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.”
Roger Noll
Roger G. Noll is professor emeritus at Stanford University Department of Economics. Noll also is a Senior Fellow and member of the Advisory Board at the American Antitrust Institute.
Noll received a B.S. with honors in mathematics from the California Institute of Technology and a Ph. D. in economics from Harvard University. Prior to coming to Stanford, Noll was a Senior Economist at the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and Institute Professor of Social Science and Chair of the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences at the California Institute of Technology. He also won a Guggenheim Fellowship, the annual book award of the National Association of Educational Broadcasters, the Rhodes Prize for undergraduate education, the Distinguished Service Award of the Public Utilities Research Center, the Distinguished Lecturer Award by the AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies, the Alfred E. Kahn Distinguished Career Award from the American Antitrust Institute, and the Distinguished Member Award of the Transportation and Public Utilities Group of the American Economic Association.
Noll is the author or co-author of fifteen books and over three hundred articles and reviews. Noll’s primary research interests include technology policy; antitrust, regulation and privatization policies in both advanced and developing economies; the economic approach to public law (administrative law, the judiciary, and statutory interpretation); and the economics of sports and entertainment.
Roberta D. Liebenberg
Roberta D. Liebenberg is a partner at Fine, Kaplan and Black in Philadelphia, focusing her practice on antitrust class actions and complex commercial litigation, and white collar criminal defense. She served as one of trial counsel for the class in In re Urethanes [Polyether Polyols] Antitrust Litigation, which resulted in a record-setting judgment against Dow Chemical Co. for $1.06 billion after a 4-week jury trial, which was affirmed by the Tenth Circuit. While the case was pending on appeal in the United States Supreme Court, Dow agreed to a settlement for $835 million, the largest settlement ever recovered in a price-fixing case from a single defendant. Ms. Liebenberg has recently been appointed Co-Lead Counsel for the class in In re Railway Industry Employee No-Poach Antitrust Litigation, MDL No. 2850 (W.D. Pa.), and serves as Lead Counsel for the End-Payer Plaintiff Class in In re Generic Pharmaceuticals Pricing Antitrust Litigation, MDL No. 2724 (E.D. Pa.). She is defending Southwest Airlines in In re Domestic Airline Travel Antitrust Litigation, MDL No. 2656 (D.D.C.) and also successfully defended a high-level shipping company executive accused of criminal violations of the Sherman Act in a landmark case where the District Court dismissed the indictment (United States v. Stolt-Nielsen, S.A.).
As Vice Chair of the Antitrust Section’s Trial Practice Committee, Ms. Liebenberg co-chaired the Committee revising the Model Jury Instructions in Civil Antitrust Cases. She also served as Chair of the ABA Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary; Chair of the ABA Litigation Section’s Class Action and Derivative Suits Committee; and Chair of the Philadelphia Bar Association’s Antitrust Committee. She has twice been named “Antitrust Lawyer of the Year” in Philadelphia by Best Lawyers in America, and the Chambers USA Guide has consistently listed her among its highest-ranked plaintiffs’ antitrust lawyers nationwide. Law360 profiled Ms. Liebenberg as one of the “Titans of the Plaintiffs’ Bar.”
Ms. Liebenberg has received other prestigious awards and honors as well. The National Law Journal has named her as one of the country’s 75 most “Outstanding Women Lawyers.” In October 2018, she received the “Lifetime Achievement Award” from Corporate Counsel and Inside Counsel. She was named as a 2016 recipient of the Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Award by the ABA Commission on Women in the Profession, the highest award bestowed on a woman attorney by the American Bar Association. She has been named five times as one of the “Top Ten Super Lawyers in Pennsylvania.”
Robert Kaplan
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.
Robert H. Lande
Robert H. Lande is the Secretary of the American Antitrust Institute’s Board of Directors. He was the AAI’s first Senior Fellow and a co-founding Director of the AAI and has served the AAI on a full-time basis during three different periods. He is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Baltimore. Professor Lande is the author of numerous law review articles relating to antitrust, is a frequent speaker at antitrust events, and is often quoted in the trade press. A graduate of Harvard University (J.D., M.P.P.) and Northwestern University (B.A.), he has served in the FTC’s Bureau of Competition and was associated with Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue.
