The Department of Justice Antitrust Division (“DOJ”) recently announced its withdrawal from a set of long- standing antitrust enforcement policy statements that many companies have relied on to determine whether to share historic pricing and related data with competitors. Among other rationales for its policy change, DOJ representatives have pointed to the growing use of sophisticated pricing algorithms in many economic sectors, which the agency contends have the capacity to use historic pricing data […]

A Locke Lord Dallas team led by Paul Coggins and Jennifer McCoy secured a jury verdict acquitting the Firm’s client, Neeraj Jindal, on the antitrust count in the DOJ’s first-ever criminal wage-fixing case.

Following an eight-day trial in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, the jury found Jindal, the former owner of a physical therapy staffing company, not guilty of violating Section 1 of the Sherman Act after the government charged him with conspiring with […]