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Patricia Conners is a Shareholder at Stearns Weaver Miller, P.A. in Tallahassee, Florida, where she focuses on antitrust compliance counseling and leads the firm’s state attorneys general practice. She is a former Chief Deputy at the Florida Attorney General’s Office, the culmination of a career spanning 36 years and seven attorneys general. Prior to that, during much of her career in the Attorney General’s office, she was the Associate Deputy Attorney General overseeing the Office’s enforcement units, including the Antitrust, Consumer Protection, Lemon Law Arbitration and Civil Rights Divisions. In that role, she often led or co-led high-profile multistate matters such as the states’ opioids distributor settlement negotiations that resulted in a $26 billion and the multistate negotiations involving the five major mortgage servicers regarding various issues that ultimately concluded with Florida obtaining over $9 billion in monetary and other homeowner relief. She also supervised and coordinated the state’s legal and enforcement response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster, which was resolved with a $2 billion economic loss recovery for Florida. Ms. Conners served as the Director of the Antitrust Division for the Attorney General’s Office from 1995 until her departure in 2020, where she was responsible for implementing and overseeing the Attorney General’s state and federal antitrust enforcement efforts. During her tenure, the state obtained hundreds of millions of dollars in antitrust recoveries from a variety of matters involving such industries as the pharmaceutical, telecommunication, health care, dairy, retail, and technology industries, among others.

She is board-certified in Antitrust and Trade Regulation by the Florida Bar and is a past chair of the Antitrust and Trade Regulation Certification Committee of the Florida Bar. She is also active in the Antitrust Law Section of the ABA, where she has held a variety of leadership positions.

She was Chair of the NAAG Multistate Antitrust Task Force from 2001 to 2005, a position through which she coordinated multistate antitrust enforcement efforts implemented policy related to Task Force initiatives.

Ms. Conners received both her undergraduate and J.D. degrees from the University of Florida. She teaches portions of a State Attorneys General Seminar offered each January at the University of Florida’s Levin College of Law.

 

Dr. Norman Hawker’s teaching responsibilities include BUS 6160:Business Policy & Social and Ethical Environment, LAW 3800: Legal Environment, BUS 6990: Business Strategy, BUS 4750: Strategic Business Solutions, LAW 6040: Legal, Regulatory & Political Aspects of the Business Enterprise, LAW 6880: Health Care Law, and PSCI 5260: Administrative Law.

Prior to joining the faculty at the Haworth College of Business, Hawker taught at Thomas M. Cooley Law School and the University of Toledo College of Law. Hawker’s primary areas of research include antitrust law and trade regulation.

Neil Averitt is a lawyer, editor, and writer.

He was born in Washington, D.C., and later attended Dartmouth College, Harvard College, the London School of Economics, and Harvard Law School, where he was Note Editor on the Law Review.

For most of his professional career he practiced law at the Federal Trade Commission, helping to formulate policy on both antitrust and consumer protection issues. He has worked as advisor to one of the Commissioners, assistant to the Chairman, and as acting head of the antitrust planning staff.  He has written numerous articles on antitrust topics, and has contributed to the briefs in a number of Supreme Court litigations.

He was the principal author of the Commission’s 1980 policy statement on its consumer unfairness jurisdiction, and of the opinion in International Harvester which formally adopted that statement.

He presently writes a column of opinion and analysis for the newsweekly FTCWatch.

Averitt is married to Kirstin Downey, who is also a writer.  She recently published a biography of Frances Perkins, FDR’s Secretary of Labor, under the title of The Woman Behind the New Deal (Random House 2009).  She is presently working on a biography of Queen Isabella of Spain (Random House 2014).

Averitt lives in Alexandria, Virginia.

 

Milton Marquis is a member of the State Attorneys General Practice and has developed an active antitrust and consumer protection litigation practice. He served with the government for 14 years at the U.S. Department of Justice and the offices of the attorneys general of Virginia and Massachusetts. In private practice, Milton has represented major companies on a wide range of antitrust and consumer protection investigations and litigations involving state attorneys general across the United States, as well as the Federal Trade Commission and U.S. Department of Justice.

Marquis has an active antitrust and consumer protection counseling practice, advising companies on related compliance issues. He also regularly advises clients on potential acquisitions from an antitrust perspective. Milton has advised companies through all stages of the Hart-Scott-Rodino premerger notification process, including Harbour Group and Gladstone Corporation.

Marquis served as senior counsel to the assistant attorney general for antitrust, U.S. Department of Justice, during the Clinton administration. In this capacity, he advised the assistant attorney general on a wide range of issues, including energy and health care. Milton served as the Antitrust Division’s first liaison to state attorneys general. Prior to his service at the Justice Department, Milton served as an antitrust and consumer protection litigator in the offices of the attorneys general of Massachusetts and Virginia, where he handled litigations and investigations involving many industries, including soft drink, automobile, retail, agriculture, health care and waste disposal. During his tenure as a state antitrust prosecutor, Marquis was a leading member of the Multistate Antitrust Task Force of the National Association of Attorneys General.

