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By Jason Grant | September 25, 2017
A federal judge on Monday dismissed a $50 million antitrust lawsuit claiming that Barbri Inc. colluded with law schools across the country to monopolize the bar exam-prep market aimed at foreign LL.M. students.
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By Anna Zhang | September 25, 2017
Lawyers specializing in regulatory matters related to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States are having a busy year—especially with transactions related to Chinese investors.
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By Brian Baxter and Roy Strom | September 22, 2017
Jeffrey Kessler, a veteran antitrust litigator in the sports arena, is taking aim at the governing body for soccer in the U.S. The 71-page complaint recently filed by a team of Winston & Strawn litigators led by Kessler against the U.S. Soccer Federation—advised by Latham & Watkins—had been at least two years in the making.
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By Zack Needles | September 22, 2017
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has let stand its August ruling upholding the dismissal of antitrust claims against GlaxoSmithKline.
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By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | September 22, 2017
Class certification denied where plaintiffs failed to satisfy numerosity requirement, as joinder of the proposed class members was not impractical due to cost and resource sharing through joinder mitigating the financial and logistical barriers to joinder. Motion for class certification denied.
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By Max Mitchell | September 20, 2017
Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has sued rival Johnson & Johnson over claims the company forced health care providers and insurers into exclusionary contracts aimed at blocking a competing autoimmune medication Pfizer recently introduced into the market.
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By Joseph Evans | September 13, 2017
In its bid to expand its corporate practice in Europe, White & Case has hired a pair of private equity partners from a leading Scandinavian firm in Stockholm, as well as picking up an antitrust expert in Milan and two specialists in New York and Tokyo.
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By Shepard Goldfein and James Keyte | September 8, 2017
Antitrust Trade and Practice columnists, Shepard Goldfein and James Keyte write: Big Data is a complex issue—different firms and individuals have different access to different sources of data, and want to use that data in different ways. This complexity means that the legality of some methods of culling and using Big Data remains unclear. A recent case signals a shift in the way courts may be viewing attempts to restrict one method of accumulating data that has sparked recent legal debate: data scraping.
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By Christine Simmons | September 6, 2017
A plaintiffs lawyer whose career was upended over his communications with a criminally indicted former Willkie Farr & Gallagher partner is writing what he called a "deeply personal memoir" about "friendship and betrayal" related to the still-evolving drama.
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By Jenna Greene | August 30, 2017
The beauty (or the terror, depending on your perspective) of the Justice Department's Antitrust Division is that you never know where it'll strike. One minute the feds are taking down multi-billion dollar international cartels. The next, they're busting players in an industry that sounds more like a Downton Abbey plot device: heir location services
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