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Judith Zahid

Judith is Managing Partner of the Oakland office and co-chair of the Firm’s Antitrust group. Judith’s practice is focused on assessing complex antitrust claims and pursuing recoveries on behalf of individual corporate clients in many different industries, with a growing expertise in the pharmaceutical and healthcare sectors. She has represented plaintiffs in numerous high-stakes price-fixing and monopolization cases, with recoveries from those cases totaling well over $2 billion. While Judith is involved in all aspects of the cases she litigates, she places particular emphasis on her work with industry and damages experts.

Judith also has substantial experience helping corporate clients respond to civil investigative demands, government and civil litigation subpoenas, European Commission requests for information, and other third-party discovery obligations, including supporting clients called as non-party witnesses at trial.

Judith is a frequent speaker on several aspects of antitrust recovery and currently sits on Council for the ABA Antitrust Section.

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Melissa Maxman

Melissa H. Maxman is the Managing Partner of the firm’s Washington, D.C. office. She has decades of litigation experience at both the trial and appellate levels, primarily in the areas of antitrust, RICO, environmental law, complex commercial disputes, and white collar defense. She has extensive experience advising domestic and foreign corporations on global antitrust issues. She has represented clients in complex civil and criminal matters before the Federal Trade Commission, the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice, and in private civil matters. Melissa has been recognized in The Legal 500’s U.S. guide in the commercial litigation, corporate investigations, white collar defense, general commercial disputes, and antitrust categories, where she is described as a “brilliant thinker and lawyer” with a “deep knowledge in antitrust” who is “a passionate defender of her clients in litigation.” She has also been recognized by Chambers USA in the antitrust litigation specialists category, in which she was described as “strong knowledgeable counsel with strong litigation, policy, and legislative skills and experience.” She has also been named one of Washington, D.C.’s Super Lawyers each year since 2011. Melissa has also been recognized by Lawdragon as one of 2022’s 500 Leading Litigators in America.

Prior to joining Cohen & Gresser, Melissa was the Chair of the Antitrust and Trade Regulation Practice Group in the Washington, D.C. offices of two large national law firms. She served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and was a law clerk for the Honorable Harry T Edwards of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Melissa is a cum laude graduate of the University of Michigan Law School, where she was editor-in-chief of the Michigan Law Review.

Melissa has been a member of the American Law Institute since 2003. She is also an Advisory Board member for the Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies and is Co-Chair of the ABA National Institute on Class Actions. She is the immediate past chair of the Dean’s National Advisory Council for the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences at the George Washington University. She serves as Co-Chair of the Exemptions and Immunities Committee of the ABA Antitrust Section.

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Evan Starr

Evan Starr is an Associate Professor of Management & Organization at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. He received a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan and a bachelor’s degree from Denison University. He originally hails from Claremont, California. Starr’s current research examines issues at the intersection of human capital accumulation, employee mobility, entrepreneurship, and innovation. In a recent set of projects utilizing employee-employer matched data and survey data that he and coauthors developed, Starr examined the use and impacts of noncompete agreements and their enforceability on the provision of firm-sponsored training, employee mobility and earnings, and on the creation, growth, and survival of new ventures.

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Angela Tse

With over a decade of experience in the nonprofit sector, Angela is dedicated to building effective development and communication strategies that foster stakeholder alignment around shared objectives. She has extensive experience in nonprofit strategic development and program management at a number of organizations.

Most recently, Angela has successfully managed fundraising and development efforts for international youth development organizations. Throughout her previous positions, Angela managed the production of prominent national testing assessments and led educational youth development programs aimed at low-income and immigrant youth in New York City.

Contact Information:
(202) 828-1226
atse@antitrustinstitute.org

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Brendan Glackin

Brendan P. Glackin chairs Leiff Cabraser’s antitrust practice group. He has practiced antitrust law for nearly two decades and has tried more than 20 civil and criminal cases. His successes include the titanium dioxide antitrust class action; the liquid crystal displays (LCDs) price-fixing litigation; and the Norvir antitrust litigation. He leads Lieff Cabraser’s work in the federal class action against Deutsche Telekom, T-Mobile, and Softbank Group challenging the merger of T-Mobile and Sprint, a merger that reduced the overall number of mobile carriers in the U.S. from four to three and thereby removed all meaningful incentives for competition between the three remaining behemoths: the new T-Mobile, AT&T, and Verizon.

