Spencer Waller

Spencer Weber Waller is the John Paul Stevens Chair in Competition Law, Director of the Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies, and Professor at Loyola University Chicago School of Law where he teaches antitrust, intellectual property, civil procedure, and international litigation courses.  He is a member of the Advisory Board of the American Antitrust Institute and the editorial boards of the Antitrust Law Journal and the World Competition Law and Economics Review.   Professor Waller is the author, co-author, or editor of 8 books and over one hundred articles on United States and international antitrust, includingAntitrust and American Business Abroad, the leading treatise in the field, and the first full-length biography of Thurman Arnold, the founder of modern antitrust enforcement in the United States.  He is the co-editor and contributor to Brands, Competition Law and IP (Cambridge University Press 2015).  His recent scholarship focuses on antitrust, brands, class actions, high-tech industries, innovation, and intellectual property. He is the recipient of the 2014 Concurrence Antitrust Writing Award.  Professor Waller previously taught and served as associate dean at Brooklyn Law School.​

Dr. Shubha Ghosh, Crandall Melvin Professor of Law and Director of the Syracuse Intellectual Property Law Institute (SIPLI), earned his J.D. from Stanford University, with distinction, and his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.

His extensive research focuses on the development and commercialization of intellectual property and technology as a means of promoting economic and social development. He has published extensively on pharmaceutical, design, copyright protection of standards, competition policy, and other intellectual property issues; antitrust law; legal construction of the marketplace; technology transfer; and the role of intellectual property law and policy in shaping these diverse areas.

As Director and Founder of SIPLI, Ghosh works closely with College of Law’s Innovation Law Center. He directs the IP and Technology Commercialization Curricular Program and develops classroom and experiential academic programs geared toward training law students and students across the University to become practitioners in intellectual property management, licensing, patents and copyright, and commercialization.

Ghosh also works with another component of the Innovation Law Center, the NYSTAR-funded New York State Science and Technology Law Center (NYSSTLC), an entity focused on mitigating intellectual property and commercialization challenges that affect entrepreneurs, start-ups, universities, and research centers in New York State and beyond.

Supporting the LLM Program has been an important dimension of his work. He worked with Assistant Dean of International Programs Andrew Horsfall to secure a Memorandum of Understanding with OP Jindal Global Law School in India. Ghosh is a regular visitor to National Law University, Delhi, and other universities in India, China, and Australia.

A member of the California, Federal Circuit Bar, and US Supreme Court bars, Ghosh was elected to the American Law Institute in 2012 and is currently a member of the advisory board on the Restatement of Copyright. He has been an IIP Research Fellow in Tokyo; a Fulbright Fellow to India; and a recipient of a National Endowment of the Humanities research grant.

Seth Bloom is the President and Founder of Bloom Strategic Counsel, PLLC. Mr. Bloom, the former long time General Counsel of the U.S. Senate Antitrust Subcommittee, is an attorney with extensive governmental and private sector experience in antitrust and competition law.  He possesses substantial experience with the critical regulatory and competition issues facing key industries including telecommunications, media and high tech; transportation and aviation; and health care.  In July 2013, Mr. Bloom was named to the Advisory Board of the American Antitrust Institute.

Bloom spent nearly 14 years in the U.S. Senate on the Judiciary Committee’s Antitrust Subcommittee. He began as a counsel on the Antitrust Subcommittee staff of Sen. Kohl in 1999, who served as Chairman and Ranking Member of the Subcommittee during Mr. Bloom’s tenure. From 2008 to January 2013, Mr. Bloom served as General Counsel of the Senate Antitrust Subcommittee. In August 2012, Mr. Bloom was named to the “Hill Hot List” by National Law Journal/Legal Times as one of the top 15 lawyers working in Congress.

Mr Bloom was responsible for numerous critical antitrust and competition issues that came before the Antitrust Subcommittee during his tenure, from the AOL/Time Warner merger in 2000 to the Comcast/NBC Universal merger in 2010 and the proposed AT&T/T-Mobile merger in 2011. Antitrust Subcommittee Chairman Kohl’s opposition to the proposed AT&T/T-Mobile merger was a key factor leading to the merger being blocked by the Justice Department and the FCC. Mr. Bloom was also the senior staffer on several landmark Antitrust Subcommittee investigations, including its 2011 investigation of allegations that Google was engaged in antitrust competitive conduct with respect to Internet search and its 2002-2004 of allegations of anticompetitive conduct in hospital purchasing of medical supplies. During his time on the antitrust subcommittee, Bloom investigated competitive conditions in numerous key industries, including telecom, high tech, media, aviation, health care, energy, and agriculture.

