Katie Van Dyck has spent her career championing consumer rights, small business interests, and employee protections through strategic litigation and policy advocacy. She is the founder of KVD Strategies PLLC and a senior legal fellow at American Economic Liberties Project. Before that, Ms. Van Dyck ran the amicus program in the FTC’s Office of Policy Planning and litigated class actions across the country as an attorney at Cuneo Gilbert & LaDuca.
Matt Summers
Matt Summers specializes in appellate litigation, antitrust litigation, and the intersection of the two. Matt has argued in the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, the Delaware Supreme Court, and before a panel of the Virginia Supreme Court. He is currently lead appellate counsel in PhantomALERT v. Apple, an antitrust case in the D.C. Circuit.
Matt has taken two federal antitrust cases to trial and won both. Most recently, at the Innovative v. Biosense trial, his client won a $442 million jury verdict and permanent injunction. Matt successfully argued motions and evidentiary issues, took a deposition on the eve of trial, and prepared an economist for direct and cross-examination. Matt has written more than a dozen amicus briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court, federal Courts of Appeal, and state supreme courts. A top debater, Matt has a particular focus on persuasion through briefing and oral argument—he regularly moots advocates before their arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court and in federal courts of appeal.
Prior to joining Berger Montague, Matt was an associate in the Supreme Court & Appellate Practice at Jenner & Block, LLP. In PLS.com v. National Association of Realtors, Matt successfully opposed certiorari in the U.S. Supreme Court to defend the plaintiff’s precedent-setting win. In Processed Egg Products, Matt’s clients (direct purchaser plaintiffs) won a $53 million verdict after a seven-week, two-part antitrust jury trial.
Before his time at Jenner, Matt was a law clerk for Judge Boudin on the First Circuit and Judge Saris in the District of Massachusetts. Before clerking, Matt interned at the New Jersey Solicitor General’s office.
Matt graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he founded the Harvard Law School Antitrust Association, interned at DOJ Antitrust, and served on the Biden campaign’s antitrust policy team. Matt was an oralist in the semifinals of the Ames Moot Court competition and provided research assistance to Cass Sunstein, Laurence Tribe, and Glenn Cohen.
Before law school, Matt was an economic consultant for antitrust cases at Analysis Group, spent time on a Fulbright in South Africa, and did renewable energy work in Rwanda. Matt graduated magna cum laude from Bates College, where he received an award for the top economics student. Matt was named the Top Speaker at the 2015 U.S. Universities Debating Championship.
Tom Dahdouh
Tom Dahdouh has been an attorney at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for 33 years. From 2021-2024, he served as an Attorney Advisor to FTC Chair Lina M. Khan. From 2013-2021, he was the Regional Director of the Western Region, overseeing and managing all investigations and litigations in the FTC’s San Francisco and Los Angeles offices. Before holding those positions, he served as an Attorney Advisor to two other FTC Commissioners in the 1990’s and as a staff attorney in the Western Region. In 2024, he received the FTC’s Robert L. Pitofsky Lifetime Achievement Award. The California Lawyers Association’s Antitrust and Consumer Protection Section recently named him “California Antitrust Lawyer of the Year” for 2025.
Michael Swerdlow
Michael is a former Summer Law Clerk at the Federal Trade Commission, Intern at the Antitrust Division of the Justice Department, and Antimonopoly Director of the Democracy Policy Network. In these roles he has assisted with various federal antitrust investigations and advised policymakers on antitrust reform at the state and federal level. He has also made significant contributions to the literature on labor antitrust, co-authoring a piece on merger remedies in labor markets and authoring an Article on antitrust standards for unilateral labor market conduct. As a Public Service Fellow, Michael will be researching enforcement standards for Section 3 of the Clayton Act.
Trevor Young
Trevor has over a decade of experience with antitrust litigation and enforcement matters in complex legal matters. He most recently served as Deputy Division Chief of the Antitrust Division at the Texas Office of the Attorney General, where he was at the forefront of some of the nation’s most significant antitrust actions, including antitrust and consumer protection litigation against Google for monopolization and deceptive trade practices in digital advertising. Trevor has experience leading large state multistate actions and helped draft legislation in Texas that increased civil penalty amounts for antitrust violations.
