Lieff Cabraser's Antitrust Law Practice Group
Antitrust
Federal and state antitrust laws are designed to protect the economy and to promote competition among businesses by prohibiting price fixing and other forms of anticompetitive conduct.
Claims for damages under the federal antitrust laws are ordinarily limited to businesses or individuals who purchased goods or services directly from the person or company that violates the antitrust laws. Many state antitrust laws, however, including California’s, also allow consumers and other end-users of products to receive compensation resulting from anticompetitive conduct, even if they did not purchase goods or services directly from the person or company that violates the antitrust laws.
Lieff Cabraser has successfully prosecuted hundreds of lawsuits in federal and state courts on behalf of businesses, governmental entities and consumers for violations of antitrust laws. We represent clients challenging cartel price-fixing across a wide range of industries, conspiracies among would-be competitors, monopolization, and other anti-competitive practices by many of the world's largest corporations.
Lieff Cabraser has played a prominent role in federal litigation under the Sherman Act on behalf of businesses in numerous markets including carbon fiber, compact discs, diamonds, flat glass, industrial pigments, linerboard, plastic laminates, polypropylene carpets, prescription drugs, and vitamins.
In recent years, we have successfully litigated antitrust claims against Microsoft Corporation for monopolistic practices, El Paso Gas Co. and wholesale electric companies for allegedly manipulating the price of energy in California, and the cosmetics industry for engaging in anticompetitive practices to prevent discounting of department store cosmetics.
For a list of our current antitrust
class actions, click here.
To contact an antitrust attorney
at Lieff Cabraser, click here.
Important Note: This summary is intended to provide a basic overview
of typical cases of our firm. It is for informational purposes only and
does not constitute legal advice. Please read our disclaimer.
About Lieff Cabraser
Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP is a sixty-plus attorney law firm that has represented plaintiffs nationwide since 1972. We have offices in San Francisco, New York and Nashville. We represent plaintiffs in class and group actions and in individual lawsuits in cases involving substantial losses. For the last seven years, The National Law Journal has selected Lieff Cabraser as one of the top plaintiffs' law firms in the nation.
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