Mr. Glackin serves on special assignment as lead trial counsel to a coalition of 40 states and U.S. jurisdictions prosecuting Google for anticompetitive dominance of Android app distribution. He works in that matter as a Special Assistant Attorney General for the State of Utah. He has also has contributed groundbreaking work in litigation against drug makers for blocking access to affordable generics including the blockbuster brand-name prescription drug Cipro, which led to a 2016 “California Lawyer Attorney of the Year” (CLAY) award. He also serves as lead counsel for Nashville General Hospital and District Council 37 in a class-action antitrust case against Sandoz and Momenta Pharmaceuticals for monopolizing enoxaparin, the generic version of the blockbuster anti-coagulant Lovenox.

Mr. Glackin also shared with others at the firm a well-deserved 2019 “Outstanding Antitrust Litigation Achievement in Private Law Practice” award from the American Antitrust Institute for his work on Seaman v. Duke, a class action case around wage suppression, challenging a secret no-hire agreement between the Duke and UNC Medical School Deans in 2019. In 2019, 2020 and 2021, Mr. Glackin was named one of Lawdragon’s 500 Leading Lawyers in America and The Daily Journal named him a Top Antitrust Lawyer in California in 2020. He has also been listed as a “Super Lawyer for Northern California” from 2013 to 2021.

Mr. Glackin’s many contributions to the bar and the practice of law include the following. He has regularly been tapped to teach trial advocacy and negotiation skills by the Practising Law Institute (PLI); he is also annually invited to teach trial advocacy with the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA). He serves as a Vice-Chair of the American Bar Association Section of Antitrust Law, Global Private Litigation Committee, and was a founding member of the Executive Committee of the Antitrust Section of the Bar Association of San Francisco. He has been a past panelist at the ABA Antitrust Section Spring Meeting, the pre-eminent gathering of antitrust lawyers in the world. He routinely speaks, publishes, and teaches on antitrust issues.

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Amanda G. Lewis

Amanda Lewis joined Cuneo, Gilbert & LaDuca, LLP from the Federal Trade Commission, where she worked as an attorney in the Bureau of Competition since 2012. While at the FTC, Ms. Lewis served for over two and a half years as a Counsel-Detailee to the Antitrust Subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee. In this role, Ms. Lewis worked extensively on the House Subcommittee’s Investigation of Competition in Digital Markets, for which Ms. Lewis led the portion of the investigation related to Amazon.

Ms. Lewis was one of the primary authors of the Majority Staff Report and Recommendations and helped draft the bills currently making their way through Congress to rein in Big Tech. In addition, Ms. Lewis took the lead on health care for the Subcommittee, overseeing several hearings related to competition in the healthcare sector and a successful, bipartisan markup of four healthcare antitrust bills, resulting in all four bills being reported out of Committee on a unanimous, bipartisan basis and the enactment of two bills into law, including the CREATES Act and the Competitive Health Insurance Reform Act.

At the FTC, as an attorney in the Mergers IV division, Ms. Lewis worked on the Staples/Office Depot and Sysco/U.S. Foods litigation teams, as well as numerous other merger and conduct investigations.

Prior to the FTC, Ms. Lewis was an associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore and a law clerk for Judge Lawrence McKenna of the Southern District of New York. She received her B.A. from New York University in 2002 and her J.D. from Columbia Law School in 2008.

 

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Erika Douglas

Erika M. Douglas is an Associate Professor at Temple University Beasley School of Law. Her scholarship focuses on the intersection of antitrust, data privacy, and intellectual property law, with particular emphasis on the application of legal theory to new technology. Professor Douglas teaches New Technology Regulation, Patents, and Contracts.

Prior to joining Temple, Professor Douglas practiced antitrust and technology law at the Silicon Valley office of Covington & Burling LLP. While in practice, she represented several Fortune 100 technology companies in complex antitrust matters and investigations.

Professor Douglas holds an LL.M. (Law, Science and Technology) from Stanford University, where she was awarded the John Hart Ely Prize for writing on intermediary liability. She also holds a J.D. and Honors in Business Administration from University of Western Ontario.