Trevor obtained his J.D. from the University of Kansas School of Law and holds an LL.M. in International Law from The University of Texas School of Law. He also holds a Master’s degree in Philosophy from the University of Kansas and majored in English Literature and Philosophy at Southern Methodist University.
Steven Imme
Steven Imme is a 2026 Juris Doctor candidate at George Washington University Law School. He maintains a deep interest in the intersection of antitrust, privacy, and technology regulations. Mr. Imme has experience in the semiconductor industry, supply chain, and international trade.
Before AAI, Mr. Imme interned for multiple organizations including Antitrust and Nonprofit Enforcement Section at the D.C. Attorney General’s Office and criminal appeals firm in the New York State. Prior to legal education, he worked at the semiconductor division of Samsung Electronics, where he assisted the company on matters including antitrust, privacy, and export controls.
Jennifer E. Sturiale
Professor Jennifer Sturiale teaches Civil Procedure and Property. Her scholarship focuses on issues of civil procedure, complex litigation, intellectual property, antitrust, and issues at the intersection of these disciplines. Her scholarship has been published in the Alabama Law Review, the Utah Law Review, and the University of Illinois Law Review, among others.
Professor Sturiale is a dedicated teacher. She has taught first-year legal research and writing as a Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School. She has also taught Civil Procedure, Property, Intellectual Property, and Advanced Antitrust Economics and the Law.
She is also an accomplished litigator. As a member of the law firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore, LLP, and subsequently Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, her practice focused primarily on complex commercial litigation involving antitrust and intellectual property matters.
Professor Sturiale received a B.A. magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Duke University and a JD magna cum laude from the Georgetown University Law Center, where she was an Executive Articles Editor of the Georgetown Law Journal and was a member of the Order of the Coif. After receiving her JD, Professor Sturiale served as a law clerk to Chief Judge Robert A. Katzmann of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Joshua D. Sarnoff
Joshua D. Sarnoff is a Professor of Law at DePaul University, received the 2018 DePaul Spirit of Inquiry Award, and has received numerous awards for his scholarship. He is an internationally recognized expert on the intersections of intellectual property law, environmental law, health law, and constitutional, administrative, and international law.
From January 2014 to July 2015, he served as the Thomas A. Edison Distinguished Scholar at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. In June 2019, he testified before the Intellectual Property Subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee on pending legislation to revise subject matter eligibility doctrine under Section 101 of the Patent Act. From 2021 to 2023, he was a consultant to the World Health Organization’s COVID-19 Technology Access Pool.
Professor Sarnoff is proficient in on-line, doctrinal, clinical, and legal writing instruction. He has taught courses at American and international law schools and legal research centers. His teaching interests are in the fields of intellectual property law, environmental law, health law, and constitutional, administrative, and international law. He directed the DePaul Center for Intellectual Property and Information Technology (CIPLIT®), and organized and moderated the 2018 Jaharis Health Law Symposium on Emergency and Technological Responses to Pandemic Diseases and the 2011, 2015, and 2019 Intellectual Property Scholars Conferences (IPSC). He also hosts the annual Edward D. Manzo Scholars in Patent Law series.
Professor Sarnoff clerked for the Honorable Irving L. Goldberg of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He has substantial practice experience in the public and private sectors and as an academic providing litigation, counseling, and advocacy services addressing international and domestic environmental, intellectual property, and food and drug laws. He has consulted for or advocated on behalf of legislative coalitions, intergovernmental organizations, foundations, corporations, non-profit organizations, and various groups of academics. He has filed numerous amicus briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (including for the American Medical Association and for law professors). He graduated in 1986 from Stanford Law School in 1986, where he was the Administrative Editor of the Stanford law Review, and in 1981 from M.I.T., where he was Phi Beta Kappa.
