Managing Shareholder Eric L. Cramer to Speak at 12th Annual Private Antitrust Enforcement Conference in Washington, D.C.

Berger Montague ‘s  Eric L. Cramer will deliver the Welcome and Overview Address and speak on a panel at American Antitrust Institute’s (“AAI”) 12^th Annual Private Antitrust Enforcement Conference. The conference will take place on Wednesday, November 14, 2018 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. This conference has become one of the premier events for lawyers around the country focusing on non-governmental antitrust litigation.

Mr. Cramer, who is the Vice-President of AAI’s Board of Directors and one of the conference organizers, will open the conference with a Welcome and Overview address and then serve as a speaker on the panel “Mock Class Certification/Daubert Hearing in an Antitrust Class Action: A Demonstration and Discussion of Best Practices for Direct & Cross of Experts.”

For more information, or to register for the conference, please visit the conference event page.

AAI is an independent, nonprofit organization devoted to promoting competition that protects consumers, businesses, and society. It serves the public through research, education, and advocacy on the benefits of competition and the use of antitrust enforcement as a vital component of national and international competition policy.

Mr. Cramer is firm Chairman and Co-Chair of Berger Montague’s antitrust department. He has a national practice in the field of complex litigation, primarily in the area of antitrust class actions. He is currently co-lead counsel in multiple significant antitrust class actions across the country in a variety of industries and is responsible for winning numerous significant settlements for his clients totaling well over $2 billion. Most recently, he has focused on representing workers claiming that anticompetitive practices have suppressed their pay, including cases on behalf of mixed-martial-arts fighters and chicken growers.

In 2018, he was named Philadelphia antitrust “Lawyer of the Year” by Best Lawyers, and in 2017, he won the American Antitrust Institute’s Antitrust Enforcement Award for Outstanding Antitrust Litigation Achievement in Private Law Practice for his work in Castro v. Sanofi Pasteur Inc., No. 11-cv-07178 (D.N.J.). He has also identified as a top tier antitrust lawyer by Chambers & Partners in Pennsylvania and nationally. Chambers observed that Mr. Cramer is “really a tremendous advocate in the courtroom, with a very good mind and presence.”

He has been highlighted annually since 2011 by The Legal 500 as one of the country’s top lawyers in the field of complex antitrust litigation, and repeatedly deemed one of the “Best Lawyers in America,” including in 2018. In 2014 and 2018, Mr. Cramer was selected by Philadelphia Magazine as one of the top 100 lawyers in Philadelphia.

Mr. Cramer is also a frequent speaker at antitrust and litigation related conferences. He was the only Plaintiffs’ lawyer selected to serve on the American Bar Association’s Antitrust Section Transition Report Task Force delivered to the incoming Obama Administration in 2012. He is a Senior Fellow and Vice President of the Board of Directors of the American Antitrust Institute; a past President of COSAL (Committee to Support the Antitrust Laws), a leading industry group; a member of the Advisory Board of the Institute of Consumer Antitrust Studies of the Loyola University Chicago School of Law; and a member of the Board of Directors of Public Justice, a national public interest law firm.

He has written widely in the fields of class certification and antitrust law. Among other writings, Mr. Cramer has co-authored Antitrust, Class Certification, and the Politics of Procedure, 17 George Mason Law Review 4 (2010), which was cited by both the First Circuit in In re Nexium Antitrust Litig., 777 F.3d 9, 27 (1st Cir. 2015), quoting Davis & Cramer, 17 Geo. Mason L. Rev. 969, 984-85 (2010), and the Third Circuit in Behrend v. Comcast Corp., 655 F.3d 182, 200, n.10 (3d Cir. 2011), rev’d on other grounds, 133 S. Ct. 1426 (2013). He has also co-written a number of other pieces, including Of Vulnerable Monopolists?: Questionable Innovation in the Standard for Class Certification in Antitrust Cases, 41 Rutgers Law Journal 355 (2009-2010); A Questionable New Standard for Class Certification in Antitrust Cases, published in the ABA’s Antitrust Magazine, Vol. 26, No. 1 (Fall 2011); a Chapter of American Antitrust Institute’s Private International Enforcement Handbook (2010), entitled “Who May Pursue a Private Claim?”; and, a chapter of the American Bar Association’s Pharmaceutical Industry Handbook (July 2009), entitled “Assessing Market Power in the Prescription Pharmaceutical Industry.”

Mr. Cramer is a summa cum laude graduate of Princeton University (1989), where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School with a J.D. in 1993.

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