As antitrust litigation becomes a boon for plaintiffs and defense firms alike, attorneys are now  watching two new potential areas evolving in the space: alleged antitrust conspiracies at the intersection of artificial intelligence as well as environmental litigation in the context of anticompetitive behavior.

“We are going to see more of that because you have computer algorithms and artificial intelligence that are actually making decisions in the market place,” Stephen Safranski, Robins Kaplan Minneapolis-based co-chair of the firm’s antitrust and trade regulation group, told NLJ. As a result, judges will have to rethink what price fixing actually means.