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Lin Chan

Lin Chan represents consumers, small businesses, and employees in class actions involving antitrust, fraud, discrimination, and wage theft. Lin has represented California consumers and third party payors of Cipro in a class action charging that brand name and generic prescription drug manufacturers conspired to restrain competition in the sale of Bayer’s blockbuster antibiotic drug Cipro. Total settlements in the case reached $399 million. Lin has also represented consumers in a class action filed against lithium ion battery manufacturers for conspiring to fix the prices of lithium ion batteries, as well as direct purchasers of titanium dioxide against titanium dioxide manufacturers for conspiring to fix prices. In 2017, Lin won the prestigious award for “Outstanding Antitrust Achievement by a Young Lawyer” from the American Antitrust Institute for her work on the Cipro drug antitrust cases, as well as sharing Lieff Cabraser’s team award from the AAI for “Outstanding Private Practice Antitrust Achievement” for their work on the Cipro case. Lin chairs the Antitrust and Business Regulation Section of the Bar Association of San Francisco and serves as Secretary of the Committee to Support the Antitrust Laws. She previously served as a law clerk to the Honorable Damon J. Keith of the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals from 2007 to 2008. While at Stanford, Lin was the Editor-in-Chief of the Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.

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Jorge Contreras

Jorge L. Contreras is a Professor of Law at the University of Utah (Salt Lake City, USA). Before entering academia, Professor Contreras was a partner at the international law firm Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, where he practiced transactional and IP law in Boston, London and Washington DC. His research focuses, among other things, on the development of technical standards and the use, dissemination and ownership of scientific data generated. He is the author of more than 100 scholarly articles and chapters which have appeared in scientific, legal and policy journals including Science, Nature, Georgetown Law Journal, Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, Antitrust Law Journal and Telecommunications Policy. He is the editor of five books relating to technology law and technical standards, including the Cambridge Handbook of Technical Standardization Law, 2 vols. (2017, 2019 forthcoming). He has been quoted in the NY Times, Wall Street Journal, Economist, Washington Post, Korea Times, has been a guest on NPR, BBC and various televised broadcasts, and his work has been cited by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, European Commission and courts in the U.S. and Europe. He currently serves as Co-Chair of the Interdisciplinary Division of the American Bar Association’s Section of Science & Technology Law, and as a member of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Council of Councils and the IPR Policy Committee of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). He has previously served as Co-Chair of the National Conference of Lawyers and Scientists, and as a member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Committee on IP Management in Standard-Setting Processes. He is an honors graduate of Harvard Law School (JD) and Rice University (BSEE, BA).

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Nancy L. Rose

Nancy Rose is the Charles P. Kindleberger Professor of Applied Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where her teaching and research focus on industrial organization, competition policy, and the economics of regulation. She served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Economic Analysis in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice from 2014–2016, and directed the NBER program in Industrial Organization from 1991-2014. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and was named the 2018 Distinguished Fellow of the Industrial Organization Society. Her research includes analyses of economic regulation, firm behavior, labor rent-sharing and determinants of executive pay, and merger policy. Her accomplishments have been recognized by numerous fellowships over her career, and professional service that includes terms as Vice President and Executive Committee member of the American Economic Association, as well as on corporate and non-profit boards.

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Amedeo Arena

Amedeo Arena is Associate Professor of European Union Law at the University of Naples “Federico II” where he teaches EU Law and EU Competition Law, and sits on the faculty of the University of Denver Sturm College of Law‘s International Program, where he teaches US & EU Antitrust Law.

Professor Arena holds a JSD from the University of Naples Federico II as well as LLM degrees from King’s College London and New York University, where he was also a Fulbright Fellow. He was Visiting Academic at Oxford IECL and Harvard Law School; Visiting Researcher at UC Berkeley Law and U Tokyo Faculty of Law; Visiting Professor at Leiden Law School and Riga Graduate School of Law; Invited Speaker, inter alia, at Cambridge, Chicago, Columbia, Yale, and Stanford Law School, as well as at the College of Europe (Bruges) and at the European University Institute (Florence).

Professor Arena published extensively on competition and regulatory matters, including a research monograph on the regulation of services of general interest (2011), a handbook on Italian Media Law (2014), and an edited book on EU competition law at its 60-year mark (2016). He authored over 40 articles published in edited books and peer-reviewed journals, such as the European Competition Journal, the Market and Competition Law Review, and the Cambridge Journal of International and Comparative Law.

He coauthored a book chapter with Eleanor Fox and his publications have been cited by an Advocate General of the EU Court of Justice (Case C-129/19 and Case C‑2/18), the Court of Appeal of England and Wales (Micula v Romania), the OECD Global Forum on Competition (GF(2019)11), the WTO Economic Research and Statistics Division (WP 2018-12), and leading antitrust scholars, such as Herbert Hovenkamp, William Kovacic, and Spencer Waller.

