Message from the Chairs

Welcome to the Antitrust Litigation Committee website. Here is where you will find great resources for the antitrust litigator. You will find links to important antitrust cases that the Supreme Court recently decided including briefs, transcripts, and blogs. In addition, this year we will be tracking the lower court decisions that apply those rulings, including opinions interpreting Twombly and Leegin. We continue to enhance and add content to all aspects of our site, including the Antitrust Litigator's Corner and the Circuit Notes. Use this site as your gateway to antitrust litigation resources.

Join the Committee and you can also enjoy a monthly (and more often for announcements about breaking antitrust litigation news) listserv that will keep you up to date on antitrust developments. You will also receive our quarterly newsletter, Antitrust Litigator, which includes very useful articles from "Antitrust 101" topics to analyses of more complex antitrust litigation issues, such as proving price fixing damages.

Get involved! Join a subcommittee and publish an article in the newsletter or author other antitrust content for the website. Our committee meets monthly by telephone, and our work continues around the clock, especially for those on the Cutting Edge Subcommittee. We report (listserv), comment upon (website), and analyze (newsletter) current developments as they happen.

The Committee has a rich history of great programming that continues today. We regularly sponsor or co-sponsor Member Benefit CLE teleconferences, the Section of Litigation Annual CLE programs, and programming at the ABA Annual Meeting. For instance, we have worked closely with the Intellectual Property Law Committee especially in light of recent Supreme Court developments.

As always, please e-mail us with your suggestions for ways to make your committee membership more valuable. This year, as in the past, the committee wants your input so that we can organize our member benefits (newsletters, programs, website, content, etc.) around cutting edge issues of concern to our members. Please identify antitrust litigation procedural or substantive legal issues you'd like to see addressed.

Also, let one of us know if you would like to join one of our subcommittees and help out editing the newsletter, preparing programs, or sourcing new content for the website. Remember to send us your pleadings, briefs, discovery requests and responses, especially antitrust jury instructions, voir dire questions, motions in limine, motions for class certifications, summary judgment motions, and other significant pleadings for our brief bank.

We look forward to working with you toward a very productive 2007-08 bar year.

Bradley Weber
John McDowell

Co-Chairs, Antitrust Litigation Committee