Antitrust attorney with significant experience leading merger investigations, litigating merger challenges, and counseling the Commission on litigation opportunities and risks across diverse industries, including healthcare, casinos, liquor distribution, coal, and marine chemicals.Counsel for the Federal Trade Commission in five federal court merger trials (four successful, one pending). Responsibilities included: setting and directing all aspects of discovery and trial strategy; drafting pleadings, major motions, and briefs; managing teams of 10+ attorneys, paralegals, and economists; arguing motions; and conducting witness examinations in federal court proceedings.

Represented corporations and executives in a broad range of complex litigation; drafted pleadings, motions to dismiss and for summary judgment, deposition and hearing outlines, and research memoranda at various stages of civil matters pending before federal and state courts, with a focus on securities, antitrust, and contract disputes

Supported litigation efforts to block a proposed merger between premium organic supermarket competitors; assisted with analysis of relevant product market definition and competitive intrusion for preliminary injunction proceeding

Managed and executed non-profit's media relations and strategic web development plans; co-created e-newsletter with weekly distribution to more than 15,000 email subscribers