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The American Antitrust Institute announces that FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz will address the luncheon audience during the AAI's 4th Annual Conference on the Future of Private Antitrust Enforcement at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. on December 7, 2010. Please click here to learn more and to register.
Since 2007, this event has served as a vehicle for the antitrust community to come together to network, discuss an updated and comprehensive profile of private enforcement as a business, and to learn about matters of common concern.
This year, our program will cover some of the most current and relevant issues in antitrust, including Congress's action on ACPERA, Iqbal's expansion of Twombly's reach, interpretations of FTAIA, and the ongoing challenges to class certification.
For the past three years, nearly 80 of the antitrust community's leading practitioners, regulators, academics and other though-leaders attended this exclusive event. Because interest has outgrown our facilities, we are expanding the program this year to accommodate more attendees. The venue will be the Grand Ballroom of the National Press Club.
AGENDA - DECEMBER 7, 2010 - NATIONAL PRESS CLUB - WASHINGTON DC
9:00 a.m. - Welcome
Bert Foer, President, American Antitrust Institute
9:30 a.m. - A Portrait of the Private Enforcement Industry Today
Patrick E. Cafferty, Partner, Cafferty Faucher LLP
Bert Foer, President, American Antitrust Institute
Deborah Garza, Partner, Covington & Burling
Andrew Gavil, Professor, Howard University School of Law
Robert Lande, Venable Professor of Law, University of Baltimore; AAI Director
11:00-11:15 a.m. BREAK
11:15 a.m. - Developments in Class Certification
Eric L. Cramer, Shareholder, Berger & Montague, P.C.
Joshua P. Davis, Professor and Director, Center for Law and Ethics, University of San Francisco School of Law
John Schmidtlein, Partner at Williams & Connolly LLP
Hal Singer, Managing Director and Principal, Navigant Economics
12:15 p.m. - Luncheon Sponsored by Kurtzman Carson Consultants
Jonathan Leibowitz, Chairman, Federal Trade Commission
1:45 p.m. - Networking Break
2:15 p.m. - International Issues
Moderator: Linda P. Nussbaum, Director, Grant & Eisenhofer P.A.
Are interpretations of FTAIA going too far in reducing the availability of the U.S. courts?
James Robertson Martin, Partner, Dickstein Shapiro LLP
A report on developments in the European Union
Speaker to be announced.
3:15 p.m. -Recent Developments Involving Twombly/Iqbal, ACPERA, and RPM
Presentations, panel discussion, and audience participation.
Legislation Update
Pamela Gilbert, Partner, Cuneo Gilbert & LaDuca; AAI Director
Motions to Dismiss
J. Douglas Richards, Partner, Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC
Recoveries
W. Joseph Bruckner, Partner, Lockridge Grindal Nauen, PLLP
Moderated Question and Answer Session
Moderated by: Robert Kaplan, Partner, Kaplan Fox & Kilsheimer
4:30 p.m. - Closing
Bert Foer, President, American Antitrust Institute
4:30-6:00 p.m. - Cocktail Reception Sponsored by Econ One Research
Presented with Support from (list incomplete):
· Adams Holcomb LLP
· Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC
· Dickstein Shapiro LLP
· Econ One Research
· Grant & Eisenhofer PA
· Kaplan Fox & Kilsheimer
· Kurtzman Carson Consultants LLC
· Rust Consulting/Kinsella Media
· Spector Roseman Kodroff & Willis
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