Bloom also was the staffer responsible for a number of significant legislative efforts sponsored by Senator Kohl, including the Railroad Antitrust Enforcement Act, the Preserve Affordable Access to Generic Drugs Act, the Discount Pricing Consumer Protection Act, and the No Oil Producing and Exporting Cartels Act (NOPEC). Each of these legislative efforts passed the Senate Judiciary Committee in several different Congresses.

Bloom has also been frequently been called on to serve as an expert speaker on critical issues of antitrust, competition, telecom, high tech, and health care policy to numerous trade, industry and legal groups, including the American Bar Association Antitrust Section, the American Antitrust Institute, the National Cable and Telecommunications Association, the Georgetown University Law Center, among other organizations.

Prior to beginning his service at the Senate in 1999, Bloom spent three years as a trial attorney at the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division. During his time at the Justice Department, he investigated numerous corporate mergers, and participated in litigation directed at the enforcement of the antitrust laws. Prior to that, Bloom spent eleven years as an attorney with Washington, DC law firms, practicing in the area of complex commercial litigation. He holds a J.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and a B.A. magna cum laude from the University of Rochester.

Dr. Mangum has over 25 years of experience in economic analysis, research, and teaching. His consulting practice centers on economic analysis and damages quantification in matters related to intellectual property and technology, antitrust, class certification, statistical analysis, and complex commercial disputes. Dr. Mangum’s experience as an economic expert is extensive, with testimony in over 100 matters before local, state, and federal courts. Dr. Mangum has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in economics, statistics, finance, and econometrics. He is currently an Associate Professor of Economics in the School of Business and Economics at Concordia University Irvine, and has previously taught at Johns Hopkins University, The University of Southern California, and Pepperdine University. Dr. Mangum previously worked at Nathan Associates, Inc., PricewaterhouseCoopers, and The United States Federal Trade Commission, Bureau of Economics.

Russell Lamb is an expert in antitrust economics and has testified concerning antitrust liability, impact, and damages. He has an extensive background in applied econometrics and has developed econometric models to measure damages in a number of matters involving allegations of horizontal price fixing. He has provided expert testimony in State and Federal Courts in the United States and in Canada on a range of issues, including class-certification and economic damages in antitrust, RICO, and consumer fraud matters. In addition, he has provided expert advice to client attorneys at all levels of the litigation. Dr. Lamb has an extensive background in the analysis of domestic and international agricultural markets, and has authored more than 50 articles in peer-reviewed economics journals, trade press, and major newspapers. Dr. Lamb’s work has been cited by courts in certifying classes in the United States and Canada. For example, in In re Aftermarket Automotive Lighting Products Antitrust Litigation, the court held that his analysis provided “a sufficient basis from which to conclude that Plaintiffs would adduce common proof concerning the effect of Defendants’ alleged price-fixing conspiracy on prices class members paid.” In certifying the class in In re: Titanium Dioxide Antitrust Litigation, the court said, “This Court finds that Dr. Lamb’s regression analysis accurately reflects the characteristics of the titanium dioxide industry, and the facts in this case.” In the Canadian LCD Competition Act Class Action, the court held that Dr. Lamb’s analysis provided “evidence of a viable methodology for the determination of loss on a class-wide basis.” In In re: Puerto Rican Cabotage Litigation, the court held that “Dr. Lamb [had] set forth a reputable and workable model for determining damages as to individual class members.” In certifying the class in Clarke and Rebecca Wixon, et al. v. Wyndham Resort Development Corp., et al., the court held that “Dr. Lamb [had] presented a plausible class-wide method of proof.” In certifying the class in Eugene Allan, et al., v. Realcomp II, Ltd., et al., the court held that “the Plaintiffs have produced sufficient evidence that common proofs will yield a finding of class-wide damages that predominates over any specific individualized damages. The Lamb Report and Lamb Reply are sufficient to establish this fact.”

