Antitrust Violations
Antitrust laws are among the most important areas of law to the US economy and by extension to the global economy. They protect competition, which is a vital component to the capitalist system by prohibiting both agreements among competitors to fix, raise or maintain prices, and conduct that monopolizes a market. If businesses are permitted to artificially manipulate the market in a way that hinders competition, then producers lack the incentive to improve their products to capture market share from their competitors as buyers gravitate to the improved products, quality and choice suffers, and prices go up.
It is this complexity that makes antitrust law such a fascinating area in which to practice. No case is like another, so there is never a routine day at the office for an antitrust lawyer. It ideally suits the curious mind because the lawyers must become defacto experts in the industry implicated by each and every case in order to best represent their clients’ interests. Moreover, agreements that violate the antitrust laws are notoriously hard to detect and prove because they are usually reached in secret, agreements concealed from the participants’ customers and the public. We welcome the challenge of proving those agreements and fight hard to get the money illegally taken from our clients returned to them.
Kinds of Antitrust cases
Antitrust cases take many shapes and sizes, can impact virtually any industry and involve all sorts of conduct. These kinds of conduct violate the antitrust laws:
- Sham Patent/Reverse Payments (Pharmaceuticals)
- Horizontal price fixing between competitors
- Monopolization and attempted monopolization
- Wage-fixing/anti-poaching agreements
- Boycotts
- Walker Process claims
- Tying