Professor Douglas’s recent work appears in various journals and books, including the Yale Law Journal Forum, Virginia Journal of Law & Technology, Notre Dame Law Review Reflection, Michigan Telecommunications and Technology Law Review, and Joint Ventures: Antitrust Analysis of Collaborations Among Competitors (2nd Edition). She also serves on the leadership of the American Bar Association Antitrust Section.

Professor Douglas holds an LL.M. in Law, Science, and Technology (John Hart Ely Prize), Stanford University J.D. (Honors in Business Administration), University of Western Ontario.

 

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Kathleen W. Bradish

Kathleen Bradish has been an antitrust lawyer, in both private practice and government, for almost 20 years. She has extensive experience with conduct cases and mergers, with particular experience in the healthcare and pharmaceutical sectors, and in international competition matters. Ms. Bradish joined the law firm of Cleary Gottlieb after law school and was appointed counsel in 2014. From mid-2015 to late 2018, Ms. Bradish was Assistant Chief and International Counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Antitrust Division.

At DOJ, Ms. Bradish served as deputy chief handling the Antitrust Division’s international relations, representing the Division’s views on antitrust enforcement abroad. She advised case teams on issues affecting cooperation with foreign antitrust enforcers and provided guidance to leadership on competition issues arising abroad and affecting the United States. Ms. Bradish also represented the Antitrust Division in trade issues, including leading the negotiations of competition chapters in the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement and in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. Ms. Bradish returned to Cleary Gottlieb as Counsel in 2018.

Contact Information:
(202) 828-1226
kbradish@antitrustinstitute.org

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Eric R. Emch

Dr. Eric Emch has nearly two decades of experience in economic analysis of competition policy issues, including the competitive effects of horizontal and vertical mergers, analysis of single-firm conduct and monopolization, market definition, and collusion. His recent work has focused on merger and monopolization issues in a variety of industries, including wireless telephony, oil field services, and the pharmacy benefit management (PBM) and publishing industries.

Dr. Emch joined Bates White from the Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice (DOJ), where he served as Staff Economist and Assistant Chief of the Competition Policy Section. As Assistant Section Chief, Dr. Emch led teams of economists in theoretical and empirical analyses of merger, monopolization, and collusion cases primarily in the transportation, energy, and payment cards sectors. This included hiring and collaborating with outside economic experts, strategizing with legal teams on case approach, and incorporating economics into case development. As a staff economist, he conducted theoretical and empirical analyses in support of merger and non-merger investigations in a wide variety of industries, including day-to-day support for the DOJ litigation team in United States v. Visa. He also prepared to be a testifying expert in two merger cases.

While on leave from DOJ from 2007 to 2008, he led the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Regional Competition Center in Seoul, Korea, where he designed, organized, and conducted competition policy workshops for staffers of national competition authorities across Asia.

Dr. Emch has published in journals such as the Journal of Industrial Economics, Review of Industrial Organization, Review of Network Economics, and Antitrust Law Journal on a number of antitrust topics, including aftermarket effects, market definition in payment cards markets, and non-horizontal merger theories in the GE/Honeywell merger. He has been named among Who’s Who Legal International Competition Economists since 2014. He has also taught econometrics in Johns Hopkins University’s Masters of Applied Economics Program. He has been named to the Who’s Who Legal list of Competition Economists since 2014 and recognized as a Competition Thought Leader in 2021.

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George A. Hay

George Hay is one of the foremost antitrust authorities in the United States. After he received his Ph.D. in economics from Northwestern University, Hay taught economics at Yale University for five years, until he joined the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division in 1972. Hay served as Director of Economics, and won several awards for service to the Justice Department. Hay became a Professor of Law and a Professor of Economics at Cornell University in 1979, and was named to the Edward Cornell chair in the Law School in 1992. He became the Charles Frank Reavis Sr. Professor of Law in 2014.

Professor Hay teaches a variety of law and law-related courses in both the Law School and the College of Arts and Sciences and lectures on antitrust throughout the United States and the rest of the world. He has appeared as an expert witness in many antitrust cases in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. His most recent articles include: A Tale of Two Cities: From Davids Holdings to Metcash by George Hay and E. Jane Murdoch, Anti-competitive Agreements: the meaning of “agreement” by George Hay and Documenting the Antitrust Revolution over Seven Editions of Kwoka and White by Kenneth G. Elzinga and George Hay.