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19th AAI Annual Private Antitrust Enforcement Conference

Name: 19th AAI Annual Private Antitrust Enforcement Conference
Start: 2025-11-06T08:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-11-06T17:00:00-05:00

November 06, 2025
8:00 AM- 5:00 PM

AAI will host its 19th Annual Private Antitrust Enforcement Conference on November 6, 2025, at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. The conference will feature a series of panel discussions on timely topics with experts and thought-leaders from across the antitrust community.

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 for this event is closed.

CLE CREDITS:

This conference is approved by the Pennsylvania Continuing Legal Education Board for up to 5.5 CLE credit hours (course ID 344765). 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. All attendees will receive an email with CLE instructions the day following the conference. 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.

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A.B. Data
AELP
AIDS Healthcare Foundation
American University, Washington College of Law
Angeion Group
applEcon
Bates White
Berger Montague
Berkeley Research Group
Berman Tabacco
Bloom Strategic Counsel PLLC
Boies Schiller Flexner LLP
BoiesBattin LLP
Boston College
Cafferty Clobes Meriwether & Sprengel LLP
CDT
Cerra LLP
Certum Group
Christensen Associates, Economic Consulting
Cirque Analytics
Cohen & Gresser LLP
Cohen Milstein
Columbia Law School
Constantine Cannon
Cotchett Pitre & McCarthy LLP
Cuneo, Gilbert & LaDuca LLP
DC Office of the Attorney General
Dhillon Law Group
DiCello Levitt LLP
don resnikoff law
Econ One
Edelson PC
EisnerAmper
Epiq
Everlaw
Fairmark Partners, LLP
Farra & Wang PLLC
Fine, Kaplan & Black R.P.C.
Freed Kanner London & Millen LLC
Freedman Boyd Hollander & Goldberg P.A.
Garwin Gerstein & Fisher LLP
Georgetown Law
Girard Sharp LLP
Glancy Prongay & Murray LLP
Grabar Law Office
Gray Matters
Guerra LLP
Gustafson Gluek PLLC
Harvard Law School
Hausfeld LLP
Hilliard Shadowen LLP
Huntington Bank
Jeffrey L. Berhold, P.C.
Joseph Saveri Law Firm
Justice Catalyst Law
Keker, Van Nest & Peters
Kellogg, Hansen, Todd, Figel & Frederick, P.L.L.C
Kirby McInerney LL
Kroll Setllement Administration
KVD Strategies PLLC
Levin, Sedran & Berman LLP
Lewis & Clark Law School
Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein
Lite DePalma Greenberg & Afanador, LLC
Lockridge Grindal Nauen PLLP
Lowey Dannenberg, P.C.
McClave + Associates
MLEX
MoloLamken LLP
Monument Economics Group
Nachawati Law Group
National Plaintiffs’ Law Association
Nussbaum Law Group
Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia
Ohio State
Open Markets Institute
Pearson Warshaw, LLP
Preti Flaherty LLP
Pritzker Levine LLP
Radice Law Firm
Reinhardt Wendorf & Blanchfield
Robins Kaplan LLP
Robinson Bradshaw & Hinson, P.A.
Rust Consulting, Inc.
Salahi PC
SCL LLP
Scott+Scott
Secretariat Advisors
Secretariat Advisors
Seeger Weiss LLP
Sharp Law LLP
Simonsen Sussman LLP
Simpluris
Southern University Law Center
Spector Roseman & Kodroff
Sperling Kenny Nachwalter, LLC
Stanford Law School
Taus, Cebulash & Landau, LLP
Temple University Beasley School of Law
The Capitol Forum
U.S. DOJ Antitrust Division
UC Berkeley Law
UNC School of Law
University of Baltimore School of Law
University of Illinois College of Law
University of Michigan Law School
University of North Florida
Verita
Weinstein Kitchenoff & Asher LLC
Wexler Boley & Elgersma LLP
Zelle LLP
Zimmerman Reed LLP

8:15 am

Young Lawyers Breakfast - Holeman Lounge

Moderator:
Joshua P. Davis, Shareholder, Berger Montague

Panelists:
Izaak Earnhardt, Associate, Boies Schiller Flexner LLP
Gabriella Kolb, Gustafson Gluek PLLC
Matt Summers, Associate, Berger Montague

9:00 am

Conference Attendee Continental Breakfast

9:30 am

Welcome and Overview

Eric Cramer, Chairman, Berger Montague
Joshua P. Davis, Shareholder, Berger Montague

9:45 am

Tribulations of Antitrust Trials

The past year has seen a spate of blockbuster antitrust trials involving private parties. This panel will focus on what can be learned about litigating antitrust cases by going through the gauntlet of trial. Panelists will draw on their recent experiences to identify lessons and insights for drafting complaints, conducting discovery, presenting expert opinions, and bringing and winning antitrust cases more generally.

Moderator:
Joshua P. Davis, Shareholder, Berger Montague

Panelists:
Nicholas Goldberg, Partner, Keker, Van Nest & Peters LLP
Derek T. Ho, Partner, Kellogg, Hansen, Todd, Figel & Frederick, P.L.L.C.
Annamaria M. Morales-Kimball, Associate, Kellogg, Hansen, Todd, Figel & Frederick, P.L.L.C.

11:15 am

Monopoly Soup or Monopoly Salad?

