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Robust Antitrust Compliance Program Can Have Big Payoff

September 22, 2014

Preventing illegal activity is only the first and most obvious benefit of compliance training.

What the Google Antitrust Case Reveals About Competitive Foreclosure

July 14, 2025

Today’s General Counsel Columnist Jeffery M. Cross examines what the Google antitrust case reveals about competitive foreclosure.

Motions to Dismiss Under Twombly

December 14, 2016

The Supreme Court’s 2005 decision in Twombly v. Bell Atlantic Corp has been widely interpreted as imposing a heightened fact-pleading […]

Consider Attorney-Client Privilege Before It Becomes a Litigation Issue

September 27, 2016

It’s important to keep the attorney-client privilege in mind routinely, not just when litigation arises. By then, if mistakes have […]

Antitrust Issues With Joint Ventures

August 17, 2016

Joint ventures between big horizontal competitors are allowed, even though at first glance they might seem to violate antitrust laws. […]

The Pro-Competitive Justification

February 2, 2016

In many marketing initiatives that arguably entail some restraint of trade, it may be possible to invoke “pro-competitive justifications” writes […]

Confidentiality of Sensitive Information in a Merger

October 1, 2015

Generally, confidential information will be kept confidential, but there there are nuances that depend on the stage of the merger […]

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