Attorneys Candice J. Enders

Biography

Candice J. Enders is a Shareholder in the Antitrust Practice Group. Candice has over two decades of experience representing businesses, individuals, and municipalities in complex antitrust class action cases.

Ms. Enders has significant experience investigating and developing antitrust cases, navigating complex legal and factual issues, negotiating discovery, designing large-scale document reviews, synthesizing and distilling conspiracy evidence, drafting complex briefs, and working with economic experts to develop models of antitrust impact and damages.

Her work on antitrust conspiracy cases has contributed to significant settlements totaling hundreds of millions of dollars, including in In re Generic Pharmaceuticals Pricing Antitrust Litig., No. 16-2724 (E.D. Pa.) ($330 million in settlements in a price-fixing cartel case); Jien v. Perdue Farms, Inc., No. 19-2521 (D. Md.) ($339 million in settlements in a case alleging that poultry processors colluded to suppress employee wages); Brown v. JBS USA Food Co., No. 22-2946 (D. Colo.) ($200 million in settlements in a wage suppression cartel case in the red meat industry) In re Commodity Exchange, Inc. Gold Futures & Options Trading Litigation, No. 14-2548 (S.D.N.Y.) ($152 million in total settlements in a case alleging manipulation of a financial benchmark); In re: Platinum and Palladium Antitrust Litigation, No. 14-9391 (S.D.N.Y.) ($20 million settlement in a benchmark manipulation case); In re Domestic Drywall Antitrust Litigation, No. 13- 2437 (E.D. Pa.) ($190 million in total settlements in a commodity price-fixing case); and In re Microcrystalline Cellulose Antitrust Litigation, No. 01-111 (E.D. Pa.) ($50 million settlement achieved shortly before trial in a market allocation case).

In addition to her case work, Ms. Enders contributes to the administration of the Firm by serving as the Firm’s Attorney Recruitment Coordinator, Paralegal Coordinator, and a member of the Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Task Force.

Ms. Enders also regularly speaks at professional conferences and law schools, including at the American Antitrust Institute, Committee to Support the Antitrust Laws DEI conference, Complex Litigation Ethics conference, and the Harvard Plaintiffs’ Law Association.

Ms. Enders co-editor and the author of several chapters in the treatise Class Actions and Other Complex Litigation: Ethics (Lexis Nexis 2023)—the first treatise dedicated to ethical issues in class actions and multidistrict litigation.

Professional Leadership

  • Co-author of “The Ethics of Defense Counsel’s Communications with Absent Class Members Before Class Certification”, 74 Hastings L. J. 1331.
  • Panelist at Complex Litigation Ethics Conference.
  • Panelist at the Annual Private Enforcement Conference of the American
  • Antitrust Institute.
  • Panelist at the Harvard Plaintiffs’ Law Association Roundtable.

Prominent Judgments and Settlements

  • In re Domestic Drywall Antitrust Litigation (E.D. Pa.) ($190.7 million settlement)
  • In re Microcrystalline Cellulose Antitrust Litigation (E.D. Pa.) ($50 million settlement achieved shortly before trial)
  • In re Methyl Methacrylate (MMA) Antitrust Litigation (E.D. Pa.) ($15.1 million settlement)

Judicial Praise

From Judge Michael M. Baylson, of the U.S. District Court of the Eastern
District of Pennsylvania:

“[C]ounsel…for direct plaintiffs have done an outstanding job here representing the class, and I thought your briefing was always very on point. I thought the presentation of the very contentious issues on the class action motion was very well done, it was very well briefed, it was well argued.”

Transcript of the June 28, 2018 Hearing in In re Domestic Drywall Antitrust Litigation, No. MD-13-2437 at 11:6 – 11.

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Education

Law School
University of Pennsylvania Law School, J.D.

Undergraduate
University of Delaware, B.A.

Honors & Awards

  • Named 2023 Best Lawyers for Antitrust Litigation
  • The Legal Intelligencer Class Action Litigation Department of the Year (Finalist) 2022
  • Named a Lawdragon 500 “Leading Plaintiff Financial Lawyer” in 2019 – 2020, and 2022.
  • Pennsylvania Super Lawyer “Rising Star” in 2013-2019.

Admissions

  • Member – Pennsylvania Bar
  • Admitted – Eastern District of Pennsylvania