Professor Arena served as one of the lead researchers in the GAL Project on Competition Law Enforcement and Governance (New York University and the University of Toronto), as well as rapporteur to the New York City Bar Association European Affairs Committee on recent developments in the area of State aids. He sits on the Advisory Board of the Portuguese Observatory for the Application of Competition Law, the Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies, the European Competition Journal, and the Market and Competition Law Review.

Professor Arena is an Italian qualified lawyer admitted to practice before the country’s highest jurisdictions. He has assisted clients in domestic and multi-jurisdictional M&A transactions. He has provided legal expertise on competition and regulatory matters to corporate clients and law firms, as well as to the European Commission, the European Parliament, the European Global Navigation Satellite Systems Agency, the European Audiovisual Observatory of the Council of Europe, and the Supreme Court of Korea.

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Pamela Gilbert

Pamela Gilbert is the Chair of the American Antitrust Institute’s Board of Directors.  She is a partner at Cuneo Gilbert & LaDuca LLP in Washington, D.C. Gilbert is the former Executive Director of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).  She has more than 20 years of experience in consumer advocacy. Gilbert also sits on the board of Equal Justice Works and OMB Watch.  She headed up the transition team for the CPSC for President Obama.  Gilbert joined the Cuneo Law Group in 2002 and became a named partner in 2003.

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Kimberly Justice

Kimberly A. Justice, a partner at Freed Kanner London & Millen LLC, is a respected litigator and experienced trial lawyer who has dedicated her career to obtaining justice for those harmed by corporate fraud. She focuses her practice on antitrust and securities fraud litigation. Kimberly has extensive experience in all aspects of complex litigation from investigating and developing an initial case theory, to formulating and managing litigation strategy, to conducting discovery, to trial.

Kimberly possesses a wealth of valuable experience, having served as a federal antitrust prosecutor for nearly a decade where she led teams of trial attorneys and law enforcement agents who investigated and prosecuted domestic and international cartel activity, including in the following industries: graphite electrodes, carbon products, ocean shipping and benchmark interest rates (LIBOR). Prior to joining the Firm, Kimberly was co-chair of the antitrust practice group at Kessler Topaz Meltzer Check LLP.

Kimberly has secured sizeable recoveries on behalf of investors in several high-profile securities fraud cases. Kimberly also led the trial team that obtained a jury verdict in favor of investors in the Longtop securities class action litigation, among just a handful of securities cases to be tried to jury verdict. Kimberly currently serves as lead or co-lead counsel in several nationwide securities fraud and antitrust class actions. Most recently, Kimberly was appointed as Co-Lead Counsel in In re: Chicago Board of Options Exchange Volatility Index Manipulation Antitrust Litigation. Kimberly also serves on the Plaintiff Steering Committees in In re: Local TV Advertising Antitrust Litigation, In re: Liquid Aluminum Sulfate Antitrust Litigation and In re: German Automotive Manufacturers Antitrust Litigation.

Upon graduating from law school, Ms. Justice served as a judicial clerk to the Honorable William H. Yohn, Jr. (retired) of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Ms. Justice frequently lectures and serves on discussion panels concerning antitrust and securities litigation matters and currently serves as a member of the Advisory Board of the American Antitrust Institute and as an Advisory Council Member for The Duke Conferences: Bench-Bar-Academy Distinguished Lawyers’ Series.

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Dan Drachler

Dan Drachler has over 30 years’ experience representing the interests of consumers, businesses, Native American tribes, and state and local governments in a wide range of matters. Mr. Drachler has held leadership positions in class action litigation and matters of public policy, both as an attorney and counselor in private practice as well as on behalf of state and local governments. Mr. Drachler was the recipient of the 2017 American Antitrust Institute’s Enforcement Award for Outstanding Antitrust Litigation Achievement in Private Law Practice. In 2016, Mr. Drachler received the CLAY Award as an Attorney of the Year in Antitrust for his work on the groundbreaking decision of the California Supreme Court in In re Cipro Cases I and II (Cal. 2015).

As Chief Deputy Attorney General of the State of New York, Mr. Drachler supervised and coordinated all legal matters for the 450 attorneys in the Department of Law throughout New York State. He also served as New York’s representative to the National Association of Attorneys General, was primary liaison with the Office of the Governor of NY, negotiated and resolved significant and sensitive cases, and supervised senior management.

Mr. Drachler has served in court-appointed leadership roles in numerous antitrust, RICO and consumer class actions over the past 20 years. Currently, Mr. Drachler serves as a member of the Tribal Leadership Committees in In Re: National Prescription Opiate Litigation (MDL-2804 N.D. Ohio), and in In Re: Juul Labs, Inc., Marketing, Sales Practices, and Product Liability Litigation (MDL-2913 N.D. Cal.). He was also appointed Co-Lead Counsel in In re Cipro Cases I and II, JCCP Nos. 4154 and 4220 (Cal. Super.). In describing the work of Mr. Drachler and his Co-Lead Counsel the Court said “I think everything about this case is extraordinary. · And in particular, the result, and the tenacity of the plaintiffs’ attorneys was extraordinary…. I think the plaintiffs’ attorneys did an extraordinary job.” (Hon. Ronald L. Styn, In re Cipro Cases I and II, April 21, 2017 Transcript of Proceedings). The Cipro cases settled for nearly $400 million on behalf of California third-party payors and consumers.