Mr. Kaplan is widely recognized as a leading plaintiff’s litigator and has led the prosecution of numerous antitrust and securities fraud actions, recovering billions of dollars for the victims of corporate wrongdoing. He was listed by defense and corporate counsel as one of the top 75 plaintiffs’ attorneys in the United States for all disciplines. Mr. Kaplan was listed as one of the top five attorneys for securities litigation. See Complete List. He was also recognized by Legal 500 as one of the top securities litigators in the United States for 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015, and was listed as one of the leading antitrust attorneys in the country for 2015. Mr. Kaplan was recognized as Super Lawyer in the New York Metro Area. He was lead counsel for CalPERS in AOL Time Warner Cases I & II (Ca. Sup. Ct., L.A. Cty.), and was a lead in In re Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. Securities, Derivative & ERISA Litigation, In re Escala Securities Litigation and In re Bank of America Corp. Securities Litigation, in which a settlement in the amount of $2.425 billion and corporate governance changes was approved by the Court.

In the antitrust arena, he has been a lead counsel in many significant actions. He is a lead counsel in In re Air Cargo Antitrust Litigation (more than $1.25 billion in settlements) and was recently appointed by Courts as lead counsel in the DIPF Antitrust Litigation, In re Cast Iron Soil Pipe and Fittings Antitrust Litigation, and In re Keurig Green Mountain Single-Serve Coffee Antitrust Litigation.

He also represents  clients in private antitrust actions, including: Affiliated Foods, Inc., Associated Grocers of New England, Inc., URM Stores, Inc., Western Family Foods, Inc., and Associated Food Stores, Inc. in individual cases against Tri-Union Seafoods, LLC, d/b/a Chicken of the Sea, King Oscar, Inc., Bumble Bee Foods, LLC f/k/a Bumble Bee Seafoods, LLC, and StarKist Co., No. 15-cv-4312, No. 15-cv-3815,  No. 15-cv-4187, No. 15-cv-4667 (N.D. Cal.).

He previously served,  as lead counsel or member of the Executive Committee in numerous plaintiff treble damage actions including In re Neurontin Antitrust Litigation, MDL No. 1479, Master File No. 02-1390 (D.N.J.) ($190 million recovered); In re High Fructose Corn Syrup Antitrust Litigation, MDL No.1087, Master File No. 95-1477 (C.D. Ill) ($531 million recovered); In re Brand Name Prescription Drugs Antitrust Litigation, MDL 997 (N.D. Ill.) ($720 plus million recovered); In re Infant Formula Antitrust Litigation, MDL 878 (N.D. Fla.)($126 million recovered); In re Flat Glass Antitrust Litigation, MDL 1200 (W.O. Pa.) ($122 plus million recovered) (Mr. Kaplan successfully argued  an appeal before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, which issued a ground-breaking and often-cited summary judgment opinion. In re Flat Glass Antitrust Litigation, 385 F.3d 350 (3d ar. 2004); In re Hydrogen Peroxide Antitrust Litigation, MDL 1682 (E.D. Pa.)($97 million recovered); In re Plastics Additives Antitrust Litigation, 03-CV-1898 (E.D.Pa.) ($46.8 million recovered); In re Medical X-Ray Film Antitrust Litigation, CV 93-5904 (E.D.N.Y.) ($39.6 million recovered); and In re NBR Antitrust Litigation, MDL 1684 (E.D. Pa.) ($34.3 million recovered).

Mr. Kaplan is also representing financial institutions across the country in data breach cases against Home Depot and is a member of the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee.

Mr. Kaplan was a trial attorney with the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. There, he litigated  civil and criminal actions. He also served as law clerk to the Hon. Sylvester J. Ryan, then chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and served as an acting judge of the City Court for the City of Rye, N.Y.

In addition to his litigation practice, he has also been active in bar and legal committees. For more than fifteen years, he has been a member of what is now known as the Eastern District of New York’s Courts Committee on Civil Litigation.

Mr. Kaplan has also been actively involved in the Federal Bar Council, an organization of judges and attorneys in the Second circuit and is a member of the Program  and Winter Planning Committees.

Recently Mr. Kaplan was invited by the United States Judicial Center and participated in a multi-day seminar for federal judges about complex litigation.

In addition, Mr. Kaplan has served as a member of the Trade Regulation and Federal Courts Committees of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.

Mr. Kaplan’s published articles include: “Complaint and Discovery In Securities Cases,” Trial, April 1987; “Franchise Statutes and Rules,” Westchester Bar Topics, Winter 1983; “Roots Under Attack: Alexander v. Haley and Courlander v. Haley,” Communications and the Law, July 1979.

Mr. Kaplan sits on the boards of several organizations, including the Columbia Law School Board of Visitors, Board of Directors of the Carver Center in Port Chester, N.Y., Member of the Dana Farber Visiting Committee, Thoracic Oncology in Boston, MA, and Member of Board of Trustees for the Rye Historical Society.