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16th Annual Private Antitrust Enforcement Conference

Name: 16th Annual Private Antitrust Enforcement Conference
Start: 2022-11-09T09:30:00-05:00
End: 2022-11-09T16:30:00-05:00
Location: National Press Club

November 09, 2022
9:30 AM- 4:30 PM

National Press Club

AAI will host its 16th annual Private Antitrust Enforcement Conference on Wednesday, November 9, 2022 at the National Press Club. The conference will feature a series of panel discussions on timely and topics. Discussions will feature experts and thought-leaders from across the antitrust community, including enforcement, advocacy, and academia.

The conference will be followed by AAI Awards Night at Hamilton Live located across the street at 600 14th Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20005.’

REGISTRATION PRICING for 2022 Conference and AWARDS

Conference and Awards $500
Conference Only $250
Awards Only $250
Government/Academic Conference Only $150
Media Conference Only $0
Advisory Board/Guest/Sponsor Conference and Awards $0

CLE Credits:

This conference is approved by the Pennsylvania Continuing Legal Education Board for up to 6 CLE credit hours, including one (1) ethics hour. When you attend the conference, you will be provided a Certificate of Attendance. If you are a Pennsylvania attorney, AAI will submit and pay for the credits on your behalf. Please read about AAI’s CLE procedures here.

Refund Policy:

Refunds for registration, minus a $50.00 processing fee, will be granted for all requests received 10 calendar days prior to the event. Refund requests must be sent in writing to aai@antitrustinstitute.org. Refund requests made within 10 days of the event will not be honored.

DOWnload the App Before Arrival:

The conference will be paperless. Please download the Eventee app from the App store on your phone or go to this link on your phone: https://eventee.co/event/84618

The following organizations were represented:

A.B. Data
Angeion Group
Berger Montague PC
Boies Schiller Flexner LLP
Cafferty Clobes Meriwether & Sprengel LLP
CDT
Cirque Analytics
Cohen Milstein
Constantine | Cannon
Cotchett Pitre & McCarthy
CTFN
Cuneo Gilbert & LaDuca
Defever Law
Deutsch Hunt PLLC
DiCello Levitt
don resnikoff law
Econ One
Econ One
Edelson PC
Epiq Global
Fairmark Partners, LLP
Federal Trade Commission
Freedman Boyd
Garwin Gerstein & Fisher
Girard Sharp LLP
Gupta Wessler PLLC
Gustafson Gluek PLLC
GWU Law student
Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro
Hartley LLP
Hausfeld
Huntington Bank
Impact Fund
Independent Tech & Business Reporter
Infotech Consulting
Joseph Saveri Law Firm
Justice Catalyst Law
Kaplan Fox
KCC
Keller Rohrback
Law Office of Daniel Sponseller
Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP
Lockridge Grindal Nauen P.L.L.P.
Lowey Dannenberg, P.C.
Lynch Carpenter LLP
Miller Nash LLP
MoginRubin LLP
MoloLamken LLP
Monument Economics Group
Morrison Foerster
New York State Office of the Attorney General
OSKR
Pillsbury & Coleman LLP
Postlethwaite & Netterville (P&N)
Preti Flaherty LLP
Public Justice
Radice Law Firm
Robins Kaplan
Scott + Scott
Secretariat Economists
Seeger Weiss
Spector Roseman & Kodroff, P.C.
Sperling & Slater
Terrell Marshall Law Group PLLC
The Brattle Group
U.S. Department of Justice
University of Baltimore
University of Houston Law Center
Washington Center for Equitable Growth
Weinstein Kitchenoff & Asher LLC
Wexler Boley & Elgersma LLP
Wolf Haldenstein
Zimmerman Reed

8:15 am

Young Lawyers Breakfast

Law students and practitioners considering careers as plaintiffs’ antitrust attorneys are likely to have many questions. What does the work entail? What is most enjoyable about it? What is most challenging? What’s the best way to land the job? To succeed at it? Our panel of plaintiffs’ antitrust lawyers with varying levels of experience will discuss these issues, as well as mistakes they made, things they did right, and a host of related topics. Join us if you are thinking of starting a legal career or switching fields or sides, or if you want to reflect on your life as a plaintiffs’ antitrust attorney. This session will be recorded and released as a future Ruled by Reason podcast.

