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Joseph Eckhardt is an associate in the Antitrust and Competition Practice Group, based in McDermott, Will & Emery's Washington, D.C. office. Joseph has a wide range of practice experience in federal antitrust regulatory matters and in civil antitrust litigation, including:
Assisting clients in civil litigation, in federal courts, and in arbitration, to defend against Sherman Act claims of monopolization and attempted monopolization;
Representing clients in civil litigation, pursing antitrust claims and related business torts, including theft of trade secrets and malicious prosecution;
Defending clients in antitrust class actions, addressing procedural matters such as discovery of defendants and class plaintiffs, and class certification;
Defending clients subject to federal civil enforcement actions pursued by the Federal Trade Commission;
Defending clients subject to criminal investigations, pursued by the Department of Justice;
Defending mergers and acquisitions subject to "second request" review by the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice;
Counseling clients with respect to Hart-Scott-Rodino Act premerger notification regulations, foreign premerger regulations, as well as preparing premerger notifications for submission to the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice; and
Counseling clients with respect to federal antitrust regulations, relating to monopolization, resale price maintenance, and price discrimination regulations under the Robinson-Patman Act.
Joseph served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Bolivia, from 1994 to 1996. Over the course of his university education, he has studied in Seville, Spain and Geneva, Switzerland, and he conducted thesis research at the Mexican National Institute of Public Health, in Cuernavaca, Mexico. Joseph graduated from the Duke University School of Law with a J.D., and a Master of Laws degree in International and Comparative Law, in 2002. At Duke, he served as an associate editor on the Duke Journal of International and Comparative Law.
Joseph is admitted to practice in New York and the District of Columbia
Education:
Duke University School of Law, J.D., 2002
Duke University School of Law, Master of Laws (International and Comparative Law), 2002
Emory University, Master of Public Health, 1999
New York University, B.A., 1993 | 