Lauren Duxstad

Representative Antitrust Matters:

• Represents a Fortune 500 company in an antitrust lawsuit against Keurig Green Mountain, Inc. alleging monopolization, conspiracy, tying, exclusive dealing, unfair competition, anticompetitive product redesign, patent misuse, and sham litigation claims
• Represents multiple foreign and domestic manufacturers accused of allegedly price-fixing a variety of automobile parts in the multidistrict automotive parts antitrust litigation consolidated in the Eastern District of Michigan
• Represented Japanese multinational electronics corporation and its U.S. subsidiary against allegations of price-fixing and bid-rigging in the resistors industry
• Regularly represents multinational corporations and high-level executives in global cartel investigations and related proceedings requiring the coordination of responses to government agencies spanning various jurisdictions across Asia, Europe, South America, and the United States

Representative RICO Litigation:

• Represented plaintiff in civil RICO action against a cartel of foreign agricultural producers and their affiliates in the United States
• Represented a U.S. television sports channel in federal court RICO litigation arising out of its competitors’ bribery of South American soccer officials to obtain the broadcasting rights to international soccer tournaments
• Represented multilevel marketing organization in class action litigation involving pyramid scheme allegations under RICO and federal securities laws

Pro Bono:

• Represents the New York Civil Liberties Union in connection with its project aimed at achieving systemic reform of racially-biased policing and disciplinary practices
• Involved in firm’s efforts to assist and support the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment
• Successfully obtained affirmative asylum on the behalf of multiple clients with well-founded fear of persecution on the basis of sexual orientation in their home countries