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Antitrust and Unfair Competition Actions
Epstein & Lewis has experience investigating price-fixing, cartel and monopolization schemes in the United States and abroad. With the Supreme Court’s latest word on the antitrust pleading standards, alleging detailed facts is more important than ever. Epstein & Lewis can help you allege “enough fact(s) to raise a reasonable expectation that discovery will reveal evidence of illegal agreement” as set forth in Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly, 167 L.Ed. 2d at 940. This benefits you when we conduct and interpret background research, identify, locate and interview key witnesses to the anti-competitive conduct and when we present our results in a concise manner that is immediately useable for your case. We know what you are looking for and how to get it. Our fact-gathering may begin before any litigation is commenced and carries you all the way through discovery and trial. We are accustomed to working on tight schedules imposed by filing, discovery and other deadlines.
Case Development and Viability:
Epstein & Lewis can provide you essential information that can help you save, or gain, millions of dollars before you have decided to file your lawsuit. We provide pre-filing services such as: collecting financial information about the target to determine the likelihood of bankruptcy, determining the number of willing witnesses to report the conduct, and honing case theories. Like you, we understand the pleading standard under Twombly and have experience determining whether to file an initial complaint and with what kind of detail. As with all stages of investigation, utmost discretion and confidentiality is maintained during this preparation phase.
Background Research:
We have a solid understanding of and train our investigators about the antitrust and unfair competition laws, SEC filings and financial data. This reduces learning curve and lead time in pursuing your case. We work closely with leading forensic accountants. This also saves time and prevents the wrong turns that can cause you frustration. We quietly follow the trail and solidly build the foundation of the investigative path to follow.
Witness Identification and Interviews:
Identifying former employees at the target company is one of our core competences, to which we devote significant resources and creativity. Our experience and insight helps us to identify and locate the witnesses who will be important to your case… not simply any former employee, but the ones who know relevant facts. Our interviewers are skilled at eliciting information and analyzing the connections between witnesses. We dig into patterns of behavior and find ties among people and origins of ideas. We gather information that can be used to focus discovery and encourage settlement. At each phase, we are cognizant of the fact that our work involves the development of evidence to be presented in court and we are careful to use fact finding methods that will pass scrutiny by judges and juries.
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