Antitrust Law Daily Wrap Up, CONFERENCES: ABA’s 64th Antitrust Section Spring Meeting set for April, (Feb 3, 2016)

The American Bar Association will hold its 64th Antitrust Law Spring Meeting on April 6-8, 2016, at the JW Marriott Hotel and the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.

Registration opens Tuesday April 5, at 1:00 pm, followed by “Pathways to Leadership”; “Young Lawyers & Law Student Happy Hour”; “Cocktails for Consumer Protection”; and a “Reception for International Enforcers,” according to the agenda.

Wednesday, April 6, will kick off with “First Timers Coffee,” followed by concurrent programs, entitled “Rules of Conflicts: Considerations for Antitrust Practitioners”; “Fundamentals—ConsumerProtection”; “Agency Update with the Deputy Assistant Attorneys General”; “Caveat Emptor: When are Buying Groups Illegal?”; “Flying into Trouble?”; “Hot Topics under the HSR Act”; “Native Advertising: Blurred Lines Between Ads/Content”; “Private Jury Trials: Reality or Reality TV?”; “Exclusionary or Not? Product Hopping and REMS”; “Marijuana, Twenty-Three States and Counting”; “Monetary Remedies in FTC Consumer Protection Actions”; “Non-reportable Transactions: Expect the Unexpected”; “One Directive, Many Directions: Global Damages Litigation”; “Procedural Fairness: An Agency Balancing Act?”; and “Views from the Bench on Non-Merger Civil & Criminal Cases.”

After lunch, the conference will continue with concurrent programs, entitled “Clarifying Liability in Hub-and-Spoke Conspiracies”; “Fundamentals—Antitrust”; “GUPPI-based Harbor: Safe or Perilous”; “In Retrospect: In-Depth Look at Key Consumer Protection Cases”; “Simplifying Expert Evidence to Achieve Better Results”; “Technology, Big Data and Juries: What Persuades?”; “The FTC and the New Frontier of Privacy”; “A Good Name—Breaches of Non-financial Data”; “Antitrust/IP Guidelines Worldwide—More Guidance Needed?”; “From Dawn Raid to a Negotiated Plea”; “Fundamentals—Economics”; “Global Private Settlements—Preferred Paths to Resolution?”; “Mock Trial: ‘Natural’ Class Certification Motion”; “Play Ball: What Rules are Reasonable”; “Presenting Economic Evidence in Merger Trials”; and “Women in Antitrust: Does Gender Matter?” The day will conclude with a welcome reception and “Plaintiffs’ Reception.”

The conference will resume on Thursday, April 7, with the following concurrent programs: “BRICS Risks: Practical Antitrust in the BRICS”; “Briefing with the State Enforcers”; “Consumers v. The Public Interest: Divergent Merger Standards?”; “Leniency Program and Cooperation Post Financial Crisis”; “Price War: Reconciling Conflicting National Pricing Restraints”; “Privacy: Law Firm Ethical and Legal Obligations”; “Taming the Beast—Corporate Counsel Speak”; “The Digital Single Market: Winners and Losers”; and “Chair’s Showcase: Examining the Per Se Rule.”

On Thursday afternoon, the following concurrent programs will take place: “Divestiture Sufficiency—I Can’t Get No Satisfaction”; “International Perspectives on Online Vertical Restraints”; “Risky Business: The Boom in Advertising Enforcement”; “Views from the Bench on Merger Cases”; “Mock Trial”; “Hot Topics”; “Substantiating Claims with Reviews and Crowdsourced Data”; “Telemedicine: Are Old Definitions Restricting Competition”; and “What Happens when Collusion and Corruption Meet?”

Friday, April 8, will begin with an “Agency Update with the FTC Bureau Directors,” as well as a number of concurrent programs, including: “From Algeria to Zimbabwe: Competition in Africa”; “Health Care Expansion: Good for Consumers?”; “Monopolization Across Borders”; “New and Improved Effective Antitrust Compliance Programs”; and “Privacy Landmines in Cross-Border Information Gathering.”

The conference will close with an “Enforcers’ Roundtable” that will discuss enforcement priorities, transactions, investigations, and cases that are making headlines across the world. Panelists include FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez; William J. Baer, Assistant Attorney General in charge of the U.S. Justice Department Antitrust Division; Victor J. Domen Jr., Chair of the National Association of Attorneys.

General Multistate Antitrust Task Force; John Pecman, Commissioner of Competition at the Canada Competition Bureau; and Margrethe Vestager, EC Commissioner for Competition.

Attendees may register online at the ABA website.

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