Moderator:
Joshua P. Davis, Shareholder, Berger Montague

Panelists:
Noelle Feigenbaum, Associate, Lowey Dannenberg, P.C.

Geoffrey H. Kozen, Associate, Robins Kaplan LLP

Simeon Morbey, Senior Counsel, Lockridge Grindal Nauen P.L.L.P.

9:00 am

Continental Breakfast

9:30 am

Welcome and Overview

Eric Cramer, Chairman, Berger Montague

Joshua P. Davis, Shareholder, Berger Montague

9:45 am

Panel 1 – Class Action Ethics: How Courts Adapt the Ethical Rules to Antitrust and Other Class Actions

Judges and lawyers are often surprised to learn that courts at times adapt the ethical rules in the class action context. After briefly setting forth a framework for why and how courts engage in that adaptation, the panel will discuss ethical issues that frequently arise in class litigation, what the relevant legal standards are, and practical ways to comply with them.

Moderator:
Joshua P. Davis, Shareholder, Berger Montague

Panelists:
Jeff Corrigan, Partner, Spector Roseman & Kodroff, P.C.

Karin Garvey, Partner, DiCello Levitt

Jocelyn D. Larkin, Executive Director, Impact Fund

10:45 am

Break

11:00 am

Panel 2 – Beneficial Coordination: When Public and Private Enforcers Collaborate

Public and private enforcers have a symbiotic relationship and play complementary roles in deterring and compensating the victims of antitrust violations. They also coordinate directly, formally or informally, on issues involving discovery, remedies, timing, notice, and much more. This panel will discuss key issues, challenges, and best practices in public and private enforcement coordination, exploring perspectives from the vantage points of the lawyers, the victims, and the defendants.

Moderator:
Sharon K. Robertson, Partner, Cohen Milstein

Panelists:
Ryan Danks, Director of Civil Enforcement, U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division

Elinor R. Hoffmann, Chief, Antitrust Bureau, New York State Office of the Attorney General

Synda Mark, Acting Deputy Assistant Director of the Office of Policy & Coordination, Federal Trade Commission

12:30 pm

Networking Lunch

1:30 pm

Break

1:45 pm

Panel 3 – Taking Antitrust Class Actions to Trial: New Developments and Strategies

Antitrust class action practice is going through a dynamic period. This panel brings together veteran antitrust trial lawyers and an experienced antitrust econometrician, who will explore recent experiences with antitrust class action jury trials. The speakers will provide insights applicable not only to trial strategy, but also to what trials can teach us about litigating private antitrust cases more generally.

Moderator:
Eric Cramer, Chairman, Berger Montague

Panelists:
David Cross, Partner, Morrison Foerster

Karin Garvey, Partner, DiCello Levitt

Joseph Goldberg, Partner, Freedman Boyd Hollander Goldberg Urias & Ward P.A.

Jamie McClave Baldwin, President, Infotech Consulting

3:15 pm

Break

3:30 pm

Panel 4 – Class Action Appeals: Best Practices for Plaintiffs in Appeals in Antitrust and Other Class Actions

Defendants rely on appellate specialists in class actions far more frequently than do plaintiffs. The panel will discuss how appellate advocacy is different from trial court advocacy, key strategic considerations on appeal, and factors trial lawyers should consider in deciding whether to retain appellate counsel as advocates or advisors. Plaintiffs’ lawyers should gain practical insights whether they choose to handle appeals on their own, bring in counsel to handle an appeal, or some combination of the two.

Moderator:
Joshua P. Davis, Shareholder, Berger Montague

Panelists:
Ruthanne M. Deutsch, Founding Partner, Deutsch Hunt PLLC

Jonathan E. Taylor, Principal, Gupta Wessler PLLC

Karla Gilbride, Co-Director of Access to Justice Project, Public Justice

Randy Stutz, Vice President of Legal Advocacy, American Antitrust Institute

4:45 pm

Adjourn

5:00 pm

Cocktail Reception at Hamilton Live

Cocktail Hour is sponsored by Rust Consulting and Kinsella Media

6:00 pm

Awards Dinner at Hamilton Live

Jamie McClave Baldwin

President

Infotech Consulting

Jeff Corrigan

Partner

Spector Roseman & Kodroff, P.C.

