Cooperatives and Antitrust With Lucy Clippinger

This webinar will include an overview of the U.S. antitrust laws, including the Sherman Act, the Clayton Act, and the Robinson-Patman Act.  It will also cover the antitrust exemptions and doctrines that are most relevant to practitioners in the cooperative space, such as the Capper-Volstead Act, the Filed Rate Doctrine, and the statutory and non-statutory labor exemptions.

Lucy S. Clippinger is a partner at Baker & Miller PLLC. Her practice focuses on litigating complex cases in federal courts in the areas of antitrust and the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, and on antitrust compliance counseling. She also represents entities and individuals in competition matters before federal agencies.

In the antitrust realm, Lucy has coauthored amicus briefs related to complex questions of competition law in cases before the Supreme Court of the United States and the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. She has also authored numerous published articles on a variety of competition-related topics.  Lucy has substantial experience working with and representing agricultural cooperatives involved with antitrust litigation or compliance issues, and with the Capper-Volstead Act and other agricultural antitrust immunities.  She currently serves as a member of the Legal, Tax and Accounting Committee of the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives, and serves on that group’s Antitrust Subcommittee.

CLE Credit in California is pending.