The firm represents clients before the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and has handled many complex civil and criminal antitrust and consumer law matters, including major treble-damage actions, nationwide class actions, consolidated multidistrict litigation, internal investigations, and short-fuse preliminary injunction proceedings. We have extensive experience handling state law antitrust, consumer protection and unfair competition claims, matters involving regulated industries, and issues arising from emerging antitrust specialties such as health care, intellectual property, and Internet matters. The firm also has an active European Community competition law practice, involving both American and European counsel, and we have a very substantial international trade practice that is separately profiled within this site.
Included among the firm’s antitrust and consumer law attorneys are several alumni of the DOJ, the FTC, and the Office of the Solicitor General, including Steve Calkins and John Graubert, former general counsel and Deputy General Counsel, respectively, of the FTC. Other firm lawyers have written important treatises on different aspects of antitrust law, including international antitrust and the Robinson-Patman Act. Many of our lawyers have participated in a seminar on antitrust litigation conducted by the firm at the University of Virginia Law School, and firm lawyers have given numerous speeches on antitrust and consumer law subjects to business, educational, and professional groups throughout the country.
The firm’s antitrust and consumer law practice benefits from the industry-specific experience of our lawyers involved in other areas of practice, including pharmaceuticals, communications, energy, financial services, life sciences, sports, and transportation. This experience allows our antitrust and consumer protection counsel to bring a sophisticated understanding of specific economic forces at play in this particular industry and to develop threshold defenses based on federal or state regulation. The firm also has considerable experience in developing and presenting expert witness testimony on difficult economic, accounting, and marketing issues that are often of fundamental importance in resolving antitrust and consumer law disputes. Our decades of experience advising on competitor collaborations and the breadth of our experience in related e-commerce issues (corporate, intellectual property privacy, and contract) enable us to provide comprehensive service to such e-commerce ventures.
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