William V. Reiss

William V. Reiss has nearly 25 years of experience representing both plaintiffs and defendants in high profile antitrust litigation. Mr. Reiss was a member of the successful trial team in the precedent-setting antitrust litigation captioned Coalition for a Level Playing Field, L.L.C. v. AutoZone, Inc.

Mr. Reiss focuses his practice on complex antitrust litigation and class actions. Mr. Reiss has also provided extensive antitrust counseling work on behalf of generic pharmaceutical companies, as well as for a leading New England healthcare service company. Mr. Reiss is also court-appointed co-lead class counsel on behalf of a class of end-payor purchasers of automobiles in In re Automotive Parts Antitrust Litigation for which he has been instrumental in achieving the largest indirect purchaser recovery in U.S. history (more than $1.2 billion in settlements to date). In addition, he currently serves as court-appointed co-lead counsel in In re Hard Disk Drive Suspension Assemblies Antitrust Litigation (N.D. Cal.) for a proposed class of end-user plaintiffs who purchased products containing hard disk drive suspension assemblies that were the subject of an alleged price-fixing conspiracy among the leading manufacturers of suspension assemblies for more than a decade. Mr. Reiss is also co-lead counsel in In re Keurig Green Mountain Single-Serve Coffee Antitrust Litigation, a proposed class action which alleges that Keurig obtained an unlawful monopoly through a multifaceted scheme of anticompetitive acquisitions, exclusive dealing, and sham patent litigation.

Mr. Reiss served as co-lead counsel in In re Interior Molded Doors Indirect Purchaser Antitrust Litigation, a suit alleging that the two leading manufacturers of interior molded doors engaged in a years-long unlawful conspiracy to fix prices of interior molded doors. In 2022, Mr. Reiss secured a settlement of $19.5 million on behalf of his clients, the indirect purchasers of interior molded doors. In 2015, Mr. Reiss achieved a $16.75 million settlement on behalf of a class of plaintiffs who traded light sweet crude oil, heating oil, and gasoline futures contracts at manipulated prices in In re Optiver Commodities Litigation. Prior to joining Robins Kaplan LLP, he represented a class of plaintiffs who directly purchased aftermarket automotive lighting products from certain manufacturers which ultimately resulted in a $53.45 million settlement in In re Aftermarket Automotive Lighting Products Antitrust Litigation. Also prior to joining the firm, Mr. Reiss obtained $32 million in settlements on behalf of businesses injured by an alleged conspiracy to fix the prices of marine hose in In re Marine Hose Antitrust Litigation.

Deborah Elman has been a partner at Garwin Gerstein & Fisher LLP since 2022. With more than two decades of litigation experience, Ms. Elman focuses on representing businesses in high-profile, high-stakes antitrust class actions. She represents institutional clients and individuals in complex civil litigation, including class actions, opt-outs, derivative actions, and arbitrations.

Ms. Elman was selected as a Super Lawyer in 2022, 2023, and 2024, named to the Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Financial Lawyers every year from 2019-2023, and the 2025 inaugural edition of the Lawdragon 500 Leading Global Antitrust & Competition Lawyers, and named a “Leading Lawyer” by The Legal 500, with sources describing her as having “expansive knowledge along with [a] calm, professional demeanor [that] instills great confidence.”

She is a member of the American Antitrust Institute Advisory Board; Vice President and Founder of the Amicus Committee for the Committee to Support Antitrust Laws (COSAL); a member of the Public Justice Foundation Board of Directors; an Antitrust Section Member of the American Bar Association; and a member of the New York State Bar Association Antitrust Section. She is a frequent speaker on topics involving class actions and expert witnesses and has contributed to such publications as the Fordham Urban Law Journal, the New England Journal of Medicine and the American Journal of Public Health.

Prior to joining Garwin Gerstein & Fisher, LLP, Ms. Elman was an associate at two leading New York law firms and served as a law clerk for the Honorable William L. Standish in the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.

