The American Antitrust Institute announces the AAI’s Antitrust Enforcement Awards 2026 honorees. These leading legal practitioners and economists will be honored at AAI Awards Night on November 5, following AAI’s Annual Private Antitrust Enforcement Conference. Our congratulations to all honorees!
OUTSTANDING ANTITRUST LITIGATION ACHIEVEMENT IN PRIVATE LAW PRACTICE
In re Amitiza Antitrust Litigation
Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP
Radice Law Firm P.C.
Taus Cebulash & Landau LLP
Roberts Law Firm US, PC
Lowey Dannenberg P.C.
Getnick & Getnick LLP
Hangley Aronchick Segal Pudlin & Schiller
Sperling Kenny Nachwalter, LLC
Team members included: Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP’s Thomas M. Sobol, Valeria Alvarez, Riya Jha, Erin C. Burns, Kristen A. Johnson, Jessica R. MacAuley, Rebekah Glickman-Simon, Laura Hayes, Daniel Polonsky, Whitney Street, and Linaris Falcon; Radice Law Firm P.C.’s John Radice, Clark Craddock, Charles Kopel, Ken Pickle, Luke Smith, April Lambert, and Daniel Rubenstein; Taus Cebulash & Landau LLP’s Barry S. Taus, Joshua Hall, and Evan Rosin; Roberts Law Firm US, PC’s Mike Roberts, Debra Josephson, Dr. Kelly Rinehart, Stephanie Smith, Rita Wang, and Joshua Zuckerman; Lowey Dannenberg P.C.’s Uriel Rabinovitz, Renee Nolan, and Thomas Griffith; Getnick & Getnick LLP’s Courtney Finerty-Stelzner; and Hangley Aronchick Segal Pudlin & Schiller’s Barry Refsin, Alexander J. Egerváry, and Cary Zhang; and Sperling Kenny Nachwalter, LLC’s Jonathan D. Stratton, Lauren Ravkind, Campbell Haynes, David Lesht, and Scott E. Perwin.
In re Pork Antitrust Litigation
Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP
Gustafson Gluek PLLC
Lockridge Grindal Nauen PLLP
Pearson Warshaw, LLP
Cuneo Gilbert Flannery & LaDuca, LLP
Larson King LLP
Team members included: Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP’s Steve Berman, Shana Scarlett, Breanna Van Engelen, and John Grant; Gustafson Gluek PLLC’s Dan Gustafson, Dan Hedlund, Josh Rissman, Abou Amara, Shashi Gowda, and Gabrielle Kolb; Lockridge Grindal Nauen PLLP’s Brian D. Clark, W. Joseph Bruckner, Joseph C. Bourne, Arielle S. Wagner, and Amber M. Raak; Pearson Warshaw, LLP’s Bobby Pouya, Bruce Simon, Cliff Pearson, Michael Pearson, and Naveed Abaie; Cuneo Gilbert Flannery & LaDuca, LLP’s Michael Flannery, Evelyn Riley, Daniel Cohen, and Cody McCracken; Larson King LLP’s Shawn Raiter and Matt Bolt.
Djeneba Sidibe, et al. v. Sutter Health
Shinder Cantor Lerner LLP
Constantine Cannon LLP
Team members included Shinder Cantor Lerner’s Matthew Cantor, Jimmy Kovacs, and Wyatt Fore; and Constantine Cannon LLP’s Lloyd Constantine and Jean Kim.
In re Xyrem Antitrust Litigation
Girard Sharp LLP
Motley Rice LLC
Team members included: Girard Sharp LLP’s Dena Sharp, Scott Grzenczyk, and Jordan Isern; and Michael M. Buchman of the Saveri Law Firm LLP formerly with Motley Rice LLC
OUTSTANDING ANTITRUST LITIGATION ACHIEVEMENT IN ECONOMICS
In re Amitiza Antitrust Litigation
Prof. Nicole Maestas
Harvard University
Prof. Christopher J. Ruhm
University of Virginia
In re Google Digital Advertising Antitrust Litigation
Prof. Einer R. Elhauge
Legal Economics
Team members included Alex Krueger, John C. Staines, Jr., Luke Martin, Ihsan Alp, Heather Roberts, Baris Yoruk, and Robin Young.
United States of America et al. v. Live Nation Entertainment, Inc., and Ticketmaster L.L.C.
Nicholas D. Hill, PhD
Bates White
Team members included Morgan Ackley, MPP, Gary Baker, PhD, Siena Blelloch, Kate Dressel, Kayuna Fukushima, PhD, Andrew Joyner, Michelle S. Lam, PhD, Richard Langford, PhD, Joanne Le, Michael Logue, MS, Dennis McWeeny, PhD, Daniel Ober-Reynolds, PhD, Nick Pomatto, Olivia Whittle, Allison Zalazar, MA, and Jeff Zhang.
United States of America et al. v. Live Nation Entertainment, Inc., and Ticketmaster L.L.C.
Rosa M. Abrantes-Metz, PhD
Berkeley Research Group
Team members included Albert Metz, PhD, Garrett Brucia, Emily Dabas, Laura Ildefonso, Sean Golz, Srihita Mediboina, Nathaniel (Tani) Levisohn, Jackson Rubin, and Andrew McArthur. Other team members were Ben Wagner, Hassan Faghani, PhD, Jerry Zhu, Maren Hapeman, Sanskar Bista, Tegan Wekwerth, Audrey Sun, and Thomas Gill.
OUTSTANDING ANTITRUST LITIGATION ACHIEVEMENT BY A YOUNG LAWYER
In re Google Digital Advertising Antitrust Litigation
Jeremy Gradwohl
Berger Montague PC
Government Employees Health Association v. Actelion Pharmaceuticals Ltd.
Aaron J. Marks
Cohen Milstein
In re Xyrem Antitrust Litigation
Jordan Isern
Girard Sharp LLP
The 2026 Judging Committee was comprised of:
- Chair: Elizabeth T. Castillo, Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, LLP
- Austin Cohen, Levin, Sedran & Berman LLP
- Trish Conners, Stearns Weaver Miller Weissler Alhadeff & Sitterson
- Deborah Elman, Garwin Gerstein & Fisher LLP
- Dean M. Harvey, Lieff Cabraser
- Robert Kneuper, McClave + Associates
- Philip Nelson, Secretariat Advisors, LLC
- Elizabeth Pritzker, Pritzker Levine LLP
- Brian Rosewarne, applEcon
- Jennifer Scullion, Seeger Weiss
- Sona R. Shah, Simmons Hanly Conroy LLP
- Peggy Wedgworth, Milberg Coleman Bryson Phillips Grossman, PLLC
