. (D. Md.).
Before the DOJ, Will was an associate at a highly regarded global defense firm, where he was a member of the firm’s antitrust trial and appellate teams.
Before going into private practice, Will was a law clerk for Judge Gerald B. Tjoflat of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
Will was the winner of the Jerry S. Cohen Award, co-sponsored by Cohen Milstein and the American Antitrust Institute, for Best Publication of 2025 on Antitrust and Contract Law for Are Anticompetitive Contracts Enforceable? The Illegality Defense and Modern Anticompetitive Contracts, 110 Cornell L. Rev. 335 (2025).
- District of Columbia
- Maryland
- Duke University School of Law, J.D., magna cum laude, 2015
- Dartmouth College, B.A., cum laude, 2011
Law Clerk, Judge Gerald B. Tjoflat, United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (2015 – 2016)
Current Cases
RealPage Antitrust Litigation
District of Columbia v. RealPage, Inc. et al. (D.C. Sup. Crt.): Cohen Milstein supports the District of Columbia Attorney General’s office in a parens patriae antitrust lawsuit against RealPage, Inc. and fourteen of the largest landlords in the District for allegedly colluding to artificially inflate rents throughout the District in violation of the D.C. Antitrust Act.