Brian D. Clark is a partner who focuses on plaintiffs-side antitrust class actions, practicing extensively in federal and state courts nationwide. He has led the charge in many recent antitrust cases in the agricultural area, including price-fixing cases involving chicken, pork, beef, turkey, and peanuts. To date, in these cases alone Clark has helped recover over $500 million.

Clark also leads the firm’s e-discovery practice group in which he advises clients of all sizes on e-discovery matters. He frequently presents at CLEs regarding e-discovery and is a past Member of the Sedona Conference Working Group 1, and taught an e-discovery seminar for five years at the University of Minnesota Law School. Clark also co-founded and is President of the Board of Directors for the Complex Litigation E-Discovery Forum, which is a forum for plaintiffs-side complex litigation attorneys to discuss best practices for e-discovery.

Clark is a 2009 magna cum laude graduate of the University of Minnesota Law School where he was elected Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Minnesota Journal of International Law and was a member of the Order of the Coif. While in law school, Clark served as a Student Attorney for the Consumer Protection Clinic and interned with the Honorable Judge Patrick J. Schlitz of the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota. Before law school, Clark was an AmeriCorps volunteer in Alaska and a canoe guide in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness of Northern Minnesota.

Todd A. Seaver, a partner in the San Francisco office of Berman Tabacco, provides financial justice through his litigation of antitrust and investment-related matters, with a primary focus on litigating antitrust cases. Todd has litigated antitrust cases involving a variety of industries, including high-tech, pharmaceutical, financial derivative, automobile, chemical, consumer electronic, biotech, diamonds and online retailing. He co-leads the firm’s antitrust practice group.

Todd also litigates asset recovery cases on behalf of institutional clients, including leadership of the firm’s landmark action against the major credit rating agencies Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s in connection with structured investment vehicles (SIVs), the most complex type of structured finance product ever marketed.

Seaver was ranked by Benchmark Litigation as a California Litigation Star (2022-2024); Local Litigation Star (2019-2020, 2022-2024), and Noted Star (2019-2024) in Plaintiff Work, Securities, and as a California Future Star (2020-2021). He was recognized by The Legal 500 (U.S. edition) as a Recommended Attorney in Antitrust (2019-2023) and Securities Litigation (2017-2018). He was recognized as a Super Lawyer by Northern California Super Lawyers (2017-2023). He has also been recognized by Global Competition Review’s Who’s Who Legal: Competition (2017-2023). Who’s Who Legal has named Mr. Seaver a Thought Leader in Competition (2019-2020, 2022-2023) and a Thought Leader: USA (2023). He was selected by Lawdragon for its 500 Leading Plaintiff Financial Lawyers guide (2019-2023), as featured in Lawdragon’s The Plaintiff Issue magazine (2020-2023).

He began his career representing large and small businesses in commercial litigation and has participated in trial work. In 2003, Todd was an adjunct law professor with the New England School of Law. While in law school, Todd served as a law clerk at the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Competition and as a judicial extern for the Honorable Ricardo M. Urbina of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, and for the Honorable Judith Retchin of the District of Columbia Superior Court.

Todd is married with two children. His hobbies include wine making and motorcycle racing. He speaks Portuguese and is competent in German.

Jeremy Kress is an Assistant Professor of Business Law at Michigan Ross and Co-Faculty Director of the University of Michigan’s Center on Finance, Law & Policy. His research focuses on bank regulation, systemic risk, and financial stability.

Before entering academia, Professor Kress was an attorney in the banking regulation and policy group at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington, D.C. In that capacity, he drafted rules to implement the Dodd-Frank Act and Basel III, and he advised the Board on the legal permissibility of bank mergers and acquisitions. In 2023, Professor Kress served as Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust at the U.S. Department of Justice, focusing on bank merger policy.