Robert E. Litan
Robert Litan is a nationally renowned attorney and economist with nearly four decades of experience litigating cases, conducting economic research, crafting economic policy, and heading up both public and private organizations. He is a prolific writer and speaker on the subjects of economics, antitrust law, and financial regulation—having authored or co-authored over 27 books and 200 journal and newspaper articles, as well as having testified as an expert witness in a number of high-profile lawsuits.
After graduating from Yale Law school, Bob litigated antitrust, administrative, and international-trade cases in Washington D.C.—first with Arnold & Porter and then with Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy. In 1993, he was appointed Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Antitrust Division of the Justice Department, where he oversaw civil, non-merger antitrust litigation. In that role, Bob settled the Department’s lawsuit against the Ivy League and MIT for conspiring to fix financial aid awards; oversaw the Department’s first investigation into Microsoft’s anti-competitive practices; oversaw the early stages of the Department’s investigation of NASDAQ for fixing dealer spreads; and was the Department’s liaison to the Clinton administration’s working group on telecommunications policy, which was directed by the Vice President.
In 1995, Bob was appointed Associate Director of the Office of Management and Budget, where oversaw the budgets of five cabinet-level agencies. He was later a consultant to the Department of Treasury on financial modernization and the effectiveness of the Community Reinvestment Act, co-authoring several reports on those subjects. In the early 1990s, Bob served as a Member of the Presidential-Congressional Commission on the Causes of the Savings and Loan Crisis. He has chaired two panels of two studies for the National Academy of Sciences, and has served on one other NAS Committee.
Bob has testified as an expert witness in numerous complex cases, not only in antitrust matters, but also in matters involving the regulation of financial institutions. He has held major executive positions at three organizations overseeing economic and public-policy research: Vice President and Director of Research in the Economic Studies Program at the Brookings Institution; the same position at the Kauffman Foundation; and Director of Research at Bloomberg Government, the subsidiary of Bloomberg LLP that provides analysis and data on the impact of government policies on business. He is currently on the research advisory boards of the Smith Richardson Foundation and the Committee for Economic Development, as well as the advisory board of the American Antitrust Institute. He previously served on the international advisory board of the Principal Financial Group.
Bob is the author or co-author of 28 books and the editor of 14 others. He also has written over 200 articles in journals and national newspapers. His latest books include A Scalpel, Not an Axe: Updating Antitrust and Data Laws to Spur Competition and Innovation (Progressive Policy Institute, 2018); Trillion Dollar Economists (2014); Better Capitalism, co-authored with Carl Schramm (2012); and Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, co-authored with William Baumol and Carl Schramm (2007), which is used widely in college courses and has been translated into 10 languages.
Robert Bonsignore
Robert Bonsignore began his career in the Office of the District Attorney for Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Since 1990 when he began his own law firm specializing in complex litigation and trial work, he has been lead trial counsel in cases with jury verdicts totaling in excess of $350 million dollars. Bonsignore has extensive experience in antitrust, consumer protection, complex litigation, class actions, multi-district litigation, Judicial Panel on Multi District Litigation proceedings, and commercial cases. He also has received significant jury verdicts in wrongful death and catastrophic injury cases.
Between 2001 and 2004, Bonsignore was appointed Lead Counsel in five separate certified class actions by the Chief Justice of the Business Litigation Session (BLS) for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts advancing claims raised pursuant of Massachusetts General Law 93A. All received Final Approval without appeal. Bonsignore was also appointed Lead or Co-Lead counsel in four other BLS certified class actions that received Final Approval. Bonsignore successfully argued the re-certification of the largest employment class action in Massachusetts’ history at the Supreme Judicial Court level. At the trial court level, Bonsignore presented the oral argument at the first contested consumer indirect purchaser monopolization class action to be certified pursuant to Mass. General Laws Chapter 93A. Bonsignore also expanded the right of Indirect Purchasers to pursue antitrust claims in New Hampshire though Supreme Court case law, and in Rhode Island through legistlation.
In cases pending in United States Federal Courts, Bonsignore has been appointed national Lead Counsel in 2 cases assigned Multi District Litigation status by the Judicial Panel on Multi-District Litigation. MDL 1631 consolidated all indirect purchaser anti-trust actions filed nationwide addressing price fixing in the Publication Paper Industry. M.D.L 1735 consolidated cases nationwide addressing Wage and Hour violations by Wal-Mart Inc. Both actions in which Bonsignore was appointed Lead Counsel were settled after being aggressively litigated and received Final Approval.
