Antitrust Law Daily Wrap Up, ANTITRUST NEWS: Finalists announced for AAI 2015 Antitrust Enforcement Awards, (Oct 2, 2015)
Organizations Mentioned:American Antitrust Institute | Boies, Schiller & Flexner, LLP | Cafferty Clobes Meriwether & Sprengel, LLP | California Department of Justice | Fine Kaplan & Black | Gustafson Gluek, PLLC | Hausfeld, LLP | Heins Mills & Olson, PLC | New York University | Robins Kaplan, LLP | Southwestern Law School | Stanford University | University of Washington | Zelle, Hofmann, Voelbel & Gette, LLP
By Michael Menzhuber, 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 2015 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 November 18, 2015 at the JW Marriott in Washington, D.C., following the AAI’s Annual Private Antitrust Enforcement Conference at the National Press Club. Registration and program information for the conference and the awards dinner are available on the AAI website.
Outstanding Antitrust Litigation Achievement in Economics. The finalists are: Mark A. Israel and Team, Compass Lexecon, Federal Trade Commission et al. v. Sysco Corp. et al; Russell Lamb, Nathan Associates Inc. and Jeffrey Leitzinger, Econ One Research Inc., In re Polyurethane Foam Antitrust Litigation; and Roger Noll, Stanford University, O'Bannon v. NCAA.
Outstanding Antitrust Litigation Achievement in Private Law Practice. The finalists are: Michael Hausfeld and Team, Hausfeld LLP, and William Isaacson, Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP, and Renae Steiner, Heins Mills & Olson, P.L.C., and Seth Rosenthal. Venable LLP, O'Bannon v. NCAA; Kelly M. Dermody and Team, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, and Joseph Saveri and Team, Joseph Saveri Law Firm, Inc., In re High-Tech Employee Antitrust Litigation; Bill Markovits, Markovits, Stock & De Marco, LLC, Collins Inkjet Corp. v. Eastman Kodak Co.; and Elizabeth C. Pritzker, Pritzker Levine LLP, ILFornaio (America) Corp. v. Lazzari Fuel Company, LLC et al.
Outstanding Antitrust Litigation Achievement by a Young Lawyer. The finalists are: Lauren Capurro, Trump, Alioto, Trump & Prescott, LLP, In re Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) Antitrust Litigation; Dean Harvey, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, In re High-Tech Employee Antitrust Litigation; Michelle J. Looby, Gustafson Gluek PLLC, Precision Associates, Inc. et al. v. Panalpina World Transport (Holding) Ltd., et al.; and Brian D. Penny, Goldman Scarlato & Penny, P.C., Allen et al v. Realcomp II Ltd., et al.
The judging committee is comprised of: Chair: Hollis Salzman, Robins Kaplan LLP; Ellen S. Cooper, Office of the Attorney General of Maryland; David DeRamus, Bates White Economic Consulting; 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; Roberta Liebenberg, Fine, Kaplan and Black, R.P.C.; Ellen Meriwether, Cafferty Clobes Meriwether & Sprengel LLP; Janet Netz, ApplEcon; Roger Noll, Stanford University; Christopher Sagers, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law; Cathy Smith, Gustafson Gluek PCCL; Judith Zahid, Zelle, Hofmann, Voelbel & Gette LLP; and Richard O. Zerbe, University of Washington.
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