Plaintiffs bringing monopolization claims under Section 2 of the Sherman Act often allege that a defendant’s course of conduct involving multiple separate restraints, viewed holistically, establishes a violation. How should litigants allege and prove a course-of-conduct or “scheme” claim, and what are the risks and benefits of bringing such a claim? Panelists will discuss recent and ongoing cases, their treatment by the courts, and what litigants should consider when planning and developing course-of-conduct theories.

Moderator:
Randy Stutz, President, American Antitrust Institute

Panelists:
Eric Cramer, Chairman, Berger Montague
Natasha J. Fernández-Silber, Partner, Edelson PC
Daniel H. Silverman, Partner, Cohen Milstein

12:15 pm

Networking Break - Holeman Lounge

12:45 pm

Luncheon and Hall of Fame Presentation

Randy Stutz, President, American Antitrust Institute

2:15 pm

Statistics for Antitrust Lawyers

Statistics and econometrics are often key to winning an antitrust case. But how are they best used, and what are the strengths and pitfalls of different approaches? This panel will present a mock direct and cross examination of one or more economic experts to illustrate the primary econometric methods used in antitrust cases and how best to explain them to a judge and jury. Panelists will explore multiple regression models, in-sample modeling, correlation analyses, and other techniques.

Moderator:
Joshua P. Davis, Shareholder, Berger Montague

Panelists:
Jamie McClave, CEO, McClave + Associates
Dean M. Harvey, Partner, Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein, LLP
Hal Singer, Managing Director, EconOne

3:30 pm

Break

3:45 pm

The Antitrust Violations Under our Noses

From the NCAA’s prohibitions on paying athletes to the National Association of Realtors’ broker rules to the organization of Blue Cross Blue Shield entities, recent cases have successfully challenged long-standing antitrust violations that went unscrutinized or unaddressed for decades. What explains these developments, and what other antitrust violations might be hiding under our noses? Panelists will discuss antitrust violations that took years to challenge successfully in court, and lessons that can be learned from how the antitrust laws and enforcement have evolved over time.

Moderator:
Heidi M. Silton, Partner, Lockridge Grindal Nauen P.L.L.P.

Panelists:
Doha Mekki, Former Acting United States Assistant Attorney General, U.S. DOJ Antitrust Division
Christopher Renner, Partner, Dhillon Law Group
Steve Shadowen, Partner, Hilliard Shadowen LLP

4:45 pm

Closing Remarks

Eric Cramer, Chairman, Berger Montague
Joshua P. Davis, Shareholder, Berger Montague

5:00 pm

Adjourn

5:00 pm

Cocktail Reception at Hamilton Live

Cocktail Hour sponsored by Rust Consulting

6:00 pm

Awards Dinner at Hamilton Live

Senior Fellows | Advisory Board

Eric L. Cramer

Chairman

Berger Montague

Board of Directors | Senior Fellows

Advisory Board

Steve Shadowen

Shareholder

Hilliard & Shadowen, LLC

Advisory Board

Leadership and Staff

Randy Stutz

President

American Antitrust Institute

Matt Summers

Associate

Berger Montague

Panel 1: Tribulations of Antitrust Trials
Joshua A. Newburg, The Narrative Construction of Antitrust, 12 S. Cal. Interdisciplinary L.J. 181 (1997).
Michelle Lowery et al., Big Tech remains top priotity for DOJ and FTC in US antitrust litigation, Global Competition Review (Aug. 11, 2025)

Panel 2: Monopoly Soup or Monopoly Salad?
Daniel A. Crane, Does Monopoly Broth Make Bad Soup?, 76 Antitrust Law J. 663 (2010).Duke Energy Carolinas v. NTE Carolinas II, No. 22-2168 (4th Cir. Aug. 5, 2024).
Letter from Randy Stutz, President, American Antitrust Institute, to John D. Sauer, Solicitor General of the United States, Re: Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC, et al., v. NTE Carolinas II, LLC, et al., No. 24-917 (July 11, 2025).

Panel 3: Statistics for Antitrust Lawyers
Michael Cragg, et al., Understanding The Econometric Tools of Antitrust—With No Math!, 2021, ANTITRUST, Spring 2021, p. 63.
Elizabeth M. Bailey, Throw Me a Lifeline! Regression Analysis Explained for Antitrust Practitioners, The Antitrust Source (June 2018).

Panel 4: The Antitrust Violations Under our Noses
Maddie Salamone, The House Built by Fire: How Litigation has Sparked Impending Changes to NCAA , 4 Fla. Entm’t & Sports L. Rev. 27 (2025).
Joseph Link, From Listings to Lawsuits: The Future of Real Estate is Looking More Competitive, American Bar Association, (Aug. 15, 2025).

2025 Resource Materials

19th AAI Annual Private Antitrust Enforcement Conference

November 06, 2025 8:00 AM- 5:00 PM

CLE CREDITS:

REFUND POLICY:

CONFERENCE APP:

Young Lawyers Breakfast - Holeman Lounge

Conference Attendee Continental Breakfast

Welcome and Overview

Tribulations of Antitrust Trials

Monopoly Soup or Monopoly Salad?

Networking Break - Holeman Lounge

Luncheon and Hall of Fame Presentation

Statistics for Antitrust Lawyers

Break

The Antitrust Violations Under our Noses

Closing Remarks

Adjourn

Cocktail Reception at Hamilton Live

Awards Dinner at Hamilton Live

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November 06, 2025
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