Marquis has served in various leadership positions in the Section of Antitrust Law of the American Bar Association, including chair of the Civil Litigation and Procedure Committee, and vice chair of the Corporate Counseling Committee. He also is a long-time member of the National Bar Association.

Michael A. Carrier is a leading authority in antitrust and intellectual property law with expertise in the pharmaceutical, high-technology, and music industries. He has been quoted more than 1500 times in media outlets including ABC, Bloomberg, CBS, Chicago Tribune, CNBC.com, CNN, Consumer Reports, C-SPAN, Economist, ESPN, Financial Times, Forbes, Fortune, Fox News, Huffington Post, Los Angeles Times, Nature, NBC News, New York Times, NPR, PBS, Philadelphia Inquirer, San Francisco Chronicle, Sports Illustrated, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post.

Professor Carrier is a co-author of the leading IP/antitrust treatise, IP and Antitrust Law: An Analysis of Antitrust Principles Applied to Intellectual Property Law (3d ed. 2017, with Hovenkamp, Janis, Lemley, and Leslie). He also is the author of Innovation for the 21st Century: Harnessing the Power of Intellectual Property and Antitrust Law (Oxford University Press 2009, paperback 2011) and the editor of Critical Concepts in Intellectual Property Law: Competition (Edward Elgar Publishing 2011).

He has written more than 105 book chapters and law review articles in leading journals including the Stanford Law Review, Michigan Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Cornell Law Review, Duke Law Journal, Vanderbilt Law Review, Minnesota Law Review, Iowa Law Review, Notre Dame Law Review, Boston University Law Review, Illinois Law Review, Emory Law Journal, and Wisconsin Law Review, as well as online journals at Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Michigan, NYU, Penn, Northwestern, Minnesota, and Wisconsin.

Professor Carrier’s scholarship has been cited in opinions of the U.S. Supreme Court, California Supreme Court, D.C. Circuit, Second Circuit, Third Circuit, Fourth Circuit, Tenth Circuit, district courts, International Trade Commission, and Federal Trade Commission, as well as in congressional hearings, government officials’ speeches, and congressional and government agency reports.

Carrier has testified before the FDA, FTC, National Academies, and U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee (Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights), and has given talks to the Canadian Competition Bureau, U.S. Department of Justice, and state attorneys general.

He is a Contributing Editor of the Antitrust Law Journal; member of the Board of Advisors of the American Antitrust Institute; former participant on the ABA Antitrust 2016 Presidential Task Force; past chair of the Executive Committee of the Antitrust and Economic Regulation section of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS); and has written and submitted amicus briefs on behalf of antitrust/consumer organizations and hundreds of professors in the U.S. and California Supreme Courts and Federal, First, Second, and Third Circuits.

Professor Carrier is a summa cum laude graduate of Yale University and a cum laude graduate of Michigan Law School, where he was Book Review Editor of the law review. Before entering academia, he clerked for the Honorable John D. Butzner, Jr. on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and litigated antitrust, civil, intellectual property, and sports cases at Covington & Burling, in Washington, D.C.

Melissa A. Schilling is the John Herzog Chair Professor of Management at New York University Stern School of Business. She received her Bachelor of Science in business administration from the University of Colorado at Boulder. She received her Doctor of Philosophy in strategic management from the University of Washington.

Professor Schilling is a world-renown expert in innovation strategy. Her research focuses on innovation and strategy in high technology industries such as smartphones, videogames, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, electric vehicles, and renewable energies. She is particularly interested in platform dynamics, networks, creativity, and breakthrough innovation. Her textbook, Strategic Management of Technological Innovation (soon coming out in its sixth edition), is the number one innovation strategy text in the world. She is also coauthor of Strategic Management: An integrated approach (now in its twelfth edition), and has a new book on serial breakthrough innovators called “Quirky: The remarkable story of the traits, foibles, and genius of breakthrough innovators who changed the world.”

Her research in innovation and strategy has earned her awards such as the National Science Foundation’s CAREER Award, and the Best Paper in Management Science and Organization Science for 2007 Award. Her research has also appeared in leading academic journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Management Science, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, and Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, Research Policy, and Harvard Business Review. She is on the advisory board of the American Antitrust Association, and she sits on the editorial review boards of Organization Science, Strategic Organization, Strategy Science, and Academy of Management Discoveries. Professor Schilling teaches courses in technology and innovation management, strategic management, corporate strategy, and strategy for social-mission-based organizations.

Professor Schilling has taught workshops or consulted with organizations such as Bloomberg Corporation, IBM, Siemens, Standard & Poor’s, Warner Chilcott, Skullcandy, The Kauffman Foundation, National Academy of Sciences, the American Antitrust Institute, and others. She has been quoted in or interviewed for articles in Fortune, Thomson Reuters, CNBC, Bloomberg Business, NPR’s Marketplace, Machine Design, The Brian Lehrer Show, The Huffington Post, Scientific American, and more.