Antitrust Law Daily Wrap Up, ANTITRUST NEWS: Finalists announced for AAI 2014 Antitrust Enforcement Awards, (Oct 21, 2014)
Organizations Mentioned:American Antitrust Institute | American University | Cafferty Clobes Meriwether & Sprengel, LLP | California Department of Justice | Grant & Eisenhofer, PA | Gustafson Gluek, PLLC | Nast Law, LLC | New York University | Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd, LLP | Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi, LLP | Southwestern Law School | Stanford University | University of Washington
By Linda O’Brien, J.D., LL.M.
The American Antitrust Institute (AAI) has announced today its selection of leading legal practitioners and economists to be recognized at the AAI 2014 Antitrust Enforcement Awards.
The announcement of winners, along with recognition of all finalists and honorable mentions, will be featured at a gala awards dinner on December 2, 2014, following the AAI’s Annual Private Antitrust Enforcement Conference at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. Registration and program information for the conference and the awards dinner are available on the AAI website.
Outstanding Antitrust Litigation Achievement in Economics. This award is limited to private civil actions. Nominees can include a law firm, a law firm team, or individual practitioners. Nominees are judged on the benefit realized by the client, consumers, or class and the positive development of antitrust policy. The finalists are: Orley C. Ashenfelter, Princeton University, and Richard Gilbert University of California at Berkeley, U.S. v. Apple Inc.—e-book case; Edward Leamer, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, In re High-Tech Employee Antitrust Litigation; Leslie M. Marx, Ph.D., Bates White Economic Consulting, U.S. v. ASCAP; and Carl Shapiro, University of California at Berkeley, U.S. v. Bazaarvoice, Inc.
Outstanding Antitrust Litigation Achievement in Private Law Practice. This award is limited to contributions within government or private civil or criminal antitrust litigation by an individual economist, team of economists, or economic consulting firm. Nominees are judged on contribution to the development of antitrust-related economic methodology, analysis, and/or presentation the positive development of antitrust policy. The finalists are: Jay N. Fastow, Ballard Spahr LLP, ZF Mentor v, Eaton Corp.; Kenneth L Steinthal, King & Spalding, U.S. v. ASCAP; and K. Craig Wildfang, Robins Kaplan Miller & Ciresi LLP, In re Payment Card Interchange Fee and Merchant Discount Litigation.
Outstanding Antitrust Litigation Achievement in Private Law Honorable Mentions. Receiving honorable mentions are Eric L. Cramer, Berger & Montague, P.C., Marchbanks Truck Services v. Comdam Network, Inc. and K. Craig Wildfang, Robins Kaplan Miller & Ciresi LLP, and Christopher Burke, Scott & Scott, Dahl v. Bain Capital Partners, LLC.
Outstanding Antitrust Litigation Achievement by a Young Lawyer. This award is limited to private civil actions. Nominees should be individual practitioners under 40 years old or admitted to practice for 10 years or less. Nominees will be judged on the individual’s contribution to the case, the benefit realized by the client, consumers, or class, and the positive development of antitrust policy. The finalists are: Andrew C. Curley, Berger & Montague, P.C., Marchbanks Truck Service Inc. v. Comdata Network, Inc.; Matt Duncan, Fine, Kaplan and Black, R.P.C., In re Steel Antitrust Litigation; and Meegan F. Hollywood, Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi L.L.P, In re Air Cargo Shipping Services Antitrust Litigation.
The judging committee is comprised of: Daniel E. Gustafson, Gustafson Gluek PLLC; Hollis Salzman, Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi L.L.P.; Jonathan Baker, American University's Washington College of Law; Ellen S. Cooper, Office of the Attorney General of Maryland; Harry First, New York University School of Law; Kathleen E. Foote, California Department of Justice Antitrust Section; Warren Grimes, Southwestern Law School; Thomas Horton, South Dakota School of Law; Ellen Meriwether, Cafferty Clobes Meriwether & Sprengel LLP; Dianne Nast, NastLaw, LLC; Roger Noll, Stanford University; Linda Nussbaum, Grant & Eisenhofer, P.A.; Christopher Sagers, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law; Bonny Sweeny, Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP; and Richard O. Zerbe, University of Washington.
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