On March 22, 2016, Alicia Downey returned to her alma mater, Boston College Law School, to serve as a judge in the Wendell F. Grimes Moot Court Competition. Working in teams of two, third year law students presented appellate arguments in a criminal case in which the defendant challenged the constitutionality of a police search. In addition to competing for top honors in oral advocacy, the students submitted appellate briefs for consideration by a separate panel of judges.
In the three weeks since the Appeals Court’s decision issued on January 6, Downey Law’s appellate victory in Downey v. Chutehall Construction Co., Ltd., has been the subject of a front page article in the January 15, 2016 issue of Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly and a number of law firm blog posts, including here, here, here, here, here, and here. For a deeper understanding of the factual record and the issues presented by the case, readers are invited to peruse the Initial Brief we filed in the case.
It was exactly three years ago that I opened Downey Law with the support and encouragement of loyal clients, former colleagues, friends and family. It has been a great ride so far and I can’t wait to see what 2016 has in store.
U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers recently announced their sixth annual “Best Law Firms” rankings, in which Downey Law earned recognition for its litigation and antitrust capabilities at both the national and local levels. According to the publishers’ press release, firms included in the 2016 “Best Law Firms” list are recognized for professional excellence with persistently impressive ratings from clients and peers. Achieving a tiered ranking signals a unique combination of quality law practice and breadth of legal expertise, as well as the high level of respect a firm has earned among other leading lawyers and clients in the same communities and the same practice areas for their abilities, their professionalism and their integrity.
For the fifth year in a row, Alicia Downey will be a faculty member of the Practising Law Institute’s annual all-day Antitrust & Compliance Counseling national webcast and live program in New York, NY. Alicia will cover topics related to pricing in the context of supplier-distributor and supplier-retailer relationships: price discrimination, resale price maintenance, minimum advertised price agreements, predatory pricing, and most-favored-nation price ceilings.
For a second year, Alicia Downey will hold a dual leadership position in the 58,000-member Business Law Section of the American Bar Association. As chair of the Antitrust Law Committee, Alicia will coordinate programs and news updates on a wide variety of antitrust issues of interest to business lawyers. In her role as Section Liaison to the Section of Antitrust Law, Alicia will keep Business Law Section leadership up to date on events and initiatives of the Section of Antitrust Law and forge opportunities for collaboration.