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3rd Annual Future of Private Antitrust Enforcement Symposium

Name: 3rd Annual Future of Private Antitrust Enforcement Symposium
Start: 2009-12-08T00:00:00+00:00
End: 2009-12-08T23:59:59+00:00
Location: National Press Club

December 08, 2009
National Press Club

On December 8, the American Antitrust Institute will host its third annual Invitational Symposium on the Future of Private Antitrust Enforcement at the National Press Club in Washington D.C.

This year, our program will cover some of the most current and relevant issues in antitrust, including the Empagran opinion, reverse payments in the pharmaceutical industry, Congress’s action on ACPERA, Iqbal’s expansion of Twombly’s reach, and the ongoing challenges to class certification.

Have the Courts Gone Too Far Expanding Empagran?

Moderator:
James Robert Noblin, Partner, Blecher & Collins

Presenter:
James Robertson Martin, Partner, Dickstein Shapiro LLP

Panelists:
Kenneth Adams, Partner, Adams Holcomb LLP

Jonathan Cuneo, Partner, Cuneo Gilbert & LaDuca

James J. Fredricks, Appellate Section, Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice

The Legality of Reverse Payments

Moderator:
K. Craig Wildfang, Partner, Robins Kaplan Miller & Ciresi LLP

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

Panelists:
Seth Bloom, General Counsel, Subcommittee on Antitrust, Senate Judiciary Committee

Michael Carrier, Professor, Rutgers School of Law-Camden

Luncheon Address

Introduction:
Renae Steiner, Heins, Mills, and Olson

Address:
Hon. Hank Johnson, Chair, Subcommittee on Courts and Competition Policy, Committee on Judiciary, U.S. House of Representatives

Extending ACPERA

Moderator:
Eric B. Fastiff, Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein, LLP

Presenters:
Jay Himes, Partner, Labaton Sucharow LLP

Scott Hammond, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice

Class Certification in U.S. and Abroad

Moderator:
Philip Nelson, Principal, Economists Incorporated

Presenter:
Linda Nussbaum, Partner, Kaplan Fox & Kilsheimer

Panelists:
Robert Bonsignore, Bonsignore and Brewer

J. Douglas Richards, Partner, Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC

George Sampson, Partner, Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro

Twombly’s Children

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

Panelists:
Jonathan Rubin, Partner, Patton Boggs LLP

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

Closing

Bert Foer, President, American Antitrust Institute

Rubin Paper

Nussbaum Paper

Nussbaum Presentation

Martin Paper

Martin Presentation

Davis Paper

Davis Presentation