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William S. Comanor

William S. Comanor is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara; and also Professor of Health Policy and Management at UCLA where he serves as Director of the Research Program on Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy. Dr. Comanor received his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University in 1964, and was on the faculties of both Harvard and Stanford Universities before joining the faculty of the University of California in 1975.

Dr. Comanor served as an economist at both federal antitrust enforcement agencies.  In 1965 and 1966, he was Special Economic Assistant to the head of the Antitrust Division in the US Department of Justice, and from 1978 to 1980 was Chief Economist and Director of the Bureau of Economics at the US Federal Trade Commission.

During his professional career, Dr. Comanor has studied, lectured, written, and consulted on many issues dealing with antitrust economics, and regularly teaches a course on that subject.  He has also testified on antitrust matters before Congressional committees and in courtrooms throughout the United States.  In 2003, he received the Distinguished Fellow Award from the Industrial Organization Society.  That award is given annually in recognition of excellence in Research, Education and Professional Leadership in the field of Industrial Organization, which encompasses Antitrust Economics.

 

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William A. Isaacson

Bill Isaacson, a partner in the Litigation Department of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, is widely considered one of the most preeminent litigators of his generation. A Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, Bill was named a “Litigator of the Year” in 2016 and a “Litigator of the Week” three times by The American Lawyer. Chambers has called Bill a “celebrated trial lawyer” who is “highly recommended for his work in complex class actions.”

Bill has successfully represented both plaintiffs and defendants in major antitrust litigations; of the approximately dozen federal antitrust class actions that have gone to trial and judgment in this century, he has tried five of them, winning verdicts in each case. Global Competition Review has noted that “arguably no antitrust lawyer in recent memory has had as much success for both plaintiffs and defendants as Bill Isaacson.” Lawdragon writes that it is “nearly impossible to find a more reliable antitrust litigator than Isaacson, who has successfully handled several of the most high-profile cases in the past two decades.”

Bill has achieved numerous industry awards over the years. Bill is among only 31 lawyers to be named in the Lawdragon 500 each of the last 10 years; Law360 has twice named Bill a “Competition MVP” and also has named him as a “Titan of the Plaintiff Bar.” Global Competition Review has named him a “Litigator of the Week.” In college, he was a finalist at the 1982 National Debate Tournament.

Bill has spoken and presented regularly at legal conferences, including NYU Law School’s conference on Antitrust and 21st Century Bigness, the ABA’s American Judicial Law Institute for Antitrust (sponsored by University of California at Berkeley and the University of Chicago), the American Antitrust Institute, the Sedona Conference, and MLEX Advisory Board, as well as conducted mock trials for the Spring and Fall ABA Antitrust Conferences and the ABA Economics Institute for Judges at George Mason University.

Bill is a member and former Chair of the Board for Legal Counsel for the Elderly. In 2015, the group recognized him with its individual Award for Sustained Excellence and Outstanding Commitment. His pro bono work was featured in articles in the Washington Post in 2010 and 2017.

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Warren Grimes

Warren Grimes honed his expertise in antitrust and other public policy issues during his 16 years in government service. Following a year as a litigator with the firm of O’Melveny & Myers and three years as a fellow at the Max Planck Institute in Germany, he began his government career as an attorney advisor to the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Legal Counsel. There he drafted legal opinions for the President and other executive branch officials. He was then recruited by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and represented the agency in many federal court antitrust proceedings and at antitrust meetings of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development headquartered in Paris, France. Professor Grimes then moved to the U.S. House of Representatives where he served as chief counsel of the Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Monopolies and Commercial Law.

After several years of serving as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center and Columbus School of Law of Catholic University, Professor Grimes accepted an appointment to Southwestern’s full-time faculty in 1988. He was recognized for his teaching excellence and scholarship with the Irwin R. Buchalter Professorship in 2000 and the Irving D. and Florence Rosenberg Professorship in 2006. With his international reputation continuing to expand, he has served as a visiting professor at Nihon University in Tokyo, Japan, and as a lecturer on international antitrust enforcement at the Comparative Competition Law Conference at the College of Europe in Brussels, among other forums around the world.
Professor Grimes is co-author of the definitive antitrust law text for lawyers and law students, The Law of Antitrust: An Integrated Handbook with the late Professor Lawrence Sullivan and has written numerous scholarly articles on related topics. He points out, “On occasion, a scholarly paper can impact policy, which is extremely satisfying. But writing also allows me to refine my thinking and improve my ability to teach my subject.”

Professor Grimes chaired the Los Angeles County Bar Association Antitrust and Trade Regulation Section and is a member of the Executive Committee, and serves on the Advisory Board of the American Antitrust Institute. In 2009, he was one of two American professors appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition, and Tax Law in Munich Germany, which is made up of experts from Europe and North America.