William A. Isaacson

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.

In over twenty-five years of practice Steven N. Williams has handled successfully and with distinction all aspects of litigation and trial in state and federal courts and in private arbitration.

Mr. Williams has played a lead role in many of the most prominent antitrust class cases litigated in the United States over the last decade, including In re Automotive Parts Antitrust Litigation, In re Static Random Access Memory Litigation, Precision Associates v. Panalpina World Transport, and In re Transpacific Air Transportation Litigation. He has helped recover more than $2 billion and has been responsible for new law including ground-breaking decisions narrowing the scope of the Filed Rate Doctrine and permitting civil damage claims in E. & J. Gallo Winery v. EnCana Corp., 503 F.3d 1027 (2007) and Wortman v. All Nippon Airways, 854 F.3d 606 (2017), and a ruling that “umbrella damages” are available under California state law. County of San Mateo v. CSL, Ltd., 2014 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 116342 (N.D. Cal. Aug. 20, 2014).

Mr. Williams, previously a long-time partner at Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, LLP, practices in the fields of litigation, trial, and client counseling, with an emphasis on representation of civil plaintiffs in antitrust matters. He has served in leadership positions in more than a dozen antitrust class cases throughout the United States. During his career, he has represented claimants in cases involving memory chips, pharmaceuticals, air passenger transportation, air cargo transportation, cathode ray tubes, capacitors, resistors, flash memory, lithium ion batteries, financial products and services, poultry, and water. He has been appointed to represent classes, and in non-class cases he has represented the Chief Justice of California, the Judicial Council of California, Consumers Union of United States, Inc., the United Farm Workers, Dolores Huerta, public pension funds, private investment funds, many cities and counties of California, public utilities including water districts, and individual consumers. His current caseload includes representing a class alleging that Nestlé Waters of North America has been misleading consumers for years by falsely claiming that its “Poland Spring” water is natural spring water, and leading a class action alleging that Pfizer and Mylan—manufacturer and distributor of the EpiPen, respectively—have unlawfully created and abused a monopoly for the essential, life-saving product.

Mr. Williams has written and lectured on various topics including antitrust, multidistrict litigation, complex litigation, electronic discovery, MTBE litigation, regulatory developments in environmental law, contractual issues in environmental cleanups, and habeas corpus. He has spoken at many venues, including the American Bar Association Antitrust Section Spring Meeting, the California State Bar Antitrust, UCL and Privacy Section, the New York State Bar Association Antitrust Section, and the Consumer Attorneys of California. He is the author or co-author of several publications, including: “Should United States Courts Defer to Foreign Governments?,” Chambers and Partners’s Cartels 2019 global practice guide; “‘Pepper’ as a Back Door to ‘Illinois Brick’ (and ‘ARC America’)?” and “Should ‘Hanover Shoe’ and ‘Illinois Brick’ Be Discarded?,” August 2018 The Recorder (with Firm Senior Associate Jiamie Chen); Antitrust Law Developments (Eighth), American Bar Association; “Federal and State Class Antitrust Actions Should Not Be Tried in a Single Trial,” The Journal of the Antitrust and Unfair Competition Law Section of the State Bar of California, Fall 2014; “Recoveries for Violations of Federal and California Antitrust Statutes Should Not Be Apportioned,” Competition, Antitrust and Unfair Competition Law Section, California State Bar, Fall 2014; “Antitrust Whistleblowers Get Clarity,” Los Angeles and San Francisco Daily Journal, 2013; “Courts Rein in the Cost of E-Discovery When Lawyers and Their Clients Won’t,” California Lawyer, April 2012; and California’s 2009 E-Discovery Laws, Text and Analysis, LexisNexis 2009.

