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Mr. William Douglas Ezzell

BakerHostetler LLP


William is a crisis lawyer. He is an experienced business litigator, internal investigation, and federal criminal defense attorney. He focuses on the representation of individuals, business executives, health care professionals and corporate clients in white collar criminal investigations, prosecutions and civil enforcement proceedings. This past year alone, he defended to verdict an individual in the DOJ's most high-profile healthcare trial, represented a major medical equipment company in dozens of product liability actions, and appeared before the Eleventh Circuit as part his ongoing defense of a former hospital CEO in another high-profile federal trial set to begin this year. His national federal criminal and civil work spans an array of industries, including health care, government contracting and financial industries, and includes investigations and prosecutions of allegations of health care fraud, government procurement fraud, securities fraud, public corruption and money laundering.