Hall Render is pleased to announce that shareholder William Berlin, J.D., has joined the firm’s Washington, D.C., office. Berlin’s practice consists of counseling and defending hospitals, health systems, physicians and other health care providers in federal and state antitrust enforcement agency investigations, as well as litigation, involving mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and provider networks, exclusionary conduct by dominant firms and provider-payer contracting provisions. Berlin completed his undergraduate studies at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, cum laude, in 1985 and received his law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1988. Berlin is admitted to practice in Virginia, the District of Columbia, the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, the United States Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third, Fourth, Sixth and Seventh Circuits, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia and the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.