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.

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.

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.

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.

A nationally recognized expert on health care and antitrust law, Professor Thomas (Tim) Greaney has spent the last two decades examining the evolution of the health care industry and is a vocal advocate for reforming the health care system and protecting consumers. He also has a strong interest in comparative antitrust law, having been a Fulbright Scholar in Brussels and a visiting lecturer at several European law schools.

After graduating from Harvard Law School, Greaney began his career as a legislative assistant on Capitol Hill and as a law clerk with the Federal Communications Commission. He then moved on to the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice where he was a trial attorney and became the assistant chief in charge of antitrust matters in health care. His career at Justice spanned ten years and involved him in civil and criminal antitrust litigation in health care, banking, communications and other regulated industries as well as policy formulation and legislative matters.

Greaney came to SLU LAW in 1987 after completing two fellowships and a visiting professorship at Yale Law School. Professor Greaney became Chester A. Myers Professor of Law in 2004 and was named Health Law Teacher of the Year by the American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics in 2007. His academic writing has been recognized six times by the Thompson Coburn Award for SLU Faculty scholarship.

Professor Greaney’s extensive body of scholarly writing on health care and antitrust laws encompasses articles published in some of the country’s most prestigious legal and health policy journals. Professor Greaney has authored or co-authored several books, including the leading health care casebook, Health Law. A frequent speaker in academia and the media, Professor Greaney has also offered expert testimony at hearings sponsored by the Federal Trade Commission on the issues of applying competition law and policy to health care, and submitted invited testimony to the U.S. Senate on competition policy and health care reform. He has also testified several times before the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives and has submitted invited testimony

H.E. (Ted) Frech III is professor of economics in the School of Letters and Science and professor of technology management in the School of Engineering  at the UC Santa Barbara.  He is former director of the MA program and former Chairman of the economics department. He is an adjunct scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and an affiliated faculty member at the Petris Center for Health Care Markets at UC Berkeley. He has been a visiting professor at Harvard and at the University of Chicago and an adjunct professor at Sciences Po in Paris, Curtin University in Australia and the Naval Postgraduate School. He holds a BS in industrial engineering from the University of Missouri, and a PhD in economics from UCLA.

Prof.  Frech, has written widely on antitrust, industrial organization, health economics, insurance, energy, and land use regulation. He has consulted for private and governmental organizations on liability and damage issues in complex commercial issues, including regulation, contract and unfair competition and antitrust.  This work has covered many industries, including health care and health insurance, aviation, electronics, sports fields and real estate.

Professor Salop teaches courses in Antitrust Law, Economic Reasoning and the Law, and conducts a Faculty Workshop in Law and Economics. His recent writings include several articles in the Antitrust Law Journal that focus on exclusionary conduct, including an article on the overarching antitrust standard for exclusionary conduct, an article on exclusionary conduct by buyers and an article on the antitrust standard for refusals to deal and price squeezes.   Professor Salop has other articles on the consumer welfare standard, the raising rivals’ cost conduct, and the first principles approach to antitrust .  His research focuses on antitrust law and economics and economic analysis of industrial competition and imperfect information.   Before joining the Law Center faculty in 1981, he served as Associate Director for Special Projects with the Bureau of Economics of the FTC, as an adjunct professor of economics at the University of Pennsylvania, where he received his B.A. in 1968, and as an economist with the Civil Aeronautics Board and Federal Reserve Board. He is a member of the American Economic Association and the Econometric Society. He has been an associate editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives, The International Journal of Industrial Organization and the Journal of Industrial Economics.