Professor Kress has testified before Congress and serves as a member of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Education and Industry Forum on Financial Services Culture. He frequently comments on financial regulatory matters in the press. Professor Kress has been featured in media outlets including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Financial Times, Washington Post, Bloomberg News, NPR’s Marketplace, Politico, Yahoo Finance, and American Banker. The Financial Times has recognized Professor Kress’ work on bank merger regulation as “highly commended” academic research with real-world impact in its Responsible Business Education Awards.

Professor Kress teaches Legal Issues in Finance & Banking at Michigan Ross, and he has taught Financial Regulation at Michigan Law School. He was named one of Poets & Quants’ “Top 50 Undergraduate Professors of 2020” and won Michigan Ross’ Neary Teaching Excellence Award in 2019.

Professor Kress graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School and from the Harvard Kennedy School, where he was a Presidential Scholar. He holds a BBA from Michigan Ross.

John Newman is the Herbert Herff Chair of Excellence at the University of Memphis School of Law, where his research focuses on antitrust and antimonopoly, with a particular emphasis on the antitrust law and economics of digital markets. Professor Newman has the unique distinction of having served the public at both federal antitrust enforcement agencies. Most recently, he was deputy director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Competition, serving under then-Chair Lina Khan. He also previously practiced as a trial attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division. In those roles, he oversaw or was involved in several high-profile platform antitrust cases involving Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, American Express, and more.

Professor Newman’s scholarship has appeared or is forthcoming in the Stanford Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Texas Law Review, Vanderbilt Law Review, and other leading academic journals. His commentary on current events has been featured by a number of popular media outlets, including CBS News, PBS NewsHour, CNBC, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the Sunday Times (London), The Atlantic, Politico, Bloomberg, and Rolling Stone, among others. He has testified before a U.S. Senate Subcommittee and been invited to deliver remarks to a wide variety of policymakers and academic audiences within the United States and abroad. He has been voted Professor of the Year by students, and his research has received multiple awards from international and national scholarly associations.

Professor Newman serves on the advisory boards of the American Antitrust Institute, the Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies, and the Academic Society for Competition Law, and as an assistant editor of the Antitrust Law Journal. He also regularly advises private-sector clients on contemporary antitrust matters and maintains an active amicus practice, having served as lead drafter for amicus briefs filed by the American Antitrust Institute, leading venture-capital firm Y Combinator, and more.

Prior to joining the Memphis Law faculty, Professor Newman was a tenured member of the University of Miami School of Law faculty. In summer 2024, he was honored to teach an international group of students as a lecturer with the University of Tokyo Law School.

While earning his J.D. with highest honors from the University of Iowa College of Law, Professor Newman served as research assistant to Herbert Hovenkamp, was managing editor of the Iowa Law Review, and published student notes in journals at the University of Iowa and the University of Virginia.

John Kwoka is the Neal F. Finnegan Distinguished Professor of Economics at Northeastern University. He recently served as Chief Economic Advisor to Chair Lina Khan of the Federal Trade Commission. Kwoka’s recent research has focused on merger and remedies policy and has been widely cited in the popular press as well as in academic journals. His work has resulted in more than 75 published articles and two books: Mergers, Merger Control, and Remedies and Controlling Mergers and Market Power. He also is co-editor of the new case book Antitrust Economics in a Time of Upheaval, and its predecessor The Antitrust Revolution.

Kwoka previously served at the Antitrust Division of the Justice Department, the Federal Communications Commission, and once before at the FTC. He has also been a member of the Board of Directors and Senior Fellow of the American Antitrust Institute, a member of the Academic Advisory Board of Open Markets Institute, a Non-Governmental Advisor to the International Competition Network, a member of the Advisory Council to the Competition Commission of Mauritius, the Editor of the Review of Industrial Organization, Vice President of Southern Economic Association, and President of the Industrial Organization Society. Kwoka regularly speaks at academic and policy conferences, at congressional and regulatory hearings, and with competition agencies in other countries.