William Crosby

William (Bill) Crosby, Jr. is Chief Legal Officer, Litigation at Omnicom Group, a New York-based global advertising and marketing company with over 130,000 employees worldwide. At Omnicom and its predecessor, Interpublic Group, where he began working in 2002, Bill has overseen global litigation, managed the Latin American legal operations, and served as the chief of staff for the legal department.   He was an associate at Davis Polk & Wardwell from 1993 until 1995, and at Kay, Collyer & Boose (now defunct) from 1995 until 2002.  

He started serving as a commercial arbitrator in 2009 and has since presided over hundreds of domestic and international disputes involving a variety of contractual and intellectual property issues. Bill has served on AAA-ICDR and ICC panels as well as in ad hoc matters. 

Bill is a Fellow of the College of Commercial Arbitrators, a Director of the American Arbitration Association-International Centre for Dispute Resolution (AAA-ICDR), a Director of the New York International Arbitration Center (NYIAC), Chair of the AAA-ICDR Council, Immediate Past Chair of the New York State Bar Association (NYSBA) Dispute Resolution Section, and is a former Director of the LGBT Bar Association of Greater New York.  He speaks regularly on arbitration related issues (from the in-house and the arbitrator perspectives), as well as on litigation and compliance issues.  Bill is a 1990 graduate of Yale College and a 1993 graduate of Stanford Law School.