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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