Senior Fellows | Advisory Board

Board of Directors | Senior Fellows

Advisory Board

Leadership and Staff

Randy Stutz

President

American Antitrust Institute

Jonathan E. Taylor

Principal

Gupta Wessler PLLC

Class Action Ethics: How Courts Adapt the Ethical Rules to Antitrust and Other Class Actions

Joshua P. Davis, Eric L. Cramer, Reginal L. Streater, & Mark R. Suter, Antitrust As Antiracism: Antitrust as a Partial Cure for Systemic Racism (and Other Systemic ‘ISMS’)Public Interest Class Action (Univ. of San Francisco Law Research Paper No. 2021-01) (forthcoming in the Antitrust Bulletin) (2021)
Peter A. Bellacosa, Avoiding Legal Ethics Violations in Class Actions, N.Y. State Bar Ass’n (2019)
Robert H. Lande & Joshua P. Davis, Restoring the Legitimacy of Private Antitrust Enforcement, (A Report to the 45th President of the United States) (American Antitrust Institute) (May 3, 2017)

Beneficial Coordination: When Public and Private Enforcers Collaborate

Bornstein, Public-Private Co-enforcement Litigation, 104 Minn. L. Rev. 811 (2019)
Department of Justice, ACPERA Roundtable Executive Summary (2019)
Brief for Constantine Cannon LLP as Amicus Curiae Supporting Appellants, State of New York v. Facebook, Inc., Case No. 21-7078 (D.C. Cir. Jan. 28, 2022)

Taking Antitrust Class Actions to Trial: New Developments and Strategies

Christine P. Bartholomew, Death by Daubert: The Continued Attack on Private Antitrust, 35 Cardozo L. Rev. 2147 (2014)
Jushua P. Davis, Shannon Whitman, & Cristen Stephansky, Writing Better Jury Instructions: Antitrust as an Example 119(1) W. Va. L. Rev. 1 (2016)
Joshua P. Davis & Eric L. Cramer, Antitrust, Class Certification, and the Politics of Procedure, 17 Geo. Mason L. Rev. 969, 1033 (2010)

Class Action Appeals: Best Practices for Plaintiffs in Appeals in Antitrust and Other Class Actions

Deepak Gupta, Leveling the Playing Field on Appeal: The Case for a Plaintiff-side Appellate Bar, 54 Duquesne L. Rev. 1 (2016)
Brett Curry & Banks Miller, Judicial Specialization and Ideological Decision Making in the US Courts of Appeals, 40(1) L. and Social Inquiry 29 (2015)
Brief for Plaintiffs-Appellants, Sidibe v. Sutter Health, Case No. 22-15634 (9th Cir. Oct. 3, 2022)

Supporting Materials

16th Annual Private Antitrust Enforcement Conference

November 09, 2022 9:30 AM- 4:30 PM National Press Club

REGISTRATION PRICING for 2022 Conference and AWARDS

CLE Credits:

Refund Policy:

DOWnload the App Before Arrival:

Young Lawyers Breakfast

Continental Breakfast

Welcome and Overview

Panel 1 – Class Action Ethics: How Courts Adapt the Ethical Rules to Antitrust and Other Class Actions

Break

Panel 2 – Beneficial Coordination: When Public and Private Enforcers Collaborate

Networking Lunch

Break

Panel 3 – Taking Antitrust Class Actions to Trial: New Developments and Strategies

Break

Panel 4 – Class Action Appeals: Best Practices for Plaintiffs in Appeals in Antitrust and Other Class Actions

Adjourn

Cocktail Reception at Hamilton Live

Awards Dinner at Hamilton Live

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November 09, 2022
9:30 AM- 4:30 PM

National Press Club