Thomas C. Hill, a partner in Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP's Cincinnati office, holds a Bachelor of Arts from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, and a Juris Doctor from the University of Chicago Law School. Hill has practiced with the firm since his admission to the Ohio bar in 1973, first in the Antitrust Department and more recently in the Litigation Department. He focuses his practice on litigation and counseling regarding complex antitrust and insurance-coverage matters. Hill has successfully defended multi-week jury trials alleging monopolization under Sherman Act Section 2 and conspiracy under Sherman Act Section 1. He has defended civil antitrust claims in federal courts in Ohio, Kentucky, Missouri and Mississippi. Hill has obtained clearance for numerous mergers before the Federal Trade Commission or the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, and a smaller number of acquisitions before the Canadian Competition Bureau, Austrian Cartel Court, German Federal Cartel Office and Brazilian Secretariat of Economic Surveillance. He has represented policyholders in a variety of insurance coverage disputes, perhaps most prominently in the seminal New Jersey Supreme Court environmental-insurance case of Morton International vs. General Accident Insurance Company. Hill has prosecuted and defended insurance coverage litigation in state and federal courts in New Jersey, Illinois, Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia. He is listed in The Best Lawyers in America by Woodward/White, Inc.