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1st Annual Future of Private Antitrust Enforcement Symposium

Name: 1st Annual Future of Private Antitrust Enforcement Symposium
Start: 2007-12-10T00:00:00+00:00
End: 2007-12-10T23:59:59+00:00

December 10, 2007

On Monday, December 10, 2007, the American Antitrust Institute hosted an Invitational Symposium on the Future of Private Antitrust Enforcement in Washington D.C. The symposium featured the release of a study by Professors Robert Lande and Joshua Davis that documented 40 successful private actions that returned from $18 to $20 billion in cash to consumers and other victims of antitrust violations. Other highlights of the symposium included a debate over proposed reforms to the Illinois Brick rule, a panel on other recommendations by the Antitrust Modernization Commission, a panel on the Twombly and Daubert cases, and an address by Max Blecher.

The Symposium was presented with support from:

Berger & Montague, P.C.
Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll
Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins LLP
Kaplan Fox &; Kilsheimer
Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein, LLP

9:00 am

Welcome and Introduction

Bert Foer, President, American Antitrust Institute

9:10 am

The Benefits of Private Enforcement

Moderator:
Bert Foer, President, American Antitrust Institute

Panelists:
Robert Lande, Venable Professor of Law, University of Baltimore; AAI Director

Joshua P. Davis, Professor and Director, Center for Law and Ethics, University of San Francisco School of Law

Joseph Bauer, Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame Law School

John E. Schmidtlein, Partner, Williams & Connolly LLP

10:45 am

The Future of Direct and Indirect Purchaser Actions Debate: Is the AMC's Proposal for Altering Antitrust Direct and Indirect Purchaser Standing Rules Radically Necessary or Radically Destructive?

Moderator:
Robert A. Skitol, Partner, Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP; AAI Director

Jonathan Jacobson, Partner, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Eric L. Cramer, Shareholder, Berger & Montague, P.C.

11:55 am

The Future of Treble Damages, Joint & Several Liability, Contribution, Claims Reduction, and Prejudgment Interest

Moderator:
Daniel A. Small, Partner, Cohen Milstein Hausfeld & Toll PLLC

Panelists:
Joshua P. Davis, Professor and Director, Center for Law and Ethics, University of San Francisco School of Law

Joseph R. Saveri, Partner, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP

George G. Gordon, Partner, Dechert LLP

1:00 pm

Luncheon Speaker

Maxwell M. Blecher, Partner, Blecher & Collins

2:10 pm

Elevated Standards of Proof and Pleading: Implications of Twombley and Daubert

Moderator:
Stephen Ross, Professor, Penn State University Dickinson School of Law

Panelists:
Beth Farmer, Professor, Penn State Dickinson School of Law

James Langenfeld, Director, LECG

Richard J. Kilsheimer, Partner, Kaplan Fox & Kilsheimer LLP

John E. Schmidtlein, Partner, Williams & Connolly LLP

4:00 pm

Facilitated Discussion: Where Do We Go From Here?

Bert Foer, President, American Antitrust Institute

5:00 pm

Adjourn

Blecher Speech

Richards Paper on Twombly

Bauer Remarks

Langenfeld Loyola University Chicago Law Journal Article

Langenfeld Daubert Presentation

Jacobson Indirect Purchaser Presentation

Davis AMC Critique Paper

AAI Comments on AMC Report