Posted on April 26, 2019
The Chambers USA Guide has again included Alicia Downey in its rankings of individual antitrust lawyers in Massachusetts, noting that she “is described as ‘outstanding,’ as well as ‘excellent at civil litigation and compliance,’ by market sources. She advises clients on a broad range of complex antitrust issues and disputes including distribution and pricing strategy.” Chambers USA annually ranks the top lawyers and law firms across the United States of America.
Posted on November 1, 2018
U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers include Downey Law LLC in their 2019 rankings of “Best Law Firms” in the areas of Litigation – Antitrust and Antitrust Law. Recognition by Best Lawyers is based on peer review and the consensus opinion of leading lawyers about the professional abilities of their colleagues within the same geographical area and legal practice area.
Posted on October 31, 2018
For the eighth year in a row, Alicia Downey was a member of the faculty of the New York-based Practising Law Institute‘s annual continuing legal education program on all facets of antitrust law. Alicia’s presentation focused on legal developments and counseling lessons in the areas of resale price maintenance, MAP programs, and price discrimination, and compared the treatment of price restraints and price discrimination in the U.S., European Union, and Canada.
Posted on March 15, 2018
On Wednesday, March 14, 2018, Alicia Downey participated in a telephonic panel discussion entitled, Antitrust Aftermarkets, sponsored by the ABA Section of Antitrust Law. She and the other speakers–Craig Falls of Dechert LLP, Thomas Funke of Osborne Clarke, and Loren Poulsen of Compass Lexecon–discussed recent developments in US and EU case law, how economic theory on aftermarkets has evolved in the more than two decades since the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Eastman Kodak Co. v. Image Technical Services, Inc., and how the proliferation of smart devices that collect consumer data and other new technology may affect the antitrust analysis of aftermarkets.
Posted on February 23, 2018
The American Bar Foundation is a non-profit organization that seeks to expand knowledge and advance justice through innovative, interdisciplinary, and rigorous empirical research on law, legal processes, and legal institutions. The ABF Fellows is a global honorary society of attorneys, judges, law faculty, and legal scholars whose public and private careers have demonstrated outstanding dedication to the highest principles of the legal profession and to the welfare of their communities. Membership in the Fellows is limited to one percent of lawyers licensed to practice in each jurisdiction. Members are nominated by their peers and elected by the Board of the American Bar Foundation.
Posted on November 3, 2017
U.S. News and Best Lawyers have included Downey Law LLC in its 2018 rankings of “Best Law Firms” in the areas of Litigation – Antitrust and Antitrust Law. Recognition by Best Lawyers is based entirely on peer review and the consensus opinion of leading lawyers about the professional abilities of their colleagues within the same geographical area and legal practice area.
Posted on November 1, 2017
For the seventh year in a row, Alicia Downey was a member of the faculty of the New York-based Practising Law Institute‘s annual continuing legal education program on all facets of antitrust law. In this year’s program, Alicia’s presentation focused on legal developments and counseling lessons in the areas of resale price maintenance, MAP programs, and price discrimination, and compared the treatment of price restraints and price discrimination in the U.S., European Union, and Canada.
Posted on August 15, 2017
Alicia Downey is included in the 2018 edition of The Best Lawyers in America® in the practice areas of Antitrust Law and Litigation – Antitrust. Inclusion in Best Lawyers is based on a peer-review surveys. (Rankings are visible online to paid subscribers.) Alicia has been listed in Best Lawyers every year since 2010.
Posted on August 2, 2017
At the ABA Business Law Section’s Annual Meeting in Chicago September 14-16, 2017, Alicia Downey will be speaking at a CLE program entitled, “Annual Antitrust Update for Business Lawyers.” The program will focus on notable developments over the past twelve months in the areas of merger clearance, government enforcement, and private lawsuits challenging vertical restrictions. The Business Law Section has over 50,000 members, nearly 1,500 of whom are expected to attend the Annual meeting.
Posted on June 2, 2017
At the beginning of the new ABA year on August 1, 2017, Alicia Downey will start her first term as co-chair of the Compliance and Ethics Committee of the Section of Antitrust Law. The Committee serves as a resource and network for discussing, evaluating and analyzing compliance and ethics issues in the field of antitrust. At the same time, Alicia will continue serving as the Business Law Section’s Liaison to the Section of Antitrust Law, and as vice chair of the Antitrust Law Committee of the Business Law Section.
Posted on May 1, 2017
In an April 30, 2017 subscribers-only article by Banker & Tradesman staff reporter Jim Morrison, Alicia Downey responded to questions about the extent to which antitrust law might constrain the growth of companies such as Realogy, which owns a large number of branded residential real estate brokerage firms. Alicia noted, “There is an antitrust risk when a company holding a monopoly or a large market share is somehow able to exploit that position to keep prices high, coerce customers to deal only with them, or arrange things that keeps competitors out by unfair means, such as false advertising, contracts that make it unduly difficult or expensive to switch service providers, or by using things like over-restrictive non-competes.”
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