His current research focuses on: innovation policy and technology development; climate change technology and data, climate modification, and governance; utility and design patent empirical analyses, history, and theory; responses to pandemic diseases; and intellectual property rights in genetic and natural resources, diagnostics, and therapeutics. He is the editor and co-author of the Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Climate Change (Edward Elgar Publ. 2016), and has published extensively in law reviews and peer reviewed journals.
Nicholas Goldberg
Nicholas Goldberg specializes in high-stakes complex civil litigation and white-collar criminal defense. His clients include established companies, start-ups, government entities, and executives across a broad range of industries, including software, financial services, internet security, pharmaceuticals, professional sports, and venture capital.
Goldberg has litigated a wide variety of complex civil cases in federal and state courts, at both the trial and appellate levels, and in arbitration proceedings. He has handled disputes involving intellectual property, contract, fraud, professional liability, antitrust, securities, and corporate law. Goldberg also has extensive experience helping guide venture-backed companies, founders, executives, and investors through disputes involving trade secrets, employee mobility, fiduciary duties, confidentiality agreements, and other contract issues.
In his criminal practice, Goldberg represents companies and executives in internal and government investigations, including those by the U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, California Attorney General, and other government agencies. He has experience in matters involving allegations of securities fraud, insider trading, anticompetitive conduct, and campaign finance offenses.
Goldberg maintains an active pro bono practice representing clients in high-impact litigation. He was awarded the 2018 California Lawyer of the Year award by the Daily Journal for his representation of the County of Santa Clara in successfully challenging President Donald J. Trump’s January 2017 Executive Order attempting to defund “sanctuary jurisdictions.”
William V. Reiss
William V. Reiss has nearly 25 years of experience representing both plaintiffs and defendants in high profile antitrust litigation. Mr. Reiss was a member of the successful trial team in the precedent-setting antitrust litigation captioned Coalition for a Level Playing Field, L.L.C. v. AutoZone, Inc.
Mr. Reiss focuses his practice on complex antitrust litigation and class actions. Mr. Reiss has also provided extensive antitrust counseling work on behalf of generic pharmaceutical companies, as well as for a leading New England healthcare service company. Mr. Reiss is also court-appointed co-lead class counsel on behalf of a class of end-payor purchasers of automobiles in In re Automotive Parts Antitrust Litigation for which he has been instrumental in achieving the largest indirect purchaser recovery in U.S. history (more than $1.2 billion in settlements to date). In addition, he currently serves as court-appointed co-lead counsel in In re Hard Disk Drive Suspension Assemblies Antitrust Litigation (N.D. Cal.) for a proposed class of end-user plaintiffs who purchased products containing hard disk drive suspension assemblies that were the subject of an alleged price-fixing conspiracy among the leading manufacturers of suspension assemblies for more than a decade. Mr. Reiss is also co-lead counsel in In re Keurig Green Mountain Single-Serve Coffee Antitrust Litigation, a proposed class action which alleges that Keurig obtained an unlawful monopoly through a multifaceted scheme of anticompetitive acquisitions, exclusive dealing, and sham patent litigation.
Mr. Reiss served as co-lead counsel in In re Interior Molded Doors Indirect Purchaser Antitrust Litigation, a suit alleging that the two leading manufacturers of interior molded doors engaged in a years-long unlawful conspiracy to fix prices of interior molded doors. In 2022, Mr. Reiss secured a settlement of $19.5 million on behalf of his clients, the indirect purchasers of interior molded doors. In 2015, Mr. Reiss achieved a $16.75 million settlement on behalf of a class of plaintiffs who traded light sweet crude oil, heating oil, and gasoline futures contracts at manipulated prices in In re Optiver Commodities Litigation. Prior to joining Robins Kaplan LLP, he represented a class of plaintiffs who directly purchased aftermarket automotive lighting products from certain manufacturers which ultimately resulted in a $53.45 million settlement in In re Aftermarket Automotive Lighting Products Antitrust Litigation. Also prior to joining the firm, Mr. Reiss obtained $32 million in settlements on behalf of businesses injured by an alleged conspiracy to fix the prices of marine hose in In re Marine Hose Antitrust Litigation.