Bonsignore has served as a member of the American Antitrust Institute’s Board of Directors since 2009. The American Trial Lawyers Association has selected him as a peer reviewed “Top Trial Lawyer” each year since 2007. In 2010 he received the Outstanding Public Service Award from the Ipswich River Foundation. He is a 2010 graduate of the Gerry Spence Trial Lawyers College. (TLC) TLC admission is peer reviewed, competitive and limited.
Bonsignore was extensively involved in trial preparation in cases against tobacco manufacturers brought by public entities as well as private attorneys general and was counsel of record for the former Governor of California as well as Orange and Los Angeles counties.
Bonsignore is frequently requested to speak at Continuing Legal Education seminars across the country. He has lectured on topics ranging from antitrust to consumer advocacy and from trial techniques to ethics.
Bonsignore has successfully tried to verdict several high profile cases including cases selected by the Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA) as the most outstanding jury verdicts of the year. Legal publications have featured Bonsignore’s success in first obtaining admissions of payoffs to medical reviewers in the Rezulin litigation. Bonsignore’s finding of Sulzer’s document destruction in the hip replacement litigation was publicized in the United States and Europe. His work on Sulzer hip litigation also merited a feature story in the European news magazine FACTS, where he was headlined as the “American Killer Lawyer.” Bonsignore is AV rated by Martindale Hubbell and was awarded Diplomat status by the National College of Advocacy. He has co-authored a trial techniques treatise, writing on Direct Examination for Lexus/Nexus.
Bonsignore is a past recipient of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA) F. Scott Baldwin Most Outstanding Young Trial Lawyer in America Award that he received in 1997. He also is a seven-time recipient of the prestigious Wiedemann-Wysocki Citation of Excellence Award that is awarded by the trial bar (ATLA) to the most outstanding members of its ranks. In 1994, he received the Massachusetts Junior Chamber of Commerce Most Outstanding Young Leader Award, and in 1997 he was honored by the Massachusetts Bar Association with the Most Outstanding Young Lawyer Award. In 2005, Bonsignore was presented with the Joseph Tonihill award that is recognized as the most prestigious award presented by the Association of Trial Lawyers of America for consumer advocacy. Bonsignore is a Life Member of the Massachusetts Bar Foundation, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and the Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ret.) and the Spence Trial Lawyer College Ranch Club.
As a past Chair of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, Young Lawyers Division, Bonsignore was credited with creating the practice of appointing one man and one woman representative wherever possible in each representative member state, province or country for the purpose of representing the interests of young lawyers to the bar. He created and instituted a program promoting local public service by young lawyers. In recognition of the nature and scope of this undertaking and its continued viability over time, each year, the Association of Trial Lawyers of America Young Lawyers Division, presented the Robert J. Bonsignore Public Service Award to a representative bar group that performs the most outstanding acts of public service.
Bonsignore previously served on the Boards of the non-profit Trial Lawyers for Public Justice and is a national officer for the Civil Justice Foundation. Bonsignore is a life member of the National Conference of Bar Presidents of the American Bar Association and has served on the Articles and Bylaws Committee since 1999. Bonsignore has previously served as a Consumer Advisory Commissioner for the Office of the Attorney General for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and as an Assistant District Attorney for Middlesex County. Forbes Sky Radio as one of America’s Best Lawyers selected Bonsignore.
Bonsignore is frequently called upon to serve as counsel in team approach litigation because of his decade long experience and proven track record in Multi District Litigation. After establishing himself as a trial lawyer and working cooperatively in the Breast Implant litigation in 2000, Bonsignore was selected as the firm representative of Robinson, Calcagnie & Robinson to the “megafirm” of Herman, Middleton, Casey, Kitchens & Robinson (HMCKR). HMCKR formally brought together nationally top-ranked law firms to jointly prosecute MDL actions (multi-district class actions) and other complex litigation involving antitrust, unfair competition, and pharmaceutical matters. Other mega-firm members selected Bonsignore based on his skill, experience, work ethic accomplishment, and demonstrated ability to work cooperatively with co-counsel and opposing counsel on a multitude of projects.