Mr. Williams was appointed by the Consumer Attorneys of California(“CAOC”) as a member of the California Discovery Subcommittee for revision of California discovery rules and statutes relating to electronic discovery and electronically stored information, 2007-2008. He has given yearly presentations to CAOC on topics of civil discovery in California. He is currently in leadership for the American Bar Association Antitrust Section and is a member of the International Cartel Task Force, the Advisory Board of the American Antitrust Institute, and the Executive Committee of the Committee to Support the Antitrust Laws. He has repeatedly acted as faculty at the joint Federal Judicial Center/American Bar Association Institute on Antitrust and Economics. He is an advisor to the Executive Committee of the California Lawyers Association Section on Antitrust, Unfair Competition Law, and Privacy Law, and was chair of the 2017 Golden State Antitrust Institute. He is also a Board Member of Public Justice and past Chairman of the Board of Community Gatepath, an organization dedicated to serving the needs of developmentally disabled children and adults.

Mr. Williams has received numerous professional accolades during his legal career. Chambers USA has ranked him 2015-2018 as a Band 1 or Band 2 attorney for “Antitrust:  Mainly Plaintiff—California” and 2017-2018 as a Band 2 attorney for “Antitrust:  Plaintiff—Nationwide.” He has been rated AV Preeminent by Martindale Hubbell since 2002. He has been designated 2005-2018 as a “Super Lawyer” and 2016-2018 as a “Top 100 Northern California Super Lawyer” by Thomson Reuters’s Super Lawyers publication. From 2014-2018 he has been ranked by Who’s Who Legal as one of the top plaintiffs’ attorneys worldwide via Who’s Who Legal:  Competition, a publication of Who’s Who Legal and Global Competition Review. And, in 2018 he was selected and profiled by the California Daily Journal as one of thirty “Top Plaintiff Lawyers” in California.

Mr. Williams is admitted to practice in California, New Jersey, New York, the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals (Second, Third, Fifth, Sixth, Ninth, and District of Columbia Circuits), and the United States District Court of California (Eastern, Central, Northern, and Southern Districts), Michigan (Eastern District), New Jersey, and New York (Eastern and Southern Districts). He received his J.D. from the Fordham University School of Law and his B.A. in Russian and Slavic Studies from New York University.

Steve Shadowen is regularly recognized as a top national antitrust lawyer, a result of his dedicated work on cases where intellectual property and antitrust law intersect. Shadowen was lead counsel for the purchaser plaintiffs in the landmark litigation that began calling Big Pharma to account for anticompetitive conduct. Abbott Labs. v. Teva Pharmaceuticals, U.S.A., Inc.:  Shadowen was on plaintiffs’ trial team, and was one of the driving forces in the litigation, in the first case to accept the “product hopping” theory of anticompetitive conduct. Steve Shadowen consistently garners recognition as a Best Lawyer in America for Antitrust and Commercial Litigation and as a Pennsylvania SuperLawyer. He serves on the advisory boards of the American Antitrust Institute and the Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies and is an adjunct professor at the Pennsylvania State University Dickinson School of Law. Shadowen has published numerous papers on antitrust and civil rights issues and lectured on antitrust and competition law at universities across the nation and in Europe. He is a committed advocate for equal access to education, serving on the board of the Harrisburg Public Schools Foundation and as a trustee of St. Edward’s University.  Shadowen is also the President of the Joshua Group, an at-risk youth advocate organization. Prior to starting Hilliard Shadowen LLC, Shadowen was a partner at the Philadelphia-based firms, Hangley Aronchick Segal & Pudlin, and Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis, where he represented plaintiffs in antitrust litigation for more than 19 years. As a law student he was the criminal procedure project editor of the Georgetown Law Journal. Upon graduation from Georgetown he served as a clerk for the Hon. Boyce F. Martin, Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

Sports law scholar Professor Ross has clerked for Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, was Senate Judiciary Committee counsel to former Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, and worked as an attorney for the Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice. He has taught and written about sports law in North America, Europe, and Australia, and has provided expert testimony and advice on sports antitrust issues to governmental entities in both the United States and Canada. He has also consulted on sports league design for professional sports organizations in ice hockey, cricket, rugby, soccer, and motorcycle racing.

Professor Ross previously served as  a senior fellow of the American Antitrust Institute as well as  pro bono counsel to the AAI and other consumer groups on antitrust and sports litigation.