Robert A. Skirnick
Robert A. Skirnick’s practice has focused on complex, multi-party litigation under antitrust and securities laws, generally in a class action context. In the Nasdaq Market-Makers Antitrust Litigation case where he was co-lead counsel, Judge Sweet (SDNY) described him as “preeminent in the field of class action litigation.” That case was the first cash recovery in excess of $1 billion in Sherman Act history. Professor John Coffee, Columbia University, said the case “was seen as the largest, most complicated class-action settlement ever.”
In antitrust cases Skirnick has served in leadership roles as lead or co-lead counsel, liaison counsel or on plaintiffs’ executive committee in class actions involving shopping carts, alcoholic beverages, bread, dairy products, magnetic audiotape, ocean shipping, publication paper, vitamins (partial settlement $1.1 billion), brand name prescription drugs ($700 million+ settlement), screws, corn derivatives, industrial diamonds, gemstone diamonds and wiring devices among others.
He has served as Special Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust for the State of Illinois and as special antitrust counsel for the State of Connecticut.
Skirnick served as court-approved local counsel for Lead Plaintiff State of Minnesota Board of Investment in the AOL Time Warner merger litigation which settled for $2.65 billion and as co-lead counsel in In re First Capital Holdings Corporation Financial Products Securities Litigation where settlement benefits were valued in excess of $1 billion.
In a complex contract action involving ChevronTexaco he served as co-counsel for the Republic of Ecuador and PetroEcuador.
Skirnick is contributing author of “Multiparty Bargaining in Class Actions” in Attorneys’ Practice Guide to Negotiations, author of “Antitrust Class Actions – Twenty Years Under Rule 23,” PLI, contributor to the “2001 ABA Survey of Securities Class Actions and Derivative Suits,” co-author of “The State Court Class Action- A Potpourri of Differences,” Vol.20, No.4, The Forum, ABA Torts and Insurance Practice, “Proving Damages in Non-Class Securities Cases,” presented at an ATLA Convention and co-author of “Subject Matter Jurisdiction of United States District Courts,” Federal Civil Practice, IICLE.
As Special Master appointed by Judge Stewart (SDNY) in In re Ocean Shipping Antitrust Litigation Skirnick held hearings in several cities in the United States and in eight countries in Europe. He was appointed by Judge Richey (DDC) to represent an SEC appointed receiver in connection with the first- ever takeover of an insurance company by the Federal government. Judge Williams (ND Ill., now 7th Circ.) appointed Skirnick to the board of the National Association for Public Interest Law (now Equal Justice Works) where he was personally instrumental through cy pres funding in establishing its public interest law fellowship program, now the largest in the country.
The Skirnick Fellowship for Public Interest Law at Harvard Law School was established by Skirnick and his wife and daughter. It provides full funding for a public interest law position for one year and will soon have its 40th Skirnick Fellow.
Skirnick is a member of the Committee on University Resources of Harvard University and of the board of Bang On A Can, a leading edge contemporary music organization. He has been listed in Who’s Who in the World, Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in American Law, Who’s Who in Finance and Business and Who’s Who in the East.
Richard O. Zerbe
Richard O. Zerbe, Jr. joined the Evans School faculty in 1981, and holds and adjunct appointment with the University of Washington School of Law. He teaches environmental ethics, microeconomics, government regulation, law and economics, and benefit-cost analysis. Zerbe previously served on the faculty at York University in Toronto and the University of Chicago, a visiting appointment at Northwestern University, and a fellowship at Yale Law School. He was the founder and past President of the Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis, was a member of the Executive Board of the Western Economic Association, and was a scholar-in-residence with the American Bar Foundation. He is also a founding board member of the American Law and Economics Association. He is the author of more than 100 publications and past editor of the Research in Law and Economics journal. Outside of academia, Zerbe serves as a consultant to government agencies, law firms and other groups about damages and antitrust. Zerbe holds a Ph.D. in economics from Duke University, and a AB from the University of Oklahoma, where he studied mathematics, general science, and political science. Currently he is working to establish a more robust foundation for welfare economics and benefit-cost analysis in particular.
Richard L. Grossman
Richard Grossman specializes in complex business litigation, representing either plaintiffs or defendants in the trial and appellate courts, with particular expertise in disputes involving antitrust, unfair competition, commercial fraud, breach of contract, trademark, copyright or trade secret issues. Also, in his capacity as founder of Intelligent Justice, Grossman has a particular focus on innovations in alternative dispute resolution procedures that more swiftly and efficiently resolve complex legal disputes.
